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How to use GPT-4 for SEO Content creation?

GPT4 dropped last week and after its amazing product announcement, we know it will change the world even more. But how useful is it for streamlining content ops? Now that using AI is no longer subject to blanket bans, since On 8th February, Google announced on its Search Central blog that it’s going to be “rewarding high quality content, however it’s produced“. Still, I’m not planning to use GPT-4 for writing entire posts – its outputs often lack nuance, organization, and depth. But there are some useful ways how I’m planning to use it. Wanna get the exclusive programmaticSEO Templates included in this post, access to a content ops community and much more? Join my Content Operations Patreon membership!  1. […]

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Must-have Content Marketing Tools I Use to Run our Content Ops

I like to run our content ops lean, so the Content Marketing Tools I use are absolutely necessary for operations at our scale (approx. 40 blog posts per month). I’ll mention all the tools we’re using, from research through operations to writing and building links. Tools for Content Strategy/ Keyword Research – Ahrefs Content Gap Analysis, Keyword Cupid First of all – if you want to publish 40 blogs per month, you kinda need to know what you’re going to write about. I wrote about doing keyword research and creating your first content plan before, as well as creating content hierarchy – so I will just recap it in a nutshell here and focus on the tools. If you want […]

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Brighton SEO 2021 – Key Takeaways + Best Talks

Brighton SEO 2021 (the live September edition) was my first time at the iconic conference and at the same time my first in-person event after the pandemic. To be perfectly honest – after the first day, I was a little disappointed. I expected the talks to be more advanced and inspiring, and I expected to meet more people from the B2B SaaS SEO/Content Marketing/ link-building space. I also expected more well-known speakers – SEOs and CMOs from successful startups.  Instead, the majority of both speakers and participants seemed to hail from the agency side. A number of talks seemed biased and auto-promotional. But still – I managed to: glean some good insights from a few talks – on link building […]

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How to do Old Content Updates and prevent Content Decay in Your SaaS?

Content Decay can derail your content strategy. And regular Content Updates are the only way to address it. This is what we found out at Userpiolt. By June 2021, I thought we nailed it. We’ve been able to publish around 40 blog posts per month consistently. We’ve hit our content velocity target! To my dismay though – the traffic not only didn’t follow our publishing velocity. It actually…declined. I felt equally terrified and embarrassed. What happened?! We looked at Google Analytics, Search Console, and run to our mentor. He came back with grim news: some of your old, best-performing content has decayed. This meant it actually lost its former position in SERPs, in one particular case dropping from #3 on […]

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Your content strategy is not working? Maybe your expectations are completely unrealistic

“We want to get to 50,000 monthly visitors by the end of the year!” “We want to 10 x our traffic in 6 months!” I hear such emphatic exclamations all the time. Problem is – they are rarely followed by a rational investment of resources, outputs, effort, and a content plan with a potential proportional to the ambitious goals. Setting such goals and not creating any actionable plans that would give you a chance to accomplish them is setting yourself up for failure. Worse still – if you’re the boss, you can set unrealistic expectations of your employees or team members, scare them, make them feel like failures and lead them to burn out and quitting. And that’s the last […]

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Scaling Content Operations – The Most Difficult Piece of The Puzzle

How to scale content operations? I’ve heard this question over and over, asked both by agency owners and in-house content managers. Scaling content ops is notoriously difficult because there are so many moving parts, and it’s so hard to create standardized operating procedures for such a creative task as writing. I had the same problem when we decided to up our ante with content creation and publish 32 blog posts per month. Initially, I thought hiring 2-3 full-time content writers would solve the problem – as we were publishing really niche content that required specialized knowledge and hours of training – but it didn’t. The content writers were burning out double time and we were nowhere near hitting the target […]

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How to measure content marketing ROI – metrics + Google Data Studio Dashboards

Most SaaS companies I know use content marketing as part of their acquisition strategy. But few really consistently measure their content marketing ROI. Be honest with yourself and think if you know the answer to the following questions: Is your content plan is working? Is the organic traffic generated by your blog content really resulting in any conversions? Are some types of posts performing better than others? Do you have clear “winner” posts that are doing most of the “heavy lifting” in terms of driving conversions? Which of your content clusters is driving most traffic, engagement and conversions? Which of your content writers are performing best in terms of: a) how long people stay on their pages Are people really […]

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Content Update ROI – How to Measure it with Google Data Studio?

Updating old content is all the rage in content marketing. But do you track and measure your content update ROI? I know a lot of SaaS businesses are not measuring the ROI from their content updates because it’s too tedious to dig the data up for each post. But there’s an easier way to do it. And it’s completely free. I’ve created some pivot tables with GA and GSC in Google Data Studio. Ever since my mentor John Leo Weber showed me the cool things one can do in Google Data Studio, I’ve been obsessed with it. 😅 But first, let’s see what content ROI metrics you should measure at all. Content update ROI metrics What should you measure when it […]

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Exact Match Subfolders vs. Exact Match Domains – a Small SEO Hack that Can help you Rank Faster?

Exact match domains (EMDs – e.g. www.bestplumberisleofdogs.com, www.dogsittingshoreditch.co.uk) used to be a popular SEO hack that was abused by SEOs to the point it was contained by Google update from 2012. But “exact matches” still have a place in the SEO/content game – but not as exact match domains or achors. Meet Exact Match Subfolders – a method of organizing your content hierarchy in a way that helps Google understand your content-topic relevance and helps you rank faster, without exact match domains. What are Exact Match Subfolders? Exact match subfolders are subfolders on your domain that match the keyword you want to rank for. They are a perfect “home” for your topical pillar pages – which can live on their […]

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What is the ‘language of benefits’ and why does it matter for your website?

All ends are beginnings – as they say – and it proved to be true for me too. Exactly 2 weeks ago I changed my relationship status, and as a result moved countries again. But there were hidden perks – I ended up moving into a kickass coworking space with amazing people and opportunities, one of which was to give a live webinar on content marketing in front of 21,000 people last Monday 😊 After the training (and also before 😉) a lot of people reached out to me with questions about how to embrace content marketing in their business. I tried to answer all the questions, I looked through quite a few different websites and … something caught my […]

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