Why Providing Free Content Gets More Return Visits

Why Providing Free Content Gets More Return Visits

I was reading an article online, and came across this: I guarantee you I will not be visiting this website again (even though they have awesome sloth advertisements). A big yellow box telling me that I only have so many free articles left makes me feel trapped. And on...
Why Providing Free Content Gets More Return Visits

15% Off SMX East 2012 Passes

By Kelsey Jones Bethaney and I are attending Search Marketing Expo (SMX) East in New York City in October and we couldn’t be more excited. Bethaney is a volunteer moderator in one of the rooms on the first day of the conference and I am speaking on the content...
Internet Marketing 101: Don’t Insult Your Customers

Internet Marketing 101: Don’t Insult Your Customers

Recently we had a client that was convinced we needed to dumb down our content writing because their target audience is 13-18 year olds. To them, this meant adding a lot of exclamation points, trailing ellipses, and emphasizing certain words or phrases in bold and...
How Paid Content Drives Away Website Traffic

How Paid Content Drives Away Website Traffic

By Kelsey Jones While researching or reading up on a certain topic or current event, one of the most frustrating things in the world is to be taken to a snippet of the article and to be told that to read the entire article, one needs to sign up for a paid membership...