Understanding our love of visual content
We are experiencing an omnipresent visual domination lately and it’s not expected to change any time soon. So what makes us love visual content?
New research reveals enterprise content marketing trends in 2016
Joe Puluzzi has released the CMI’s latest research into enterprise content marketing, and it’s well worth sharing, so I thought I’d discuss a few of the highlights (or lowlights, in some cases).
17 ways to improve your site search results pages
As site search users can be have a greater intent to purchase than the average, it pays to provide the best possible experience … read more
What the hell is Content?
No stupidest phrase exists in marketing than “Content is King”. Gianluca Fiorelli explains what Content really is and presents actionable examples.
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30 quick and easy SEO tips for small businesses
For the uninitiated, SEO can seem to be a complex and foreign landscape, but it doesn’t have to be too complicated. Indeed, … read more
Google Accelerated Mobile Pages and content: the need for speed
When Google launched the mobile update in April 2015, it was intended to reward brands with mobile-friendly websites. Even without the update, … read more
Does the web really need any more content recommendations?
It has now become almost impossible to read news online without encountering recommendations for related content. In the main, it’s garbage. Clickbait … read more
The Joy of Micro UX: 18 delightful examples
What is micro-UX? Micro-UX refers to the tiny interactions with a website or app that are designed to delight the user, by … read more
Have we reached peak content? Insights and issues highlighted by #ClickZChat
Do you believe that we’ve reached (or are heading for) peak content? The point when there is so much information available that it becomes effectively useless?
21 quick ways to find inspiration for creating content
In order to maintain your productivity and feel inspired for your next post, it is helpful to get organised in advance and create a list of resources and tools that will help you find an idea for your next post.
How artificial intelligence can be used for marketing
This week sees the launch of our Marketer’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence report, which takes a look at how AI can be used for marketing, now and in the future.
Is a brutal approach to content migration best for SEO?
This is certainly a hardcore approach to a site redesign, but it makes sense. Everybody involved will understand that it’s not just the design that is being overhauled, but the content too.
20 excellent examples of on-site search
In this post, I’ll show a range of examples of site search from various sites, inspired by this week’s #ecomchat discussion on … read more
Content marketing: nine tips for herding your stakeholder cats
As content marketing types, we’ve all been there. After all that ideation and PM and creativity, it turns out that just getting your content reviewed and approved can be the hardest part of the whole process.
10 brilliant UX features from the Airbnb website
Airbnb has been very successful, to say the least. Of course, a disruptive business model has been a big factor, but a great user experience has played a big part.
What is customer retention? A beginner’s guide to increasing CLV
Customer retention has often been overlooked in favour of acquisition, but it’s something no business should be ignoring.
Introducing the Content Strategy Canvas
Content strategy requires a lot of focus and input from content teams and stakeholders. There are many questions to ask, and the answers given will differ from company to company. To help with this, I’ve come up with the Content Strategy Canvas.
10 tips for writing effective headlines for the web
The importance of headlines should never be overlooked, a little time spent finding the right headline can make a lot of difference.
22 useful IFTTT recipes for content marketing and SEO
Imagine a world where Heath Robinson style contraptions genuinely exist and even the most complicated tasks can be achieved without you even … read more
What performance marketers need to know about Google Knowledge Graph
Last week artificial intelligence achieved another victory over humankind. Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo program won 4-1 against Lee Sedol, one of the best Go players in the world, in a milestone that experts thought was a decade away.