10X Content

The 10X concept created by Rand Fishkin when at Moz to help businesses compete for competitive SEO keywords.

To see examples, see Rand’s 119 Examples of 10X Content. His criteria are:

Criteria for 10X Content:

  • Provides a uniquely positive user experience through the user interface, visuals, layout, fonts, patterns, etc.
  • Delivers content that is some substantive combination of high-quality, trustworthy, useful, interesting, and remarkable
  • Is considerably different in scope and detail from other works on similar topics
  • Loads quickly and is usable on any device or browser
  • Creates an emotional response of awe, surprise, joy, anticipation, and/or admiration
  • Has achieved an impressive quantity of amplification (through shares on social networks and/or links)
  • Solves a problem or answers a question by providing comprehensive, accurate, exceptional information or resources.

This technique can work well as part of your Evergreen content and Skyscraper content tactics.

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I also write about assistive technology to help others teaching the visually impaired as part of my volunteering work for charity AbilityNet.

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Full details on Amazon:

Digital Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice, 9th Edition, published 2025.

With Fiona Ellis-Chadwick and Majd AbedRabbo.

Used by: Undergraduate and post-graduate degree marketing students. Senior marketing professionals, e.g. marketing managers and directors.

Digital Marketing Excellence
6th edition

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Dave Chaffey is lead author of several bestselling digital marketing books including Digital Marketing: Strategy Implementation and Practice, Digital Business Management and Digital Marketing Excellence. These are based on my 3 decades experience on digital marketing consulting and training work includin

This site is my personal blog which has ideas to help students, professionals or lecturers using my textbooks in their studies or careers. I recommend taking a look at the Digital Marketing Book Support pages on this site