New NPR CEO's social media posts show progressive views, support for Clinton, Biden

NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher has gone viral over her old tweets, which show her support for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, after she attempted to address a senior NPR editor’s concerns about the outlet’s left-leaning bias.  Maher, who took over as NPR’s CEO and president last month, wrote a … Continue reading New NPR CEO's social media posts show progressive views, support for Clinton, Biden

FBI interrogates Americans over social media posts 'every day, all day long,' agent says

FBI agents told an Oklahoma woman that the agency spends “every day, all day long” questioning people about their social media posts when they arrived at her house to ask about posts she made online.

Rolla Abdeljawad, of Stillwater, was told by FBI agents who showed up at her home on Wednesday that Facebook had handed over screenshots of her posts.

Abdeljawad told the agents she did not want to talk and asked them to show their badges on camera, but the agents refused, video posted to the social media platform X by her lawyer, Hassan Shibly, shows. The woman wrote on Facebook that she later confirmed with local police that the people who showed up at her home were actually FBI agents.

“Facebook gave us a couple of screenshots of your account,” one agent wearing a gray shirt was heard saying in the video.

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Abdeljawad replied, “So we no longer live in a free country, and we can’t say what we want?”

“No, we totally do,” another agent wearing a red shirt said. “That’s why we’re not here to arrest you or anything. We do this every day, all day long. It’s just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will.”

The woman then said, “All I’ve done is exercise my right as an American citizen on a public social media platform with my personal opinions.”

It is unclear which posts caught the attention of the FBI, but Abdeljawad has made a series of posts in the past week expressing frustration about the ongoing war in Gaza between Israeli forces and Hamas terrorists, including referring to Israel as “Israhell.”

“Israhelli terrorist filth,” she said in one post. “They think Ramadan is a weakness for Muslims not, realizing Ramadan is the strength. #FreePalestine May Allah destroy every single despicable zionist, their supporters and backers. Ameen.”

Abdeljawad’s Facebook timeline is also public, meaning the FBI agents could have accessed her posts themselves without requesting screenshots from Facebook.

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One of her posts even warned the Muslim community and people who are pro-Palestinian to be wary of the U.S. government monitoring their activity.

“Don’t fall for their games. Our community is being watched & they are just waiting for any reason to round us up,” Abdeljawad wrote on March 24. “If you’re Muslim and/or pro-pal consider all your media accounts, Google searches, mail, messenger, local mosques & political events monitored. #NYC #usa #PoliceState #FreePalestine”

The official policy of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is to give law enforcement Facebook data following a court order, subpoena, search warrant or emergency situation involving “imminent harm to a child or risk of death or serious physical injury to any person.”

In the first half of 2023, the social media giant received nearly 74,000 requests from law enforcement and handed over data 88% of the time, according to Meta’s website.

Abdeljawad said in a post on Thursday that her lawyer does not believe Facebook sent the FBI the screenshots of her posts.

“Rather, it seems like a fishing expedition,” she wrote. “I do not fear them. My only concern as, I told the cop is that, someone in my state will do something or that they would and then use my posts in a malicious attempt to ‘smear’ me. Just *remember, I am a Muslim, an obligated protector of creation. I enjoin what is good and forbid what is wrong.”

Shibly said in the caption on the social media video that Abdeljawad made the correct decision to refuse to speak without a lawyer, to not allow them in her house and to record the interaction. But, he says, she should not have gone outside her house to talk to the agents.

“You have the right never to speak to the FBI without a lawyer,” he said.

Boston mayor posts photo of controversial 'electeds of color' party despite criticism

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has proudly posted a photo of all the attendees of her “electeds of color” holiday party despite the gathering coming in for heavy criticism for excluding white lawmakers.

Wu, 38, who is the city’s first Asian-American mayor, posted a photo to Instagram of 17 people smiling and sitting around a dinner table at the exclusive bash which took place Wednesday.

“Last night was my turn to host the annual holiday dinner for Boston’s elected officials of color – a special moment to appreciate that our affinity group now includes leadership across city, state, county, and federal offices,” Wu wrote in the caption alongside the photo. 

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Earlier this week, a member of Wu’s staff mistakenly sent the entire city council an invitation to the party at the city-owned Parkman House near the Massachusetts Statehouse.

Having realized the error, the aide sent out a second email about 15 minutes later apologizing for the initial email. The 13-member city council is made up of six minorities and seven White members. It is understood that the White members were not invited. 

While the mayor and her aide apologized for the accidental invite, they did not apologize for planning a party that excluded White city leaders.

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Critics have panned the party as being segregationist and anti-White, with Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld accusing Wu of having a history of “blatant racism.”

