Link, Links, Off-topic Links, And On-topic Links

Howdy, Moz fans, and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. This week we’re going to chat a little bit about on-topic and off-topic links. One of the questions and one of the topics that you see discussed all the time in the SEO world is: Do on-topic links matter more than off-topic li…

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Facebook Posts, Video Posts, Photo Posts, And Organic Reach

Facebook’s algorithm now favors brands’ video posts in the News Feed, according to recent research from Socialbakers.
The report was based on data from 670,000 Facebook posts made by 4,445 brands between October 2014 and February 2015.
Videos uploaded to Facebook’s native player have the most organi…

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Youtube, Young YouTube Viewers, Content Marketing, And Content Marketing Campaign

Today?s trending content marketing campaign is the still ongoing #DearMe campaign put together by YouTube. The campaign has gained huge traction on Twitter, while still pushing people to YouTube where Google pretty much has a money printing press made just for them.
The campaign definitely has great…

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Brand Story, People, Business, And Shanghai-based Air Purifier

I know what you?re thinking (maybe): Brand story? What do I need a brand story for? Is a brand story going to make me more sales? Or maybe you?re thinking, Ooh, I was just thinking about how to craft a brand story. How Timely!
Are you thinking any of those? Then please ? read this way.
Is your brand…

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Why Copyblogger Media is Betting Big on Podcasting

By Brian Clark

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Back in 2005, I came up with the idea for Copyblogger, a site that taught people how to create text content and copy to sell products and services. Right … everyone knows that.

But did you know a competing idea was to instead start a podcast? To say that would have been the wrong move (in several ways) is a monumental understatement.

For one, I had never recorded anything other than bad tape recordings and a few .wav files. And for another, it was way to early for the medium and the technology.

But even now in 2015, …read more      

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