Should you create content or curate content

You can strike a perfect balance between content creation and content curation by focusing on value rather than quantity. When publishing content on your website, whether you are creating it or linking to it you need to focus on what value it is providing to your visitors.

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Why content marketing is important for your business

Content marketing for your online business is an integral part of your overall marketing effort. If you believe that the content on your website or blog is one of your primary strengths, you need to make people aware of its existence. If you’re already a known brand, this might not be a problem, but if you are in the process of creating your online presence through your content, then content marketing is unavoidable.

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What makes your content click

Your content clicks when it achieves what you want it to achieve. When you’re executing your content strategy you must have some well-defined goals laid out before you. Where do you want to begin, in what direction you want to go and eventually what you want to achieve? What audience you want to cater to? What sort of problems want to solve? How do you want to be known among your audience (visitors/customers/prospective customers)? Then you start publishing and marketing your content accordingly.

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How to make your headlines social media friendly

You need to make a conscious effort in order to facilitate easy sharing of your content on social media and social networking websites and you can start with creating a shorter but compelling headline. Your headline, unless really needed, must always be to the point and attractive as well. It should be able to inspire people to visit your page or read your content. Your headline appears when people share your content via Twitter and Facebook, it appears as a hyperlink on search engine result pages, and when people link to your specific content from their websites and blogs, they normally use the headline.

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The benefits of having a Google +1 button on your website

Putting a Google +1 button on your blog or website is an excellent way of letting visitors recommend your particular web pages or blog posts to Google. If you noticed, the Google +1 button has already been appearing on some search result pages where you can directly recommend the link and improve its visibility by clicking the button. It has great SEO advantage. With Google’s new social networking platform Google Plus is rapidly gaining ground and with more and more people joining it, putting a Google +1 button also allows them to immediately share your links through their Google Plus profiles.

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