Will AI replace the Human writers?

Will AI replace the Human writers?

Can AI replace the human writers? It is the well-known fact that the days are gone when Artificial intelligence was only being used in Science fiction movies. Whereas it is the time to accept that AI has taken over the human world. It has become a situation like we are living in the science fiction movie world. Due to the advancement in technology, everything is taken up by the robots or bots or chatbots. It could be somehow considered that AI can replace human writers.

Years, before AI generated content and SEO were just a part of a thesis. But now these things are slowly on a verge of becoming reality. We can consider the case of the phones first the telephone was discovered upon evolution the telephone become much smaller and compact. That contains more things than just dialling the people far away. Now the phone version is known as mobiles or smartphones.

The famous content writers are even saying that “People have already started using the Robots and the artificial intelligence to create the effective content and after 10 years people will start thinking how they have wasted such valuable time in making just content”.

EVOLUTION OF AI CONTENT WRITING BOTS

The content writing bots came into lame light when an American Company known as Narrative Science came up with this idea in the year 2010. Whereas the background research was begun 10 years before. And it got worldwide recognition in the year 2013.

It all started at Northwestern University of Engineering and Journalism as part of the research. Kris Hammond and Larry Birnbaum are the co-founders of the Narrative Science. And their first discovery was QUILL using Artificial Intelligence.

This software is basically used to write the content and article’s for school or college level sports events. And articles on the financial earnings of a company. The articles written by this software are very natural and matches human written articles.

The companies like Amazon, Deloitte, Indix, Factset use Quill software for their daily updates.

Narrative Science has got a lot of appreciation and recognition for Quill. In the year 2017, it was listed in top 50 companies who are leading in artificial intelligence. In 2015 they were listed in CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list.

Below are some of the robot writers that are nowadays being used to produce millions and billions of content. After which you can easily analyze “who are the better writers- bots or humans?”.

QUILL

Quill is the artificial intelligence bot that automatically communicates the crucial data at a scale. It helps in realizing the potential of the untapped data. To make it easier for the people to understand it and get the relevant result. The company Narrative Science distributes it. The NLG or the Natural Language Generation platform automatically generate the content, analyze it and communicate the data the way you want it.

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Down the route, Quill gives the users an image of a powerful and a useful NLG technology. And builds up a strong and potential NLG technology. This software performs more complex tasks in an ordinary desktop.

The biggest advantage of Quill is that it has a high ability to generate the potential, targeted and insightful content and narratives from the analysis of the human and machine data taken. It even imitates the style of writing that a sports writer does and can fabricate 1000 more such articles. This indicates that the technology has advanced a lot in making the work of the humans easier.

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If a Sports article is considered, Quill can create 1000 more articles that are effective and genuine. All the articles are generated instantaneously without wasting a lot of time. The articles created would be different for every sport and maximum would be similar of the type that is written by the Sport’s writer.

According to the technological review, Quill can write up to 1 million words per day. There are a few top companies like Forbes, US intelligence etc those are using this bot.

While moving to the price of this Quill bot, this is not available online easily. After effective research, it was found that the price of the Quill differs from articles to articles depending on the type of story. It will cost $70,000 dollars per year for maintaining the same story type whereas it will create 100,000 stories. And the pricing differs for different story types.

ARTICLE FORGE

Article Forge is a tool that automatically generates the article if a topic is being entered.  It is considered as one of those tools that incorporate deep learning and understanding of algorithms to create the article similar to a human-created article.

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It doesn’t just end up with creating the article it manages both material generation and publishing. Whenever you enter a certain topic about which you want to write. Article Forge search about that particular topic and checks millions of the article related to it and then fabricate the whole article in its own words.

It can also be considered as the only tool which checks on different articles and then has the capability to write its own article. It searches and writes an article just like a human being. These things help in creating a very high-quality content. The content written is of high quality and helps in link building.

While creating the content it adds all the Titles, links, videos, images etc into the content automatically.

Below is a content created by Article Forge:

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This tool can generate Content in 7 different languages that include English, Dutch, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. Articles in all these languages have the foundation as Artificial Intelligence that incorporates in Article Forge. Knowing so many languages makes the tool a versatile tool as it knows some other languages besides English.

People who are interested can have a 5-day free trial. After which they have to subscribe by paying a certain amount. You can register in it on a monthly basis or on a yearly basis.

HELIOGRAF

In the year 2016 for the Rio Olympics, one of the largest American newspaper The Washington Post came up with a bot which was created using Artificial Intelligence known as Heliograf. This bot will post all the updates that take place in the Olympics and also write about the ongoing events and sports. It even creates content about the basic sports aspects.

This bot every morning in the early hours used to post all the updates about the events. That took place just before a day and also updates of presently ongoing games in the Olympics. In which not even a single word would be recommended by the human. The bot itself does everything. Below is just an example that the bot used to post on twitter.

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Heliograf: mostly used bot

This bot was developed specially to make the writers free of the task of posting updates on the social media sites. And this bot will just concentrate only on the simple aspects of the games like updating the scores, medal counts for different countries etc. It focuses mainly on the things that are data related and statistics related. Which provides free space for the writers to concentrate on other complex tasks.

Till the year 2017, this bot created 850 articles including the high school sports update and automated sports earnings which the bot does with much more accuracy than the human beings. Heliograf Bot won the first award for 2018 Global world Biggies award in the field of “Excellence in the Use of bots

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This is what the judges of the Global Biggies Award had to say about the Heliograf Bot.

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Whereas, now this bot is not available for sale in the public. The full rights are with “The Washington Post” which they don’t want to bring it to the market.

HEMINGWAY

It is regarded as one of the most convenient and easy to use tool for Article editing. And this tool is free of cost. We just have to enter the text that we want to check and edit. After which it highlights all those sentence’s which are complex and hard to read and all those words which are adverbs and are excess in the content. It even shows those phrases which have passive sentences and are needed to make them in to active.

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You can see clearly the tool here is styled according to a document. It highlighted different phrases which have different problems. It even shows the readability score and whether the content is good enough or not.

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There is one another bar after the readability score. Where you can see the reading time, letters present, characters used, total number of words etc.

Once you have completed all the editing in the content you can download the file .html extension directly in your desktop or laptop. And the most amazing thing here is, it is free of cost. You just have to download it for your desktop or laptop.

WORDSMITH

Wordsmith is another Natural Language Generation or NLG platform that takes down all your data and transforms it into a narrative insight. Frames the whole data into a narrative story and gives it a more human touch. For the different industry and the medium how they communicate.

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The world’s largest Newspaper media group “The Associated Press” use this Wordsmith bot to generate effective quarterly earning articles.

The Associated Press uses the platform Wordsmith which was developed by the Automates Insights. It takes the raw data provided and then transforms it and different stories can be published easily that could be comfortably understood by the normal people. This involves all the earning details covering quarterly and more stories including the previous efforts.

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Not only about the financial earning Wordsmith even went to write about the Sports leagues most of the school leagues, college sports and small basketball or baseball leagues.

The biggest warning that comes up with Wordsmith when you opt for it is. It requires a lot of human instruction to write down a relevant and effective content.

