Digital Marketing Landscape - Anthem Marketing Solutions
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Digital Marketing Landscape - Anthem Marketing Solutions
Spring 2014 Digital Marketing Landscape: Content Marketing/Native Advertising Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com Introduction Keeping up with digital marketing concepts and technologies can be an overwhelming task for most marketers, as the landscape continually evolves and players shift. Numerous attempts have been made to make sense of display ad technology, social media, mobile marketing, and other major sectors of the broader digital ecosystem, including from the IAB and other industry organizations. But the most popular are a series of charts called LUMAscapes. LUMAscapes provide a visual tool to help organize the multitude of players and specializations involved in digital marketing. They have been described as “the most recognizable and easily referencable maps of who’s involved in the buying and selling of ad inventory, be it display, search, social, video, mobile, etc.”1 LUMAscapes are produced by a technology-focused investment bank, LUMA Partners, selfdescribed as “a strategic advisory firm focused at the intersection of media and technology”.2 Over 1,700,000 views and downloads suggests there’s a need for this kind of information. Our clients love these things, because they provide a quick snapshot of the landscape and help them better understand each space. We thought, however, that they could be made even more valuable if they went a step further and included a detailed description of each of the categories they defined, and defined linkages between the categories. Marketers, after all, remain marketers, not technologists. So what we’ve attempted to do with this series of documents is to gather the best descriptions we could find rather than trying to develop wholly original material. Following is our attempt to aggregate more detail around the content marketing and native advertising landscape. How to Use This Document As a general overview to provide top-line explanations and sharpen your general understanding of the content marketing/native advertising ecosystem To build shared definitions of industry jargon and common terminology As a reference guide for specific areas of need To identify the major players in various facets of content marketing at a point in time To inform you of external agencies and service providers and related resources * * * * * We hope you find this as useful as we have inside our organization, in helping to educate our team and our clients, and to inform our activities in content marketing. John Keenan CEO/Managing Partner [email protected] (312) 441-0385 Sarah Good Director, Business Development [email protected] (312) 441-0382 Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com The Content Marketing/Native LUMAscape3 Basic Concepts Content Marketing Content marketing is any marketing format that involves the creation and sharing of media and publishing content in order to acquire customers. This information can be presented in a variety of formats, including news, video, white papers, e-books, infographics, case studies, how-to guides, question and answer articles, photos, etc. Content marketing creates interest in a product through educational or informative material. Successful content marketing relies on providing "consistent, high-quality content that solves people's problems".4 Native Advertising Native advertising is an online advertising method in which the advertiser attempts to gain attention by providing content in the context of the user's experience. Native ad formats match both the form and the function of the user experience in which it is placed. The advertiser's intent is to make the paid advertising feel less intrusive and thus increase the likelihood users will click on it. Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com One form of native advertising, publisher-produced brand content, is similar in concept to a traditional advertorial, which is a paid placement attempting to look like an article. A native ad tends to be less obviously an ad than most advertorials. Formats for native advertising include promoted videos, images, articles, music and other media. Examples of the technique include Search advertising (ads appearing alongside search results are native to the search experience) and Twitter with promoted Tweets, trends and people. Other examples include Facebook's promoted stories or Tumblr's promoted posts. Content marketing is another form of native advertising, placing sponsor-funded content alongside editorial content or showing "other content you might be interested in" which is sponsored by a marketer alongside editorial recommendations. The types of platforms and websites that participate in native advertising can be split into two categories, “open” and “closed” platforms: Closed platforms are brands creating profiles and/or content within a platform, then promoting that content within the confines of that same closed platform. Examples include Promoted Tweets on Twitter, Sponsored Stories on Facebook, City, Vivas and TrueView Video Ads on YouTube. Open platforms are defined by promoting the same piece of branded content across multiple platforms within native ad formats. Unlike closed platforms, the branded content asset lives outside the platform. Hybrid platforms allow publishers to install a private marketplace, while having the option to allow advertisers from other platforms to bid on inventory programmatically through RTB (real-time bidding).5 At present, six types of ad units are most commonly deployed to achieve native objectives. In-Feed Units – appear in a publisher’s normal content well Paid Search Units – typically found above organic search results, look exactly like the surrounding results (with the exception of disclosure aspects) Recommendation Widgets – an ad or paid content link is