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Service 04 · Project + quarterly refresh

Content Strategy: an SEO content strategy built from data

Content Strategy is a data-led engagement that tells your content team what to build next quarter, what to update and what to cut, and how each piece earns rankings, pipeline or AI citations.

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The problem

Content teams rarely lack output. They lack a reason.

Without a defensible answer to “why are we writing this”, publishing volume neither ranks, converts, nor gets cited by AI models. This engagement redirects your existing production capacity. It does not replace it.

Signs you need this

  • You publish every week, but organic traffic and leads don't grow with it.
  • Several pages compete for the same queries.
  • Nobody can say which content AI assistants actually cite.
The approach

Built from data, not brainstorms

I build the strategy from four sources, so every recommendation can be traced to demand, competition or citation data.

Where this sits in the Organic Value Chain

Content Strategy works on the first two links: Research (demand, entities, prompts) and Build (what gets written, updated and cut). Get those right and the downstream links have something worth retrieving and citing.

How the method works →
  • Infrastructure
  • Capability
  • Technology
  • Sourcing
  • Research
  • Build
  • Retrieval
  • Conversion
  • Defence
  • ROI

Dark: main focus

What you get

A roadmap your writers can start on

  1. Topical map

    Your category built from search and embedding data.

  2. Content audit

    Assets worth updating separated from dead weight.

  3. Editorial roadmap

    Next quarter's content, specified to brief level.

  4. Success metrics per cluster

    How each content cluster should contribute to rankings, pipeline or AI visibility.

Optional quarterly roadmap refreshes keep the plan current.

How it works

  1. 01 · Weeks 1–2

    Data and inventory

    Search demand, existing content, competitor content and AI citation data.

  2. 02 · Weeks 2–3

    Topical map and audit

    The map of your category and a keep, update or cut decision for every asset.

  3. 03 · Weeks 3–5

    Roadmap

    Next quarter's priorities, specified to brief level, with metrics per cluster.

  4. 04 · Week 6

    Handover

    A working session with your content team or agency.

A good fit if

You have an in-house content team or agency that produces consistently but grows inconsistently.

Probably not yet if

You have no one to produce content. The strategy redirects capacity; it doesn't create it.

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FAQs

Questions, answered

Do you write the content?

No. I define what to write and why, down to brief level. Your team or agency writes it.

How do you decide what to cut?

Every asset is judged on traffic, links, conversions and overlap with other pages. Cut content is redirected or merged, not just deleted.

Does this cover AI search?

Yes. AI citation patterns are one of the four inputs, and every cluster has an AI visibility metric where it matters.

How often should the roadmap be refreshed?

Quarterly works for most teams. That's what the optional refresh covers.

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Want every piece of content to earn its place?

Send a short note about your content team and goals. I reply within one business day.

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