The financial business of Wordsmith

Firstly, we have to give it all the raw data whether it is for sports or for quarterly earnings for a financial business. Then we have to arrange all the data in a systematic manner according to the industry to which it belongs. Before providing all this to Wordsmith it should be checked that whether it could interpret it and narrate it accordingly. For which human beings have to create a template accordingly and provide the guidelines to the bot to work efficiently.

The Associated Press provides all the guidelines in an AP style format among all the templates, to write the reports. After giving all the details to Wordsmith it will provide a report. Wordsmith works for all the platform irrespective of the industry it is going into. NLG is not just for the big companies and supports only the huge MNC. It is for everyone who wants to get benefit from it.

While coming down to the price. “The Automated Insight” has not mentioned the price anywhere. If anyone wants to know more about it can go up for a free demo and know about the price.

ARTICLE GENERATOR PRO

Article Generator Pro creates the content which is plagiarism free and requires less human input. You just have to give the topic it will create awesome content related to it. The articles generated by Article Generator Pro are professionalised. You may require a content for the different purpose may be it for the school essay, college assignment, or business work. It will give you the best content without any plagiarism and gives an edge in content fabrication.

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You just have to fill out all the required things. Like the topic, a number of words you want to concentrate, text rewriting, images required etc. After giving all input the Article Generator Pro will analyse everything and create an effective article. Not only just an article it can create an essay, thesis, report etc.

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As we know everything comes with a price. You have to subscribe to it. To avail the automatic article generation.

But, if you opt for this tool it will automatically do research on the given topic. It contains a smart inbuilt algorithm which helps in reframing the information that it got from various searches. Basic, user input is required nothing more than that. Automatically write the bibliography and gather the images to have an effective content. In total it can be considered as a cost-effective tool for content generation.

ADVANTAGES OF BOTS

  • AI bots can effectively reduce the workload on the humans. Like it improves the area of growth and provides the writers with a wide area to experiment and get good feedbacks.
  • Time taken can be reduced. The bot can help the writers partly by giving him the lines. The writer can use his creativity and incorporate this lines. That’s where an effective content comes up.
  • In content marketing, there is a lot of work to be done. From creating the content to using relevant keywords, using the images etc. Ai bots can replace all these kind of hectic works.
  • The technology keeps on evolving. In the field of AI it is never ending so it is expected to have a lot of advancement in Artificial Intelligence that will make the work of writers easy.

 

WHY CAN’T THE HUMAN WRITERS BE REPLACED?

If you are worried thinking that may be AI can replace the human in generating content. And maybe you are worried about your future as a content creator. Then there is nothing to worry about it. Below are a few points which will help you build up your trust on that human writers are irreplaceable.

Trust Factors

There are a lot of people who are still not sure about AI and its application in technology. There are a lot of reasons which influence these facts may be because of the Mass media, cultural backgrounds. Usually, people will like to trust a human being than any bot or the algorithms that are embedded in it.

Moreover, when the creativity factor is considered. Bot are machines which are not at all creative as a human being is. The way a human can convert his emotion, and creativity into a content can’t be found in a Robot.

This is another major factor in creating mistrust for Robots in humans.

Bots don’t have Human Sense

Bots, Robots these things are made by humans to ease human work. That doesn’t mean that they could replace the humans. Bots don’t have any emotions, love, hate, memories etc. they can’t even show preferences. Which a human being has. Writing an article, blog, poem, story etc. should contain a human touch and feel. Bare sentences consisting of words can’t impress and draw a person’s attention. Whereas a human’s deep thoughts scripted into a content can.

When we move towards stories. A person tells a story which he has experienced or heard. Similar a person writes a story when he has experienced or something has impressed him. These all things the Robots doesn’t have.

There are a lot of tools available on the internet platform. Which can write the content for you or just rewrite the content if you enter the original one.

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This is the original content written by a human being. Whereas below is the content that is just rewritten by the bot.

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These two images show a huge difference in between. The Bot created content just changes some words and their meanings. Which makes the whole content different and not to the point. You can know easily which is bot written and which is human written. It has a clear difference.

All that a content needs is a human touch, his strategy, feel, experience, instruction to carve out a wonderful article.

Bugs in AI creation

AI creates a lot of content in just some time. This is one of the major drawbacks of AI. Because a number of contents will have a number of bugs. And it does tons of action in a few seconds which increases the risk of having a lot of mistakes.

If you have a typo error in one post then it will show up to all the customers. And everyone could easily view it. For which again a human hand is required. To remove all this kind of errors.

People are always curious about new things that come up in the market. But everything has some pros and cons. Similarly for a chatbot if it is in a discussion. It will stop after a certain extent and can’t continue after it due to its programming. And sometimes it gets some bugs in it also.

Bots are very expensive

The content generated by the Bots are very expensive. Above as we have discussed Quill it charges $70,000 per year to generate the contents. Being a content writer I have been using Hootsuite to manage my social media campaigns.

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Here, for the first one month, you have a trial period after which you have to pay some amount on a monthly basis to be a member and use this bot. It is not too much expensive as compared to Quill. Here you can manage all your social media ADs, campaigns etc. You have to just set the things like in which social media platform what you want to post and at what time. According to the time and information given to it, the bot will post accordingly.

You can even avail a free demo of the Hootsuite. You have to go the free demo place and register your self then the Hootsuite people will revert back to you.

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For a bot, every instruction has to be given by a human only. It can’t work on it own and it is very much mandatory for a human touch. Apparently which means you get only that, what you pay for.

Bots connection with Humans

Bots can’t be related and can never be as sympathetic as human beings. Unless a Robot comes travelling from the future.

Suppose we consider a statement “Digital Marketing has become an important and primary thing for any company’s marketing strategy these days”.

Why does this sentence stand so still and powerful? The connection of one human to the other who relate to each other. And experience the different things that are going around them. There are a lot of people who are on social media, follow blogs, Videos, youtube. Why people follow the PEOPLE, not any bots? because people connect people, People doesn’t connect bots.

This is where we come to a conclusion Human writers can never be replaced by a Bot. Because human connects to human, not to bots. And the connection is always an important and primary aspect of writing.

 

What are the best E-Books for digital marketing trends?

What are the best E-Books for digital marketing trends?

In this progressive world of cut-throat competition, one can’t afford to be left behind. One crucial parameter of always being in, and winning the rat-race is to go with the flow – be tech-savvy and constantly upgrade oneself. One has to keep abreast of the latest happenings and also be open to learning. Yes, learning is a perennial activity. The technological age is no less than the age characterized by ‘Survival of the Fittest.’ One has to constantly sharpen his/her axe.

Learning the latest know-how, imbibing advanced skills and gaining knowledge is not only mandatory, but also expensive. Well, if you have the zeal, nothing can come in your path. Knowledge is Power and we show you how you can amass it without spending a single penny. Sounds interesting? Doesn’t it?

In this article, we enlighten you on some of the best e-books for digital marketing trends that come free of cost. All you need to do is just log in, download the e-book; Hey and Presto! You have a plethora of knowledge before you.

All the e-books for digital marketing mentioned below are recommended by top digital marketers and will help you unwind various aspects of digital marketing trends.

COMPLETE GUIDE TO SOCIAL MEDIA FOR B2B by Salesforce

The first best e-book for digital marketing trends that comes to our mind and tops our list is “Complete guide to social media for B2B“.