The exclusionary invite was criticized Wednesday by one White member of the city council as “unfortunate and divisive,” according to the Boston Herald.

However, Black City Councilor Brian Worrell held a different opinion and defended the invitation, suggesting the holiday party was merely a way to represent “all kinds of special groups” in the Boston government. 

On Friday, Wu championed the dinner party as a celebration of diversity, writing that the number of minority lawmakers has grown since she was first elected to the city council in 2014. 

“Not too long ago in Boston, we didn’t need such a big table to fit electeds of color,” Wu wrote in her Instagram post. 

“But over my time as a City Councilor and now Mayor, following so many leaders who have paved the way, I’ve proudly watched this group grow and create space for mentorship and fellowship among many who are breaking down barriers while holding the weight of being the first or only.”

“And at the holidays, we take the time to celebrate and enjoy each other’s company!”

Ricardo Patrón, Wu’s press secretary, said no city funds were used to pay for the party.

The photo sparked a mixed reaction online, although one poster claimed Wu was pulling down unfavorable comments.

“You can delete my comment over and over commies, I will continue to celebrate your segregation efforts!” wrote one poster.

“You’re an absolute disgrace to the city of Boston!!! Shame on you,” wrote another.

Wu did have supporters in the comments section.

“Great to see such diversity! Every American should see themselves represented in their elected officials!” wrote one of them.

“To everyone saying this is segregation, literally every space of prominence and power has been only White people for centuries,” wrote another advocate of Wu’s actions. 

“We are allowed to gather and find solidarity with other POC (people of color) [in] most every other space we are in we are a minority. It is okay for us to TAKE UP SPACE.”

Fox News’ Kristine Parks and the Associated Press contributed to this report

Cornell University Jewish community threatened in online posts; police, FBI investigate

Cornell University police and the FBI are investigating a series of threats made against the New York school’s Jewish community. The threats were posted to a website not affiliated with the university and targeted “104 West,” where the Center of Jewish Living is located on campus. One of the threats called for people to follow … Continue reading Cornell University Jewish community threatened in online posts; police, FBI investigate

O que são Guest Posts e 5 Formas de Usá-los

Como se faz um guest posts?

Como se escreve um artigo como convidado?

Você provavelmente tem muitas perguntas sobre esse assunto. E vou responder a todas elas, e mais. Mas antes de eu te ensinar como fazer guests posts e quais são os benefícios dele, vou explicar os princípios básicos.

O que são guest posts?

Guest posts são publicações de artigos nos sites de outras pessoas.

Simples assim.

As pessoas fazem isso para gerar mais reconhecimento de marca e tráfego (também conhecido como tráfego de referência) para os seus sites.

Tenho para você um vídeo com dicas para aproveitar os benefícios dos guest posts, abaixo, ou você pode simplesmente ler este artigo.

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Defina suas metas para guest posts

Antes de começarmos, sua primeira tarefa é decidir qual é sua meta para guest posts. Saber essa meta antes de tudo, é a chave para decidir quais são os tipos de blogs para onde enviar suas publicações. Geralmente existem três objetivos para guest posts:

  1. Se posicionar como uma autoridade e nome conhecido em seu nicho;
  2. Ganhar exposição (tráfego) para levar para o seu site;
  3. Gerar backlinks para o seu site (que nunca deve ser seu foco principal, já que o Google desaprova essa tática).

Com o tipo de conteúdo certo nos melhores blogs, você vai conseguir as três coisas.

Se você quer conquistar o nº 1 ou o nº 2, precisa encontrar blogs com públicos vastos e muito envolvimento.

Se você quer apenas o nº 3, precisa encontrar blogs com autoridade de domínio alta. Você pode verificar isso gratuitamente usando ferramentas como o Ubersuggest.

Conhecer suas metas desde o início vai te ajudar a decidir quais são os melhores blogs para onde enviar seus guest posts.

Como encontrar oportunidades para fazer guest posts

A primeira coisa que você deve fazer é encontrar oportunidades para guest posts. Ao procurar lugares onde publicar seus posts, sua meta principal deve ser encontrar sites relevantes para o seu nicho ou indústria. Você está procurando blogs que cumprem os seguintes critérios: 

  • conteúdo focado em seu nicho/indústria;
  • público que vai se interessar pelo seu nicho; 
  • blog com leitores envolvidos (posts compartilhados nas mídias sociais e comentados);
  • o autor do blog é ativo nas mídias sociais (assim você sabe que ele ou ela vai divulgar seu trabalho no site).

Se você vende sementes, por exemplo, deve procurar blogs sobre jardinagem com um público bem envolvido nessa atividade. A próxima seção vai te ajudar a encontrar as oportunidades certas para guest posts. 