delivered via a “widget” integrated into the main well of the page, and does not mimic the appearance of the editorial content feed Promoted Listings - found on sites that typically do not have a traditional editorial content well, designed to fit seamlessly into the browsing experience, presented to look identical to the products or services offered on a given site In-Ad with Native Element Units - placed outside of the editorial well, contains contextually relevant content within the ad Custom/”Can’t Be Contained” – native advertising units that do not fit neatly into one of the other defined groups When evaluating native advertising options, marketers should ask six core questions to ensure that a unit will meet the brand’s objectives: Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com 1. FORM – How does the ad fit with the overall page design? Is it in the viewer’s activity stream or not in-stream? 2. FUNCTION– Does the ad function like the other elements on the page in which it is placed? Does it deliver the same type of content experience, e.g., a video on a video page or story among stories, or is it different? 3. INTEGRATION – How well do the ad unit’s behaviors match those of the surrounding content? Are they the same, e.g., linking to an on-site story page, or are new ones introduced? 4. BUYING & TARGETING– Is the ad placement guaranteed on a specific page, section, or site, or will it be delivered across a network of sites? What type of targeting is available? 5. MEASUREMENT – What metrics are typically used to judge success? Are marketers more likely to use top-of-the-funnel brand engagement metrics (e.g., views, likes, shares, time spent) or bottom funnel ones (e.g., sale, download, data capture, register, etc.?) 6. DISCLOSURE – Is the disclosure clear and prominent?6 Content Marketing Agency An advertising agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning, and handling advertising (and sometimes other forms of promotion) for its clients. An ad agency is independent from the client and provides an outside point of view to the effort of selling the client's products or services. An agency can also handle overall marketing and branding strategies and sales promotions for its clients.7 A digital agency can be defined as a company that provides creative, strategic and technical development of screen-based products and services.8 A content marketing agency helps companies build relationships with their customers through strategic content channels both online and offline.9 10 Vertically Integrated Network Horizontal content strategy is concerned about a holistic, enterprise-wide approach to content. It covers everything from ‘about us’ to products and solutions to thought leadership; from promotional offers to after-sales technical support to contacts and addresses, community and everything in between. Horizontal content strategy seeks to ensure that every part contributes to a wider, consistent whole. This whole is most fully manifested in the enterprise website. In fact, in most companies, it’s really the only outlet that addresses this scope of content, especially if you’re in a reasonably large company. Vertical content strategy is also a holistic approach to content, but on a more granular level. It takes one part of that whole – a section, a specific topic, a content type – and delves into it across not only channels (websites, social media channels, print, events, etc.) but possibly a wider spectrum of audiences as well (particularly audiences within firewalls like internal sales or channel partners).11 A vertically integrated network supports creation and distribution of narrowly-focused content across a wide range of channels. Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com Content Management A content management platform is designed to handle all aspects of a marketer's social media activity, focusing on producing and sharing a lot of content very quickly, on many evolving platforms, in a way that's "on message," and "brand safe," that won't get them in legal troubles or cause outrage among customers. Brands are in a constant state of planning, sourcing, creating, publishing, engaging and measuring content. Content management platforms offer tools like a calendar for planning, a library for sourcing and licensing photos, an image editor, a longform writing editor, collaboration tools, a system of approvals, a way to get proper legal permission to republish user-generated photos, and analytics to measure the performance of a piece of content.13 12 Content Management Tools Tools are essential for ensuring quality, consistency and enabling scale when it comes to just about any kind of digital marketing. Content Marketing is no different.14 These include: Persona Development Editorial Planning Content Discovery & Ideas Content Creation & Curation Content Amplification/Marketing & Distribution Measurement15 16 AI Content Creation Artificial intelligence can be used to turn structured data into intelligent comments and recommendations in natural language.17 Computer algorithms analyze a set of numbers to generate a narrative, making the data intelligible and easy to decipher, digest and use quickly.18 These tools extract and organize key facts and insights and transform them into stories.19 20 Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com Content Outsourcing Outsourcing is a practice used by different companies to reduce costs by transferring portions of work to outside suppliers rather than completing it internally. Outsourcing is an effective cost-saving strategy when used properly. It is sometimes more affordable to purchase a good from companies with comparative advantages than it is to produce the good internally.21 Content outsourcing platforms streamline and automate every step of the content creation and publishing process.22 23 Advantages of content outsourcing include: Saves Money On Employee Benefits, Seasonal work, And Specific