Content Marketing Glossary - Popular Content Marketing Terms Explained in Plain English

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Table of contentsA A/B testing AARRR Acquisition Activation Adwords Algorithm updates Audience Audit

B B2B B2C

Big Data Bookmarklets Bounce rate Brand Brand Ambassador

C Call-to-Action (CTA) Clickthrough Rate (CTR) Collaboration Content creation Content strategy Conversion Rate

Credibility Crowdsourcing

D Distribution Drip campaigns

E Ebook Editorial calendar Email marketing Engagement Evergreen Content

External link

F Funnel optimization

G Google Analytics Growth Hacking Guest posts

H Hashtag Headline

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I Inbound Influencers Infographic Integrated campaign Intelligence Interview

K Keywords KPI or key performance indicator

L Landing Page Lead Generation Lean startup cycle Lifecycle stages Link-building List-building Localized content Location Data

M Marketing Authority Metrics

Micro content Microsite Multilingual content

O Outbound Outsourcing

P PageRank Persona Personalization Pitch

Push Messages

R Reach Referral Remarketing Remarketing pixel Repurposing Responsive content Retention Road map ROI

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S Search marketing SEO Shareability Snippet Sponsored post

Stock sites Storytelling

T Templates

Thought leadership Tracking

U UTM tags

W Word bites WordPress WordPress Plug-In Workflow

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Table of Contents⇧ Content Marketing Glossary

A/B testingA/B testing is a simple way to test your content and determine which version of it produces best results. It originated in web technologies where different website elements can be tested and results can tell which version to deploy for everyone. One visitor sees content A, another, content B.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: it's important to know what the target audience react to the best.

More on this topic: start by browsing this WordPress plug-in directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ab-testing

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AARRRShort for acquisition, activation, retention, revenue, and referral. It's a startup metrics model developed by Dave McClure of 500 Startups. These 5 metrics represent all of the behaviors of the customer.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: it's the same story with content distribution. We first acquire readers, try to activate them (to comment or share), bring them back with a newsletter, get interested in our offer, and at the end share blog with their friends.

More on this topic: this SlideShare presentation is a great starting point: http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-long-version

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AcquisitionAn element of AARRR metric telling how many people are "acquired" through content marketing. Eg. number of people visiting your blog or a landing page.

See also: AARRR.

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ActivationAn element of AARRR metric telling what percentage of people visiting your sites do a certain action.

Content marketers have to choose which metric will be their activation metric. Eg. from 1000 landing page visitors 120 signed up for a newsletter. In that particular case if newsletter signups are counted as activation this metric would be 12%.

See also: AARRR.

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(Google) AdwordsAdwords is an ad network created by Google. It's one of the world's biggest ad networks and users interact with Adwords ads in every corner of the internet.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: Adwords is a paid acquisition channel. If you have money to spend on traffic acquisition you can advertise on Google Adwords and your content will be shown along with Google search results and on many sites which uses Adwords to display ads.

More on this topic: https://www.google.com/adwords/benefits/

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Algorithm updatesGoogle updates its indexing algorithm every couple of months. Changes are introduced in order to minimize spam results and show more relevant ones near the top. The algorithm changes most often penalize websites that gain exposure by gaming the system.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: if you're doing everything according to the book, you have nothing to fear. What's more if you read about the changes you can make your content even more Google (= users) friendly. Eg. recent update gives higher positions to websites that are mobile-friendly. If your blog isn't you could update your template or change it to a new one (there are stocks of WordPress themes like https://creativemarket.com/themes/wordpress)

See also: stocks, WordPress

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AudienceYour audience are all the people who would find your content interesting.

Before you write your first blog post you should spend time defining your ideal persona. Next with that persona in mind, every piece of content should be benchmarked against it to see if it's relevant, helpful, interesting, etc.

See also: persona

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AuditAudit in an inspection of your content, typically by an independent body.

Aim of the audit is to point any mistakes and errors that you may have omitted due to the fact that you see your content every day.

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B2BB2B stands for business-to-business and is a category of businesses that sell to other companies.

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B2CB2C is short for business-to-customer. If your company's or blog's target audience are individuals you can say your target is the B2C market.

Often B2B (business-to-business) blogs target specific individuals within companies but that doesn't make them B2C.