Pesquisa no Google

O Google é um ótimo lugar para começar sua pesquisa por oportunidades para guest posts. Você pode usar qualquer uma das pesquisas de palavra-chave abaixo para encontrar blogs que aceitam guest posts. É só substituir palavra-chave por palavras-chave do seu nicho. 

  • palavra-chave “enviar guest post”;
  • palavra-chave “guest post”;
  • palavra-chave “guest post de”;
  • palavra-chave “aceitando guest posts”;
  • palavra-chave “regras para guest post”.

Essas buscas devem te levar a páginas com regras para guest posts, páginas para envio de guests posts, ou guest posts de outros autores. 

Guest bloggers populares

Você conhece alguém que faz muitos guest posts em seu nicho? Se você lê muitos blogs na sua área (espero que sim), vai ver alguns nomes que sempre aparecem em guest posts.

Alguns dos guest bloggers mais influentes no marketing são Neil Patel, Jeff Bullas, Mark Traphagen, Tony Right, Jenny Halasz, Brian Harnish, Kevin Indig, Adam Riemer, Robyn Johnson, Benji Acciola, Kevin Rowe, Anna Crow e Kirk Williams.

Usando a busca do Google, pesquise os nomes de guest bloggers populares em seu nicho com a frase “guest post de”. Isso vai revelar todos os sites onde eles publicam. Melhor ainda, se você conhece um guest blogger no seu nicho, pode pedir para ser apresentado aos donos dos blogs onde ele ou ela já publicou.

Backlinks de concorrentes

Se você (ou sua agência de marketing online) já fez uma análise dos backlinks de um concorrente enquanto trabalhava em sua campanha de SEO, deve ter visto que alguns dos seus concorrentes têm backlinks de guest posts que publicaram.

Se tiver acesso a ferramentas como o Open Site Explorer, você poderá ver os backlinks dos seus concorrentes e procurar guest posts que eles já fizeram.

Se não encontrar nada, você pode pesquisar no Google. Use:

link:domínio.com.br -domain.com “guest post” (substitua domínio.com.br pelo domínio do seu concorrente). Isso deve revelar sites onde seu concorrente publicou guest posts.

Exemplo:

link:backlink.io -neilpatel.com “guest post”

Pesquisas em redes sociais

Muitos blogueiros compartilham seus guest posts mais recentes nas redes sociais. A mais fácil de pesquisar é o Twitter. Assim, faça uma busca no Twitter com a palavra-chave “guest post” para encontrar os tweets mais recentes sobre guest posts em seu nicho. Aí é só seguir o link para ver que blogs estão aceitando guest posts. 

Procure oportunidades para guest posts

Precisa de mais ideias de palavras-chave ou de uma lista com muitas oportunidades para guest posts?

Veja esse artigo com 14 outras formas de publicar seu conteúdo.

MyBlogGuest

Finalmente, uma opção importante é a My Blog Guest, uma comunidade de guest bloggers. Cadastre-se gratuitamente e pesquise blogs que aceitam guest posts. Ou melhor ainda: publique suas informações dizendo que gostaria de fazer guest posts sobre um determinado assunto para que donos de blogs possam te encontrar!

Como se preparar para oferecer um guest post

Perceba que não vamos direto de encontrar oportunidades para guest posts a contatar os blogs. Existem algumas coisas que você precisa fazer antes de oferecer um guest post a um site que acabou de encontrar.

Conheça o conteúdo do blog

É essencial conhecer o conteúdo do blog que você selecionou. Sim, você já sabe que ele tem conteúdo relacionado à palavra-chave que você pesquisou em sua busca por oportunidades para guest posts. Mas você precisa saber ainda sobre aquele conteúdo, como:

  • Qual é o nível do público para qual ele se destina (iniciante, intermediário, avançado)? 
  • Para que tipo de público ele é destinado? Se seu negócio é B2B, você quer um blog que tenha um público de empresas, não consumidores comuns.
  • Que tipo de conteúdo é publicado? São conceitos gerais ou tutoriais detalhados? O autor gosta de listas?

Veja o que outros guest posts fazem

Um blog pode ter guest posts, mas a pergunta mais importante é: será que os guest bloggers têm sucesso com isso? Será que os guest posts neste site recebem tantos comentários e compartilhamentos quanto os posts do blogueiro dono do site? Alguns sites podem aceitar guest posts, mas ter um público que só dá atenção ao dono do blog, e aí você não vai ter muito sucesso se quiser construir autoridade ou direcionar tráfego para o seu site.

