The best marketing content often cuts through the "fluff" by targeting the exact problem and associated emotion with that problem.
It's a tough skill to master (I'm not an expert)
I find that if I read something and it conjures zero actionable thoughts - I've not added value.
You can do the same thing in strategy meetings and topic exploration.
If your client gives you their best features - you can get them to the richer point by prompting them with good questions.
"I hear your feature but what does that mean to me as a person using this product?"
"Your competitors say they have the exact same feature - is yours truly different?"
"Do you not want to do a competitive comparison post because you genuinely want to keep the peace or because your product can't compete with theirs, yet?"
Get to the heart of the problem - your content will become exponentially more valuable.
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An Anchor Text User Guide: What It Is, SEO Best Practices, and Strategic Uses [Thread 🧵]
Important note: For the sake of clarity I'm going to say some things without added nuance - take advice about things in SEO with large grains of salt - even from your favorite creators.
When you first learn about SEO, you’ll be forced to read all the beginner blogs that discuss the two pillars of search engine optimization - Links (backlinks) and Keywords.
In this post, we’re going to focus on an aspect of optimization and UX that combines both: Anchor Text.
Anchor text refers to the specific words that are hyperlinked on a webpage in order to direct a user to another piece of content.
This text should be optimized in order to give search engines and users context on what they can find on the page they’ll be directed to.
A quick way to build an SEO-friendly outline to update a blog/article post (esp. if the client doesn't provide an SME) [Thread 🧵]
SME = subject matter expert. If you're going to make great content - this is vital.
However, in the wild, sometimes we don't get that luxury.
So let's go over how you can create a foolproof outline for yourself or a writer who is helping you out with a content update.
As an aside - the way I evaluate a SERP for a content updates is not that different from how I review them for new posts (so feel free to follow along).
For our example, we're going to look at updating Zapier's, "how to create a pdf"
*I evaluated this SERP a couple of weeks ago for this explainer - it has dramatically changed if you're confused as to why it looks different than my screenshots.
Shorter keywords vs longtail keywords in SEO -- And how to communicate about them to your CEO/clients [🧵🧵🧵]
If you’ve ever been thrown a keyword target by your CEO or your client, it’s likely been for a one or two-word keyword (aka head terms and seed keywords).
Why?
They come with the sexiest monthly traffic numbers.
Now, imagine you work for a company that sells pet fish and your biggest moneymaker comes from selling goldfish.
You can imagine a CEO sending you an email saying, “I want us to be number 1 for the keyword “goldfish.”
Even more terrifying is if they send you a screenshot of the keyword from one of the keyword research tools (like the one above.)
That 137k number on the right, of course, is Ahrefs monthly traffic volume estimate for that keyword.