Ryan Law
Recent articles
Strategy
How to Get Competitors Speaking Your Language
In 2014, I read an article that has remained lodged in my brain ever since.Competition was growing in content marketing, the author argued, and declining ROI was an inevitable consequence. An...
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4 min read
02/03/21
Strategy
How to Go Viral: A Content Marketer’s Guide
Over the years, we’ve watched an elite club of articles generate hundreds of backlinks and rack up hundreds of thousands of views. These are the articles that went viral, circulating through...
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9 min read
01/28/21
Strategy
The ‘Google Knows Best’ Fallacy
The way most companies approach content marketing is predicated on the unspoken idea that Google knows best.For any keyword, they search through results page after results page to work out what...
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6 min read
01/21/21
Strategy
Deep Cuts and Smash Hits: The Best of Animalz in 2020
There’s a lot to be learned from a year of content marketing. High traffic articles provide a blueprint for future content. Real-world feedback from readers shines a light on the articles that...
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8 min read
12/14/20
Strategy
No, You Shouldn’t Always Focus on the Bottom of the Funnel
I’m a big believer that the difference between “writing” and “content marketing” is revenue. Content marketing is writing that serves a business objective. It exists to make sales easier.But that...
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6 min read
11/30/20
Data
4 Realistic Traffic Goals for Small(ish) Blogs
Big, established blogs have multiple years of performance data. Smaller, newer blogs do not. It can feel like you’re operating in a vacuum. It’s hard to come up with reasonable answers to questions...
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7 min read
11/09/20
Podcasts
Content Marketing Benchmark Report | Episode 58
In this webinar recorded for Superpath, Ryan and Andrew talk Jimmy Daly through Animalz’s first annual Content Marketing Benchmark Report.They explore six key findings from the data; cover the...
Content Q&A #1 | Episode 55
In today’s special episode of the Animalz podcast, you have questions, and we have answers.I enlisted Animalz CEO Devin Bramhall to help me answer some of the hardest content marketing questions...
GPT-3: The Good, the Bad, the Mind-Blowing | Episode 54
In today’s episode of the Animalz podcast, I enlist Animalz Head of R&D, Andrew Tate, to talk through the good, the bad, and the downright mind-blowing aspects of GPT-3, the uncannily powerful...