Content Is Not King, Context Is

Debunking one of internet marketing’s most pervasive myths

Adam Gordon
Better Marketing
Published in
7 min readFeb 26, 2020

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Newspaper presses. Context is king, not content.
Photo by Bank Phrom on Unsplash

It’s been a truism on the web for millions of years of internet-time. “Content is king.”

It’s nonsense. Don’t believe a word of it.

Context rules all.

Content derives a large part of its meaning from its context, so if you control the…

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