16 SEO Tactics You Need to Do To Your WordPress Site Right Now

By Neil Patel

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You already know WordPress is the easiest and most SEO-friendly CMS in the world.

Maybe you’re pretty excited about it. You’re glad you chose WordPress. All you have to do is publish a few blog articles and wait for the jacked-up SEO of WordPress to do its thing, right?

Sorry to burst your bubble. If you think that choosing WordPress as a CMS is all you need to do, think again.

Look, I’m as big a fan of WordPress as you are. It’s an amazing CMS with high-octane potential, ease of use, and unlimited optimization possibilities.

But notice I say potential. And possibilities.

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Get Advanced Training and the Opportunity to Be Certified by Copyblogger (Open 1 Week Only)

By Pamela Wilson

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Content marketing is exploding right now — and we’re working hard to meet the needs of the market.

We create new educational content each week here on Copyblogger. And we offer advanced content marketing training in our Authority program.

But for an elite group of professional writers, we offer our most advanced training: the Copyblogger Content Marketer Certification program.

This program offers writers the opportunity to submit their content for review by a member of the Copyblogger editorial team. Those who pass the application process are featured on our Copyblogger Certified Content Marketer page.

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3 Smart Moves that Supercharge Sales Funnels with Content

By Amanda Cook

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The problem with many business blogs is that they’re boring, product-centric, and full of corporate jargon — not exactly the juicy, engaging, personality-filled content that readers love to consume and share.

While you want to establish trust and authority with your audience, content that helps you meet business goals also fills your sales funnel with interested prospects.

So, if you’d like your content to be share-worthy and generate leads, this post is for you. Read on for three ways to supercharge your sales funnel.

1. Eliminate fuzzy funnels

If your current sales funnel is vague and amounts to something like, “I’ll …read more      

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The Proven Method to Ranking on the First Page of Google For Any Long-tail Keyword

By Neil Patel

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So you want to write an article that ranks on the first page of Google for a long-tail keyword?

Fine. So does everyone else.

Ranking on the first page of Google for well-selected long-tail keywords remains one of the fastest ways to get your content in front of thousands of people.

But how do you do this?

One option is to sign up with one of the shady SEO agencies that promises “first-page ranking in two weeks!”

I think we can all agree, you don’t want to do that. The days of fly-by-night-snake-oil-salesmen SEO agencies are long gone. If anyone promises first-position rankings, run the …read more      

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Writers: Discover How to Step Up Your Game with Our Free Ebook

By Pamela Wilson

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We love writers around here. Have you noticed?

Professional writers. Aspiring writers. Struggling writers. Successful writers. Writers of all kinds!

To show our appreciation, we put together a free ebook for writers called WORD. Because in our experience, writers are also readers, so an ebook seemed like the perfect delivery system for our information.

We gathered our best articles-written-for-writers from people like Sonia Simone, Brian Clark, Stefanie Flaxman, Beth Hayden, and this other writer you may know. ?

Download WORD: Writers Offer Reliable Direction

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Here’s what you’ll find inside WORD:

  • Traits that all well-paid writers share
  • The change in …read more      
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