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
Core Content Marketing Concepts There are a handful of core concepts that we address on the Animalz blog over and over again. There’s good... read more
Content Strategy for Multi-Product Companies How do you build a content strategy for a business with more than one product? A content marketing strategy should be built... read more