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Social media is a lot more than just making friends, poking, tagging, uploading images and videos etc. In fact, social media has changed the way of conversation, most importantly in digital marketing. The effect of social media is enormous when we opt for the B2B marketing.

Marketers are now focusing on Social Media, because people all around the world connect with each other only through social media – Yes, the reason as to why businesses are shifting their focus more towards Social Media!

Social Media is a widely used tool, with the help of which, marketers easily connect with their clients, involve in regular conversations and interact seamlessly.

Navigation in Social media can be quite difficult and challenging. To ease your work and help you wade through this difficulty, Salesforce has come up with this e-book for digital marketing. An e-book that gives tips and tricks on how to work on social media, and how to leverage your social media campaign.

The e-book throws light on the metrics which is required to be tracked, the content that is appropriate for the work and that can support all platforms. Most importantly, how to grab viewers’ attention, and how to convert viewers into customers, through the medium of social media.

DATA DRIVEN CONTENT MARKETING by Uberflip

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Content marketing is very important and plays a pivotal role in making any digital marketing strategy successful. Content marketing is not so easy as it appears to be. In fact, it requires proper strategy and planning and one should understand the deeper concept of content writing in digital marketing trends.

Knowing data analytics and implementing it in work is extremely crucial. Analytics doesn’t only help in making the right digital marketing decisions, but also helps in deciding whether the content you have written is performing, underperforming or overperforming.

In Data-driven content marketing e-book, you can learn about the content in detail – What is content marketing, how to write, what to write, etc. The e-book for digital marketing also contains information on how to create effective content.

This e-book focusses on an in-depth study of content marketing and the strategies involved in it.

BEGINNERS GUIDE TO SEO by Moz

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Moz provided one of the best e-books related to the latest trends in digital marketing. It provides some of the best SEO tools that help in various ways. This Moz Beginners guide to SEO e-book is not like any other usual e-book for digital marketing, it contains the important topics in the form of articles. When you browse through the e-book, you can easily understand the concept as all the articles are arranged in the form of topics.

There are a lot of e-books for digital marketing that are available for free on the internet platform. The Moz e-book has been read by millions of people n number of times. It is the best e-book available for beginners in digital marketing.

This e-book gives full details about the major topics in digital marketing that is SEO or Search Engine Optimization. You can learn all the strategies that should be implemented to make a website rank higher than the others and make it search engine friendly. This also includes information on topics like how to increase interaction with people, ow to improve rankings, how to use the keywords and why is content so important?

HOW TO BUILD WORLD CLASS INTERNET LEAD GENERATION PROGRAM by Peter Geisheker

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Every marketer’s dream is to increase the number of leads. This “How to build a world-class internet lead generation program” is the best e-book on digital marketing trends and focusses on how to increase the number of audience for the business. Not only this, the greatest challenge lies in converting leads to effective customers.

This e-book for digital marketing explains everything in an elaborate way. It focuses on inbound content marketing, and the different ways we should opt to make effective content that will attract targeted customers. In this book, you can find the various tricks of the trade like remarketing or how to adapt it to increase the lead generation and how to use social media in promoting the same. These are just a few of the important tricks that are mentioned in the book.

The Author, Peter Geisheker also wrote details about internet sales funnel. You can learn how to advertise on the Internet platform and engage people and drive them to your website. This e-book also contains detailed information on how to use a dedicated landing page in sales.

TOP 25 SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGIES by Buffer

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Social media is considered as a major base where people across borders connect with each other seamlessly. After all, the world is now reduced to a global village. Marketers turning towards social media has become a regular practice these days. To concentrate on social media, it is essential to come up with good strategies and take careful steps.

Retracing our steps and going back a few decades from now, we understand that Social Media was not so popular and marketers never concentrated on it. Back then, people had the impression that social media marketing meant working in a new territory. Now, working in this territory has become highly essential.

Finding the best e-book for digital marketing trends, that too in social media is a bit difficult. To make things easier for you, we help you with this e-book, that consists of the top 25 social media strategies, which are filtered out from all the top-rated blogs on social media. All these 25 tricks are tried and tested, and only then rated as top social media strategies.

THE OPTIMIZATION SURVIVAL GUIDE by Optimizely

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Marketers get a better overview of “What are the customer needs?” and “What is it that they want?”, with the help of optimization and A/B testing. The main aim is to optimize the conversion, which is not a cake walk.

A lot of testing and experimenting is required. The optimization survival guide e-book for digital marketing contains complete details on how to achieve a conversion. It contains 30 best and top-rated tips from top marketers, who can show you the path of “how to become a successful marketer.”

The e-book contains tricks on how to sidetrack the roadblocks and helps to take the testing or the experimented program to the next level. It even tells what you must expect when you go for a certain optimization strategy.

This e-book helps you analyze your strategy and trail a hypothesis from it. This helps in building the best version of testing.

50 SHADES OF GROWTH by Sid Bharath and Danny Halarewich

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This book titled “50 shades of growth” is one of the best e-books on digital marketing trends, tailor-made for digital marketers who are into the e-Commerce business. The book is all about e-Commerce and is very useful for the e-Commerce business.
This e-book for digital marketing contains 50 top rated tips and tricks on e-Commerce business growth, which helps to elevate your brand to the next level. The book contains all the steps explained in a detailed and easy to understand manner.

The tips mentioned in the e-book are well tested and applied by experts who have got the best results and have grown from scratch to being one of the top e-commerce companies. It even provides many wonderful tips, that you can experiment with, and implement.

You can also find a full list of optimization and marketing tools. Interested people can get good deals on the tools and users can use it.

HOW TO GENERATE LEADS USING INFOGRAPHICS by Hubspot and Piktochart

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Creating content that attracts users’ attention is important. Making this step work – infographics, visual contents, graphics, data, graphs etc. is very crucial to implement, as this can improve the conversation with the viewers.

Infographic itself doesn’t work all the time. Without a perfect working strategy behind it, the idea of infographics may fall apart. To overcome this, Piktochart collaborate with HubSpot to make this happen.

In this e-book for digital marketing “How to generate leads with infographics?” you will find 11 crucial tips that will help to improve your lead generation by using infographics. This ebook is considered to be the best e-book for digital marketing in generating leads.

You can easily learn how to write content in the form of infographics, how to optimize infographics for a social media campaign, and also get a clear idea on how to pitch infographics to media and come to know the outlets that are content curated.

CONVERSATION NOT CAMPAIGNS by Marketo

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Conversation not campaigns is the e-book for digital marketing that gives a detailed information on topics like “how to conduct email marketing?” Opting for the old technique “batch and blast” is not ideal for all the cases.

It suggests to address an individual and speak to them directly in a personalized way, by having a generic conversation and thus attract more number of people. This can’t happen by blasting random emails.

The users need a reason to visit your website and engage in your emails. The marketers’ need to develop a good rapport and build a strong bond with the users. This is to retain the users. The bond should be one-to-one, not one-to-many. This is the best e-book for digital marketing trends that throws light on email marketing and also on the behavioral filters and the triggering messages that are based on the behavior.

THE CONVERSION MARKETERS GUIDE TO LANDING PAGE COPYWRITING by Unbounce

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It is a known fact that the quality that we maintain in landing the page determines the success or failure rate of the marketing campaign that we run – a challenge that is hard to be accomplished. It is much more than just putting a headline and purposeful copy altogether.

