Visual Contenting April 2016 | Page 35

CONTENT MARKETING By Sara McGuire from Venngage 46 EXPERT TIPS FOR CREATING ADDICTIVE CONTENT It’s a shiny, brand new year for you and your business. What are your resolutions to supercharge your content marketing strategy? Web 2.0 is a fast-paced and constantly changing landscape. It’s important to keep an ear to the ground for new content trends, but it can be difficult to know what approaches will stick and what approaches will cause your content to go unnoticed. It’s a sad fact that the 50% of content created goes unread. With this being the case, businesses can’t afford to waste time and resources on content that doesn’t achieve its marketing goals. In order for your content Visual Contenting to stand out from all the background noise, it needs to be addictive. Addictive content pulls readers in over and over again and can generate plenty of backlinks, shares and organic traffic. Addictive content offers readers real value through actionable tips and advice and through entertainment and genuine human connection. But how do you create addictive content? Google searches will yield thousands of often contradictory results, making it difficult for marketers to know which information will be beneficial to them and which information they should pass on. That’s why the Venngage team made it our goal for the new year to make it easier for businesses to extract the right information from the sea of content. We asked 140 highly successful content marketing and SEO experts the questions, “What makes for good content?” and “What is your #1 SEO tactic?” We then compiled the exclusive answers of 46 of those experts into one beautiful ebook and infographic. Download this ebook at Venngage Check out this infographic on Visual Contenting.