Jimmy Daly
Recent articles
Strategy
Content Refresh Strategy: How to Update Old Content for SEO...
Every piece of content follows the same arc: it spikes, grows, plateaus, and eventually decays. Most content teams know this. Fewer act on it. And almost none account for the second decay curve...
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14 min read
11/30/20
Strategy
Your Blog Is Not a Publication (But It's Not Just a Library...
A few years back, I mentioned to John Collins, then content director at Intercom, how much Animalz customers admired their blog — they published high-quality thought leadership week after week....
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6 min read
01/28/26
Strategy
Your Blog Is Not a Publication
Editor’s note: We’ve published a 2024 update of this classic post based on a recent Q&A with Jimmy Daly. In it, Jimmy shares his evolved insights on the library vs. publication framework and...
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8 min read
10/23/18
Strategy
How to Run an Enterprise Content Marketing Operation...
Content marketing at small companies is like riding a bike — you jump on and start pedaling. If you pedal long and hard enough, you’ll eventually get where you need to be. Content at large...
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18 min read
05/03/24
Strategy
Technical SEO for Content Marketers
Technical SEO is something that content marketers don’t fully understand. And Kevin Indig, SEO lead at Atlassian, has some strong opinions—and plenty of advice—about how marketing teams can...
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9 min read
03/26/18
Strategy
How to Create or Refine a Content Marketing Strategy
Content marketing has become very popular in the last decade. But for all that growth, there seems to be more noise and lower quality than ever. We’re seeing an influx of spending and a massive...
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23 min read
04/05/24
Podcasts
Movement-First Content | Episode 2
In our second episode, Jan and I talk about movement-first content. It’s a strategy for earning credibility when you’re just getting started, and it’s a way to humanize large brands.You can listen...
Content Pruning | Episode 1
Welcome to the first ever Animalz podcast!In this episode, Jan-Erik Asplund and I chat about our interview with the QuickBooks SEO team. They deleted 2,000 blog posts and nearly doubled traffic to...