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How to write great SEO-friendly headlines

If you’re not familiar with search engine optimization (SEO) best practices, you may never have considered how your headlines influence your organic search rankings or blog performance. Instead, you’ve probably done your best to write clever, engaging headers that you hope will resonate with your readers. But even the most brilliant headline might never be read if it isn’t properly optimized for search.

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Negative Keywords in Google Ads Can Help You Target Your Audience

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising can be an incredibly powerful tool, but only when it’s executed in a highly targeted manner. PPC works when your ads appear to potential customers or clients who are searching for highly relevant and desirable potential keywords. When your ads start ranking for the wrong keywords, your campaigns can receive a large number of irrelevant clicks, which will waste time and money and destroy your ROI (return on investment).

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High-Quality Content — What Is It and Why Does it Matter for Digital Marketing?

What is high-quality content? It’s not easy to define “good” content, but you can always use the infamous common-sense definition that Supreme Court Justice Potter Stuart articulated to define pornography: You know it when you see it. If you genuinely believe the digital marketing content you’re publishing is high in quality, then there are probably plenty of people who will find it helpful.

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How to Write Great Legal Content

Writing Great Legal Content That Drives Prime Leads

Lawyers are constantly writing documents, briefs, and memos, so they’re familiar with writing great content for the legal sphere. Yet, while you might be a skilled legal writer, marketing content requires a different set of skills. Keep reading to learn how you can improve your website content and generate and convert more client leads below.

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Why Write? The Relevance of Good Writing in the Internet Age.

As a college professor who regularly teaches (and who prefers to teach) foundational writing courses that every student is required to take, I’m faced with a lot of hostility—usually on the first day of class when I ask each student to explain why he or she is taking my class. While about half of them say, “to get an A” (that’s a criticism of our society for another day), I’m also met with my fair share of shrugs and plenty of students who simply say “because I have to.” Naturally, there are always a few Goody Two-Shoes who try to parade their virtue by saying, “to learn more about writing.” (In a writing class? You don’t say!)

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