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a4uexpo 2012 3

Visual Content: How to make the most out of your infographics

When creating a web page, one of the key things to do is have good quality content. It used to be that this would only be text based, but this has quickly changed. Infographics are a great way to convey visual data to your target audience without having a large wall of text that isn’t pleasing to look at.

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a4uexpo 2012 3

The importance of longform in the present and future of content marketing

You’ve probably noticed that we’ve been talking about longform content quite a lot recently. In fact, we’ve been using the medium of longform content to talk about longform content. We’re huge longform enthusiasts as we believe that it’s the sort of writing we need in content marketing now – and will continue to need for a good number of years yet.

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a4uexpo 2012 3

13 Different types of amazing content that will get your website more traffic

It’s now widely accepted that content marketing is a fantastic way to drive more traffic to your website, or your client’s website. This can be done by writing shortform or longform content, but what if you’re not an exceptional writer or are looking to mix things up a little bit? Here are a few different content ideas which you can create regularly in order to succeed in online inbound marketing. It’s most likely that you will have a blog and social media accounts; you might be getting tired of writing and sharing content all the time. So, here are a number of types of content and how you can use them on your websites.

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a4uexpo 2012 3

Getting to know Data Analytics in Content Marketing

In the dizzying heights of content marketing, where online users are subjected to enough daily information to fill 764 newspapers, it’s easy to suffer from information overload. However, it’s not just readers who are struggling to process all of this data. A recent study by eConsultancy demonstrated that 91% of digital companies are producing more content than the year before. As competition for online space continues to grow, businesses are being put under increasing pressure to upload as much information as possible (whether through blogs, Tweets, or clever infographics). This then begs the question: How is this content being monitored and how can businesses measure its success?

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a4uexpo 2012 3

How to power through writer’s block

Sometimes, even the most talented wordsmith can struggle to put pen to paper and suffer from that dreaded condition they call writer’s block. It’s nothing to be ashamed about, of course – some of the greatest writers in history have been known to hit such walls. F. Scott Fitzgerald – author of such classic works of literature as:

  • The Great Gatsby
  • Tender is the Night
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Fitzgerald was a well-known sufferer of this wretched writing affliction. Luckily for F. Scott, in one instance he found that he was able to shake it off with a good afternoon bus ride, followed by a stroll and a haircut. Ironically, he wrote about this very experience in Esquire in 1936.
For some of us, however, it can be a bit more complicated than that and involves a bit more of a struggle – not to mention the harsh reality that some of us are too busy and on too tight a deadline to go for a wander to the barbershop.

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a4uexpo 2012 3

How important are infographics to a business brand?

If ‘longform’ content was the buzzword of the past year, then infographics is definitely a major contender for 2014/15. For those of you who are already marketing-savvy, then you probably already saw this one coming. You could even argue that it was a natural progression. As more companies continue to produce longform content, online users are being bombarded with more information than ever before. It’s been estimated that the average person is exposed to 174 newspapers full of information on a daily basis.

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a4uexpo 2012 3

How to make people share your Google+ content

Google+ has been growing steadily since it came onto the scene in 2011, in fact, it has actually been growing non-stop and at the time of writing there are 359 million active users on the network.
If you have a Gmail, Youtube, Analytics, Webmasters or any other Google service, you may already have a Google+ profile. If you are a person or a business who hasn’t, it is very simple to sign up. Simply visit the Google+ homepage and set up your own personalised profile.

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a4uexpo 2012 3

The essential ingredients for writing a killer blog post

Have you ever written a blog post that you were absolutely certain would be the one that would make you famous, the one that would go viral, but it ended up falling flat as a pancake? No one tweeted it. No one commented on it. Not one person gave a damn about it.

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