- Should You Target an SEO Keyword with a Blog Post or Landing Page? Our Thoughts The topic of whether you should create a landing page or a blog post to go after SEO keywords has come up a lot over the last 4 years of running our agency. Typically, it comes up when we’re discussing going after a bottom-of-funnel SEO keyword with a blog post. For example, a software category keyword […] Cameron Brown February 18, 2022
- How to Create a SaaS Content Strategy That Drives Product Signups Most SaaS content strategies focus on top of funnel topics and generating what we call “content conversions” (e.g. email signups, ebook downloads, white paper downloads, etc.), which, notably, is not the same as a product conversion (trial start, demo request, etc.). This is true of strategies used by in-house content marketers as well as agencies and other third […] Cameron Brown February 2, 2022
- Most Companies Measure Content Marketing ROI Incorrectly. Here’s Why (and How to Fix It). Whether you’re doing content marketing in-house or as an outside consultant, you’re inevitably going to have executives (or whoever’s in charge) ask you, “What’s our ROI from content?” Or, if you’re just beginning your content marketing efforts, “What can we expect our ROI from content to be?” Over the last 5 years of doing content […] Cameron Brown January 17, 2022
- Content Marketing Attribution: How to Measure Content Performance Many companies write for the wrong audience without knowing it. We share our process for doing customer research to hone in on who to write for. Devesh Khanal January 13, 2022
- 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 […] Cameron Brown January 3, 2022
- How Long Does It Take to Rank on the First Page of Google? In 2019, we wrote an article to answer the question: How long does it take for content marketing to work? In it, we showed traffic and conversion data from three different clients. The goal was to answer that question by studying a few examples (since there are no hard and fast answers to a question like […] Devesh Khanal December 13, 2021
- 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 […] Benji Hyam May 4, 2021
- 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 […] Devesh Khanal April 1, 2021
- 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 […] Brandon Leuangpaseuth December 7, 2020
- SaaS Content Marketing: Why You Should Focus on Bottom of the Funnel First to Drive Signups If you talk to content marketers at SaaS companies (both in-house and other agencies), almost everyone will tell you that you need to focus on top of the funnel content first. Why? Because most marketers assume everyone starts at the top of the funnel and slowly makes their way down the funnel via nurturing and more content. The […] Benji Hyam September 14, 2020