Projects Saves Time With Fast Turnaround And Multitasking Takes Advantage Of Others’ Expertise Maintains Your Enthusiasm Gets Better Results For Your Investment Introduces Best Practices, Standardization, And Consistency Strengthens Your Content Marketing Strategy Gains A Trusted Content Marketing Partner Shares And Promotes Your Content With Greater Reach Creates A Wide Range Of Content Types Content Curation Content curation is the gathering, organizing and online presentation of content related to a particular theme or topic. As a rule, a content curation site reproduces some of the original content and links to the full entry. Some content curation sites also provide original content, interpretation and commentary.24 It can take the form of an RSS feed, links posted on blogs, social media feeds, or an online news mashup. There are no limits when it comes to the types of content either. Videos, articles, pictures, songs, or any piece of online digital content that can be shared can be curated.25 26 Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com Content Recommendations Recommendation engines, otherwise known as recommender systems, suggest content based on previous behavior or purchases. Such systems typically use one of two approaches: Collaborative filtering creates a predictive model based on a user's previous interactions such as products purchased or viewed. Content-based filtering looks at content or item characteristics and suggests content with similar elements. Recommendation engines attempt to discover and apply patterns in data by learning consumers' preferences and adapting brand experiences to their needs or interests. However, a personalization platform can go beyond simply recommending content and advertising. Pioneering data scientists today are powering a new set of consumer use cases that enhance the media viewing experience. For instance, by integrating external data feeds from metadata providers and product review services, the recommender can call related content to appear on a tablet or other device alongside or during a viewing experience. When performed correctly, such personalization tactics drive higher engagement, increased conversions and greater brand loyalty.27 28 Content Planning & Amplification Content amplification increases the value of your content and reaches the largest audience possible by promoting it on channels where potential customers are already engaged.29 It is often referred to as “paid organic” and “sponsored social”, referring to the process of attracting site traffic, social shares, and links to your content through paid promotion on social channels.30 Content amplification can be done in various ways, including: 31 Brand-owned assets: The easiest and most immediate way to amplify your content is through brand-owned assets. This includes sharing content on your website, blog, related microsites, social media and e-newsletters. Outreach: Developing relationships with reputed bloggers and influencers or building networks with industry partner sites and online media is another way of amplifying content and growing your brand reach and readership. Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com Recommendation Platforms: recommend articles (through an algorithm to identify what content the reader is most likely to consume and engage with) to relevant audiences across a range of established media and publisher sites. Paid social media amplification: advertising on social media; the most successful social media amplification will always consider the nature of the content, the target audience and the platforms that will best communicate this.32 Promoted Listings A promoted listing is a form of paid media where the ad experience follows the natural form and function of the user experience in which it is placed33, typically on sites that do not have a traditional editorial content well, designed to fit seamlessly into the browsing experience, presented to look identical to the products or services offered on a given site. This functionality is often offered as part of a broader marketing automation or performance marketing service. 34 Content Analytics/Intelligence Content analytics is the act of applying business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA) practices to digital content. Companies use content analytics software to provide visibility into the amount of content that is being created, the nature of that content and how it is used. A company produces two types of content: structured and unstructured. Structured content resides in a database. Unstructured content can be found throughout the business. It can be text-based, as in the case of emails, office documents and Web documents -- or non-text-based, such as voice, images or video. Content analytics software uses natural language queries, trends analysis, contextual discovery and predictive analytics to uncover patterns and trends across a company’s unstructured content. 35 The goal of content analysis is to gain new insights for improved decision-making. For example, a pattern in unstructured content may explain a trend in structured data, or vice versa. Content analytics can also help companies better manage information lifecycle management (ILM) chains by creating relevant cost and consumption metrics. With business metrics in place, companies can identify which digital content is most value and adjust their investments in storage and future analytics accordingly.36 Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com Native Ad Platforms: Exchanges Ad exchanges are technology platforms that facilitate the bidded buying and selling of online media advertising inventory from multiple ad networks. The approach is technology-driven as opposed to the historical approach of negotiating price on media inventory.37 A native ad exchange is a technology platform that can help brands buy native ads in an automated fashion, at scale.38 39 Native Ad