Alyson Harrold

Alyson Harrold

Co-CEO and Chief Storyteller

Expertise: Storytelling | SEO | Digital Marketing | Growth Hacking | Strategic Planning

About Alyson Harrold

Alyson is Co-CEO and Chief Storyteller. Prior to forming the agency, her career spanned media (NBC-TV affiliates and city magazine, international ad agency) and positions like C-Suite financial services marketer and digital marketing consultant. Alyson learned how the right medium with the right message can attract the right audience. With her team, Alyson helps brands have meaningful customer interactions. Now she teaches those lessons—among others—as a UC Berkeley Extension instructor in her SEO and Digital Marketing courses since 2014. Alyson shares her knowledge as a speaker at preeminent digital marketing conferences around the country like Digital Growth Unleashed and more.

Articles by Alyson Harrold

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  • How Topic Clusters Work

    Learn how topic clusters website’s structure and boost SEO performance. This guide explains how to build pillar pages, connect supporting content, and improve your authority in the eyes of Google, one cluster at a time.
    Alyson Harrold
    Written by Alyson Harrold • October 30, 2019
  • Content Marketing Types

    What digital marketing trends should B2B teams focus on in 2025? This post cuts through the noise with practical insights on AI, analytics, buyer behavior, and more — so you can spend less time chasing trends and more time getting results.
    Alyson Harrold
    Written by Alyson Harrold • August 30, 2019
  • Repurposing Content Dos & Don’ts

    Making Old Content New Again for SEO Creating and posting regular content is one way of building an SEO presence for your company. But creating new content is not the only way to help improve your SEO ranking. Another way is repurposing content in a way that doesn’t risk duplicate content penalties and content fatigue….
    Alyson Harrold
    Written by Alyson Harrold • August 9, 2018
  • Questions for Persona Research

    Buyer personas have many uses. Writing content that resonates is an easy one that comes to mind. Reallocating your AdWords budget is another. If you’re interviewing actual customers, then you want a concise list of questions for your persona research.
    Alyson Harrold
    Written by Alyson Harrold • August 3, 2018
  • Types of Downloadable Content

    Following on from our recent blog post on gated content, today we’re going to look at the types of downloadable content you might want to put behind a gate.
    Alyson Harrold
    Written by Alyson Harrold • August 1, 2018
  • Using Web Analytics for Data-Driven Marketing Decisions

    Reliable marketing data is getting harder to collect and harder to trust. For B2B teams, better ROI depends on stronger analytics, connected CRM and revenue data, and a clearer view of what drives pipeline.
    Alyson Harrold
    Written by Alyson Harrold • July 25, 2018
  • Long Form Content

    Does longer content help you rank? Sometimes, but only when the topic needs depth. This article explains how word count affects SEO and AEO, when long-form content makes sense in B2B, and how to measure whether it is worth the investment.
    Alyson Harrold
    Written by Alyson Harrold • July 6, 2018
  • Repurposing Content Ideas

    Content Marketing is hard. It takes resources to consistently publish new and fresh information that resonates with your audience. Google and other search engines don’t like duplicate writing. The search engines see it as basically re-publishing the same content at different times or other places on the Web. So, when does repurposing your content make sense, and how can you avoid duplication? Here are a few ideas to remix and revitalize content you’ve already written.
    Alyson Harrold
    Written by Alyson Harrold • June 21, 2018
  • Content Ideation Guide

    Content marketing fuels SEO. It’s enables search engines to index your business. It’s energizes link building. More than ever, there’s pressure on businesses to publish quality content frequently. If you’re a managing editor or writer, then this content ideation guide is for you.
    Alyson Harrold
    Written by Alyson Harrold • June 19, 2018
  • Clever Website Thank You Pages

    It’s Thanksgiving week and I thought about how we say thank you to our website visitors. Many of us were taught to say please and thank you, and those good manners translate well to the online experience. Your website thank you page says a lot about you and your brand. In this post I’ll share lessons we’ve learned while helping our clients say thanks, track those conversion in Analytics and and gain more business.
    Alyson Harrold
    Written by Alyson Harrold • June 14, 2018