If you are worried that your marketing strategy is driving away the customers, then “The conversion Marketer’s guide to landing page copywriting” is the best e-book for digital marketing trends that will help you in writing content for a good landing page. It even showcases the importance of the critical copy that must be present for the conversions.

It is an e-book consisting of 56 pages and gives all the professional tips and tricks that will help in attracting visitors and improving the landing page quality. You will also get to know “What are the click-worthy calls to action?”, or “What are the elements required for high converting landing pages?”

PAID AND EARNED: TWO SIDES OF INFLUENCER MARKETING by Jay Baer

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For conversions and making your business visible and known, the best strategy to follow is Influencer marketing. Sometimes, marketers consider it a bit confusing, but if implemented in the correct way, the results would be positive.

Paid and earned: two sides of influencer marketing e-book for digital marketing tells about what we should do to have a successful influencer marketing, and what should your focus be on when coming to paid marketing or earned influencer. All these kinds of questions are answered in this e-book.

You can also find some other important aspects viz the reasons as to why brands need influencer marketing etc. The influencer marketer requires brands so that new content can be developed and posted for the followers.

This is the best e-book for digital marketing trends that you should follow to know about different types of influencers like the mega, micro and macro, their impact and a lot more.

THE MARKETERS GUIDE TO FACEBOOK by Contently

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Facebook has become an entirely new world for people inside the universe. The power of Facebook has become immeasurable and unparalleled when compared to other sites in all perspectives. Social media owes the world’s 25% of the traffic.

For all the brands to promote themselves, Social media acts like a gold mine, where you can keep your customers engaged and can bring their attention to your official website.

“Marketers guide to Facebook” by Contently, is the best e-book for digital marketing trends, mainly in social media. The book gives in-depth information on how to undertake Facebook marketing? You can even be able to run how to leverage the Ads in the social media platform to get better results. You can also find the best tips and tricks from industry experts and the case studies related to it from the brands who have mastered social media platform.

INSTAGRAM FOR BUSINESS FOR DUMMIES by Jenn Herman, Eric Butow, Corey Walker

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The social media platform ‘Instagram’, can be efficiently used for increasing the business visibility, lead generation and conversion of the leads. Developing the brand insights will help in creating a brand awareness among people – on the products and services provided. Using Instagram for brand promotion will help connect the younger generation with a large sea of people, connected to social media. This will bridge the gap.

Business or brands can easily showcase “what they are doing” and can offer a view on the prospects to the customers. It can also build your brand profile on Instagram and improve engagements and reach. Create enticing campaigns, draw people to interesting contests and provide gift coupons to the winners.

These are some tricks and tips that you can learn from this e-book “Instagram for business dummies” which will help enhance your business and reach, through Instagram. This is how you can leverage your brand name in the social media.

What is Google Analytics? How will it help in SEO strategy?

What is Google Analytics? How will it help in SEO strategy?

WHAT IS GOOGLE ANALYTICS?

Google analytics is a tool by Google for Search Engine Optimization or SEO and for different online marketing purposes. It gives a free web analytics which contains all the statistics, graphs, basic tools that are required for analysis. How Google Analytics will help in SEO Strategy.

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Features of Google Analytics:

  • It contains data visualization which means getting the whole data, statistics, and everything that is related to one screen.
  • The data which it displays gets updated with time when new trending things goes on.
  • All the data provided are segmented into a subset for easy analysis.
  • You can get the full custom report and can even share the data using emails to have an easy communication.
  • Not even that it is integrated with other tools such as the Google Adwords, Website Optimizer, and Public Data Explorer.

The websites which are small or the startups or the companies which are of medium sized Google analytics support these websites more. But on the other hand, it doesn’t provide much support to the larger websites and the websites having higher enterprises. The data that is provided in the front end when we search something is provided by the Javascript page tags inserted on the pages and the codes on that data which the user wants.

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The Page tags are nothing but a bug which checks on all the data that a visitor wants. Whereas, if the user has disabled Cookies the system itself can’t get all the data of the users because everything relies on Cookies. Google doesn’t analyze all the data given or available instead it does the sampling of reports.

Advantages of using Google Analytics

However, some people have raised a concern regarding the security issues while using the Google Analytics. From the dashboard of Google analytics, we can know information about those websites and people who are connected to social media sites like Facebook, Instagram etc. And there a lot of companies who require commercials in huge number so, they want an advanced version of web analytics.

Analytics tells a lot of things about the websites that are being analyzed by the Google analytics. Below are some of the points that should be considered:

  • How much amount of traffic you can attract and where are users from?
  • What are the pages that attract the users and why?
  • How much time do the users spend on a particular page?
  • What are the pages the users mostly surf before exiting from the internet?
  • In which websites or web pages the major number of users get converted to customers?
  • What is the number of users surfing the internet using Phones, Laptops, Desktops, and tablets?
  • What is the exact location of the maximum number of users?

Below are some of the ways in which you can use the Google analytics tool which is very much helpful in SEO strategy making:

MEASURING THE TRAFFIC

Usually the digital marketer especially the SEO’s are tested by the abilities how they are creating the website rank high in certain keywords. And every digital marketing agency rank the SEO’s on the basis of total traffic generated and the Conversions created. If your site is active in the internet platform for 13months then it is called as to be the active and well-performing website. It gives you a fair chance to showcase your talent by showing the growth chart.

With the help of Google Analytics, the full growth graph is shown, there is a comparison tool already present in it. The Executive of any company can easily access it and see the growth chart and analyze from it. And you can show the executive about the progress and growth the company got because of your efforts.

If the officials see the growth they didn’t even ask about the keywords and the relevancy and where they are being used. Because when someone sees the growth he focuses on that only, after which rest all background things becomes blur.

The main thing which matters here is the growth and the profit that the company earns. Which means you have to showcase yourself as you are the reason for growth and profit. This is the best key to make your mark in the company.

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LANDING PAGE SEARCH AND CONVERTING IT TO LINKS

The most important thing here comes up is knowing all those pages which receive a lot of organic searches. This helps the content marketers to take the best decision. Even helps in the making the strategies strong and good. Helps in making the best strategies in comparison with the other companies.

That’s is why organic search metrics becomes so important to be checked. It’s very simple to see the statistics for it. Just you have to select the “behaviour” in the bar in Google Analytics, then select the “site content” then go to “all pages”. After which you will get the full data of the pages which are trending the highest.

How to improve landing page?

It even gives several other options such as if you want to see the search result for the particular category in the page you can easily do that even. You can also see the indexation of the top web pages which are ranking high. If there is a landing page which has various kinds of the viewing analytics. This means the page view is huge and has a lot of interest and offering its user the best experience and ranked better than any other sites.

If you have a web page and Google likes your web page that means the other sites will also know about your website and see about the website and make your website popular. This is a very essential step to boost your page and help get the backlinks and users to your site. You can then easily link your page to the other pages by giving backlinks and internal links from your and their site.

If a site ranks low in the page ranking that means the company doesn’t provide the service which it mentions to be. These people usually use keywords to drag people but don’t keep the important content when users go to the actual site. Which invites the increased bounce back rate which means users return back who are not interested.

