Category Archives: Content Creation

When people set out for any type of event that requires planning, they tend not to want any surprises. This fundamental desire drives a lot of search traffic because it helps to determine what they search for and why they need to find it. Google itself notes that people have a "low tolerance for surprises" whether they're planning a dinner date or a month-long vacation. They seek to understand and plan as much as possible, so their search topics are going to be a pursuit of answers. That's why quality content matters so much, as it can be crafted specifically to answer those questions and give them additional insight into whatever it is they may be planning.

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For many businesses, developing creative ideas for fresh content on a routine basis can quickly become a resource-consuming chore. With the sheer volume of articles, blogs and landing pages hitting the web each day, how can a startup hope to craft unique and appealing content to attract readers?

Fortunately, developing engaging ideas for content is not nearly as difficult as it would seem. By leveraging a wide range of existing tools and techniques, businesses, regardless of industry, can easily generate new ideas for articles. Below, we’ll explore five of these easy-to-use, no-cost, strategies in detail.

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Today, startups pour extensive resources into chasing the latest search trends and SEO tactics. While this strategy can yield benefits, it fails to account for the vital role evergreen content has in promoting a brand’s growth. Evergreen content, which remains fresh and relevant year-round, can be easily repurposed for a wide range of benefits.

Below, we’ll explore a few best practices to help extract evergreen gems from content libraries and effectively rotate them into current marketing campaigns. This tactic can not only help a business make judicious use of resources, but it can also build a brand’s authority.

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Your web content serves a few purposes, from drawing search traffic to establishing a ranking order to providing useful information to the reader. All of these things naturally intersect. For instance, fresh and useful content will attract more eyes and keep people on the site longer, helping to establish your site as an authority and increase your ranking. As such, you need to carefully consider every aspect of your content and how effective it is. Do people really read it? How can you get them to stay on the page longer? How can you increase engagement with the text? What is it that your visitors are seeking when they come to your site initially?

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Google just announced a major update to its search algorithm which could take the SEO world by storm. Known as BERT, or Bidirectional Representations from Transformers, it is a state-of-the-art search tool backed by advanced machine learning. By applying BERT to search queries, Google aims to help users find information faster and more efficiently.

Beyond implications for users, this update could lead to a fundamental shift in the way sites rank in SERP. Previous SEO tricks of the trade, such as keyword stuffing content, could be filtered out by BERT since it appears to hone in on high-quality, naturally-written content.

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