- SEO Content Writing: A 5-Step Process You Can Follow A lot of companies and marketers we talk to ask us how to hire writers or improve their “SEO writing” or content writing. Many of them aren’t in a position to work with us as an agency client, so they’re trying to improve their writing processes themselves. While we’ve written a lot about hiring writers (albeit […]
- How Long Does It Take to Rank on the First Page of Google? This post is a comprehensive, data driven analysis answering how long it takes for content marketing to work using real results from a variety of clients.
- Scaling SEO traffic from 920 to 14,577 Sessions in 6 months: Circuit Case Study Over the last year, we’ve worked with some companies that have younger domains, and we’ve come up against some challenges that we hadn’t had before with previous clients. Specifically: It’s taken longer to get blog posts ranking anywhere on the first 10 pages of Google (we normally see rankings within the first few months) As […]
- Why Fully Outsourcing Blog Writing to Freelance Writers is Flawed In our sales calls with many companies and on Twitter, we’ve heard a common complaint that it’s hard to find high quality blog writers. I have been trying to hire a content person for months now. 100s of applicants. All suck. People have portfolios with lame ass mediocre articles. Is it that the average writer just […]
- Grow and Convert Course Review: How I Grew Keeper Tax’s Pageviews By 400% In 3.5 Months Note from Devesh: Brandon is a member of our content marketing course (and community). He applied the process we teach to one of his clients, showed up to our monthly Live Q&As, shared his plans, got our feedback, applied it, and got amazing results. So we asked him to write about them in this post. Enjoy and […]
- Bottom-up Content Strategy: Why You Should Focus on Bottom of the Funnel First If you're a SaaS company looking to drive signups from content marketing, here's why you should focus on bottom of the funnel first.
- B2C Content Marketing Example: How We Grew Cognitive FX to 70,000 Pageviews in 14 Months (Updated) When Cognitive FX (a concussion treatment center based in Provo, Utah) reached out to us in early 2019 to do their content marketing, we were unsure if we’d be able to help them. There were a number of reasons why we thought that they might not be a good fit for us or our process: They […]
- Scaling a Digital Agency: The Tactics CPC Strategy Used to Grow During an Economic Downturn For most people, scaling a digital agency in the late 2000s was a fool’s errand. Due to the Great Recession, the economy had tanked and the future looked bleak. But for Nii Ahene and his partners, 2007 turned out to be a perfect time. Nii was in the midst of a promising new career with […]
- Content Marketing Case Study: How We Scaled Leadfeeder’s Signups to Over 200/month We share how shifting strategies from top of funnel stories to pain-point SEO helped Leadfeeder scale to over 220 trial signups/month.
- Does Content Marketing Make Sense for Early Stage Companies? Our Thoughts. We often get asked the question, “When doesn’t content marketing work for your clients?” Devesh and I have been thinking about this question a lot lately and having looked back through all of the clients that were challenging to work with (or didn’t lead to successful outcomes), the common theme is that they’re always early stage […]
