
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

We launched a free tool! | Episode 20
We are really excited to announce that we’ve launched our first-ever software tool, Revive. It’s a free content refresh tool that looks at your Google Analytics and finds content decay. Andrew and...

Using Content Lanes to Flesh Out Your Strategy | Episode 19
Jimmy and Jan discuss different types of content lanes—tracks that you can use to produce regular content for your blog—and what makes each one, from teardown to use-case content, effective and...

The Secret to Content Promotion | Episode 18
Ryan Law joins us to talk about his recent post on the blog and the idea of distribution-first content marketing. We walk through three distinct examples of successful blog posts, from three...