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Findable Content Marketing: 3 Google Keyword Tool Tips

Content Marketing Inst.

I love diversity of the arts. It makes the world a beautiful place. It brings us Beethoven and Yiruma, Carravagio andBanksy. But remember there was a time when each of these fellows was unknown and unheard of, until someone discovered, consumed, and shared their work.

The lesson here for businesses is that, whatever content you create, people should know it exists. Even the most epic content is worthless unless someone finds it, enjoys it, and passes it along to his friends and peers. That’s what great content is all about.

Google’s Keyword Tool helps your content get found. It allows you to identify good opportunity keywords (or phrases) that are popular and easy to leverage. When these words are added to your content (in the headline, copy, or both) people can easily find your work online. So before you write your next article, find out exactly what keywords customers are searching for online and incorporate them in your content.

Here are some tips for using Google’s Keyword Tool:

1. Research, filter, and act

Think of a word or general phrase that you want your business to be known for or associated with — for example, pain management. Here’s what that would look like in the Google Keyword Tool if your match type were broad (estimated):

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Google Changes Search, Moves Closer To Becoming Artificial Intelligence Engine

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Google began rolling out a feature that gives searchers in the United States the potential to access more relevant and in-depth responses to answers without leaving the page. The concept is built on something the company calls “knowledge graph,” which ties together words to create relationships. There are a multitude of sources behind this data. The search results page displays a variety of content related to keyword queries, bringing up a list of facts, photos, and landmarks, as well as quick links to other popular uses for the search term. Think of a Web beneath the user interface layer of the Internet that ties together all information across the Web.

Rob Garner, vice president of strategy at agency iCrossing, said Google’s knowledge graph takes another step in the company’s long transition to develop an artificial intelligence engine — semantic search. “It’s something Google’s doing in parallel to Schema.org in terms of relating object, places and people,” he said. “Looking at the schema for a person you can actually define the relationship with other people using schema vocabulary.”

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How to Survive the Google Penguin Update with Effective Content Writing

Content Marketing Inst. 

If search engine traffic from Google matters to your business, then there is little chance that you haven’t heard of the recent Google Penguin update. What exactly is this? Apparently, on April 24, 2012 Google activated new ranking algorithm changes to take care of websites and blogs that indulge in:

•           Excessive link building with no regard for quality

•           Deceptive doorway pages

•           Lots of keyword stuffing

•           Publishing lots of meaningless content just to get traffic from search engines

Which, basically, means all websites that don’t comply with Google’s SEO guidelines.

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3 Underused Features of Google Analytics

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With so much data available through Google Analytics, sometimes it’s easy to fall into the trap of always looking at the same things – reviewing keyword referrals or landing pages, or simply looking at traffic trends. However, a wealth of available data is often overlooked. Sometimes reviewing something different, or slicing the data in a new way, is all it takes to find a great new opportunity or diagnose a long-standing problem. Here are three top features in Google Analytics for giving a fresh look to data you may have looked at too many times before.

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Kantar Begins Reporting Paid Search, Amazon Dominates Spending

MediaPost, 4/11/11

eCommerce retailer Amazon.com is the top paid-search advertiser in the U.S., but a margin of two-one over the next-biggest search advertiser, according to fourth-quarter 2010 data released this morning by WPP’s Kantar Media unit. The data is the first from a new syndicated research service tracking and reporting paid-search advertising in the U.S.

Kantar said the new service was created to help marketers and agencies investing in paid search to track the expenditures, keywords purchased and the number of clicks keywords receive.

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Using the Valuable Content Checklist: A Step-by-Step Guide for Different Content Types

Content Marketing Inst., 4/6/11

We are all looking for the silver bullet that will make our content sparkle. What if from the time of content creation we already had the benchmarks in place that we know forms valuable content?

Yesterday, I introduced the Creating Valuable Content Checklist, which I use to quantify what makes content valuable to our content consumers. Today I’ll explain the steps in each of these benchmarks.

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