Platforms: In-Feed Native-feed insertion companies let marketers place content right in the organic areas of the website, in the feed or on the main page of a site.40 41 Native Ad Platforms: App Integration Think of native advertising as content that is so well integrated into your app with customized design, relevant content and rewarding initiatives that it becomes a natural and valued part of the overall app experience. Users quickly learn to ignore ads. Effective native advertising breaks through the noise and draws interest to the content. The more the ad feels like an extension of the app experience, the harder it is to ignore.42 43 Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com Native Ad Platforms: Branded Video Native video advertising is any paid placement of a video ad such that it slides into the natural, or native, user experience on a site, versus interruptive like a pre- or mid-roll in-stream ad. Native video ad platforms help brands distribute their sponsored video content across a range of Web sites and mobile apps.44 45 Publishers: Early Adopters Web publishing, or "online publishing," is the process of publishing content on the Internet. It includes creating and uploading websites, updating webpages, and posting blogs online. The published content may include text, images, videos, and other types of media.46 Early adopters are wellestablished sites that may be the online sibling of an offline publication, or an online-only content source. 47 Publishers: Mobile First The phrase “mobile first” has been used to refer to anything from responsive design, to bigger images, to less clutter, to short-form content. It can mean a focus on video or a focus on social. What publishers usually mean by “mobile first” is that they’re catering to mobile audiences – their site has been built in responsive design and primarily for smartphones and tablets.48 49 Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com Publishers: Video A video publishing and management platform is a complex software system used to create, edit, host, play, manage, organize, publish, stream and distribute online video according to consistent rules. Video publishing and management platforms are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, publishing and distributing video assets of all types. The digital video content managed may include videos, pictures, ads, metadata and other Web content. A video publishing and management platform may support the following features: identification of all key users and their video management roles; the ability to assign roles and responsibilities to different video content categories or types; the ability to track, email, embed, edit, resize, stream and distribute multiple videos; the ability to publish video content in various formats and video players the ability to add advertising overlays, various types of Web content and track statistics of video usage50 51 Publishers: Commerce 52 E-commerce sites are taking steps to reduce thin, low-value pages and to improve the overall quality of their content. This, plus the increasing popularity of content marketing as a tactic, has many non-publishers essentially getting into the publishing business. From a user and searcher perspective, this means the traditional dividing lines between editorial and commercial sites are increasingly blurred.53 Publishers: Brands as Publishers The explosion in social media has created a more intense competitive landscape for brands trying to squeeze their way into a user's various social feeds. The competition in those environments isn't with other brands, though, it's among a user's friends. Social publishers are making the case that forcing brands to act as publishers – with sponsored posts with brandcreated content – creates a more successful product.54 55 Seven key steps to creating a successful brand publishing strategy: Manage content as an asset. Have meaningful, useful content for each audience, positioned at each point in the new customer journey. Since most brands serve more than one kind of customer, content needs be created with the different goals of each in mind. Be fast: able to create and publish new content in a day or a week. Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com Attract and retain the best creative talent. Creating great content requires a great creative team. The kinds of creative talent needed now are not necessarily the usual corporate marketing types. Test, learn, iterate, and publish at an ongoing pace. Content creation, like other digital endeavors, requires optimization. Align the content strategy with the overall mission. Brands should first step back and assess how the content strategy aligns with overall business objectives. Content should support the overall mission of the company and serve users. All subsequent decisions—about tools, partners, and technologies—will flow subsequently from this foundational content strategy. Shift measurement approach from advertising to publishing metrics. For a brand to effectively act like a publisher, measurement also needs to change. Measurement metrics should align with the overall strategy and objectives. Determining the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in the early planning stages will help align metrics to understand what kind of content resonates with users and what doesn’t.56 Social Marketing Management Social media marketing (SMM) is a form of Internet marketing that utilizes social networking websites as a marketing tool. The goal of SMM is to produce content that users will share with their social network to help a company increase brand exposure and broaden customer reach.57 Social Marketing Management platforms provide a single interface to allow brands to manage their social media marketing efforts. The 8 Functions of Social Media Management Solutions:58 1. Monitoring. 