SEARCH QUERIES TO FORM THE RELATED CONTENT

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Before writing a content you can always see what the users are searching? what is trending? and what they actually want? For writing the best content the most important thing is searching the relevant queries, relevant keywords and then concentrating everything in a content and making it effective. This process is very difficult and clumsy and lengthy process. In this process, all the information can be easily received from the data collected from the Search Console.

You just have to go the “Acquisition” option then go to “Search console” and then to the “queries”. By using the Google search console you can get access to all the keywords for the particular word you searched. You can even find all the information regarding who and what they searched about you and your company? Even small things like who you are? what is your company about? what are your services? etc.

How to write content?

While creating the content it is always recommended to save the keywords that are related to the topic. This thing helps in creating your website rank higher in the Google rankings. To reach this place you always have to filter the keywords and chose those which are higher in search rankings.

After gathering all the keywords then comes the content preparation. Before that one more small thing is there. That is searching those pages which contain the relevant keywords and finding their reach. This thing makes the work very easy for the content writer because if the keyword reach is very good then the page ranking would be very good. And automatically the content will be having the highest reach.

THIRD PARTY COMPANIES PERFORMING THE BEST

Google Analytics is very useful if you want to see the campaigns that you ran for third parties. You can easily access it using Google Analytics. When you go to Acquisition then you will see another option such as “campaigns” and then go to “all campaigns” where you see the “full campaign list”.

Basically, this contains the information about all the promotional campaigns that you have done for other companies. And the campaigns that will showcase on their website but it will point to your site just by giving backlinks which may include things like discount codes, dedicated landing pages, articles, guest blogs etc. And each of the campaigns should contain a UTM code. As this is the code that makes the work of the Google analytics very easy while tracking for campaigns. The UTM code is basically attached to custom URL which is usually used to track the source, medium and the name of the campaign.

Performance Of Third Party

The data which is gathered from the campaigns of the third party will help to get the details of the website which is on the top and why it is? This instead helps in getting a lot of audience and clients. Links usually bring a lot of hype and weight to your web page. The more powerful the links are better the rankings of the webpage will be. Because links are the strongest things to get the best results.

And always note down those keywords which you think are relevant and are required for the future purpose. This even includes those keywords that help in attracting traffic to your website. These keywords you can find easily by going to the option “Acquisition” then go to the option “campaigns” and then to the “organic keyword”. This gives you full details of the keywords and generates new ideas for the content.

GROUPING THE CHANNEL TO GET THE TARGET

Users are the base of any company and the primary thing to remember. It is very important to have the details of the users whom you are targeting and of those who visit your web page. For example, if you have two websites one with all the statistics, well-defined profile, and higher metrics. On the other hand, you have another website with no profile information, Uncategorized, unstructured and no other information. Then which website will people opt for? The answer is the well-defined website.

So, these are all the channels or the pathways that let the users come to your website. Some people may have come randomly, some may have already visited your site, some may have seen your ads. There are a lot of possibilities in which a user can come up. But our work is to bring those people and giving them a reason to visit the website again.

When searched for the channels Google Analytics will show some of the default campaigns and channel in the first. But you can filter it out by choosing the categories and applying those things which will take you to the desired result. It even has the feature of grouping in Google Analytics which you can access by going to same option that is “Acquisition”, then you will get another option “All traffic” and after which you will get another option “Channels”.

What are the channels?

Not only that you can even create yourself a lot of channels. But, only one thing that you have to mark here is that “Is channel relevant enough?” and “Is it useful or not for the business?” And you should have every detail about it, but if you don’t know about it then the problem is with you. Instead, if you have a granular channel grouping you can get the best result as it eases the decision making. By accompanying this you will have the data that is accurate and right.

For having the best landing page- analyzing and performance of the landing page is mandatory for the channel’s performance. Planning everything in a strategized manner and having the channels those are working and which give suitable results. Not only that it should draw a lot of people to the website and increase the traffic to your website. These are some of the important things to follow.

14 best SEO factors for Google Ranking

14 best SEO factors for Google Ranking

For every business that runs on the digital media are worried about the Google Rankings. Which decides the future of the Business whether it will be a hit or whether it will be a flop. Any business running on the internet platform it is important to have a good Google ranking to reach a lot of customers.

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Below are some of the important SEO factors for Google Rankings:

URL ACCESSIBILITY

The aim is here to let the Google bots come to this site. Understand that this is the unique content. Which will ultimately help the viewers by giving required and necessary details? That’s not it should make them able to understand all the images, videos that are posted on the website. This also includes all the embed and everything that is related to work. Which should be detected by the Google bots. So, it is always recommended to have a website URL which can be detected easily by the bots. And not only bots but anyone who is searching about it.
This Crucial in SEO because without this no works even start.

PAGE SPEED

The speed of the site is considered as one of the important factors for SEO ranking. Google always gave emphasis on the customer experience. The fast loading pages are more visited by the viewers than the slower loading pages. This is where the page speed becomes an important factor.

The speed of the page should be high in not only desktop but also in mobile phones. Because mobile phones have an important part of people. People are more using the mobile phones than relying on the desktops, laptops and tablets.

Google has already announced the search engine algorithm update based on the speed of the page. And this thing has already come into action from July 2018. Which means if your site is not speeding enough then your Site would be penalized. Here, is the Google testing tool to check the speed of the site.

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KEYWORDS

Keywords are very crucial SEO factors which affect the Google Rankings. Here the first step is to discover all the required keywords and phrases that are related to your topic. There are a lot of websites which help you in finding out the keyword related to your topic like UberSuggest, WordStream, MOZ etc.
There will be some problems which your organisations and the people in that are may be trying to solve. By the use of this specific keywords, the problems can be solved. What you have to do is keep a primary keyword. And have some of the Secondary keywords and follow the what the searches are more about. Whereas, the intention behind all these keywords should be the same and should land the viewers to the desired and that single page.

KEYWORDS IN DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Keywords are not meant to be in one section that is in the main content. Below are some areas where the keywords should also be concentrated:

  • Use the keywords in the title tag. Because the Title meta tag is the strongest from where you can boost your site for the increased number of Google search rankings.
  • Using the keywords in the meta description. To have a keyword oriented meta description for SEO stuff is very important. It is crucial while the Googlebot search for the required keyword.
  • Using the keyword in H1 tags. As it is the title of the content it serves as a relevant SEO factor for the search rankings.

MOBILE SEO FACTORS

The top SEO factors involve the Mobile SEO in it and are being considered as an important aspect. People always keen to use those items which will make their work easy and can be found immediately. And if you have a web page and that is mobile friendly then no one can stop it from being successful. People being more relying on the Smartphones it has become an extremely important reason for Google to an emphasis on Mobile SEO. And most of the Google ranking results comes from Mobile searches.

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When it comes to Mobile-friendly Google ranking. Here also comes another aspect that is social media. Which has a huge people base! Here also Mobile SEO becomes an important factor. You can check here

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Because most of the people use Mobile phones for accessing it. Even according to Google it gives emphasis on Mobile users experience than any other media. Below are some of the SEO ranking tips for the mobile phones.

  • If you have a very responsive site then it should resize itself according to the device in which it is being used.
  • Using easily identifiable fonts for easy accessing on the big small.
  • Web pages that are easy to access and navigate.
  • The content on the page should be precise and should not be hidden by any AD’s.

These all tips help in minimizing the bounce rate for the particular web page and help it rank higher in the Google search result.