Veja quem são os guest bloggers

Os donos de alguns blogs podem aceitar mais guest posts de certos tipos de pessoas. Examine as bios de alguns guest bloggers para saber se eles são outros blogueiros, freelancers, consultores, empresários e etc. Isso vai ser importante no momento em que você se apresentar com sua proposta. Para saber mais sobre as taxas de sucesso na prospecção de guest posts, veja este estudo no SEOmoz.

Descubra que posts têm os melhores resultados

Para garantir que seus guest posts sejam aceitos, você deve fazer propostas com assuntos que funcionam bem para o público do dono no blog. Para ter boas ideias de assuntos que sejam populares com o público de um blog, use os sites a seguir para ver que posts fizeram sucesso nas mídias sociais:

  • Oktopus: o Oktopus monitora e mostra sua performance nas mídias sociais;
  • Digg: o Digg vai te mostrar os posts que receberam mais votos Digg;
  • Buzzer: o Buzzer programa suas publicações nas mídias sociais e oferece dados e analytics.

Participe da comunidade de blogs

Para aumentar suas chances de ser aceito como guest blogger, primeiro você precisa ganhar o reconhecimento do dono do blog. A melhor forma de fazer isso é comentar nos posts dele durante uma semana ou duas. Você vai ter ainda mais vantagens se também compartilhar estes posts no Twitter – não  esqueça de incluir o nome de usuário do blogueiro ao fazer isso. Assim, quando você apresentar sua proposta de guest post, você já não será um estranho.

Os melhores momentos para propor um guest post

Você nem sempre vai ter uma oportunidade brilhante para propor um guest post, mas existem alguns momentos que você pode aproveitar, incluindo:

  • quando um blog menciona você em um post ou nas redes sociais (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc.);
  • quando um blog lista você, seu negócio ou seu produto em um post;
  • quando um blog anuncia que está procurando guest posts;
  • quando um blog publica o guest post de outra pessoa.

Melhores práticas para uma proposta

As regras a seguir são essenciais na hora de propor um guest post a outro blogueiro:

Leia as orientações

A última coisa que você deve fazer antes de contatar o dono de um blog é ler as orientações para guest posts, se elas existirem, e segui-las à risca. O dono do blog quer que você envie uma ideia ou um post completo? Que formato ele deseja? Você deve criar uma conta e enviar via WordPress? Você precisa saber tudo isso antes de entrar em contato com o blog.

Personalize seu email

Como um blogueiro que recebe propostas de guest posts diariamente, nada me desanima mais do que um email que começa com “Caro senhor ou senhora”, “Caro webmaster”, “Ao dono do site NeilPael.com”, ou simplesmente “Olá”. 

Você pode encontrar um nome e informações para contato com o dono do blog onde você quer publicar seu guest post. 

Talvez você tenha que procurar um pouco mais na página Sobre Nós ou em uma das contas do blog em redes sociais, mas esses dados provavelmente estão disponíveis em algum lugar. Encontre-os e use-os no início do seu email. 

Quem é você?

Lembra da parte sobre ver quem publica guest posts no blog que você selecionou? Alguns blogueiros têm preferências específicas sobre quem pode publicar posts em seus sites.

Se você percebeu que a maioria dos guest posts são de outros blogueiros, talvez deva se apresentar como blogueiro do [insira aqui seu blog pessoal ou corporativo]. Você sempre pode cuidar do seu negócio em segundo lugar; foque primeiro em suas habilidades como blogueiro.

Porque você deve contribuir com guest posts

Em sua proposta, lembre-se de incluir porque você deve se tornar um guest blogger. Adicione alguns links para posts que você publicou em outros lugares, inclusive seu próprio blog. De preferência, selecione publicações com bom envolvimento social, para que o dono do blog veja seu valor potencial para o público dele. 

Como propor um guest post

Se as orientações sobre guest posts pedem que você envie uma proposta de assunto, baseie-se na sua pesquisa de posts populares anteriores e envie algumas ideias diferentes para que o dono do blog possa escolher. 

Como enviar um post incrível

Uma das perguntas mais comuns sobre guest posts é se você deve usar seus melhores conteúdos em seu próprio blog ou em guest posts. Tudo depende da qualidade do blog para onde você envia seu conteúdo. 

Se seu blog não tem nada além de posts de 900 palavras com muitas imagens de captura de tela, seu guest post deve ser parecido. Se seu blog é só publicações com 500 palavras ou menos e uma imagem, seus posts também devem ser assim. Veja a seguir outras dicas para fazer um guest post incrível.

Você não é o foco

A primeira coisa a lembrar é que um bom guest post não é sobre seu negócio, seus produtos ou seus serviços. Guest posts devem ser fontes de informações valiosas, e não publicidade.

