My Failed Attempt at Content Marketing and What I’ve Learned

Did you know that there was a forum on Quick Sprout? Well, there isn’t anymore, but there was one for roughly a year.

Before I get into my reasons for removing the forum, I want to go over the lessons I learned while running it.

If you are considering adding user-generated content as a form of content marketing on your website to increase your traffic, like I was trying to do, here are a few things to keep in mind:

Lesson #1: Google Knows What Pages Contain User-Generated Content

Over the last few months, I’ve continually received messages like this one from Google:

My Failed Attempt at Content Marketing and What I’ve Learned

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Rick Duris is CopyRanger.

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