CHECK GOOGLE SERPs

This is an important step because when comes to increasing the site search rankings. It is always advised to do the background research. Perform a query and see what comes back in return to you. And then figure out what Google thinks to be relevant enough?
Always try become the best by filling up all the holes. Where the search is there but no relevant replies to it.

CREATION OF QUALITY CONTENT

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One of the most difficult and important tasks is the content. Creating the content because the content is considered as the king of any website and the digital source. Whenever you reach a website and open it that first thing you can see is the content and the website design.
It is important to make the best content to make the top websites. A person who connects well with people and write the contents with utmost care and amplification. And the content should connect with everyone and with every age group.

LINK RELEVANCY

Whenever the content is complete try to give backlinks and internal links it is also known as link building. Backlinks or external links are those links that are the quality links given to the other sites. From which some reference has been taken or who give relevant and related information.
Internal links are those which are then given to the own websites. Or to those blogs that are written in your website and are related to the present topics. Linking is the best way through which you can promote your site in some others and vice-versa.

CLICK THROUGH RATE

CTR or the Click Through Rate is nothing but the ratio between the number of times a search result was being clicked to the number of times to show up to the customers. According to the Google analytics, it is considered as this is the base on which Google more rely on. And because of which the search rankings increase. It is considered as one of the major reason that is responsible for the rankings in the Google.

Increase in the CTR can boost the rank of the site in the Google Analytics. And is an extreme reason that is considered while ranking the web page. For the purpose of listing Google, it expects for the certain CTR. If we take the examples the keywords which are hugely used have 50% of the CTR whereas the not so much used keywords have 33% of the CTR score. You can check it by using the Google Search Console.

Google console search

Here, you have to enter the URL of the webpage you want to see the CTR for and then proceed accordingly. After which you can get the related Clicks in the following way.

Click through rate report

DOMAIN FACTORS

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The domain factors are also not so much reliable enough. Because even it can also affect the ranking of a website in the Google SEO rankings factors. Below are some of the domain related issues:

  • Domain registered should be trustworthy because Google considers it for a whole year.
  • History of the Domain. As you may not be the first person who has used the domain. And if in the past the domain has been penalized it can affect the Google rankings.

Domain Age also will play major role in SEO. You can check domain age.

SNIPPETS AND SCHEMA MARKUPS

It is not necessary for all the cases. In some case where there is a use of Google News or in that case where you use the images and videos. Or, in that case where you have to use the Featured Snippet and Featured snippet visuals. With the credits and even want to add the visuals of the travel trips you have been to this all is done by the Schema Snippet. Some examples of the Schema are listed below:

Example for JSON-LD Schema

<script type=”application/ld+json”>
{
“@context”: “http://schema.org”,
“@type”: “WebSite”,
“url”: “http://example.com/”,
“potentialAction”: {
“@type”: “SearchAction”,
“target”: “http://example.com/search?&q={query}”,
“query-input”: “required”
}
}
</script>

Example for Micro Data Schema

<div =”http://schema.org/WebSite”>
<link =”url” href=”http://www.example.com/”/>
<form =”potentialAction” =”http://schema.org/SearchAction”>
<meta =”target” content=”http://example.com/search?q={query}”/>
<input =”query-input” type=”text” name=”query”/>
<input type=”submit”/>
</form>
</div>

SITE MAPPING

All the pages that are in your site are being indexed by the help of the sitemap. It is the most reliable and simplest way to tell Google that what your website has? What you work upon? And how you work? It includes all the details even the minute while Google sends its bots. This is another important SEO factor to increase Google Rankings. Always give a user-friendly mostly mobile-friendly site architecture. Below some of the ways to tackle it:

  • Using multiple menus on the web page. Never ever stuff a lot of things in one menu. Always try to keep it clean and easy to understand. Divide it into different parts and subsections by keeping it more specific.
  • For different categories using the drop down, menus are the best option.
  • Using categories and subcategories are the best option.
  • Keep the Site search option on the site where most of the people can easily see it.

HTTPS SITES

Switching to https is not that much necessary because having the http will not harm the site in any of the ways. In the year 2014 Google announced that https will be considered as the ranking signal. This is the point where a lot of attention is required. So, it is better recommended to change to https than being in HTTP.

Later, Google started taking the flag all those web pages which used to take the passwords and the credit card details in a not so secure way in the URL bar. After which in the year 2018 Google announced that all the https sites are valid rest all will not be considered. That is when Chrome 68 was introduced and it marked all the http sites as the “invalid” or “not secure” websites. If it is not done in a right way it can bring up a lot of issues with it.

If you already have an https and want to run an audit and check the web page if it has any issues or not. This Google website auditor can be used for it. Here you can log in and use it for the auditing purpose.

Follow Latest Google Algorithm Changes

You can check the status of algorithm by following this link

10 Best Content Marketing Trends for 2019

10 Best Content Marketing Trends for 2019

Here is the content marketing trends, before we going to content marketing trends we need to know basic things.

What is Content Marketing?

If you’re new to this, let me acquaint you with what content marketing actually is. This is a no-brainer. The title itself suggests the complete idea. Hold your horses! Do not get deceived by the simple idea it connotes. There’s a lot more to it than that meets the eye.

How Content Marketing builds your Business?

Content marketing is merely a way of writing blogs with the purpose of attracting more traffic. This traffic eventually goes ahead and attracts the prospects that are essential for building your business. These prospects are the ones that you might be doing business with. Thus, in short, content writing is a way to build your brand and grow your business.

How Content Marketing helps SEO?

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Content Writing. How?
We will take you through…
SEO is nothing but helping your website crawl better on the Google SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). Initially, you need to write as relevant a content as possible. Understand what the users would usually search for in your particular domain. Write your content in accordance with your keywords and Voila! You’re good to go.
Google will start considering all those keywords and display your page on the SERPs. This leads to a number of clicks to your web page. So that’s how it helps your SEO. For the content marketing tips, do read this article on content marketing tips and tricks.

Why is Content Marketing important for Business?

Content marketing is said to have attracted about 160% of businesses more than the websites that don’t encourage content writing. If you don’t showcase your own expertise, then how will the external parties know of your existence? Similar is the case with the content writing. Content writing is a technique where you show off your skills and expertise in that particular area, that finally leads to the prospects – creating your brand. When you appear constantly on the SERPs, when the prospects search for the same, it definitely grabs their attention. When these prospects are interested enough in the way you do business, they’d be willing to team up with you. That’s how most of the prospects are earned online.
If you’re still not convinced, do go through this article.

What are the Content Marketing Channels?

Once you finish with your content, the next and the foremost step is to promote it on a large scale. This promotion is helpful as then, it would reach a large number of prospects who are looking for services like yours. Do register yourself in the channels mentioned below:

Social Media:

What’s the purpose of all those hours of writing when it doesn’t reach the expected audience? What better location could you find to publicize your article than your very own social media? We know out of all the communities, social media has the highest outreach. Do share your articles on the social media platforms to garner a number of audiences. In order to understand how you can leverage social media for your content marketing, do read this article on social media promotions.

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Similar Field Communities:

There are a number of communities that are in relevance to your field of expertise. No matter what field you are in, you can always find your own communities. These communities help increase the relevance of your posts.