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Big DataBig data is a term that describes any large amount of structured or semi-structured data that has the potential to be mined for information.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: if your company sits on top of a big amount of data you should request some time with engineers to sort through that resource. With data in hand you can create insightful infographics and data-packed blog posts that will get shared in your niche.

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BookmarkletA bookmarklet is a bookmark stored in a web browser that contains JavaScript commands that add new features to your browser. Bookmarklets can help extracting data from the page (e.g. links), submit current URL to CRM or other place, query a search engine with highlighted word, etc.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: bookmarklets greatly increase your speed by semi-automating tasks you often repeat.

More on this topic: Orbit Media has list of 15 handy bookmarklets for content marketers here: http://www.orbitmedia.com/blog/content-marketing-bookmarklets/

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Bounce rateBounce Rate is the percentage of single-page sessions (i.e. sessions in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting with the page).

Why it's relevant for content marketers: with multi-page sites like blogs you should aim for bounce rate as low as possible. Low bounce rate means that readers visiting your page continue to browse it before they leave. You should monitor bounce rate as well as time spent on your site to determine what content was read throughout and what was skipped. That way you can see what resonates well with your audience and what doesn't.

See also: audience, Google Analytics.

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BrandA brand is a name, term, design, or other feature that distinguishes your product from others.

Brand not only means your company's brand but also your blog's as well as personal. Your team should spend time thinking what your brand represents, how you'd like it to be seen, what emotions it should trigger, etc.

Brand building is an area on it's own and as content marketers we should respect and remember about our brand all the time while producing and promoting content.

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Brand Ambassador Brand ambassador is a person employed by an organization or company to promote its products or services. Ambassadors are often celebrities or well-know industry experts who you either pay or reward in another way for their endorsement.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: having an ambassador can greatly enhance your reach. Especially in the early days having someone respected in the field can do wonders for traffic acquisition.

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Call-to-Action (CTA)Call to action or CTA is a phrase used to describe button, link, or other interactive element that urges users to take action.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: great piece of content incorporates CTA seamlessly. Almost every piece of content that we produce should be equipped with it. Most often CTAs are buy-now buttons, newsletter signup forms, social media share buttons, etc.

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Clickthrough Rate (CTR)The number of clicks received divided by the number of impressions generated. For example, an ad that is displayed 1,000 times and receives 10 clicks has a click-through rate of 1 percent.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: CTR is an vital metric for every content marketer. We should measure CTR of our ads, Tweet links, quest post referrals, etc. Only by measuring CTR of every channel, can you decide which one is the most effective.

Warning: it's common marketers get excited about particular channel high CTR without getting enough traffic through it. With a sample of 100 high CTR can be misleading sign.

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CollaborationCollaboration is working with others to do a task and to achieve shared goals.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: collaboration is a great way to create and edit new content. You can work with your peers on the content, with the editor on wording, with translator on new versions, or with a designer on blog post images.

See also: outsourcing.

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Content creationContent creation is an element of content marketing process where an idea for a piece is turned into a blog post, presentation, infographic, etc.

Common practice in content marketing is outsourcing content creation to other people (see collaboration). By doing so marketers are able to turn ideas into posts much quicker and increase content volume many fold. Note that it's not always possible to outsource content creation as sometimes your niche requires domain expertise and/or professional language.

See also: collaboration, outsourcing.

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Content strategyContent strategy refers to content creation, repurposing, and distribution plan for a company.

It's put in place by marketers to streamline it's branding, makes sure content is consistent across channels, and delivers results.

See also: editorial calendar, persona, repurposing, ROI.

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Conversion RateSee: CTR and funnel optimization.

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CredibilityCredibility is a quality of being believable or worthy of trust.

In content marketing and marketing in general trust is often a deciding factor when a client chooses one company over another.

Same as with brand and PR trust and credibility can be easily lost and is very hard to regain.

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CrowdsourcingCrowdsourcing is a great way to generate additional content for your business.

This will only work with engaged communities that are willing to help with close to nothing in return.

To give you an example startup community is crowdsourcing this list of growth hacks you can use to grow your business - http://bit.ly/growth-hacking

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DistributionSee: acquisition.

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Drip campaignsDrip campaigns refers to email marketing and email campaign prepared in advance and sent to new subscribers starting always from the first email, no matter when they joined. It's fundamentally different than regular send-to-all campaign in which you send same emails to every subscriber no matter when she joined.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: drip campaigns allow marketers to build relationship with users over carefully designed series of email.

