The Wise Content Marketer’s Guide to Sensible SEO

By Sonia Simone

Search engine optimization — SEO — is one of those “you love it or you hate it” topics.

Some get a charge out of the challenge of keeping up with those wily engineers at Google.

Others would rather eat a bug than try to figure out what “headless crawling” means and which redirect is the right one to pick in months that end in R.

I have to confess, I’m in the bug-eating camp on this one.

Fortunately, although technical SEO is still important for some sites, there’s a crazy-powerful optimization technique that people like me can get really good at.

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How to Launch Your Personal Brand if You Have Absolutely Zero Credibility

By Neil Patel

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You hear the term “personal brand” being thrown around a lot these days.

Almost annoyingly so.

Everyone is trying to build and strengthen their personal brand in order to stand out in their industry and make a connection with consumers.

It’s a key ingredient in building your career, a business, etc., so it totally makes sense why this is such a top priority.

When I hear someone mention notable figures, like Mark Cuban, Tim Ferriss, or Dan Bilzerian, I can’t help but think of certain adjectives I associate with each of them.

For instance, when I think of Mark Cuban, I think bold, outspoken, and …read more      

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7 Ways to Get High Quality Paid Traffic with Rock-Bottom CPCs

By Neil Patel

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I’ve said it before: a successful PPC campaign boils down to two things:

  1. Increasing click-through rate (CTR)
  2. Lowering cost-per-click (CPC)

Pretty simple, right?

But I want to add one more point to that statement. It’s not complicated.

You also need to get high quality traffic.

This means reaching your target audience and bringing in visitors who are ready to buy. What you don’t want is lukewarm traffic with only a vague interest in your product/service.

You want leads who have one hand on their wallets, ready to whip them out and make a purchase.

Now, allow me to point out a brutal truth about PPC marketing.

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It’s Time to Pump You (and Your Content) Up

By Sonia Simone

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So, Copyblogger has been running for about 11 years now. And in all that time, we’ve never written a post about Arnold Schwarzenegger, unless you count that one time I compared long-form sales pages to the Terminator.

Until this week. Entirely independently, Brian Clark and I both used the Governator to illustrate two different points about smart content creation.

On Monday, Brian broke down persuasive analogies — citing a particularly effective analogy Schwarzenegger used to make an environmental point.

On Tuesday, Stefanie brought a little relief by making some excellent points about why you lose business to your competitors …read more      

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5 Clever Facebook Video Ad Hacks That Will Lower Your CPM by 81%

By Neil Patel

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Scroll through your Facebook feed, and you can’t help but see video ads. Quite a few of them actually.

You may have even seen my video ads, which I’m using to promote my businesses.

I’m doing this, of course, because Facebook Video is huge right now.

One of the more recent studies found that there are “8 billion daily views for Facebook Video in November 2015—a 100% growth from 6 months prior to the study.”

And here’s another interesting stat.

Videos’ organic reach on Facebook is 135% greater than that of photos.

This means one thing. There is an insane number of …read more      

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