The result of thousands of conversations about web marketing with hundreds of companies, this handbook is a compilation of the most important and effective lessons and advice about the power of search engine optimization, social media, and email marketing. The first and only comprehensive guide to content marketing, this book explains the social, analytical, and creative aspects of modern marketing that are necessary to succeed on the web. By first covering the theory behind web and content marketing and then detailing it in practice, it shows how it is not only critical to modern business but is also a lot of fun.

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Discover 70 Valuable Tips To Creating Irresistible Blog Posts, Articles, Ebooks And Videos That People Will LOVE... Doesn't it frustrate you when you want to write a new blog post, create a new product or record a video but don't even know where to start? They say "Content is King", and so it is true. You could have the most amazing-looking website on the 'net but if your content is mediocre then your visitors will never come back. If you're a blogger, video marketer, internet marketer, or an information product creator you've no doubt struggled with the question of content. But writing great content or recording videos that captivate isn't always easy, which is why I've written a guide to dispell this topic. Here's what you'll discover in the Content Creation Handbook: Discover 70 useful tips to creating your next blog post, article, ebook or video. Getting the writing process right. Before you begin writing anything, it is important to understand the writing process. How to write and come up with articles that captivate and engage readers. 31 blog post creation tips so you never have to stare at a blank page again. Valuable tips to writing a winning ebook. Information products, and more specifically eBooks, sell like hot cakes, only if you know how to write one that's valuable. Tips on creating videos that are professional and get attention. Videos are the thing in today's web space. Don't settle for "just good enough" when it comes to videos. How to optimize your blog posts for search engines so that you can generate free traffic from search engines like Google and Yahoo. How to structure your eBook so that it's more readable and actionable.

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If you’re a blogger, video marketer, internet marketer, or an information product creator you’ve no doubt struggled with the question of content.You can have the best ideas, but if you don’t know how to use that idea to build quality content for a website, it probably won’t be successful. When it comes to your website, every part is important. Sure you want the right font, color, design, etc. The most important part of your website, however, is your content. Without quality content, your website cannot survive. It is important to remember—Content is everything! When you first start your site, you give a great deal of time to picking out the perfect domain name.There’s a reason you select a good domain name. It’s where your site lives. If your website is your domain, then think of content as the king of that domain. In other words...content rules!Many start-up businesses, and even established business owners who've decided it's time their business had a professional web presence, don't know where to start when it comes to planning their website. There are so many things to consider, and so many choices. Just getting the design and layout of the website can be intimidating. Then you have to determine what wil be on the site. It can be mind-boggling.Sometimes, by the time you get to the content portion of the site, your brain is fried from trying to make the other decisions. When you begin to think about the content, you’re probably asking yourself, “What do I write about” The Content Creation Handbook or “Where do I start?”If so, you’ve come to the right place. You only have one chance to make that first impression. If you take your content seriously then your audience will too. You want your audience to visit your site over and over again. If you provide quality content for them time and time again, they will keep returning to your site.Getting started is the most important step. If you know how to write, you are already 95% of the way there. You don’t need to be an English major to understand any of the tips in this book either. It is written in plain English that everyone can understand.Writing for the internet requires different skills to those covered in most school writing lessons. If you’ve never been much of a writer, starting writing as an adult may seem difficult. The upside of that is that as an adult you have more experience, skil s, and knowledge that you can share with your readers. This knowledge, skills and experience can be valuable to you and to others. Writing an article, series of articles, or blog posts can be an excellent way to share what you know and what you’ve experienced with your audience.While the writing you need for your site can be outsourced to professionals, it is very possible, and definitely more personal, for you to do it yourself.That’s what the tips in this book can help you do. Professional content writers are exactly that, professional. They take their jobs seriously. When a professional writer has been provided with instructions from a client, they read them careful y to get an understanding of what is required. The problem with outsourcing to a professional is they don’t know what you know or haven’t experienced the things that you have. They don’t know 5The Content Creation Handbook how you feel. In other words, they don’t have your heart. They can write in the way you instruct them, but they can’t write with your heart. They can give information, but they can’t give a reader a sense of who you are. They can’t share your personal experiences with the same passion you feel.Writing your own content can also be a very rewarding experience. It can help you make a personal connection with your readers. It gives them a sense of who you are, because you wil be sharing your knowledge, thoughts, and feelings in everything you write. Writing content that connects to your readers is what you want to do.If you’ve never written anything for a website before, don’t worry. You’re not alone. That’s why you’re reading this book. The information here wil help you create that quality content. For your convenience, the book is sectioned into the four main content areas: articles, blog posts, ebooks, and videos. Together, there are 70 great tips to give your website the “WOW” factor.

The very word "digital" has acquired a status that far exceeds its humble dictionary definition. Even the prefix digital, when associ ated with familiar sectors such as radio, television, photography and telecommunications, has reinvented these industries, and provided a unique opportunity to refresh them with new start-up companies, equipment, personnel, training and working practices - all of which are vital to modern national and international economies. The last century was a period in which new media stimulated new job opportunities, and in many cases created totally new sectors: video competed with film, CDs transformed LPs, and computer graphics threatened traditional graphic design sectors. Today, even the need for a physical medium is in question. The virtual digital domain allows the capture, processing, transmission, storage, retrieval and display of text, images, audio and animation without familiar materials such as paper, celluloid, magnetic tape and plastic. But moving from these media to the digital domain intro duces all sorts of problems, such as the conversion of analog archives, multimedia databases, content-based retrieval and the design of new content that exploits the benefits offered by digital systems. It is this issue of digital content creation that we address in this book. Authors from around the world were invited to comment on different aspects of digital content creation, and their contributions form the 23 chapters of this volume.