Buzzfeed has a massive opportunity in search and SEO but they’re not taking advantage of it. They have the content. They have the topics. They have the expertise/authority. But they haven’t stitched it together very well from an SEO perspective. And! I believe organic SEO could *still* be a major driver for them. They’ve essentially…
My newsletter subscribers got this first! Sign up here for free. Okay, this post is inspired by John Bonini’s recent LinkedIn post. He talks about evaluating writers, which I’m not as interested in. I’m mostly interested in this: “The best writers are reporters, folks. Start screening for it.” That’s a good jumping off point, because the conversation…
Reset your expectations about what your content should do. You need: More leads from search. And social. And email. You’ll take any lead from anywhere. I know that desperation mode. How do you find the way out? Spray and Pray: Please Let This Be The One When you’re that scattered, you’re hoping that anything and…
If you’re in content marketing, you must be familiar with Hubspot. They basically defined “inbound marketing” in the 2010s. They relentlessly beat the drum about awareness, consideration, and decision content. The playbook was this: the “writer” on the marketing team would go through Hubspot Academy to learn how to write content to address different parts…
One thing I’ve been incorporating more into my briefs are questions. Turning to the People Also Ask (PAA) questions within Google can give you a great headstart on creating your briefs and more insights into what people are searching for. You are probably familiar with PAA questions even if they don’t show up on all…
Someone the other day mentioned to me how a group of people sat in a room and came up with blog posts for each quarter. Whatever sounded good, they would do. Almost every day I hear about companies who do this. I get that impulse. It’s fun. Freewheeling. If you know your audience, your industry,…