Most email marketing services offer this kind of campaigns.

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EbookIn most cases "ebook" refer to an electronic version of a paperback book. In marketing though ebook is often standalone item and was never published as physical version.

Why it's relevant to content marketers: ebooks a presumably one of the best giveaway items you can create. Well prepared and executed ebook giveaway can grow your email list by the thousands.

In traditional sense ebook is a file in EPUB or MOBI format – easy to upload to your Kindle. In marketing most often ebooks are PDF files formatted by DTP company or individual to fit company's brand. PDF has multiple advantages over EPUB/MOBI when it comes to content marketing. To name just a few: it will look exactly the same on every screen, it's lightweight, and everyone knows how to open one.

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Editorial calendarWhen you get going with your content marketing you will quickly realize that you have to squeeze a lot of content in a space of couple days of the week.

New blog posts, presentations, Twitter campaigns, when to send newsletter, etc. – lots to do. This is exactly the moment when you need to build an editorial calendar. Mark the days when you post on your blog, schedule when to send campaigns, and generally see if everything will fit nicely or not.

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Email marketingEmail is crucial for content marketing acquisition and retention efforts.

Content marketers often rely on growing newsletter lists as it is still one the most effective method to bring customers back to your site and the product.

See also: drip campaigns

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EngagementEngagement is a metric and a quality of your content.

Engagement the metric shows how much people interact with your content. Depending on how you structure your goals that can be time spend on a site, number of social media shares or comments, etc.

High engagement brings customers back to your site or blog and helps with reaching your goals and KPIs.

See also: AARRR, KPI, CTR.

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Evergreen contentEvergreen content is content that is equally relevant today as in half a year.

Some industries cannot produce evergreen content (news, stock market) but in most cases of B2C and B2B content marketing evergreen content is something we should all aim for.

Producing and promoting content is expensive enough, so doing it in a way it stays fresh longer can only increase return of investment.

See also: ROI

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External linkExternal link or an incoming link is a link that point to your site from some other place.

This link can be placed in a guest post, social media post, SlideShare or YouTube content, etc. It serves two purposes: firstly it gets you traffic from an external site, and secondly, it works toward your SEO score with Google and other search engines. If you get links from high quality sites search engines treat your site as more relevant and place you higher in the search results.

See also: guest posts, link-building

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Funnel optimizationFunnel optimization is a term originating in e-commerce where users visiting a webpage enter a "funnel" to a hopeful exit by checking out. Website owners fine-tune their listings, payment process, cart management, etc. to lower the friction between each step and get more people to the end of the funnel.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: marketers should also monitor their equivalent of sales funnel as people enter your site and follow the steps toward whatever is your preferred „exit”.

See also: KPI, AARRR, CTR.

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Google AnalyticsGoogle Analytics is a free service from Google that allows website owners measure and analyze traffic coming to their sites. Over the years Google Analytics become a standard in this space and is now installed on over 15 million websites worldwide.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: without proper analytics marketers are blind. Analyzing incoming traffic as well as users' behavior on the site is crucial in understanding whether our content marketing activities deliver proper results.

See also: ROI, funnel optimization, AARRR

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Growth hackingGrowth hacking is a almost a buzzword now, but it combines all the activities, coding, analytics, and hacking companies do to achieve and maintain growth.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: depending on how you look at it growth hacking is part of marketing or marketing is part of growth hacking. In a crowded markets content marketers have to come up with creative and innovative ways to deliver results.

Sometimes these unconventional methods are very similar to growth hacking. Hence marketers should monitor newest growth hacking trends and borrow as much as possible whenever it's possible.

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Guest postsGuest posts are exactly what the name implies: it's a post on your blog by a guest author OR other way around it's your post in someone else's blog.

Guest posting is an important tactic in link building and generating traffic. Pitching blog owners with your post idea is an art on it's own and the rule of thumb here is to start with smaller blogs and move to bigger ones as you gain experience and portfolio.

See also: link building, SEO, PageRank, external links

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HashtagHastags are social media's way of getting more people to know about a common topic. In a nut shell it's a word preceded by the # symbol that major social media sites automatically convert into links.

Once a user clicks on such link she's redirected to a subpage with all other posts containing this particular hashtag.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: you can use hashtags to get in touch with different communities. You can analyze hashtag contents to decide on your next move. You can monitor interesting topics using hashtags. You can launch initiatives using hashtags – for example hashtag for this content marketing glossary is #contentglossary. When you tweet with it we get to read it and can add/edit items to this list.