Qualquer informação sobre o seu negócio e itens relacionados devem ser guardados para a bio do autor. Não faz mal fazer menção ao negócio e contar histórias ou exemplos, mas a maior parte do post deve focar em alguma coisa que não seja a sua empresa. 

Formate seu post como os que estão no site

Dê uma olhada nos posts publicados no blog que você selecionou. Eles utilizam muitos títulos, textos em negrito, imagens, citações ou outra formatação especial? Use elementos similares em seu post para combinar com os outros.

Inclua links internos e de fonte

Mostre ao dono do blog que você conhece o conteúdo dele com alguns links internos para posts dele. A forma mais fácil de fazer isso é fazer uma pesquisa no Google com site:domínio.com.br intitle:palavra-chave.

Isso vai te mostrar os posts mais populares do blog com uma certa palavra-chave. E aí você poderá criar links para um daqueles posts com aquela palavra-chave. Além disso, se mencionar qualquer produto, livro, etc, lembre-se de incluir links para eles (desde que não seja auto-promoção). 

Inclua um Call to Action para comentários

Ao final do seu guest post incrível, lembre-se de incluir um call to action pedindo comentários. Quanto mais discussão seu post gerar, melhor!

Como criar uma bio de autor incrível

A parte mais importante do guest post provavelmente vai ser a bio do autor. Geralmente este é o único lugar onde você deve incluir links de auto-promoção para o seu site, blog, produto, serviço, livro etc. O que você vai escrever nesta seção depende dos objetivos do seu blog.

Tempo necessário: 30 minutos.

Passos para criar uma bio para um guest post:

  1. Inclua um link para o seu site
    Se seu objetivo for conseguir bons backlinks, não esqueça de incluir um link para o seu site, com seu texto-âncora target.
  2. Crie uma landing page personalizada para refletir seu público
    Se seu objetivo for direcionar tráfego ao seu site, você deve considerar para onde quer que este tráfego vá. Dependendo do tema do seu guest post e do público do blog onde ele for publicado, talvez você queira enviar o tráfego para uma landing page personalizada ou uma página sobre um produto ou serviço específico.
  3. Inclua seus perfis sociais
    Se seu objetivo for aumentar seus seguidores nas redes sociais, adicione uma linha ao final da sua bio dizendo “Siga-me em [insira seu perfil social mais popular e um link aqui].
  4. Crie uma bio concisa e descritiva
    Inclua um pouco sobre seu histórico e experiência que expliquem suas qualificações para escrever aquele guest post. Inclua seu cargo atual ou projetos que talvez sejam do interesse dos leitores.  

Como ser o melhor guest blogger

Se você quiser se tornar um colaborador regular de um blog, ou simplesmente queira que o dono do blog espalhe que você é um convidado incrível, faça de tudo para divulgar seu post entre o seu público. O dono do blog vai adorar receber novos leitores.

Além disso, lembre-se de responder a comentários ou perguntas que as pessoas deixarem em seu post. Isso vai ajudar bastante se você quiser construir autoridade em seu nicho.

Monitorando seus resultados

Quando o objetivo é ganhar tráfego, você definitivamente deve mensurar os resultados dos seus guest posts. A melhor forma de fazer isso é criar um Advanced Segment no Google Analytics.

Você pode aprender a configurar um Advanced Segment neste post sobre como descobrir que estratégia de marketing online gera mais tráfego. Você só precisa de um segmento usando a dimensão fonte com várias afirmações para cada domínio onde você publicou um guest post. O limite são 20 por Advanced Segment. Veja como ficou o meu: 

Monitoramento de resultado

Usando isso, você pode ver todos os dados do Google Analytics baseados em referências dos seus guest posts. Isso pode ajudar a determinar o sucesso da sua estratégia de guest posts em termos de tráfego e de conversão. 

Se não souber ao certo como monitorar conversões, veja esse post sobre como obter dados práticos para aprender como estabelecer metas.

Como conseguir guest bloggers para o seu blog

Finalmente, não esqueça que guest posts podem ser uma via de mão dupla. É difícil manter o seu blog e também fazer guests posts em vários outros.

Convide o dono do blog onde você publicou seu guest posts a escrever para o seu blog também. Isso vai garantir conteúdos novos, o que pode te ajudar a ganhar perspectiva sobre o seu público, e com sorte, novos leitores da comunidade do seu convidado. Todo mundo ganha com isso!

Conclusão

Publicar guest posts em sites com boa reputação é uma forma excelente de aproveitar o sucesso de blogs que já são populares em seu nicho. Para conseguir espaço para publicar guest posts, você precisa fazer propostas cativantes que mostram o seu valor. 

