Nathan Wahl

Nathan Wahl

Recent articles

How to Write Blog Posts That Readers Care About in the Age of AI
Writing

How to Write Blog Posts That Readers Care About in the Age...

Writing well is a superpower. Great writers are great thinkers, capable of using the written word to impose structure on nebulous ideas and simplify the complex. They're persuasive, able to...
Nathan Wahl 13 min read
12/01/25
Information Gain: The SEO Theory that AI Made Mandatory
Strategy

Information Gain: The SEO Theory that AI Made Mandatory

In 2022, we wrote about a Google patent application on "information gain," a theory that the search engine would reward content for being different. Add new information to the online...
Nathan Wahl 8 min read
11/13/25
AI Content Strategy: Lessons from the Field
Strategy

AI Content Strategy: Lessons from the Field

In the first version of this piece just two years ago, we wrote that AI marked "the dawn of a new era in content marketing."If that was the dawn, we're well into the morning now. The...
Nathan Wahl , KT Malicke 9 min read
10/22/25
Break Through Bureaucracy: 10 Lessons from Enterprise Content Marketing Leaders
Strategy

Break Through Bureaucracy: 10 Lessons from Enterprise...

Enterprise content marketing teams often have a speed problem. Legal review cycles take weeks. Brand guidelines require 12 stakeholders to approve a single asset. Quarterly planning fossilizes your...
Nathan Wahl 12 min read
10/15/25
17 Techniques That Get You Cited in Answer Engines
Strategy

17 Techniques That Get You Cited in Answer Engines

AI overviews are the new golden tickets for visibility. But to get cited, you’ll need to know how to write for AI. Think of it as extending your style guide so your content works not just for...
Nathan Wahl 13 min read
10/01/25
The Burden of Quality: When High Standards Drag You Down
Strategy

The Burden of Quality: When High Standards Drag You Down

Ask any content marketer to define "high quality" and you'll get the same answer: well-researched, expertly written, professionally designed, thoroughly edited. But if you look at...
Nathan Wahl 9 min read
09/18/25