Warning: Don’t fall victim to content strategy’s biggest mistake
If you think content strategy and content marketing are independent of each other, your content doesn’t stand a chance. Here is why: … read more
12 reasons for brands to use GIFs in content marketing
GIFs are nothing new, but their use is more popular than ever. Here’s why brands should include them as part of their content marketing … read more
Is content marketing really working? Advice and insight from #ClickZChat
We talk a lot about content. How to make it, what makes it work, how to measure it’s effects, if there’s too … read more
State of video advertising report: what are the most tolerable ad formats?
As video content increases, it’s time for brands to understand their consumers, in order to deliver the most relevant ads to them.
Why companies create content – part three: to answer customer questions
Here we’ll explore how companies can best construct content to respond to the frequent (and not so frequent) queries that come from their audience.
Shift Q&A: “Content is not a conceit or a vanity project, it makes people money”
Content marketing has been one of the industry’s buzz phrases for the last few years, but as the medium rapidly evolves and consumers’ expectations change, are businesses still getting it right?
Nine common content marketing mistakes and how to fix them
Content marketing is becoming vital to business, with its success affecting many positions that complement each other. How do you ensure though that your strategy is effective?
BBC Food website closure: what have we lost and who stands to benefit?
Today it was announced that the BBC Food recipe website is to close, or at least mothballed in some way. It contains … read more
Google doubles down on native app experiences with Gboard, Chirp and Translate
Google puts high value in mobile user experience. The truthfulness of that statement can be tracked back as far Google’s first .mobi website 10 years ago, or when it launched the first iteration of its Android operating system in 2008.
How to write meta title tags for SEO (with good and bad examples)
What is a title tag? How do you write one? Why are title tags important? Do they actually help with search engine optimisation?
SEO 101: eight simple ways to optimise your blog posts for search
You don’t have to be an SEO expert to optimise your content in just a few steps and improve your page’s ranking on search engine results pages (SERPs).
Here’s a new content marketing strategy documentation map
I’m currently going through the process of establishing a content strategy from scratch and thought I’d share what I’m doing, which I’ve summarised in this visualisation.
Food Tube: How video storytelling led to 2m YouTube subscribers
What’s the secret for Food Tube’s successful YouTube presence and how can you create unique content in the food industry? Food Tube … read more
How Google fights webspam and what you need to learn from this
Google has this week revealed its annual report on how it has policed the internet over the last 12 months. Or at least how it policed the vast chunk of the internet it allows on its results pages.
How to use site search to improve conversion
Here’s a round-up of Ian Scarr’s talk, along with tips on the importance of site search for every website.
Dennis Publishing’s Paul Lomax on adblocking and ‘anti-ad zealots’
The growth of adblocker usage is one of the major problems affecting publishers today, as it has the potential to cut into ad revenues which many rely on.
How to achieve face-melting content marketing ROI
Jason Miller knows a thing or two about content. He’s the Senior Content Marketing Manager at Linkedin, who presented a session titled “How to Achieve Face-Melting Content Marketing ROI” at ClickZ Live NY last week.
11 extraordinary uses of Augmented Reality (AR)
Jess Butcher, the director and co-founder of augmented reality app Blippar, is speaking at our Shift London event in May, so to prepare for this occasion, we thought we’d get fully immersed in the world of AR.
How to optimise your page images to increase site speed
Google’s official slogan is “Don’t Be Evil”, but it’s long been rumoured that the company has a second, internal motto that they tend to keep under wraps: “You’re either fast, or you’re f***ed.”
Five useful ways to create content for service and product pages
If you need some help figuring out how to invent new ways to create content for these pages, check out some of the ideas below.