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When it comes to building content that helps you achieve your SEO objectives, ”good” isn’t good enough. Your content has to be tailor-made to achieve your goals. It has to target the right keywords for the right audiences, supply the…

In today’s market, you’ll be hard-pressed to find an avenue of marketing that’s both free and effective. Despite what some might lead you to believe, B2B influencers will expect more than brand exposure in exchange for their services.  Unlike B2C…

“We want to do influencer marketing!” We hear this a lot. But it tends to come with other questions: “How do we go about it? What will go into it? And, how will we measure it?” Sound familiar?  It’s like…

B2B thought leadership shows potential buyers that your brand is a credible authority. It helps keep you top of mind even when a buyer isn’t in market yet. Essentially, it earns equity that will mature into sales and repeat business.…

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a competition. For any given keyword or topic, your content is battling thousands of others for limited (and constantly shrinking!) real estate. Here’s how small the victor’s podium is:  The top three organic search results…

To say the past few years have been volatile for the healthcare industry would be an understatement. The COVID-19 pandemic virtually transformed how medical care is administered overnight, in ways that have proven more lasting than anyone could have anticipated. …

B2B SaaS content marketing can be notoriously complex. Your SaaS company’s solutions are built to solve problems for a highly select subset of a professional audience. If you can’t find and reach this audience with your content, creating it feels…

The current renaissance of creative B2B content is a blessing and a curse for B2B marketers. On the good side, it gives us permission to stretch our creative muscles, write fascinating and engaging content, and pair it with eye-catching visuals.…

It’s not too hard to see why social media marketing is often associated with the B2C realm. There are many popular consumer brand applications for this approach, from celebrity Instagram influencers to TikTok contests and beyond. But make no mistake:…

Blogs have seemingly lost much of their luster in the content strategy world. But according to the latest CMI benchmark report, they still represent the second-most common platform for distributing content, used by 78% of respondents. It’s true that a…

One of the most common arguments against investing in Search Engine Optimization is that the practice doesn’t impact the bottom line enough. And the truth is, it is difficult to get lead-gen content to rank for non-branded terms.  Fortunately, that’s…

Building a data-informed search engine optimization strategy is critical for every brand. But before you can start improving your site’s SEO, you’ll have to learn how to monitor your website’s SEO rankings in the first place. Earning rankings for strategically…

What’s the second most-used search engine in the world? Nope, not Bing. Or DuckDuckGo. Certainly not Yahoo, AltaVista or AskJeeves.  The second most-used search engine in the world is YouTube. Over 2.5 billion users visit the site per month, and…

Here at TopRank Marketing we do more than just plan and execute B2B influencer marketing programs. We also conduct research on the state of B2B influencer marketing at companies across multiple industries.  The statistics and trends surfaced by this report…

Using AI for content is a little like using a crowbar for a hammer. Yes, it can get the job done, but it’s going to be a messy process with uneven results. AI is a great tool for researching content,…

At its recent B2Believe Conference, LinkedIn announced LinkedIn Connected TV (CTV), a new product offering that will allow B2B marketers to tap into audiences off-platform, and onto the big screen at home. With notable CTV publishers on board – including…