Nathan Wahl
Recent articles
The Blog
The SEO and AEO KPIs You Need to Track Your Organic Growth...
Most SaaS content teams still measure organic growth with the same five metrics they used in 2022. Meanwhile, AI search engines have created an entirely new discovery channel that those metrics...
Nathan Wahl
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27 min read
04/05/25
Strategy
20 Techniques That Get You Cited in Answer Engines
The fastest path to AI citations: structure your content so answer engines can extract it without rewriting. Build atomic answers that stand alone, front-load your conclusions (BLUF every section),...
Nathan Wahl
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24 min read
10/01/25
Strategy
AI Content Strategy: A Guide to the New Era of Content...
Three years ago, we wrote that AI marked "the dawn of a new era in content marketing." That dawn is over. Everyone knows AI is here; the question is what to do with it. Or, as our...
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Tim Metz
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19 min read
05/15/23
Writing
The 7 Most Common Blog Content Archetypes (and Exactly What...
The advice in this post will feel obvious. But I wouldn't be publishing it if I didn't think the content world needed to hear it.I review hundreds of SEO articles every year, and I see...
Nathan Wahl
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11 min read
03/12/26
Writing
The Content Writing Guide: How to Write Blog Posts That...
If you want people to read your content (so you can convince them to buy your product or service) you need to know how to make people want to read it. You need to be a great writer.To be a great...
Nathan Wahl
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13 min read
07/05/21
Strategy
17 Flagship Frameworks From 10 Years of Animalz Content
Animalz just turned 10. In that time, we’ve built content strategies for hundreds of B2B SaaS companies at every stage — from pre-seed startups to public companies. Our content has helped companies...
Nathan Wahl
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13 min read
06/12/25
Refreshed articles
Writing
Persuasive Writing In Three Steps: Thesis, Antithesis,...
Originally written by Ryan Law in 2021. Revised in 2026.Thought leadership content has one job: to persuade readers that your ideas, processes, or products are better than the alternatives. But...
Ryan Law
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7 min read
04/14/21
Writing
BLUF: The Military Standard That Can Make Your Writing More...
Originally written by Jan-Erik Asplund in 2019. Revised in 2026.BLUF is a military communications acronym that stands for "bottom line up front." It's a practice wherein you put the...
Jan-Erik Asplund
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9 min read
09/09/19
Writing
MECE: The Principle That Helps You Think and Write Like a...
Originally written by Ryan Law in 2020. Revised by Nathan Wahl in 2025.MECE stands for Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive and is a principle for grouping information into categories that...
Ryan Law
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7 min read
06/29/20
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...
Ryan Law
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8 min read
06/28/22
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