Content Portfolio

Lauren Holliday

AI can't write like I can. Neither can most humans.

Anyone can write. But thereโ€™s a process to creating something that actually gets read.

The data doesnโ€™t lie.ย 

Sad facts:

96.55% of pages get no organic search traffic from Google. (Ahrefs)
Only 5.7% of pages will rank in the top 10 search results within a year of publication. (Ahrefs)
~95% of all pages have zero backlinks. (Backlinko)
An average user spends a mere 54 seconds on a web page. (HubSpot)
75% of all social shares come from only 1.3% of published content. (Backlinko)
Iโ€™m proud to say my content is not a part of the above statistics, and itโ€™s by design. Itโ€™s because the only thing that loves me more than Google is the human enjoying my content.ย 

Some of my most loved content โค๏ธ

Thereโ€™s not enough room for everything Iโ€™ve created over the last 14 years, and even if there was, thereโ€™s no way Iโ€™d remember everything.
The content below only showcases SOME of my marquee content and blog posts, none of my social media posts/ads or LinkedIn ghostwriting.
NOTE:
Before you dive in, Iโ€™d just like to stress that Iโ€™ve created content and managed blogs (as well as social media accounts) for all types of different companies, across a wide array of industries.
I didnโ€™t showcase a decent amount of my work due to NDAs, but I do have B2B experience too, helping companies, like Cisco, Campaign Monitor, Hive, DataGrail, Forage, Aware, Pagely, HubSpot and many others not listed here.
And Iโ€™ve also done a lot of ghostwriting for prominent CEOs, VCs, operators and founders, which I canโ€™t share due to NDAs. Iโ€™ve also written about relationships/dating, but felt like most people viewing my portfolio wouldnโ€™t be into that type of content.

๐Ÿ’ผ Career/Work

๐Ÿ‘๏ธ 20Kย READS on Medium alone
๐Ÿ“ˆ My first viral article โœ… Published on The Muse ๐Ÿ† Published in book because of this article ๐Ÿ”ฅ Syndicated in TIME magazine
๐Ÿ“ Alternative and super relatable point of view, which is why this post did so well โค๏ธ 20 comments and SO many DMs.
๐Ÿ† Top page for organic traffic. โœ… Evergreen content, still ranking to date (Published years ago, no updates since). 1๏ธโƒฃ I was the first person to write about this โ€” well before mainstream outlets covered it. โค๏ธ 130 upvotes, 21 comments on Reddit
๐Ÿ† No. 1 page for organic traffic
โœ… Evergreen content, still ranking to date (Published in 2018, no updates since)
โค๏ธ 38 comments
๐Ÿ† Top page for organic traffic โœ… Evergreen content, still ranking to date (Published years ago, no updates since)
๐Ÿ† Top page for organic traffic
โœ… Evergreen content, still ranking to date (Published years ago, no updates since) โค๏ธ 10 comments
๐Ÿ”ฅ 31K views, 787 claps, 21 comments, 254 social shares (This was a repost from The Economistโ€™s Executive Education blog). ๐Ÿ’— One of my favorite posts (I love to read).
๐Ÿ† Published on Ahrefs, Interviewed tons of cool, expert marketers for this piece ๐Ÿ”ฅ 315 social shares

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๐Ÿ“ˆ Marketing

๐Ÿ“ˆ Published on my Full-Stack Marketing course website, which ranked in days for โ€œbest marketing coursesโ€ (Version 1 website | Version 2 website)
๐Ÿ‘๏ธ 77k+ views on Quora, where I syndicated it
๐Ÿ”ค 5,641 words
This is a prime example of a high-converting comparison page.
This page helped me sell out my course. It compared my top competitors and explained, in-detail, the pros and cons of each one.
I didnโ€™t post my course until the end, and I genuinely showed I understood what they were looking for. I even detailed the type of people who shouldnโ€™t take my course at the end. People love this type of helpfulness and authenticity.
โค๏ธ Syndicated by The Observer
๐Ÿ—’ Not my favorite article, but my second most popular on Medium in terms of views
๐Ÿ”ฅ 155K+ views, 1.1K+ claps and 28 comments
๐Ÿ—’๏ธ Founder-led content marketing example.

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๐ŸŒฑ Life

๐Ÿ† Top page for organic traffic
โœ… Evergreen content, still ranking to date (Published years ago, no updates since)
๐Ÿ”ฅ110,500+ visitors
๐Ÿ†Ranks for 16.24K keywords, No. 1 page for organic traffic
๐ŸŽจ All Canva images created by me
โœ… Evergreen content, still ranking to date (Published in 2018, no updates since)
๐Ÿ”ฅ High engagement
โœ… Evergreen content, still ranking to date

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿฝโ€โš•๏ธ Health

๐Ÿ† Popular on Reddit
๐Ÿงช Real life experiment, featuring actionable takeaways for readers. Readers appreciated my real-life reviews, trying the health apps and products I mentioned myself.
๐Ÿงช Real life experiment, featuring actionable takeaways for readers.

๐Ÿ’ธ Business/Money

๐Ÿ† No. 3 most popular article on Medium
๐Ÿ”ฅ 113,000 views; 5,400 claps; 100 comments; Twitter stream of shares
๐Ÿ“ SEO-play
โœ… Evergreen content, still ranking to date (Published in 2018)
โค๏ธ 20 comments
๐Ÿ“ˆ Viral article
๐Ÿ”ฅ On Medium post alone, 216k+ views; 3.6K likes and 116 comments (99% positive)
๐Ÿ† Interviewed on Inc, syndicated on Business Insider, tons of emails from investors
๐Ÿ”ฅ 3,379 social shares (thatโ€™s huge when you consider only 5% of content gets 343+ shares)

โญ Startups

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐ŸŽจ Web Design

๐Ÿ˜ญ Not my most popular post, 13.4K views and 2.1K reads, 322 claps and 4 comments
๐Ÿ—’๏ธ BUT itโ€™s a great post with good information that a lot of businesses and startups should read, because about pages are important, yet they arenโ€™t given the time and attention they deserve
๐Ÿ”ฅ 344 social shares
๐Ÿ—’๏ธ Published on Toptal
โค๏ธ I like this because it shows I can write about things I donโ€™t know about. I interviewed this woman, who is listed as the author of the post, and then I did additional, extensive research, and finally, I wrote the post that was fairly popular with a hard-to-please audience โ€” designers and developers

๐Ÿ‘” B2B/Corporate

This was a fun post, especially because I learned a lot, and I enjoyed making the graphics in Canva.ย 
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Posted Sep 10, 2025

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