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HeadlineWikipedia says the headline is the text indicating the nature of the article.

Writing great headlines is an art on it's own and content marketers spend years testing different ways of doing so.

Important to note here is the fact that working headline in one industry won't translate 1:1 to another. Every audience has their own preferences and finding the right headline for them is very important.

See also: A/B testing, audience

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InboundBy "inbound" businesses describe all activities that bring customers the site without proactively reaching out.

This is the opposite of outbound where for example, sales reps contact possible clients and try to convert them to a sell via a cold call or engagement on the sales floor. Examples of inbound activities are: updating blog with new content on a regular basis, being visible in social media, paid ads, guest posts, etc.

See also: outbound

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InfluencersInfluencers are well known and respected individuals in an industry.

They often have relatively big social media followings and can influence the industry with their opinions.

See also: brand, ambassadors

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InfographicInfographics is a graphic form of representing complicated concepts or plenty of data in a fun, engaging, easy to understand format.

People are many times more likely to remember what they see than what they hear or read.

Thanks to that phenomena infographics become an important weapon in a content marketer hands. Not only are they simple to digest but one-file format also help with viral spread.

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Integrated campaignsIntegrated campaigns include a multiple of different media types, one of which is often online. In addition to online, other media types can include print, outdoor, TV, guerrilla or radio.

See also: brand

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InterviewInterview has two meanings for content marketers:

1. Interviewing interesting people for your blog is a clever way to bring more traffic and promote your work. Interviewed guests have strong incentive to share the interview with their social media following, hence bring you more traffic from interested audience.

2. Interviews are also used to learn about your market and customers. By interviewing people in your space you can get tremendous amount of knowledge and insight into what's happening.

See also: persona, lean

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KeywordsIf you were to distill your whole communication to only couple words, chances are these would be your keywords.

Every company do that on purpose or just by common sense. Using concrete set of keywords for all you outside communication helps with brand building, planting the message in your customers' heads, and ranking higher in Google.

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KPI or key performance indicator

Key performance indicator (KPI) is a business metric used to evaluate factors that are crucial to the success of an organization.

From content marketing perspective a KPI can be number of visits to the company blog, newsletter signups, or number of signups to the product generated by content marketing activities.

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Landing pageLanding page is a single-page website that appears when users click on a search result or paid ad.

They include complete offer description and a strong CTA and aim to convert visitors to take action (sign up for a newsletter, download an ebook, share on Facebook, etc.).

See also: CTA, funnel optimization

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Lead generationLead generation is a term describing process of collecting clients' information. It can be done manually or automatically by multiple inbound activities.

See also: landing page, inbound, outbound

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Lean startup cycle"Lean startup cycle" is a term coined in 2011 by Eric Ries. It describes a methodology for building businesses based on short interactions, experiments, clients' feed and generally lowering risk by learning fast what works and what does not.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: lean startup cycle is based on build-measure-learn principal. The same methodology can and should be applied to all areas of content marketing. We should always measure an outcome of our actions, learn from it, and improve them in the next iteration.

See also: AARRR, Google analytics, funnel optimization, ROI.

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Lifecycle stagesLifecycle stages refers to the stage that your product is at any given time. There are four main stages: introduction, growth, maturity, decline.

It start with an audience of early adopters who actively look for your product and use it. With a product that has been debugged and a scalable business model you move to growth stage. When sales flatten or the market becomes saturated, it's a sign you've reached the maturity stage.

Why it's relevant to content marketers: as a content manager you should always know who your target audience is. You don't communicate in the same manner with early adopters as you do with maturity level customers. Content marketing should always reflect the company stage.

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Link-buildingLink building is an important SEO technique that aims to increase website position in search engines by acquiring links from other sites.

The logic for this to work is that Google and other search engines care about how many links point to your website.

See also: SEO, external link

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List-buildingList building is the activity of building your email newsletter list in size.

List building activities include giveaways, newsletter popups, etc.

See also: AARRR, retention

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Localized contentLocalized content is your content translated into another language.

Companies translate their content to different languages to help their positioning on foreign markets. It is also a legitimate lead building technique that lowers entry barriers for possible clients.

See also: lead generation.

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Location dataUsing users' location and geotagging can be used by companies to show relevant content based on user location in the physical world.