Guest Blogging:

Guest blogging is yet another way of expanding your business in a short time. Find the website with a better domain authority (DA) than yours and start guest blogging. This will lead the traffic from their website to visit yours and eventually, you’ll see a great increase in your traffic.

Email Campaigns: 

Encourage the viewers to give out their emails in an interactive way to be able to send them more of these. Keep them updated, keep those blogs coming one after the other. Make it interesting to watch. Not everyone is interested in sharing out their personal information, so make them give it out to you by themselves. Such should be your strategy.

YouTube:

Make videos, make them interesting, publish them on YouTube, give out your link. This will eventually gather a huge amount of traffic. Keep interlinking from one media to the other to get a huge flow of traffic.
Out of all these, there’s one important thing that you can never fail to follow. Always get yourself updated with all the new trends in the field.
Here are a few more low key channels you can visit.

What are the content marketing trends for 2018?

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1. Content Remarketing:

If you can invest something on this, then you need to go with this. Content marketing is the way in which you can display the same content that your users were not able to finish. So, the people would have the option to come back and finish the whole article again. This is called content remarketing. This helps the visitors leaving your website to revisit.

2. Podcasts and Embedding Videos:

The latest trend these days that has been taking over the regular blogging is the Podcasts. These podcasts are highly essential for all those people who are busy to read through things. Podcasts help in reading out the whole article that is written in words. This helps the reader to multitask while listening to the same content that he/she has to read.
Embedding videos from YouTube or various other channels helps in easy understanding. This ease of learning attracts a number of people towards your blog. Not just that, one of the ranking factor, duration of a visitor in your website, increases by a great amount, when you successfully make them stick to these videos.

3. Funny and Humorous:

Being funny has always attracted a number of customers. I know I’m not as funny but yeah, I don’t recommend you to be that way. Don’t go hurting people on your quest for being funny. A good laugh always kills off the pressure that you take all day! Hence, be funny for yours and your viewers’ sake!

4. Promotion, Promotion and Promotion:

Keep promoting yourself finding new channels. I can only suggest a handful of these, but you need to find your own communities or locations to promote based upon your field. So, just go ahead and find your niche communities to be able to spread your content across the web.

5. Ambience:

These days people are all about ambience. Would you walk into a restaurant with a bad ambience even though it offers great food? That’s the effect even a website ambience has over the viewers. These days every other website is developing its pages, such that they are more interactive than ever. So, do concentrate on your website’s interactiveness, such the viewers remember the next time they visit your blog.

6. Voice Search:

The next big thing that everyone is aware of! Voice search is the next big thing in the technological advances running around. We can say with surety that this will take over the regular search by a great extent. That’s the kind of predictions the experts have for this. So whenever you write some content, do keep the questions asked as per the perspective of the voice search. This might not be completely essential on this day, but in the future, it’s going to help your viewers a lot with their search.

7. Marketing Automation:

Another way in which you can make your life easier is by using the marketing automation. Marketing automation helps you in doing the jobs that are usually performed by people. Hence, do understand what a marketing automation is and how it helps you in building your marketing strategies – here.

The Evergreen Trends:

There are certain trends that never go out of date. The ones that are listed below are few of those. Never ever even think of neglecting all these factors.

8. Trial and Error:

This is a method that works the best. This needs a lot of patience, but mark my words, this will help you in the long run. Learning from mistakes is the best way to learn anything. The same is the case with this one as well. Keep trying for different techniques and implement them on your website. Some might even give you unexpected results. That’s how you learn to grow your traffic and prospects altogether.

9. Content Repurposing:

You update your blog day after day coming with all the new updates. Have you ever thought what happens to your older blogs? You must have thought about it, but have you really acted upon it? Well, you should. Your older contents are as important as the newer ones. The older content, once they are outdated, are supposed to be looked upon. These updates lead to a better quality and efficiency of your blog. It also shows the kind of effort you’re trying to put and how serious you are about your business.

10. SEO:

If you know the importance of having your website rank top on SERPs, then you’ll know Search Engine Optimization is always essential no matter what year it is. As long as the search engine exists, its optimization is highly necessary to attract enough traffic to your website. So always have your site optimized and ready for the search engine to crawl.

Best tools to improve in content marketing:

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Content marketing is not just about how you market the content. It is also a cluster of how you write the content. So, let me introduce you (if you don’t know already) to all the tools that can help you in writing and marketing your content efficiently. There are a number of tools that you can utilise for the content writing purpose.

Plugins:

Always have a sight on which Plugins to incorporate on your CMS. If your CMS is WordPress, then find the appropriate plugins to make your job easier and efficient. You can find multiple plugins that can help you out in making your job smooth. There are a number of such plugins, for WordPress, Yoast SEO: helps in your SEO, Backup buddy helps in backing your data while writing. Thus, do acquaint yourself with multiple plugins, but don’t go with too many of them. More plugin slows down your website.

Google trends:

This is one more way to find the most trending topics and putting them up on your website. Trending topics are always the ones that reach a larger audience. The current hot searches will put your site ahead on the results. So, always be aware of the trends, and be ahead of your competitors.

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Grammarly

One more widget everyone needs to put on their respective browsers is Grammarly. This widget helps you in working out on your grammar. Bad grammar pulls you down on the results page. Hence, always take care of the grammar upfront.

Buzzsumo:

In order to see which topics to concentrate upon, this would be the best site for you. Buzzsumo shows the statistics on which topic reaches the maximum social sites. Hence, according to these shared statistics, you can create your own content and share them on social media.
You can check demo Click Here

Buffer

Writing a content itself is not enough for your content to reach the masses. You need to take certain marketing precautions as well, to install this plugin to be able to directly share your content on multiple social media sites.

HubSpot

There isn’t just one single thing that HubSpot does. HubSpot is considered to be one of the largest tools to ever exist for your content marketing. It not only helps you with your SEO, but also shows you the analytics that you need to be aware of. These analytics show the different responses to the different things you’ve tried on your content.

Ahrefs:

The other important tool in the field of content writing, Ahref analyzes all the content of your website and gives you your ranking on the internet. It shows the amount of organic traffic that your site attracts. It also has features like showing the progress of your site.

Google Analytics:

Google Analytics is the one site every website user needs to use to understand the statistics. These statistics help you deliver better performances on your website. This analytics also shows which sector your traffic is coming from. You can also have a view at your bounce rate and the duration at which your audience is staying.

Furthermore, if you’d like to have a brief look at tools, do look here.

Content Marketing Success Stories:

Nomadic Matt

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A great and impressive travel blog by Matthew Kepnes who has earned a great deal of recognition. This guy is an American Travel expert and has a domain authority of his blog at a whopping 66. That’s quite a great Moz Domain authority for a travel blogger and it isn’t easy to get such an authority. He went on to writing books and managed to become the New York Times best selling author.

An MBA graduate, after traveling to Thailand decided to quit his job. He decided to earn his living by what he loves to do. He has travelled to over 70 countries in his 7 years of traveling. How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter is the book that has been critically acclaimed and is said to be an eye opener for all those heavy spending nomads.

Neil Patel:

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The guy about who all the content marketers are aware of. Neil Patel has found his own ways of attracting the traffic through both his conventional and unconventional methodologies. These tricks have helped him create a name for himself in the world of SEO and Content Marketing. Now, he is the founder of multiple well-doing websites and has a great impact on all the digital marketers.
Neil Patel is now worth more than $10M and has been said to have a great impact in the world of digital marketing. So, do follow this guy in order to stay updated on all the things happening around you.

