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The Impact of Google’s Helpful Content System on Link Building

Buzzstream

Google Search Central blog just posted a new update titled “What web creators should know about our March 2024 core update and new spam policies” The post outlines several changes that could impact the future of link building, content creation, and upend strategies that many sites rely on. What is the Helpful Content System?

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The top 10 most-read blog posts on Sword and the Script in 2023

Sword and the Script

Blogs were raging. That next spring I started this blog, largely as a means of professional development. I could read about what was happening, test it out on my blog, and apply what I had learned to my daily job. In 2023, the 14 th year of publishing, I published 50 blog posts. Social media was blossoming.

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Blog Contest Winner: Can Mastering the FEEL First Model Unite the Contrasting Generations?

Deirdre Breakenridge

A Guest Post By Michael Matheny, MA candidate at American University and FEEL Blog Post Winner. Likewise, the polished, seemingly utopian “American Dream” based society that Boomers created as a result of their perceptions of the world resulted in a generation of those content with an exploitative system and the status quo — cue Generation X.

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What Blogging Has Taught Me About Personal Branding, the Job Market, and the Fashion Industry

Deirdre Breakenridge

There’s no one way to use social media: When I started blogging, there were maybe three to five bloggers I followed on a regular basis. At the time, it was my understanding that an amazing, curated, consistent Instagram theme was the key to drawing attention to your blog. My 500 followers draw minimal traffic to my blog.

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Blogging isn’t Sexy but Done Well It Drives B2B Marketing Results [Study]

Sword and the Script

The most effective blogs in B2B marketing tend to publish longer posts, more frequently, with visuals, paid distribution and analytical measurement Blogging doesn’t have the appeal that voice search, personalization or influencer marketing do in B2B marketing, but when it’s done right, it’s surely effective, according to a new study.

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3 Studies with Benchmarks for Content Marketing, Blogging and Webinars [UML]

Sword and the Script

Fortunately, there are several new studies that have been published about content marketing, blogging and webinars that provide solid benchmarks. If you are looking for ideas, I have many years’ worth of useful ideas organized under the content marketing tag on this blog. 2) Blogging benchmarks. 2-4 posts per month.

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Why Livefyre Is The Best Blog Comment System Evah

Waxing UnLyrical

This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series. If you publish a blog, there are three things I want to tell you today. I think Livefyre, the comment system that has been implemented on WUL for just under two months , is da bomb. I’ll give you the short version, and then the long version. Short version.

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