Guest posts são apenas uma entre muitas estratégias a incluir em suas campanhas de marketing de conteúdo. Se você quiser ajuda para formular ou monitorar seus métodos no marketing de conteúdo, nossa agência está aqui para ajudar.

Você usa guest posts como parte da sua estratégia de marketing de conteúdo? O que mais você sugeriria para negócios que querem aumentar seu sucesso com guest posts? 

How to Use Amazon Posts to Promote Your Products

If you’re serious about digital marketing, you’ve likely spent thousands of dollars on testing, experimenting, and workshopping only to find that you simply aren’t reaching your target audience.

That’s where Amazon Posts comes in.

Amazon is doing more than just integrating social with online retail. Their Posts initiative reimagines what social media marketing could be, and it might just be the answer to some e-commerce sellers’ problems.

What Are Amazon Posts?

amazon posts home page

Amazon Posts is Amazon’s social media initiative designed to help shoppers find new products and engage with their favorite brands.

Essentially, this is Amazon’s version of Instagram. Posts allow brands to create and promote product-related content, directly linking to specific product listings. All your posts will appear on your brand’s feed.

Your content is visible to shoppers on product detail pages, related product feeds, and category-based feeds. Amazon is presenting brands and businesses with an opportunity to market directly to their audience, within Amazon itself.

As a business owner or marketer looking to expand their social media marketing (SMM) strategy, Amazon Posts offer a unique approach to content. Instead of creating content on the latest social media site and linking to an Amazon account, brands can engage with users already on the Amazon platform, driving sales and engagement.

Access to shoppers that are already engaging with Amazon is part of what makes Amazon Posts such an interesting marketing tool. That access can reduce friction, one of the most frustrating hurdles for marketers to overcome.

Why You Should Use Amazon Posts to Promote Your Products

Platforms like Amazon and social media release new features constantly. So, what are the benefits of investing in this new feature? Let’s look at why Amazon Posts matters for e-commerce brands.

Reach a Wider Audience

Amazon is the most popular buying app in the United States, reaching more than 150 million buyers every month. Amazon Posts helps your brand connect (and convert!) those buyers. Plus, unlike ads on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, Posts let you reach more buyers for free.

A wider reach for free? It’s hard to argue with that.

Reduce Buyer Friction

When we discuss friction in marketing and sales, we’re typically referencing potential sticking points and objections customers encounter in their journey from a potential sale to conversion.

That friction can become a tricky issue because just about every decision a customer makes can lead them to friction.

From a marketing standpoint, your job has two layers. The first layer involves removing as much friction from the customer journey as humanly possible. However, your business can’t remove every single friction point. Eventually, the customer is going to encounter a “yes/no” situation.

That’s why the second layer of marketing involves creating marketing experiences and content compelling enough to keep shoppers moving past the friction points you can’t eliminate.

Every form of marketing has its friction points, but Amazon Posts aims to address two of the biggest issues in marketing.

When your brand promotes its content on Amazon, you don’t have to ask shoppers to follow you to another site. They’re already where they need to be! Plus, with Amazon’s streamlined, high-level approach to the shopper experience, your brand can leverage its expertise and create compelling customer journeys.

Competitive Product Visibility

The term ‘competitor analysis’ is referenced frequently in digital marketing, and with good reason.

Your brand is probably not the only option for product X or service Y. Whether your brand has 10 competitors or 50, your brand’s priority is standing out and connecting with potential shoppers.

Savvy brands and business owners analyze the advertising channels their competitors use. How are they writing their copy? How often are they producing content? Where are their ads appearing? What keywords are on their landing page? These are the questions that drive critical analysis.

Brands ask themselves these questions for one simple reason. When you understand how your competitors think, operate, and promote themselves, hijacking their audience becomes much easier.

amazon posts - related posts feature

Promoting your content through Amazon Posts means your products can land on ‘related product’ feeds so you can directly advertise to your competitor’s audience when the shopper is primed to make a purchase!

With access to over 150M monthly users, your brand can’t afford to sit on the sidelines and let your competitors dominate the Amazon Posts space.

Who Should Use Amazon Posts to Promote Their Products?

Clearly, there are quite a few perks to using Amazon Posts, but that still leaves us with one question. How can you know if Amazon Posts is a good fit for your brand?

You wouldn’t promote exercise equipment on LinkedIn or professional SaaS business solutions on Snapchat. Every audience has a unique social media experience, and understanding how your shoppers see the world is part of building an effective marketing strategy.

Fashion brands are in a fantastic position with this platform. Promoting high-quality images of your products right next to your competitors? It’s a dream come true for most fashion brands.

Still, there are plenty of other brands that can leverage the Amazon Posts space. If your brand has tons of relevant social media content, you’ll be able to repurpose that and promote it directly to Amazon shoppers.

