Jimmy Daly

Jimmy Daly

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How Google Analytics Kills Great Blogs
Strategy

How Google Analytics Kills Great Blogs

If you remember the Animalz blog for just one thing, let it be this: The oversimplification of content marketing is a drag on the entire industry. A nuanced understanding of content marketing...
Jimmy Daly 9 min read
07/16/18
Why Organic Search Traffic Declines—and What to Do About It
Strategy

Why Organic Search Traffic Declines—and What to Do About It

It’s really difficult to gain traction in organic search, which is why it’s painfully frustrating to watch it slip away.When traffic is trending up, it can feel like you’ve finally cracked organic...
Jimmy Daly 7 min read
07/10/18
What is “Good Content”?
Strategy

What is “Good Content”?

No one disagrees that you need “good content” to grow a blog, but there’s plenty of disagreement on what “good content” actually means.Let’s start here: Good writing is simply not enough. There’s a...
Jimmy Daly 8 min read
06/26/18
How to Grow a Blog the Hard Way
StrategyWriting

How to Grow a Blog the Hard Way

[CDATA[<em]]“I think it would be quite disingenuous if I sat down and started writing an article about the future of design. I could write it, but I’d likely miss the subtleties and nuance a...
Jimmy Daly 11 min read
06/18/18
How to Ride a Wave of Growth, or Revel in Its Crash
Strategy

How to Ride a Wave of Growth, or Revel in Its Crash

For all the talk of creating great content, there’s a significant and often unspoken factor at work in every successful blog: timing.Riding a trend is one thing, but it’s an oversimplified way of...
Jimmy Daly 10 min read
06/12/18
How to Evolve Beyond “Actionable Content”
Strategy

How to Evolve Beyond “Actionable Content”

The problem with “actionable content” is that it’s a commodity.It often requires little subject matter expertise and lacks specificity. Actionable content is not a substitute for a cohesive content...
Jimmy Daly 4 min read
05/29/18

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