2. Publishing. Managing social media almost implies publishing content to multiple places. Publishing systems can be basic, but also feature rich, including things like editorial calendar functionality, content libraries and sharing across departments or brands and the like. 3. Engagement. Engagement implies these systems need to make it easy for you to respond, interact, comment and share with the networks you’re connected to in efficient and effective ways. 4. Organizational Management. Social Media Management Solutions should provide at least internal work flow functionality, allowing you to assign internal team members tasks, but perhaps also governance and controls to ensure certain employees or stakeholders can access only the social outposts and publishing channels in their responsibility set. 5. Lead & Conversion Tracking. There must be a business outcome from our social activities or we’re not going to be allowed to participate in social much longer. Your SMMS provider should plug into your current lead tracking system and delineate where your new social leads are coming from. 6. Measurement. Strong SMMS vendors will tie website analytics, eCommerce/Lead Generation metrics and social metrics together in a unified dashboard or report. 7. Customer Relationship Management. From simple audit trails of how many times and in what context you have communicated with your company’s Facebook fans or Twitter followers to Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com more robust CRM integration where your customer database is infused with social contact information and connectivity, CRM will continue to be the next big thing in this space. 8. Social Advertising Management. Social Media Management Solution providers should also allow you to manage your advertising on those platforms in their interface. 59 Social Advocate Platforms Brand advocates promote and embody a brand’s values. They are different from influencers. Brand advocates are typically satisfied customers who are committed to your company, your services or your products. And when you're planning a product launch - or relaunch - they're an invaluable resource. Brand advocates feed on engagement from your brand. Here's what you can do to encourage and retain your brand advocates: Give shoppers extra incentives to make repeat purchases Offer exclusive previews of products to make them feel 'in the know' and 'first to try' Make it easy to share content through your chosen platforms Provide customer service through social channels and forums Recognize and give responsibility and/or accolades to your most trusted advocates Harness your employees, their advocacy is often correlated to that of customers Here's what you're looking to achieve in return: Positive reviews which increase ratings and give your SEO a boost Real customer stories and experiences which boost your brand's reputation Facebook comments and tweets that drive word of mouth Increased engagement with photos and videos FAQ support in your service channels Defense of your brand in the event of a crisis60 A well-designed advocate marketing program has five core components: 1. The advocate marketing plan. This is a strategic plan that specifies the program’s objectives, process, organization, technology and metrics. It’s a living document that can be updated as you learn more about who your advocates are and what they want. Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com 2. The advocate marketing process. The advocate marketing process defines how you recruit, engage and recognize your advocates. It also includes recommendations on how to plan and analyze advocacy efforts. The steps can vary – what’s important is that there is a standard process so that the program can scale. 3. The advocate marketing organization. Advocate marketing is not a people-intensive effort. In fact, the advocate marketing organization really only needs two people: an executive sponsor (typically the CMO) and a functional owner of advocate marketing (the Advocate Marketing Manager). There’s a good chance that your Advocate Marketing Manager already exists somewhere within your company, either in a community management or customer marketing capacity. They should be creative communicators who can also plan strategically with the help of their executive sponsor and analyze the results of their work. 4. Supporting technology. Technology can act as a “force multiplier” for the program. Some companies may use email, spreadsheets or a CRM application (or a combination of all three), but others will want a dedicated application or platform that allows a single marketer to organize, communicate with and mobilize advocates at scale. 5. Advocate marketing metrics. You should measure your program to determine its business impact. Use a combination of tactical metrics, like the number of advocates currently engaged in the program, as well as strategic metrics that show how the program impacts your company, like revenue sourced and influenced by advocacy.61 It’s important to manage a brand advocacy program with technology built specifically for advocate marketing – a single application that allows you to organize, communicate with and mobilize your brand advocates. Such an application provides brand advocates with a resource they can use to obtain important information. They can go into the platform and find out what asks you currently have, see how they’re scoring and view what messages you’re sending out. 62 Along with managing advocates, a platform can also help you optimize your program. The system can report on which asks were the most successful, track advocate activity and performance and highlight areas for improvement. Importantly, these platforms also integrate with your other sales and marketing applications. This is essential to accurately measure the sales and marketing results of your advocate marketing program. By using a platform built primarily for advocate marketing and implementing best practices for identifying and converting satisfied customers, you can