However, there are a few things that your brand should keep in mind before diving into the Amazon Posts ecosystem.

Your brand must actively sell products on Amazon to qualify for this initiative. Fortunately, Amazon Posts is a free platform, which means you can legitimately compete with larger brands.

If your brand has taken the time to create high-quality images, this is a perfect way to not only maximize their value but explore a unique form of consumer marketing.

How to Create Amazon Posts

Now that you’ve decided to get started, it’s time to start creating posts. This process is relatively straightforward. Start by visiting the official Amazon Posts website and signing in using your advertising console or Seller Central credentials.

Once you’ve done that, you’ll create a profile by verifying your brand name, uploading an image of your brand’s logo, and just like that, you can start creating posts on Amazon.

Each Post has five key elements: a brand name and logo, the promoted image, a ‘show product’ button, a caption, and tags. Most of those elements will sound familiar if you’ve spent time promoting on Instagram, but the implementation of tags is a bit different on Amazon.

Instead of hashtags on Instagram, which let you control where your post appears and what it’s related to, Amazon auto-tags your post and automatically determines which feeds it will display on.

Tips to Create Amazon Posts That Successfully Promote Your Products

Now that you know what Amazon Posts are, let’s talk about how to make them work for your brand. Here are three tips to make the most of this new feature.

Post Often

This is where SMM shines. Creating a post on Amazon is entirely free! Instead of having to manage an ad budget, your brand can focus on creating and sharing as much relevant content as possible.

Developing a relationship with shoppers takes time, so the sooner you get started, the better. To ensure regular content updates, schedule your posts through the platform. With scheduled posts, you can simplify your marketing efforts and consistently engage with your audience.

Daily posting is a good place to start, but if you have an extensive backlog of content, feel free to schedule more. Remember to experiment here, to make sure you aren’t overwhelming your audience!

Content Is Still King

We’ve tackled the “quantity” component, but it’s important we address the “quality” component as well.

No one, and I do mean no one, enjoys spam. Instead of overloading your audience with every single possible image, think like an art curator. Your brand is made up of dozens, maybe even hundreds of unique content pieces. Which pieces are exceptional? What kind of customer will want to engage with a particular piece of content?

Crafting remarkable pieces of content is great, but crafting memorable marketing experiences is what drives conversions. Use this platform as an opportunity to explore exactly what your brand and your content is capable of.

Monitor Campaigns and Metrics

Some brands view marketing campaigns as a mad dash for awareness. Don’t get me wrong, traffic is definitely important, but truly effective marketing is about more than just visibility.

As a marketer, I don’t just want to be seen. I demand to be heard, and when my content doesn’t drive conversions, something needs to change.

This is what makes monitoring your campaigns and metrics crucial. If you’re new to Amazon Posts, it’s not enough to simply start posting. You need to determine clear marketing objectives, campaign strategies, and content initiatives.

Social media platforms change constantly and understanding how those changes affect your campaigns makes it much easier to adapt and evolve.

Examples of Successful Promotional Amazon Posts

If you’re worried about what kind of content to create, or how to define your visual branding, take a page from an e-commerce store and just let the product speak for itself.

VIKICON offers a relatively small caption, a decent product offering, and some saturated tags. The image itself demands attention.

amazon posts - vikicon example

Bold, eye-catching visuals are a powerful way to tell your entire brand story without saying anything at all. Sometimes, less truly is more.

amazon posts - kiwi design example

Likewise, KIWI Design understands the appeal of its product. Getting lost in a virtual reality world is about more than just computational capacity and frame rates. It’s about the shock and awe of diving into an immersive digital experience.

My favorite part about this image? It also sells you on the value of the ceiling pulley system! If you want to get lost in a digital experience, the last thing you want to deal with is tripping over cables.

Conclusion

Social media marketing is crucial to building a relationship between consumers and sellers. Our capacity to connect in honest, meaningful ways directly impacts how well our business does. Amazon Posts serves as a bridge between social media marketing and a straight e-commerce experience.

Amazon Posts is interesting mostly because it reduces friction and integrates so well with the Amazon platform. That being said, there are brands with dynamic visual content that are perfectly suited for this environment.

If your brand falls into that category, don’t waste any more time. Get to strategizing and see how well you can connect with shoppers on Amazon Posts.

If you want to learn about other innovative ways to promote your e-commerce company, let our agency know. We can keep you in the loop and partner with you to integrate custom digital marketing strategies.

Are you planning to leverage Amazon Posts? What results are you hoping to see?

Blog Posts That Get 1000 Visits or More Target 76 Keywords

Blogging is a pain.

