Why Hire a Travel Content Strategist? Most travel agencies I find through my research have limited web traffic, especially traffic from Google search. That’s a big missed opportunity. Even their PPC ads, social media posts, and more are disconnected and lack the cohesive power of a more thorough content strategy. It could be they haven’t…
Blogs Drive Engagement, Leads & Revenue Why would a blog be the core of your content strategy? It’s because blogs speak directly to your customers on the issues most immediate and important to them. Blogs are more authentic, trusted, and engaged with. They’re fresh with helpful info, insights, resources, and experience. Visitors may spend…
How to De-Optimize Your Web Content Oh the dread of rewriting hundreds of content pages! But sometimes we need to hunker down and declutter, de-optimize, re-optimize, and freshen up our content pages. If your content was hit by the last Google ranking update, it’s likely Google doesn’t like your content or your SEO strategy. As…
The Rise of User Intent Insights There’s been a surge in interest in this topic of user intent in the last 5 years. Search engine optimizers want to understand keyword usage and what content to create. But user intent touches on all aspects of marketing and business strategy. Brand managers too want a keen understanding…
Fresh Content and Design I’m revisiting the topic of fresh content on your website, with a complete rewrite of this post. It’s a good example of a complete redrafting, restrategizing, and presentation to resonate with travel company’s big challenge today — staying relevant to the travel market. Because, when content is stale, it’s not relevant…
Business Owner’s Guide to Assessing Web Content Quality You likely know just how important brilliant content is. You’ve visited websites and have likely found some fantastic material that you couldn’t pull away from. Maybe it was a video, a blog, or research report. Maybe it was the brand, message or topics within the website that…
How to Rebrand your Content The phrase “content rebranding” is being discussed more online now due to the economic recovery. If your content is your face to customers and the brand they consume, then it must change too. And your content is vital to your company’s success. Some businesses (e.g., restaurants) have already gone through this…
What Signals Does Google Use to Calculate Your Content Quality Score? Every once in a blue moon, Google makes major changes in its algorithm. The Mountainview behemoth has used silence and cloaking very to keep SEO pros off balance. Hidden in the shadows of its new RankBrain algo update, could be a new approach to…
Should you Personalize your Content for Each Visitor? Trends happen. Content personalization is one of the most important and exciting trends in digital marketing in 2017. In 2018, it may be that personalization is a top factor in impact, engagement, and sales. In a nutshell, this is about delivering unique customer content experiences and using…
Is Your Content this Riveting? How is it some people can fascinate, transfix and get others eating out of their hands? I don’t think we can doubt the power of Hollywood and its stars to captivate audiences. Stars are used to sell every kind of product imaginable. Why? Because these stars are omnipresent which translates…
Website Traffic is Your Company’s Lifeblood Traffic is everything. Without it, there is no impact, no content consumption, no brand, no convincing sales pitch, and no sales. So why would a business person decide not to create the biggest flow of well qualified traffic? It doesn’t matter how much traffic you have — Get More…
Content is King. Distribution and Promotion is Queen Even Groucho knew we all need a plan. And by now, we all know marketing is content marketing. So how do we come up with a plan to create the right content and get it distributed to the right audience? That’s what this post covers. Grab yourself…
Your Customers are Waiting to Hear from You on Your Blog While others are winding their digital marketing efforts down as 2016 ends, they should actually be looking ahead to 2017 and 2018 and planning a strategy for unlimited growth. Next year’s success happens now. How can you be the best? By creating a powerful blog…
Smart Content Strategy for Insurance and Real Estate Startups Do you know why your insurance or real estate website sucks compared to the top sites in your industry? Why do so few people visit or return, talk about you and your amazing products and services or share your stuff on social media? Great websites are engaging,…