This will work well especially for companies that does local offers in which users can benefit from location-based content the most.

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Marketing authorityAuthority marketing helps entrepreneurs leverage their knowledge to gain authority status in their industry.

This authority status then allows them to dramatically amplify their message and convert their new audience into higher paying customers.

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MetricsMetrics are used by marketers to benchmark their results against other as well as find out how far or close are they to reaching their KPIs.

There are multiple types of metrics that can tell different things about your business or content. For content marketers one of the most often used metrics is number of signups it generates for the product or number of people that it brings to the site.

See also: KPI, Google analytics, funnel optimization, bounce rate

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Micro contentMicro content is social media posts and images. They are short (posts) and small (images) hence the "micro" in the name.

It's used to attract users' attention while they scroll their Facebook or Twitter feeds.

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MicrositeSee: landing page

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Multilingual content See: localized content

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OutboundIt's the opposite of inbound: it's all the activities where a company actively contact possible clients.

See also: inbound

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OutsourcingOutsourcing is paying someone else complete a certain task based on your predefined criteria.

There are whole websites dedicated to outsourcing graphic design, writing, coding, and etc. Content marketers often rely on outsourcing writers and designers to speed up content creation.

See also: content creation, collaboration

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PageRankPageRank is a metric used by Google to score a website's importance. Based on it and other factors Google can increase or decrease website position in the search results. According to Google:

PageRank works by counting the number and quality of links to a page to determine a rough estimate of how important the website is.

The underlying assumption is that more important websites are likely to receive more links from other websites.

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PersonaBetter known as marketing persona.

Marketers build different personas to represent a group of customers to be able to focus marketing activities at it.

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PersonalizationPersonalization is a process during which an otherwise generic message is customized for a specific person.

Instead of receiving email starting with "Hi customer" you would send "Hi John". In email marketing it's done to achieve higher email open rates.

See also: email marketing, CTR

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PitchA way to describe your business in couple of sentences. There are different types of pitches, most popular one is "Elevator Pitch" that stands for really short, memorable and straight to the point speech (it's name comes from pitching investors while riding an elevator).

Why it's relevant to content marketers: content marketers most often pitch the blog authors in an attempt post a guest blog post on their website.

See also: guest posting

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Push messagesPush messages are notifications from mobile applications that a user gets on their devices, even when the app is not currently running.

Why it’s relevant to content marketers: there are multiple ways content marketers can utilize push messages in the communication. Especially for B2C and app-based businesses push messages are likely to replace email marketing.

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ReachReach is a metric most often used on social media sites to describe how many people have seen a message after it was posted.

Reach increases as other users share, like, or retweet your message.

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ReferralReferral is a metric, part of AARRR methodology of measuring business performance. It refers to number of new users brought to the site by existing users.

Why it's relevant to content marketers: you should optimize landing pages and CTAs to induce as much social media shares as possible.

See also: AARRR, funnel optimization, email marketing, remarketing, CTA

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RemarketingRemarketing is a way to bring customer back to your product by displaying ads visible only to them.

This can be achieved by using Google Adwords or Facebook ad network and placing a remarketing pixel (browser cookie) on your site. From the moment you place Google/Facebook code on your website every visitor that lands on your site will be added to the custom audience eligible for remarketing ads.

After you turn on remarketing campaign users will see your ads all over the internet.

See also: Google Adwords, remarketing pixel

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Remarketing pixelRemarketing pixel is a common name for a remarketing browse cookie included on many sites to catch visitors on a remarketing list.

To place remarketing pixel on your site you edit your site source code and place provided Javascript code close to the end of the code. If you're using WordPress site you don't have to edit your page source code, but instead use one of many remarketing plugins.

See also: remarketing, Wordpress, Wordpress plug-in

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RepurposingAdding a new, extra value to the existing content by reformatting it to other mediums.

Examples of repurposing include turning a blog post into a presentation, which in turn can be repurposed as animation, and so on. The aim for repurposing is to get the most out of every word of original text.

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Responsive content Every single piece of information that is visually adjusted to the mobile devices.

E.g. a website that changes its design and functionality in response to the viewing device (laptop, tablet, smartphone)

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RetentionRetention is a metric telling website owners how many people have return to their site after they visited it. Retention is most often expressed as percentage, meaning that 7% retention is 7 people returned to the site after they signed up.

