What is Content Syndication?

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Most people know what syndication means. We’ve all seen TV shows, listened to radio programs or read columns that are syndicated across several publishers. On the web, there are exponentially more media properties to distribute your content to, making the idea of syndication much more accessible, and much more of a possibility in spreading your message.

Content syndication on the web is defined as the mass publication of a single article, podcast or video (content assets) across many outlets. In a nutshell: Write once, spread everywhere.

What is Content Syndication?

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Don’t forget to help your visitors become customers

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

We review a lot of websites. In fact, the majority of our new clients start with some kind of website review. There are several common problems we run into, but there is one problem we run into nearly 100% of the time, and it has a serious impact on performance.

What is this systemic and pervasive problem? No clear call to action.

Let me elaborate. You do so much work to get the attention of your visitors and bring them to your site. Once there, you plead your case with compelling, benefit-focused content. But then you let them flounder. (more…)