Ryan Law
Recent articles
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...
Ryan Law
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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...
Ryan Law
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6 min read
11/30/20
Strategy
6 Low Effort, High Impact Content Ideas
We’ve written before that there is often little correlation between the time spent on a piece of content and the results it achieves. Great ideas, simply written, can generate thousands of views....
Ryan Law
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8 min read
11/18/20
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...
Ryan Law
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7 min read
11/09/20
Strategy
Write for the Lurkers
The 1% rule is the idea that only 1% of participants in an online community actively contribute content, while 99% quietly consume. The 1% create every new Reddit post, Twitter comment, and...
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5 min read
10/27/20
Podcasts
Ecommerce Content Marketing: Hyper-Competition, Niches, and...
Few industries are more saturated with content marketing than ecommerce.From juggernauts like Shopify and Bigcommerce, to a growing multitude of scrappy startups, every ecommerce company is hungry...
Auditing the Animalz Blog: What Works and What Doesn’t |...
Content audit. Two words to strike fear into the heart of every content marketer.
The Animalz Principles of Quality | Episode 51
As a company whose entire reason for existence is creating the world’s best content marketing, we spend a lot of time thinking about quality.