Content marketing trends in various industries:

In the Travel Industry:

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The travel industry has been reaching new heights in terms of blogging and using its content on various platforms. So, let’s look at how this industry has been upgrading itself in terms of content marketing:

General Blogging:

The usual blogging has been on a hike for a long time and is believed to have a great future as well. These blogs are the way in which people are attracted towards the site. Different people enjoy the travel experiences of these blogs and become loyal customers.

Social Media Short Contents:

The short and sweet tales or quotes posted on social media go a long way in being shared among themselves. These shares are further publicised. This publicising further helps in the brand awareness.

Video Marketing:

Video Marketing is another way of putting the content in the videos and sharing them further. These are short and quick to read. There isn’t much detailed information but the short videos help in a quick understanding. They don’t consume much time and are quick in helping us by giving a brief understanding.

In Commerce Industry:

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Content on the products:

There has to be certain content on every product description. The way the product sells also depends upon the description of the products. These details should be explained in a way that helps with a good understanding of the customer.

Instagram Description:

Instagram descriptions have always gone a long way in attracting people’s attention. These descriptions, if short and attractive, can keep the audience engaged towards them.

Video Marketing:

The videos of products and apparels give a brief idea on the products. The videos are not just enough, rather the product descriptions on the product page help with an easy understanding of the colour, size and further specifications.

Tweets:

The tweets made on each product also help with the product sales. Tweets are short ways of displaying the content and attracting the customer’s attention in a short time.

Bottomline:

Well, what can I say? There isn’t a page good enough to describe and guide you all about the content marketing. But I think this would be enough for a great start. Understand what it is and start improvising if you’re lacking in any of these. All these tricks have helped me in gathering about 200% of traffic in less than a month. Here’s how even you can improve your blog audience. I’m sure it’d help you the same as well. Have a great time in marketing your content!

8 B2B trends in 2018 to attract more businesses

8 B2B trends in 2018 to attract more businesses

If you’re a firm whose key concentration is B2B, then this B2B trends in 2018 would be something really useful to you. Often we see even after all those continuous efforts, still we lack in making an impact on our business. Attracting more businesses towards our firm becomes a tough nut to crack. Well, if you’re under such a situation, then you are in dire need of a serious upgrade. Check with all the points mentioned below as I’ve picked the best ones for you. If there seems to be a lack in any one of these, do act upon it quickly.

Content and Slides marketing:

b2b trends in 2018

The content marketing has been for a while in the market and I’m pretty sure it’s here to stay. Content writing is the first and primitive most section required for any website that intends to sell services. The respective blogs show their expertise in that particular area. It also attracts the audience or viewers who need information or services from that particular topic. It’s been proven that the services websites with blogs were able to generate 160% more leads than those who failed to maintain one. Content marketing enhances the chances of your brand recognition. You can further read the tips and tricks of content marketing here.

The slides have not been so acclaimed in the market but in my opinion, slides are an easy way to share the information. They are easy, on point, don’t claim much time and most of all slides are interactive. Every other slide you visit you are welcomed by images and short notes rather than those big blog posts that some might be annoyed to read completely. Slides are time-saving and people with less patience or who don’t have enough time in their lives can go with it.

Customization with AI:

b2b trends in 2018

Customize your website with AI. Yes, if you’d like to stay ahead in the race and ahead of your competitors, this is a must. Artificial intelligence is going up and up day by day. AI has the capability to interact with your clients directly and individually. It doesn’t just give vague answers to their query, whereas it understands the situation, analyzes and gives the best possible outcome. This enhances the bond between the firm and the client in the most efficient way.

To add to this, artificial intelligence plays a prominent role in figuring the faults in your website. A few tools that can optimize your website and figure out all the vulnerabilities in it. These tools are quite essential for the small to big scale firms.

Account Based Marketing(ABM):

b2b trends in 2018

If you don’t already know what an account based marketing is, let me help you with it. ABM is a process of client acquisition through specific marketing. Being specific and particular while marketing is always beneficial. Similar is the situation with ABM. In ABM, a customer or client is targeted directly and individual measures are taken to acquire them.

For example, if I am a law firm and would like to attract the mobile giant Samsung as a client, just sending out field specific emails to all such clients won’t do me any good. A certain individual attention needs to be given to show them how important they are to us. How you’re going to take care of their needs with utmost responsibility. That’s what ABM is. It’s like individually catching the particular fish that you need rather than throwing a whole piece of net in anticipation of finding that particular fish in it somewhere.

Leverage LinkedIn:

b2b trends in 2018

LinkedIn, after the acquisition by the software giant, Microsoft is now more popular than ever. B2B businesses have been benefitted the most from this. Through linked in the clients and firms could find each other based upon their requirements. If you’re a firm deal with SaaS, there can be queries you can address on LinkedIn and they’d recognize you. This increases the chances of you having a business with them.

Video and Podcast Marketing:

b2b trends in 2018

Video marketing, though has been for quite some time on the field, has been upgrading ever since. In this generation where everything needs to be in a blink of an eye. Video offers just the facility in sharing the information. Videos are fast, interactive and influential in most of the cases. Attaching a video to your blog also increases the stay time of your visitors.

The podcast is the other kind of media marketing. When you write a content, the viewer might not always be able to read it. As it’s highly impossible for a person to read and do some other job at the similar time. So podcasts offer you the flexibility of doing some other work while understanding the concept.

Implementation of AR:

b2b trends in 2018

Augmented Reality (AR) has been ruling the current real estate world. It’s certainly going to grow much larger than ever. In augmented reality, one needs to turn their camera on and place it to the location where they want to put the product. On the camera, you can see the product is placed at the appropriate location. The dimensions with which it’s said to be made is also accurate.

If you’re a product based company, instead of sending your clients the desired products, you can give them a good view on how it looks. They can sit at home or office and understand how it looks in their respective place. After having a good look they can straightaway place the order. This saves time, effort and stress.

Introduction of Marketing Automation into your business:

b2b trends in 2018

Marketing automation is one another important aspect in marketing these days. Marketing automation is highly required in order to make the work less stressful and more efficient. his automation is said to be used by about 80% of the businesses and is expected to have raised by 51% when compared to the 2014 statistics.

This automation collects the data from the prospects and then you can utilize this data to convey the appropriate information to the respective audience. This has a high relevance rate and the rate of conversion would be substantially higher than any other way. You can customize the automation tools in a way that it sends out the marketing emails or messages occasionally and keeps your audience stuck to you.

You can further read about marketing automation here.

Voice Operated Searches:

b2b trends in 2018

The next big thing that’s going to rule all over the world in a few years.  People who can’t really use their hands in certain situations, tend to use the voice search instead. You must have seen Siri and Google now being so trendy. Out of which, Siri, which was founded in the year 2011 has been used by 66% of the users and Google by 33%. The rate of usage of these voice search engine is expected to rise drastically.

Voice operated searches are expected to be used more than 50% by the end of 2021 which is some great number. This shows the kind of concentration one needs to put on this. So while writing a blog or telling about yourself, do use the keywords that suits the voice search. Read further about this here.

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