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.

2. Source: blog-growth.com
94% increase in views
for articles containing
relevant images than
articles with no images.

3. Source: blog-growth.com
List posts get 200% more links than normal posts.

4. Videos get 267% more
links than normal posts.
Source: blog-growth.com/Digital Buzz Blog/http://goo.gl/5olO12

5. 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.

6. Source: blog-growth.com // http://goo.gl/TkO5Wk
List posts with images get 333%
more links than normal posts.

7. List posts with images and videos get
567% more links than normal posts.
Source: blog-growth.com // http://goo.gl/zfYhKK

8. Blog posts with more images also attract more backlinks.
Source: socialmarketingwriting.com // http://goo.gl/PDGcTG

9. 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

10. Blogs get the highest traffic on Monday mornings.
Source: hubspot.com //http://goo.gl/Kfpw45

11. Titles containing 60 characters received
the most social shares.
Source: goo.gl/ZZJo7A // goo.gl/cj1Xxu

12. Blogs that post daily get 5x more traffic
than those that post weekly or less.
Source: socialmarketingwriting.com // http://goo.gl/okmWC9

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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