Blog Better: 12 stats to drive readers to your content

In today’s marketing climate, there’s no getting around it: Content marketing is here to stay. Use your blog to position yourself as an expert in your field by offering the type of fun, insightful, valuable content that readers crave, then kick back and watch as web traffic and sales skyrocket. These 12 quick stats are the catalysts you need to boost your content marketing strategy and power your business.

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Blog Better: 12 stats to drive readers to your content from Moving Targets

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• 1. Source: blog-growth.com 94% increase in views for articles containing relevant images than articles with no images.
• 2. Source: blog-growth.com List posts get 200% more links than normal posts.
• 3. Videos get 267% more links than normal posts. Source: blog-growth.com/Digital Buzz Blog/http://goo.gl/5olO12
• 4. Videos get 267% more links than normal posts. Source: blog-growth.com/Digital Buzz Blog/http://goo.gl/5olO12 The average person watches 182 online videos per month.
• 5. Source: blog-growth.com // http://goo.gl/TkO5Wk List posts with images get 333% more links than normal posts.
• 6. List posts with images and videos get 567% more links than normal posts. Source: blog-growth.com // http://goo.gl/zfYhKK
• 7. Blog posts with more images also attract more backlinks. Source: socialmarketingwriting.com // http://goo.gl/PDGcTG
• 8. Backlinks are one of the building blocks of good SEO. Backlinks are simply the incoming links from any other website or blog. If your website has a huge number quality inbound links from good websites, then there are more chances that your site performs well in search engine results pages. Source: http://goo.gl/W7Aw5N
• 9. Blogs get the highest traffic on Monday mornings. Source: hubspot.com //http://goo.gl/Kfpw45
• 10. Titles containing 60 characters received the most social shares. Source: goo.gl/ZZJo7A // goo.gl/cj1Xxu
• 11. Blogs that post daily get 5x more traffic than those that post weekly or less. Source: socialmarketingwriting.com // http://goo.gl/okmWC9
• 12. Blogs that post daily get 5x more traffic than those that post weekly or less. Source: socialmarketingwriting.com // http://goo.gl/okmWC9 78% of companies that update their blogs daily have acquired a customer from their blog.
• 13. Once a site has over 300 indexed pages, traffic generation increases by 236%. Source: Sigma Web Marketing//impactbnd.com // http://goo.gl/O4PIQe Source: socialmarketingwriting.com
• 14. Once you accumulate 51 posts, blog traffic increases by 53%, goes up by 3x after 100 posts and 4.5x after 200 posts. Source: socialmarketingwriting.com // http://goo.gl/NU0Ovy
• 15. If a post is greater than 1,500 words on average, it receives 68% more tweets and 23% more Facebook likes than a post that is under 1,500 words. Source: blog-growth.com // http://goo.gl/sR1QZm