Find high-volume keywords to target, spend a bunch of time writing high-quality blogs and voila: more traffic, conversions, and pipeline. This playbook used to work but it doesn't work nearly as well anymore.

Amanda Natividad

VP of Marketing, SparkToro

The Old SEO Playbook Is Broken

For years, content marketers relied on a simple formula: find high-volume keywords, write comprehensive blog posts, optimize for search engines, and watch the traffic roll in. But the landscape has shifted. Competition for organic search results has intensified, and the old playbook of keyword-driven content no longer delivers the results it once did.

Amanda Natividad explores why traditional SEO-driven content strategies are losing their edge and what marketers should focus on instead to build engaged audiences that actually convert.

What Makes Content Shareworthy

The shift from search-optimized content to shareworthy content represents a fundamental change in how B2B marketers need to think about their content strategy. Rather than writing for algorithms, the focus must move to creating content that audiences genuinely want to share with their peers and networks.

Shareworthy content earns attention through original insights, unique data, and perspectives that audiences cannot find elsewhere. It builds trust and authority not by ranking for keywords, but by becoming the kind of resource people actively recommend.

Building an Audience-First Strategy

Amanda shares actionable approaches for creating content that resonates with your target audience, moves beyond the outdated keyword-first mentality, and drives meaningful engagement that translates to real business outcomes.

How to use this resource in evaluation

Use Grow Your Audience With Shareworthy Content | DEMAND Conference as a working prompt for your buying committee, not as a standalone takeaway. The useful question is how the idea turns into governed campaign execution: which accounts are included, which contacts are reachable, which channels carry the message, which budget controls apply, and how results are reviewed after launch.

Bring the resource into a demo or internal planning session and ask each owner to inspect a different layer. Demand generation should review the audience and offer logic. RevOps should inspect CRM, marketing automation, and reporting flow. Sales should confirm whether the campaign creates context they can act on. Finance should ask how spend, conversion quality, opportunity creation, and pipeline are connected before budget expands.

  • Audience fit: define the exact account, contact, customer, or intent segment this idea should reach.
  • Campaign controls: confirm approvals, exclusions, budget limits, creative variants, and launch readiness before spend starts.
  • Measurement path: decide which leading indicators matter early and which pipeline outcomes matter before scaling.
  • Next action: turn the concept into one reviewed campaign object, one owner, and one follow-up date.

The strongest walkthrough should make the resource concrete: a campaign plan, visible guardrails, and a reporting path that a revenue team can inspect without relying on native ad-platform summaries alone.