A Quick-Start Guide to Measuring Your Content Marketing Efforts

By Mike King

Authority Rainmaker 2015 speaker, Michael King

Simply put, if you’re not measuring, you’re not marketing.

In fact, if you’re whipping up blog posts and infographics without business objectives, you’re basically partaking in a very expensive version of arts and crafts.

Your job as a content marketer is to show your boss the money — not traffic, not links — mon-naay.

Let’s talk about how to get started effectively measuring your content marketing efforts.

Measurement separates digital marketing from traditional advertising

As a native Philadelphian (I live in Brooklyn now), I know a little too much about John Wanamaker.

Most people in marketing and advertising know him for this quote:

Half …read more      

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Social Media, Real Estate, Social Media Data, And HubSpot Social Media

Businesses that post more often to social media do not necessarily generate more engagement per post, according to a recent report from HubSpot.
The report was based on HubSpot social media data for 7,000+ businesses in nine industries (real estate, healthcare, hardware, nonprofit/education, manufac…

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Spam Score, Spam Flags, Individual Spam Flags, And Spam Analysis Page

Today, I’m very excited to announce that Moz’s Spam Score, an R&D project we’ve worked on

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Private Sector, Different Private Sector, Private Sector Companies, And Trust

Editor?s Note: Deepak Jeevankumar is an enterprise IT investor at General Catalyst Partners where he has a wide range of investments in cybersecurity, big data and storage startups.

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Don’t Get Caught with Your Pants Down: 3 Steps to Increase Your Search Traffic with Google’s Next Update

By Neil Patel

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On April 21st, 2015, Google will roll out an update that will make mobile friendliness a bigger part of its algorithm. If you don’t think this is a big deal, think again.

Why? Because Google is saying the mobile update will have a bigger impact than its Panda update.

Should you be worried? Yes!

Here’s why, and here are some ways to take full advantage of this update.

Step #1: Make your website responsive

It’s generally not the best idea to create a separate website just for mobile visitors. The main reason you will want to avoid this approach is because updates to …read more      

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