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title: Content Strategy
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# Content Strategy

> Plan a content strategy, decide what content to create, or figure out what topics to cover.

Helps you plan content that drives traffic, builds authority, and generates leads by being searchable, shareable, or both. It maps topics to the buyer's journey, structures pillar-and-cluster hubs for topical authority, and scores ideas across customer impact, content-market fit, search potential, and resources so you invest in the few topics that matter most.

## Use cases
- Deciding what topics to cover and what to write about next
- Building content pillars with supporting cluster articles
- Mapping keywords to awareness, consideration, decision, and implementation stages
- Mining call transcripts, surveys, and forums for content ideas in the customer's own words
- Prioritizing a backlog with a weighted four-factor scoring template
- Identifying decaying content worth refreshing instead of writing new

## Benefits
- Concentrates effort on the 20% of topics that produce most of the results
- Builds compounding topical authority through interlinked hub-and-spoke clusters
- Lowers acquisition cost by growing organic traffic instead of relying on paid
- Turns one pillar into multiple channel formats, cutting production cost while extending reach

## What’s included
- Searchable vs shareable framework with concrete content-type playbooks
- Hub-and-spoke pillar architecture and pillar selection criteria
- Keyword research mapped by buyer stage with proven modifiers
- Six idea sources: keyword data, call transcripts, surveys, forums, competitors, sales/support
- A four-factor prioritization scoring template with a clear output format
- Mental models for content decay, Pareto prioritization, and content recycling

## Who it’s for
Marketers and founders who need a research-backed plan for what to publish, in what order, and why.

## How it runs
Random topic lists are not strategy. Working from voice-of-customer research and six ideation sources, the planning loop builds pillars, maps keywords to buyer stages and scores every idea on a weighted four-factor matrix.
1. Gathers 4 context blocks before planning anything: business goals and ideal customer, voice-of-customer research (pre-sale questions, sales objections, support ticket themes), current content state and resources, and the competitive landscape.
2. Classifies every candidate piece as searchable, shareable or both, in that priority order: searchable content captures existing demand with intent-matched structure, shareable content creates demand through novel insight, original data or counterintuitive takes.
3. Identifies 3 to 5 content pillars from four directions (product-led, audience-led, search-led, competitor-led), then maps each pillar into a hub-and-spoke cluster of interlinked subtopic articles.
4. Maps keywords to buyer stages using modifier patterns: 'what is' and 'how to' for awareness, 'best' and 'vs' for consideration, 'pricing' and 'reviews' for decision, 'templates' and 'tutorial' for implementation.
5. Mines 6 ideation sources for topics with evidence attached: keyword exports, sales call transcripts, survey responses, Reddit and Quora threads, competitor content gaps, and recurring sales and support questions.
6. Scores every idea on a 4-factor weighted matrix (customer impact 40 percent, content-market fit 30, search potential 20, resource cost 10) and ships the output as pillars plus a priority topic table plus a cluster map showing how everything interlinks.

## FAQ
### Do I need keyword export data to use it, or can it start from nothing?
It can work from your business and audience context alone, and gets sharper when you feed it keyword or research data. Either way the output is a plan for what to publish and in what order.

### Does it just rank topic ideas by search volume?
No, each idea is scored across customer impact, content-market fit, search potential and resource cost, so a high-volume topic you cannot serve loses to a relevant one you can. Volume is one input, not the verdict.

### Does it write the pillars and clusters, or only map them?
It plans the pillars, clusters and buyer-journey mapping, while the actual drafting is a separate copywriting step. The plan sets you up to rank over time, but it does not move rankings on its own.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

Related guide: [Building a multilingual AI content pipeline](https://forgehouse.ai/guides/ai-content-pipeline/)