How QuickBooks Nearly Doubled Traffic by Deleting Half Its Content Here's a bold SEO move. Will Waggoner, SEO lead at QuickBooks, decided to delete 2,000 blog posts to fight off... read more
How Google Analytics Kills Great Blogs If you remember the Animalz blog for just one thing, let it be this: The oversimplification of content marketing is... read more
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.... read more
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... read more
How to Grow a Blog the Hard Way “I think it would be quite disingenuous if I sat down and started writing an article about the future of... read more
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... read more
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.... read more
Top of Funnel Content Creates All Kinds of Problems—But You Should Create It Anyway Top of funnel traffic gets a lot of content marketers into trouble. Before we dive into why, let’s first outline... read more
In 1989, the Wells Fargo CEO Dispensed Some Timeless Content Marketing Advice Faced with bank deregulation and increased competition in the 1980s, former Wells Fargo CEO Carl Reichardt understood that cutting costs... read more
