David Arkin Consulting Blog


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May 31, 2024
AI overviews: How to have your content show up in Google’s new search results pages
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May 31, 2024
How Facebook Groups became incredibly useful during a Texas tornado
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May 22, 2024
A publisher’s guide to an effective YouTube strategy
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May 10, 2024
HTML headings: How to use H1s-H5s and why they are so important for SEO
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May 3, 2024
Social media strategies that put less focus on links and more on storytelling, engagement and video
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May 2, 2024
3 ways to ensure that your readers can easily contact you
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May 2, 2024
Here’s how news organizations can write shorter and tighter stories
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May 2, 2024
How you can use alternative story formats in your branded content
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May 2, 2024
Here are successful ways to summarize stories for a publisher’s newsletter
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May 1, 2024
What NYPA attendees said about David Arkin’s branded content and audience growth sessions
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April 30, 2024
Social media, digital audience growth expert Emilie Lutostanski joins David Arkin Consulting
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April 18, 2024
How to use data to extend a story’s life
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April 12, 2024
Download these 5 Canva templates media companies can use for social media engagement
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April 11, 2024
3 ways you can work with David Arkin Consulting
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April 8, 2024
How to make branded content successful for your writers
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April 8, 2024
Why asking readers to share content with you is such a good idea
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April 8, 2024
Why these 4 branded content campaigns worked
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April 8, 2024
How a ‘what if’ approach grew a publisher’s real estate content
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SEO best practices
April 5, 2024
Why AI, SEO and social media paid acquisition are so critical right now
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April 4, 2024
These are the best social media scheduling tools
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March 28, 2024
Money-making branded content ideas media companies can capitalize on
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March 21, 2024
Planing a trip to Baltimore was too hard. Here’s how better SEO content could have helped.
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March 15, 2024
8 tips on writing great email subject lines
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March 9, 2024
Why publishers should have Reader Advisory Boards
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March 8, 2024
4 AI efficient tools graphic designers can use
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