start to build your own army of brand advocates.63 Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com In-Feed Advertising Platforms Recently there has been a paradigm shift to mobile-first, feed-based web design for modern content publishers. In-feed advertising is the primary ad model for every single major closed platform (Facebook Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Yahoo, Buzzfeed, etc). An in-feed ad exchange provides a software platform that programmatically connects brand video and editorial content with in-feed, native ads on premium publisher sites, enabling publishers to monetize their sites with natively-integrated, premium brand content, beyond standard ads. Previously, ad exchanges had been built to serve static banners or videos into fixed positions, but an in-feed ad exchange automatically adapts a brand’s content to the native form and function of each individual site into which it is served.64 65 Social Networks A social networking service is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who, share interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, pictures, posts, activities, events, interests with people in their network.66 67 Search A search engine is a tool for finding information, especially on the Internet or World Wide Web. Search engines are essentially massive databases that cover wide swaths of the Internet. Most consist of three parts: at least one program, called a spider, crawler, or bot, which “crawls” through the Internet gathering information; a database, which stores the gathered information; and a search tool, with which users search through the database by typing in keywords describing the information desired (usually at a Web site dedicated to the search engine). Increasingly, metasearch engines, which search a subset (usually 10 or so) of the huge number of search engines and then compile and index the results, are being used.68 Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com If you are trying to grow your qualified search traffic, you have to combine your content marketing with your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. Running them as separate campaigns isn’t going to provide you with as big of a traffic increase as combining them into one campaign will. Here are 7 smart ways to combine your content marketing with your SEO efforts: 1. Create content that even Wikipedia would love to link to 2. Write content based on keyword data 3. Create quality content before you aim for large quantities 4. Don’t forget about FAQ’s 5. Target industry blogs for guest-posting opportunities 6. Focus on indirect conversions 7. Don’t forget to cross-link69 Additionally, optimizing a web page for search visibility involves a consideration of the following elements: Title tags and header tags Meta tags Image tags Page URL Text-to-code ratio Duplicate page content Slow page load time Mobile friendliness70 71 About Anthem Marketing Solutions Anthem Marketing Solutions helps clients turn big data into smart growth. We are a data-driven marketing agency that provides strategy and cutting-edge tools to solve challenges for today’s omnichannel marketer. Serving a broad range of industries, from casual dining to home services and B2B product distribution, Anthem Marketing Solutions is one of the fastest growing companies in America, according to Inc. Magazine's Annual Inc. 500|5000 rankings in 2012 and 2013. Visit us online at www.AnthemEdge.com or, for more information email: [email protected] Anthem Marketing Solutions ● 549 W. Randolph, Suite 700, Chicago IL, 60661 ● 312.441.0382 ● www.anthemedge.com Links Content Marketing Agencies McMurray/TMG Studio One MSP-C Vayner Media Centerline Digital Pace D Custom MXM Time Inc. Content Solutions Content Recommendations Outbrain Taboola Gravity Contentad Dianomi Google+ nRelate Reverb Vertically Integrated Network Vox Media SAY Complex Glam Yummly Reactor Media Content Planning & Amplification One Spot inPowered Flite Brandpoint SnapApp Movable Media BetaOut Papershare Ultra Knowledge Content Management News Cred Percolate Promoted Listing Hooklogic Rich Relevance Triad Retail Media Content Management Tools Kapost Parse.ly Persado Rallyverse Wochit Inbound Writer Content Flat Content Analytics/Intelligence Kontera TrackMaven SimpleReach AddThis AI Content Creation Narrative Science Yseop Contently Content Outsourcing Zemanta Scripted Servio E Byline Demand Media Zerys Skyword Inklyo Content Curation Livefyre Gumgum Disqus Solve Media Luminate Genesis Media Versa Vibrant Native Ad Platforms: Exchanges MoPub Bidtellect Sharethrough OpenX Native Ad Platforms: In-Feed Nativo Namomedia YieldMo Yahoo Gemini AdTile Adsnative Publish2 Kargo Distroscale TripleLift Polar Native Ad Platforms: App Integration SponsorPay Chartboost NativeX Kiip AppSavvy SupersonicAds SessionM Appsfire TapJoy Appia Zumobi Native Ad Platforms: Branded Video Visible Measures Touchstorm Unruly Virool Alphabird Publishers: Early Adopters imgur Hearst BuzzFeed Huffington Post The Atlantic Mashable Business Insider Forbes NY Post NY Times Yahoo! About.com Publishers: Mobile First The Weather Company Quartz Aviary Rovio Yelp Circa Foursquare Pandora Flipboard Publishers: Video YouTube Vimeo Gorilla Nation Metacafe Funny or Die Publishers: Commerce Wanelo Fab Fancy Thrillist Houzz Publishers: Brands as Publishers Intel GoPro Red Bull P&G LUMA Partners GE HP Social Marketing Management Spredfast Shoutlet Sprinklr Votigo ThisMoment Hootsuite Awareness Hub MomentFeed Hearsay MutualMind Epinion Social Volt Argyle Social Viral Heat Social Ware Postling engage121 Social Flow Sprout Social In-Feed Advertising Platforms Adapt.ly Triggit Shift Unified Nanigans Brand Networks Kinetic Social Social Code Involved Media Ampush 77 Agency Social Networks LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Tumblr Instagram Vine Pinterest Search Google AOL Yahoo! 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