Hey Everyone,
Hope you're having a great week. Here are a few things I've been reading, writing and pondering lately. Enjoy!
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Ahrefs Tip 1 of 4
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1. Animalz Launched a Free Tool to Find Content Decay
Earlier this week, we launched a tool called Revive. It’s a free tool that plugs into your Google Analytics and finds content decay.
Why should you care about content decay? Most sites we look at are losing a lot of traffic to the slow, gradual decline of organic traffic. It’s replaced by traffic to new content, but that means you’re always working two steps forward, one step back.
Revive will tell exactly which posts are decaying so that you can refresh them and earn that traffic back. You can try it out here.
2. 50 Big Companies that Started with Little or No Money
I’m a sucker for posts like this and always draw little inspiration from them.
3. Here are few cool job openings:
- Marketing Director @ Sapphire Ventures (SF)
- Head of Marketing @ Qwilr (remote or Sydney)
- Senior Content Manager @ Vero (remote)
- Content Marketing Editor @ Animalz (remote)
5. Random Links
- Thanks very much to the Inbound Success podcast and the My Wife Quit Her Job podcast for having me on.
- This is a great story: The World’s Fastest (Old) Man
- The Brandwagon interview series from Wistia looks very cool.
- For those of us that have A/B tested something with like 50 inputs: A Data-Driven Marketers’ Guide to Calculating Statistical Significance
Have a great weekend!
Jimmy
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