Discover why listicles are dominating search, AI summaries, and social shares in 2025, and learn the proven steps to create list posts that drive traffic, earn backlinks, and keep readers hooked.
It's one of the golden rules of digital marketing: content is king.
This rule has not faded over time, and in fact with search engines perpetually finding newer and better ways to tackle spam and other low-quality offerings, high-quality content is arguably more important than ever.
That said, the content game has also become more…
With the end of 2023 quickly approaching, it's time to start thinking about year-end maintenance tasks for your website. So many parts of business websites get forgotten or put on auto-pilot, so it's important to comb through your site periodically and make sure that everything is current and working correctly. Here is a checklist to…
Most of our AI for Digital Marketing series has been focused around the tools and skills that you need to navigate through the current AI marketing landscape, but of course AI is constantly evolving. This means that your approach to your marketing strategy also needs to be dynamic, especially when it comes to preparing your…
So far in our AI for Digital Marketing series, we've discussed mainstream tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney, that people are using to help them generate written content and graphics. These two aspects of AI get so much attention that many people don't realise they're just scratching the surface of what AI can do for them.…
In the first part of our AI for Digital Marketing series, we talked about using tools like ChatGPT to help with with creating written content. One of the issues that inevitably comes up with this is poor quality output, either in the form of inaccurate information, or results that sound like a computer wrote them…
AI is undoubtedly the fastest-growing aspect of business marketing in 2023. In this four-part series, we're going to look at some essential factors in your AI marketing strategy, along with potential pitfalls to avoid. The COGO blog was recently selected as one of FeedSpot's 100 Best Small Business Marketing Blogs, so today we're going to…
You've almost certainly already heard the buzz around ChatGPT, and how AI is already starting to transform the landscape of what it means to produce online content. However, there are a lot of misconceptions about what this groundbreaking technology can and cannot do, so as marketers it's important to understand the limitations of ChatGPT as…
Your email list is a powerful lead generation tool, so it makes sense that you would want to do everything you can to get as many signups as possible. However, you also need to consider the value that you're providing to all your website visitors, whether they sign up for your list or not. If…
Starting a blog for your business website is a great way to establish yourself as an expert in your field, keep your site full of fresh content, and help improve your ranking with search engines. If creating a blog was one of your business goals for 2020 but you still haven't built up any momentum, here are ten interesting topic categories that will help bring traffic to your site and keep readers engaged.
One of the reasons so many independent brands have trouble keeping up an engaging blog is because they don't understand exactly what role their blog should play in their overall marketing strategy. If your blog is underperforming or you think it's boring to read, here are a few ways to supercharge it and start bringing in the traffic that will lead to more sales.
There's a lot of chatter in marketing circles about blogging making a comeback, but the truth is it never went away in the first place. Having a blog with great content that establishes you as an industry expert has always been an integral part of any strong digital marketing strategy, and here are ten questions that will help you build the kind of blog that will really help boost your reach.