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Grading competitive content performance: A quantitative scorecard for website publishers

Grading competitive content performance: A quantitative scorecard for website publishers

To evaluate competitors' content strategies and success, I've developed a four-point competitive scorecard that provides clients with just enough data to understand how owned organic content performance compares to similar sites.

Moving the target: Netflix's newest content engagement KPI counts the hours we spent instead of unique eyeballs

Moving the target: Netflix's newest content engagement KPI counts the hours we spent instead of unique eyeballs

Measuring for eyeballs is for chumps. Especially if you care about content.

How do keyword research tools generate their data?

How do keyword research tools generate their data?

How do Google's keyword planner and other keyword research tools generate their data? Here's what I've learned in the past decade of SEO research.

Content pillars: The next evolution of impactful branded content strategy

Content pillars: The next evolution of impactful branded content strategy

If you're looking to build audience, brand and a better case for digital content, you may want to adopt a strategy based on content pillars.

Internet business writing tips #3: Insight vs. observation and other troublesome word pairs

Internet business writing tips #3: Insight vs. observation and other troublesome word pairs

What's the difference between an anomaly and an outlier? How do you best leverage the word "leverage"? Check out these troublesome business writing word pairs.

Internet business writing tip #1: "This is" weak prose

Internet business writing tip #1: "This is" weak prose

Why "this is" is uninspired writing, despite its popularity in the newsletterverse.

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