Not because content is hard to write (worse case you can just hire a writer or agency), but due to the fact that no one can guarantee that your blog post gets read or not.

Just think about it… you spend all this time writing content, but no one can guarantee that it gets seen, shared, or even linked to.

So, I thought it would be fun to analyze popular blog posts and see what common characteristics that they have.

That way you can replicate what they are doing and increase the likelihood that your post gets read.

Now for this study, we deemed a popular blog post as anything that generates at least 1,000 visitors a month from Google organic search (this was based on Ubersuggest data).

We also didn’t exclude any countries and looked at the data from a global level.

Here’s what we learned.

A popular post tends to rank for at least 38 keywords

A big thing in common was that popular blog posts rank for at least 38 keywords.

What’s interesting though is posts that generate at least 5,000 visits a month from Google rank for 51 or more keywords.

But the big difference between posts that generate at least 1,000 visitors versus 5,000 wasn’t the number of keywords that they were targeting, it was more so that they were ranking for keywords that were searched on average 984 times a month.

Now granted they didn’t get 984 clicks for each keyword that they ranked for, as no site really gets all the clicks, and there is no guarantee that they were in the number 1 spot.

When looking at this data we decided to dig in a bit more and we randomly picked 300 blog posts that generate at least 1,000 visits a month from Google to see how many keywords they mentioned on their page that contained at least 50 searches a month.

Can you guess what the number was?

Well, after we removed generic one-word terms that aren’t really considered keywords (such as how I mentioned words like “analyze, month, generate, data” within this post but I am not really targeting those keywords), the number comes out to a staggering 76 keywords.

But wait, how do you come up with 76 keywords for every blog post you write?

Before I break down how you can come up with a laundry list of keywords to include in every blog post you write, keep this in mind…

  1. You should never stuff keywords in a blog post for the sake of getting SEO traffic. Your post should flow and adding the keywords should feel natural. (If you are hiring a writer, a good writer shouldn’t struggle with this.)
  2. There are outliers and some blog posts generate a lot of traffic without targeting dozens of keywords within their content.
  3. You shouldn’t write blog posts just for “Google traffic”. If the content doesn’t provide value to the user, it is going to hurt your website rankings in the long run as you can get hit by Google algorithm update if your site is deemed to have low-quality content.

Now that we got that out of the way, you can head to Ubersuggest and follow the steps in the video below to come up with blog post ideas as well as 76 plus keywords per post.

The average blog post that is popular contains 1839 words

Over the years the SEO game has changed. Generally, the longer your content, the more traffic you can get. But there are a lot of edge cases to that rule.

And Google doesn’t really care about word count these days as much as they do for user experience.

See, a user doesn’t really care if a blog post is short or long, they just want to be satisfied with what they have just read.

Nonetheless, we looked at the word count to see what the average post length was for a popular post.

What’s interesting is that posts that generated over 5,000 visitors a month on average weren’t that much longer than posts that generated 1,000 visitors.

The biggest difference was they included more popular keywords within their content. They didn’t necessarily rank for each of those terms, but this gives a post more opportunity to potentially rank and be found.

As I mentioned though, there are always exceptions to the rule. For example, there are popular topics like “how to tie a tie” and you don’t really need tons of words to explain how to tie a tie. You more so need images or even video.

Blog posts that are popular are somewhat new

When we looked at every popular blog in our database, we noticed that a lot of sites didn’t include a publish date or an updated date (updated date is used for content that was originally published years ago but was more recently updated).

But for the posts that did contain a date, whether it was the publication date or when the content was updated, we did notice something interesting.

Content that generates 1,000 visitors or more a month on average tends to be 388 days old.

And content that generates less than 1,000 visitors tends to be 593 days old.

This doesn’t mean that Google doesn’t want to rank new, fresh content as in both categories there was fresh, new content that did generate traffic. But a lot of the ranking blog posts were a bit old (but not too old).

Again, keep in mind there are always exceptions to the rule. Going back to the how to tie a tie example, even if that article was 3 years old, it probably would still be relevant as much hasn’t changed when it comes to ties.

But with over 1 billion blogs on the web, it seems like Google prefers newish content over outdated content.

If you have older content, don’t worry, you can always update it to ensure that it continually gets more traffic.

The way you would do this is by following these steps:

It’s so effective that I have a team of people who just update my old content.

Conclusion

Whether you like it or not, if you are going to write content you should do keyword research first.

Picking the right keywords versus the wrong ones can mean that your content doesn’t get traffic or gets thousands of visitors a month.

Now of course there are other elements to your SEO like links and on-page SEO, but for this analysis, we wanted to focus on the characteristics (ones that you can easily control) that make a popular post.

Out of curiosity, do you do keyword research before you write content?

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