I have some bad news for you. Your “readers” aren’t reading much. According to the globally-revered usability expert Jakob Nielsen, “On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the…
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You know content marketing can bring your site more traffic. But could it actually improve the conversion rate of that traffic? Yes. And there’s quite a lot of evidence to prove it. But it’s not…
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Whether you’re publishing content to generate leads, or to raise awareness of your brand, you need to get traffic to your pages. Quality traffic. Social media is good for traffic, but it actually makes up…
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Picture this: You’ve just finished a terrific new ebook. You’re laying out the landing page for it. And because the whole point of publishing this ebook is to attract new leads, you… don’t require people…
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Small businesses tend to be conservative about marketing, both in terms of what they’ll try and what they’ll spend. This is often in their best interest – they have limited budgets and lean staffs. They…
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Want more website traffic? Then blogging is your best choice. No other tactic is as effective at attracting an audience. Take marketing superstar Neil Patel’s word for it. He says “blogging is the #1 traffic-increasing…
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Engagement is quite the buzzword in content marketing right now. It’s signaling an evolution that’s affecting both content marketers and their audiences. There are two reasons for this shift: The first: smart content marketers have…
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Does this sound familiar? You’ve got a blog. You’re active on a few social media channels. You send out an email update every week. It’s a lot of work. You wonder if you’re getting enough…
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When you curate content the right way, you should never get in trouble with Google or your readers. In fact, it should do just the opposite: improve your search rankings and delight your readers and followers.
One common misconception about content curation is that it’s simply reposting entire pages of other people’s content on your own site. But let me be clear: this is not curation.
So, what is content curation? While there is some variance among definitions, I like how marketing expert Heidi Cohen defines it: “Content curation assembles, selects, categorizes, comments on, and presents the most relevant, highest quality information to meet your audience’s needs on a specific subject.”
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Content curation is not just collecting, it’s also sharing. And whatever our motivation, we curate content to have an impact so understanding where our traffic comes from is important. During our first 2 years of existence, the Scoop.it users have published more than 50M pieces of content attracting more than 100M unique visitors so we’ve been in a great position to observe not only where this traffic came from but also what best practices had the strongest influence on it. So we’ve analyzed all the content curated, published and shared through Scoop.it. This post is about sharing these data and learnings so you can be more effective with your content curation.
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