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55% -- page 1 ranking rate for Agency-produced content (2025)
Approximately 55% of agency-produced content articles reach page 1 within 6 months.
- Stated as an approximation (~55%) cited from an Ahrefs 2025 study
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55%
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Data Vintage
2025
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ahrefs
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Tier C
https://blueprintmedia.tech/blog/true-cost-content-marketing ↗
Source Article
The True Cost of Content Marketing in 2026
Ask ten marketers "How much does content marketing cost?" and you'll get ten different answers — most of them wrong. They'll quote you an agency retainer or a freelancer's per-word rate, as if the sticker price on the content itself is the total cost. It's not. Not even close.
The true cost of conte…
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Industry average from Ahrefs 2025 study, as cited by Blueprint Media
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Agency-produced content: 55% page 1 ranking rate. Source: Ahrefs (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/agency-articles-page1-six-months-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/agency-articles-page1-six-months-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>55%</strong> -- page 1 ranking rate for Agency-produced content<br><small>Source: Ahrefs (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/agency-articles-page1-six-months-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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