Friday, August 21Digital Marketing Journals

Tag: Blogs

Are blogs dead? I asked 10 marketing experts
7Jun By mbretous@hubspot.com (Martina Bretous)No Comments
Blogging, Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing Agency, digital mkt, email outreach, Internet marketing, Online Marketing

Are blogs dead? I asked 10 marketing experts

Every few years, a new channel takes center stage — short-form video, podcasting, or AI-generated content — and people start asking the same question: “Are blogs dead?” It's a fair question. After all, platforms evolve and audience habits shift. But the idea that blogs are irrelevant today? That’s a myth I was eager to investigate. To get a clear answer, I turned to marketers across SEO, content, and digital strategy to find out whether blogging is still worth the investment. Here's what they said. Table of Contents Are blogs dead? According to marketers, not even close. Blogs aren’t just alive — they’re evolving. According to HubSpot’s 2025 State of Blogging report, half of marketers say they saw better ROI from blogging in 2024 than the year before. And nearly half plan to invest ev...
Read More
19 Best fonts for blogs: How to create eye-catching, readable content
27Jan By Phil NorrisNo Comments
Digital Marketing, digital mkt, Internet marketing, Learn, Online Marketing

19 Best fonts for blogs: How to create eye-catching, readable content

By Phil Norris January 25, 2024 Online audiences have short attention spans, so it’s vital you make it easy for them to consume and retain the most content in the shortest possible time. That’s why it pays to nail your choice of blog fonts.Your chosen font should be stylish and align with your branding, while also being easy and enjoyable to read. In this article, we’ll explain the importance of fonts, discuss key considerations for choosing the right font, and round up the 19 best fonts for blogs (plus which size to use).  And, as an added bonus, we’ll analyze the fonts used by some of the world’s top blogs. Let’s get into it… Why fonts for blogs matter Fonts play a key role in the readability of your blog posts. One study found that adjusting font style an...
Read More
The Most Popular Local Search Blogs
9Mar By Nyagoslav ZhekovNo Comments
googe optimize, google optimization, google seo, Local SEO, search engine optimisation, search engine optimising, search engine optimization, SEO

The Most Popular Local Search Blogs

As mentioned above, one of Mike Blumenthal’s posts – “Google Testing (Or Rolling Out?) New 3-Pack Carousel” – was broadly shared and gained a large number of links. This article is the most linked-to local SEO article, even after we do adjustments for some domains sending unusually high numbers of links. Overall, the list is dominated by Moz (Local) with most posts written by Miriam Ellis, and by Sterling Sky (written mostly by Joy Hawkins and Colan Nielsen). Of the top 30 posts, only 7 were not published on either of these two blogs. After Mike’s article, the most linked-to non-Moz and non-Sterling-Sky article was Whitespark’s “2020 Local Search Ranking Factors Presentation” (written by Darren Shaw) which ranked 19th, followed by GatherUp’s “Do Consumers Support Businesses Requiring Masks...
Read More