
Jimmy Daly
Recent articles

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
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7 min read
07/10/18

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
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8 min read
06/26/18

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
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11 min read
06/18/18

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
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10 min read
06/12/18

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
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4 min read
05/29/18

Strategy
Top of Funnel Content Creates All Kinds of Problems—But You...
Top of funnel traffic gets a lot of content marketers into trouble.Before we dive into why, let’s first outline what we mean by top of funnel content. This type of content marketing is meant to...
Jimmy Daly
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5 min read
05/14/18
Podcasts

Library vs. Publication | Episode 7
In our humble opinion, your blog is not a publication.Most SaaS blogs should emphasize quality, attack each topic they cover in-depth, and avoid chasing trends or timely news stories. On this...

Devin Bramhall on Earning a Senior Content Marketing Role |...
Learning to be a great content marketer is one thing. Earning yourself a senior role is another. On this episode of the Animalz podcast, Animalz director of marketing Devin Bramhall (follow her on...

Taking Your Content Upmarket | Episode 6
A lot about your company is going to change when you make the decision to go upmarket and start closing enterprise deals. Your content marketing is no exception.On this episode, we discuss what...