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What Is Long-Form Content and Why Does It Work?

What Is Long-Form Content and Why Does It Work? | Curation Revolution | Scoop.it
Ask two content marketers about long-form content and you’ll likely get two completely different responses. The first might say that long-form content is a gamble, given audiences’ supposedly min…
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Storify Long Form Content To Win
Great post explaining why SHORT or LONG form content works and the middle drags. Amazing charts and graphs supporting why long form works ins a heuristic TIME ON SITE time (like this one). If your readers are ENGAGED they are more valuable than if they are "one and done" and long form content creates more engagement.

The post speculates on why, but my theory is its easier to tell a better story. It takes me 500 words just to get my scene set (lol). I'm kidding, but I do like to "storify" my content.

In this context "storify" means to find a larger story I can riff INTO the post or share a personal but relevant story that provides the same kind of "backbone" content.

malek's curator insight, May 12, 2014 5:04 PM

A great piece of reading about adding more value with more content.  The examples are highly illustrative, turning a dry rock into live rock.

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Amazon's Social Rebirth ScentTrail Marketing

Amazon's Social Rebirth ScentTrail Marketing | Curation Revolution | Scoop.it

Amazon's New Social Relevance
Amazon was late to social media and they paid a price for being tardy. Almost 90% of Amazon's pages have been eliminated from Google's index post Panda and Penguin.

Granted we would all like to be left so "high and dry" since Amazon still has 127M pages in Google, but, as this linked post describes, Amazon is embracing social media marketing now with new tools such as Amazon collections and a social share widget that is approaching ubiquity.

If Amazon can learn new social shopping tricks so too can your website. The key idea is even a website that was slouching toward having a billion pages in Google must play for social relevance now as so should we all.  


Related

Amazon's Collections on Scoopit
http://sco.lt/7eE6Tp 


Amazon's Social Rebirth on ScentTrail Marketing
http://scenttrail.blogspot.com/2013/08/amazons-social-rebirth.html  

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