# My Content Marketing Isn’t Working\. What Should I Do?  \| Ep\. \#792

**URL:** https://www.singlegrain.com/episodes/marketing-school/my-content-marketing-isnt-working-what-should-i-do-ep-792/  
**Published:** 2018-10-01  
**Author:** Selena Templeton  
**Summary:** In episode \#792, Eric and Neil discuss what you should do when your content marketing isn’t getting you any traffic or sales\. Tune in to hear how you can turn\.\.\.  

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In episode #792, Eric and Neil discuss what you should do when your content marketing isn’t getting you any traffic or sales. Tune in to hear how you can turn things around.

**TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:**

- \[00:27\] Today’s Topics: _My Content Marketing Isn’t Working. What Should I Do?_
- \[00:40\] When Eric joined Singlegrain, their traffic was flat.
- \[01:03\] They audited their work and found the articles were low-quality and the algorithm wasn’t picking anything up in their content.
- \[01:52\] There are two camps: Blogger with no traffic, blogger with traffic but no sales.
- \[02:10\] If you don’t have traffic, try using [SEMRush](https://www.semrush.com/) to figure out what is going wrong.
- \[02:20\] If a keyword has a high CPC, it means that the traffic is worth more.
- \[03:00\] If you aren’t making sales, you probably need to be more aggressive and use exit pop-ups, sliders, opt-ins, email marketing, drips, etc.
- \[03:30\] You will start seeing revenue when you create funnels.
- \[03:47\] [Ahrefs](http://www.ahrefs.com/) has a keyword difficulty tool that shows how difficult it is to rank for a given keyword.
- \[04:35\] Your content may not take off right away, but if you use the aforementioned techniques, it will go well for you.
- \[04:52\] If you aren’t generating revenue, try quizzes.
- \[05:22\] That’s it for today!
- \[05:31\] Go [here](http://marketingschool.io/stats) to see how many downloads the show is getting. Also rate and review to help Eric and Neil meet their goal of 1 Million downloads per month. They will throw a live event once they reach their goal.

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