Car dealerships are intentionally built to attract attention – from sprawling lots to colorful banners. Your brick-and-mortar auto store may be easy to spot, but how visible is your dealership’s online presence? Make sure your auto store is just as easy to find online as it is in person by creating an automotive blog. A high-quality, regularly updated blog offers a host of benefits for car businesses both large and small. Keep reading to learn why you should consider building an automotive blog for your car company’s content marketing strategy.

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A lot of businesses are in the same boat when it comes to their content marketing strategy. They understand the general points of inbound marketing and how it functions, but in practice, it often feels as if they’re just blindly casting their fishing line into dark water and hoping for bites.

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Every time you hyperlink to another website, you’re not just citing a source. You’re actually doing them a favor, whether you mean to or not. A big part of optimizing your post for SEO is understanding how to get other pages to start doing favors for you, too.

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When you think about content marketing, your first thought is probably blogging. On average, companies that blog attract 55% more website visitors, receive 97% more inbound links and have 434% more indexed pages. And those stats add up to increased conversion rates, better brand recognition and a higher rank on the SERP, all of which are essential to standing out in a crowded marketplace.

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Whether your university has been sewn into the fabric of your community for over a century or your K-12 private school is just gaining traction in the surrounding areas, attracting students to your educational institution is a competitive process. To increase enrollment, you need a proven inbound marketing strategy that helps your school stand apart from other institutions.

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No matter what your industry is, if your business has a blog, your end goal is likely to increase your sales. Does that mean the blog posts you publish should sell your product? No. I’ll explain.

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Competition: It’s great for free market economies, NFL games and sales teams, but it’s not so great when it comes to targeting keywords for your business’s inbound marketing campaign. Only 10 lucky pages make it to the first page of a search engine’s results, and when you consider that the term “competition” delivers more than 1 billion page results, the odds are overwhelmingly not in your favor.

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It’s no secret that blogging can play a key role in attracting traffic to your website, but it can be tough figuring out exactly how to get people to read your blog. One often overlooked blogging technique that can easily boost your sales blog’s ROI is the blog series.

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You’re catching up on industry news, and suddenly everyone is talking about a big event, a brand-new idea or some other newsworthy subject. And we mean everyone. You can’t look at your social media feed or check business blogs without stumbling over content on trending topics.

You’d like to get in on the discussion, but you have a huge content to-do list that you can’t afford to fall behind on. By the time you’re ready to talk about #nextbigthing, it’s already #oldnews. If you’re wondering how to ride the rising tide of trending topics, keep reading to learn more about how to balance current trends with your content marketing calendar.

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With virtually endless amounts of medical information on the web, it can be hard for regional health networks and small practices to get noticed. But it’s not impossible, especially when you invest in optimizing your company’s healthcare blog.

According to the Spark Report, research shows that one out of every two adults who own a smartphone use it to find health information. As they search the Internet for their pressing medical concerns, will your brand be on their radar?

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