Why it's relevant for content marketers: retention is a key metric to watch for when you run your blog. You want to produce content people will want to return to read/watch again. Returning readers mean lower bounce rate and higher chance of converting to whatever your goal is.

See also: AARRR, email marketing, remarketing, bounce rate

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Road mapRoad maps are most often referring to new product features and how they are planned in time.

You should work with product managers to prepare and schedule your content marketing activities around the product road map. Road maps can also refer to editorial calendars, but the latter is more common name.

See also: editorial calendar

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ROIROI is short for return of investment. It's a metric telling marketers whether the activities you perform or money you spend gives you the desired effect either financially or increased web activity. It may also point out the specific activities.

You can calculate ROI by dividing revenue this particular ad brought by money that was spent on it. For example an ad campaign that costed $1000 can bring $1800 in sales from the product (that is 180% ROI).

Note: often ROI has to be considered over longer period of time. In another example a $1000 ad campaign can bring only $450 in immediate revenue (45% ROI). But given that high percentage of clients renew their subscription after one month, ROI for this campaign over period of couple months can be much higher.

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Search marketingSearch marketing refers to ads you can purchase next to search results in Google and other search engines.

Don't confuse with search engine optimization (SEO) which affects your website position in the search results.

See also: SEO

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SEOSEO is short for search engine optimization which covers a broad field of activities that all result in getting your website listed higher in search results.

Many SEO tactics involve content and generally content marketing contributes to SEO in a great way. Original content is number 1 SEO tactic to this day.

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ShareabilityWhen a post has high shareability it means there is high probability it will be shared by users across social networks.

There are number of factors that influence content shareability, like: great headline and copy, interesting graphics, or dynamic animation.

See also: headline

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SnippetSnippet is small amount of code or text that you can reuse over and over again. There are multiple snippets managers available as browser extensions or desktop or mobile applications.

The reason for existence of snippets is to relieve authors form typing the same content all the time. If you use some phrases a lot, you may consider turning it into a snippet.

See also: bookmarklet

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Sponsored postSponsored post is a blog post that appear in the regular blog content flow, but is prepared and paid for by a sponsor.

Companies never accept sponsored posts on their blogs as the whole blog is usually an advertisement for the company itself.

But companies often propose to sponsor content on other blogs to promote their business.

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Stock sitesStocks are sites that collect huge amounts of pictures, videos, audio files, or other media formats and make their business by cataloguing and selling them at a small price.

The point of stocks is that you normally wouldn't be able to buy a photo of this quality, but because they sell one file to multiple clients, they can keep the price low.

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StorytellingStorytelling is a quality of a great content marketer. Businesses that master storytelling are able to market their products without looking like they're selling something.

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TemplatesTemplates are ready to use chunks of content that one just has to fill out with data and it's ready to publish. They are snippets on steroids.

See also: snippets

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Thought leadershipThought leaders are the informed opinion leaders and the go-to people in their field of expertise.

They are trusted sources who move and inspire people with innovative ideas; turn ideas into reality, and know and show how to replicate their success.

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TrackingTracking is an action of monitoring what users do on your website in order to optimize it better, lower their entry barrier, and widen the convention funnel.

Tracking in most cases mean installing some kind of website analytics tools like Google Analytics.

See also: Google Analytics, remarketing, remarketing pixel

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UTM tagsUTM tags are a web standard introduced to precisely monitor incoming traffic. There are five tags, three of which are mandatory:

Mandatory: utm_source for campaign source (newsletter, landing page 3, etc.), utm_medium for advertising medium used (like banner, cpc, email), and utm_campaign for a campaign name (like "content marketing glossary")

Optional: utm_term used to identify the paid keywords and utm_content use to differentiate ads (like banner300x250, banner750x100, etc.).

See also: tracking, Google Analytics

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Word bitesSee: micro content

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WordPressA website engine that allows you to build your website and adjust its design for free. Its primary use was to create a blog so it's equipped with lots of options that help managing blogs (SEO plugins, different users, categories etc.)

See also: WordPress Plug-Ins

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WordPress plug-insWordPress can be extended in multiple ways using plug-ins.

These small applications exist within your WordPress installation and add new features and functionalities to your blog or website.

See also: WordPress

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WorkflowWorkflow is common name for a "process". It describes some procedure in steps needed to complete it.

It's especially useful when introducing new team members and for quality assurance purposes.

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