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3 Types of Backlinks You Want Your Content to Get (and How to Get Them)

Let’s forget about the SEO value of backlinks for now. Let’s focus on building links that really deliver traffic to your site. Here are three ways to do that.
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Content Can Perpetuate Racism and Inequity. It’s Time to Do Better

Recent tragic events should serve as a catalyst prompting content marketers to tackle the overarching issue of racism in our professional environment.
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No Need to Survey, You Already Have Data for Great Storytelling [Examples]

Data visualizations are some of the most-read content on The New York Times and The Washington Post. Spotify’s personalized data-informed subscriber emails get shared widely. Is your brand telling data-driven stories?
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25 Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions in Content Marketing

Are you asked a lot of questions about content marketing by your executives or clients? Want a handy dandy cheat sheet to those questions? We are here to help. Read on for 25 of the most frequently asked questions (and their answers).
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5 Steps to Create Empathetic Content Right Now [Examples]

Out-of-touch content can lose customers and subscribers. What’s the secret to content that wins new customers and evangelists for your brand? Empathy. Learn how to create it and get inspired by four brands doing it.
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How to Transform Your LinkedIn Presence So It’s Not Just a Resume

Michaela Alexis shares how she built a mega personal brand on LinkedIn. It started a few years ago when her post, How I Landed My Dream Job in Two Weeks on LinkedIn, went viral. Now, she runs a LinkedIn consulting business.
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17+ Free Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Content

Maybe your content promotion budget’s been slashed. Maybe you never had one. Whatever the reason, these ideas will help your audience find your content and you only have to spend time to do them.
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Bounce Back? Nope. What You Should Prepare For Now [The Weekly Wrap]

This week, Robert Rose ponders an economic bounce back (and what you should be doing now), talks with an “unapologetic marketing truth teller,” and more.
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A Quick Audit to See If Your Content Passes a COVID-19 Exam

If your content doesn’t convey awareness and sensitivity around COVID-19’s all-encompassing impact, it will affect your audience’s perception of your brand. Here’s how to check your content before you wreck your brand value.
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Overused Phrases and Incorrect Words Hurting Your Writing

Words can convey so much. Or they can convey nothing. They can persuade. Or they can repel. Overused and incorrectly used words frustrate and irritate your audience. Here’s how to identify and fix your word problems.
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You Can Never Save Time, But You Can Use It Wisely [The Weekly Wrap]

This week, Robert Rose thinks about how to spend time, gives his take on if the pandemic is the biggest publishing opportunity in 75 years, talks about the crisis’ effects on B2C and B2B content marketing, and more.
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Are You Guilty of the One Thing That Kills Content Marketing?

Are your blog posts not converting? Are your e-newsletters going unopened? Are you being ignored on social media? You may not be doing the one thing that is a good predictor of content marketing success.