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Creating a Social Media Plan: The Basics

The Benefits of a Planned Social Media Strategy It is vastly easier to implement and manage a social media plan if you work consistently with an editorial calendar in mind. Using automation to simplify posting to your channels will also make executing your plan much, much easier. Consistent … [Read more...] about Creating a Social Media Plan: The Basics

Filed Under: Audience Development, Social Media

Audience Development: What Drives Digital Growth?

A friend recently asked what kind of projects I'd seen that were effective at bumping up traffic. The site he manages had recently started to plateau and he needed ideas. I said that in most cases execution was as important as the type of campaign, but I'd send him a brief list. Once I started I … [Read more...] about Audience Development: What Drives Digital Growth?

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Delivering ‘Likeable’ Content NPR-Style

In the past two years, many large media properties have begun focusing on delivering "sharable" content -- articles aimed at increasing links in social media. This is somewhat in contrast to a common strategy of the previous years: creating "searchable" content, aimed at increasing an article's … [Read more...] about Delivering ‘Likeable’ Content NPR-Style

Filed Under: Audience Development, Digital Journalism, Digital Management

Google Trends Celine Dion and Torture

Google Trends Eats Google Insights, Also “Celine Dion or Torture?”

Google Insights is no more. It has been absorbed by Google Trends. Both Trends and Insights have been useful tools for writers and editors looking to improve their articles' SEO. Google Trends also lends itself nicely to a game I call "Celine Dion or Torture?" where you put in phrases until you find … [Read more...] about Google Trends Eats Google Insights, Also “Celine Dion or Torture?”

Filed Under: Audience Development, Digital Journalism, Search Engine Optimization Tagged With: SEO

There Are Only Three Digital Growth Strategies

It may seem self-evident, but, by definition, there are only three paths to digital growth: More new visitors More visits per visitor More page views/engagement per visit That’s it. If you don't have focused strategies around each path, you can't sustain growth.   Examples … [Read more...] about There Are Only Three Digital Growth Strategies

Filed Under: Audience Development, Search Engine Optimization Tagged With: Search Engine Optimization, SEO, SEO For Editors

Why Your Site Fails To Attract The Audience It Deserves

This may be my favorite cartoon ever. The marvelous webcomic XKCD explains in one simple diagram what is wrong with most websites: They aren't about what the users want.   Has this always been so? In 1981's "The Soul of a New Machine," Pulitzer-Prize winner Tracy Kidder describes an … [Read more...] about Why Your Site Fails To Attract The Audience It Deserves

Filed Under: Audience Development, Digital Management, Search Engine Optimization Tagged With: SEO For Editors

Buzzfeed’s No-Fail Secret to Creating Viral Content

Slate's excellent Farhad Manjoo has written a very funny (because it's true) piece on how to create content that will instantly go viral. He did his research by studying the most viral posts on Buzzfeed.com and attempting to puzzle out the secret of their virality. It turns out that the Buzzfeed's … [Read more...] about Buzzfeed’s No-Fail Secret to Creating Viral Content

Filed Under: Audience Development, Digital Journalism, Search Engine Optimization, Uncategorized Tagged With: SEO

Listening to Users: “Go Away Pig, What Do You Know About Bacon?”

In an essay entitled "The Age of Criticism," Randall Jarrell said that most critics' attitudes toward living poets was, "Go away, pig! What do you know about bacon?" When you plan new projects, launch new products or market your site, how much do you listen to your users? … [Read more...] about Listening to Users: “Go Away Pig, What Do You Know About Bacon?”

Filed Under: Audience Development, Digital Journalism, Digital Management

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