Archives for 2015

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Growth Hacks Top 10

 

1 How Many Outbound Links Per Word or Page? [Original Study]

“If you google for an answer to how many outbound links you should be seeing on your pages, most answers fall into one of these categories.”

northcutt.com

2 Know Why: How to Beat Marketing Survivorship Bias

“Why does marketing advice suck? We all look for marketing tactics we can repeat.”

portent.com

3 The Ultimate Keyword Research Guide – Step By Step Guide

“Keyword research is probably one of, if not the most important thing’s there is for SEO’s.”

boredmarketer.com

4 How to Convince People to Click on your Links

“In two months time it will be 2016 already, and yet many (link builders) are still worrying about the fact that they are getting more nofollow links than dofollow.”

seo-hacker.com

5 Investigating Google RankBrain and Query Term Substitutions

“A Google patent granted in August looks at how google might replace terms within queries, and I have some examples of how it rewrites some queries below.”

gofishdigital.com

6 Setting Up Analytics for Single Page Applications

“For the uninitiated, single page applications (SPAs) are web apps or websites that load a single HTML page and dynamically update that page as the user interacts with it.”

growthbug.com

7 Case Study: How I Increased my Email Click Through Rate by 842%

“I sent an email to over 3,000 people. Of the 749 people who opened it, not a single one clicked through.”

semrush.com

8 What Happens After They Click the Ad – A Guide to Converting Users on a Landing Page

“Tell me: How many sales people does it take to lose a sale?”

adespresso.com

9 Carry your Customer Experience to Mobile

“This is the year of mobile, right? Wrong – that was 5 years ago! Mobile usage has been steadily increasing, and we have now surpassed the mobile tipping point.”

blog.granify.com

10 Why NASA’s Social Media Strategy is out of This World

“There are few businesses or organizations that have such a great, established social media presence as NASA.”

livechatinc.com

 

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Growth Hacks Top 10

 

1 Never Run Out of Blog Post Ideas Again: 25 Resources for Content Marketers

“Whether you are creating content yourself, developing it in-house, or outsourcing it to freelance writers, you will need a steady flow of blog post ideas to keep your publishing schedule steady.”

kristihines.com

2 A Practical Guide to SEO Metrics

“SEO, when done correctly, is the convergence of technical and creative practices that ensures you rank highly in relevant search engine results, propels traffic to your website, increases brand awareness, generates leads and drives sales.

digitalmarketinginstitute.com

3 Perfecting the Linkbait Campaign Process

“Digital marketing is not an industry for the faint hearted. Forever evolving, the methods of getting your clients’ name out there can go from the benign to the mind boggling.”

zazzlemedia.co.uk

4 5 Effective SEO Strategies & Techniques That Still Work Today

“Let’s face the facts. Search engine optimization is not what it used to be. Where you could once stuff keywords and pay for links, those days of simple SEO tactics are over.”

digitalinformationworld.com

5 8 Reasons Why your Link Building Outreach is not Working

“Have you been link building for years now? Then perhaps you’re also doing outreach for years, still with the hope that your contribution will be accepted.”

seo-hacker.com

6 9 Unforgettable Tips for Writing Headlines that Work [Infographic]

“When you battle for attention in the noise fest that is the Internet, the most important skill you could possibly possess is headline writing.”

socialmediatoday.com

7 How We Grew Our Blog’s Conversion by 750% in 3 Months

“This is a detailed account of how we grew our blog’s conversion by 750% in just three months, through content alone.”

blog.dapulse.com

8 The Real SEO: How to Rank in Other Search Engines

“We tend to focus on Google alone. I, too, am guilty of it.”

seo-hacker.com

9 15 Content Marketing Tools I Use Every Day (And You Should Too)

“Let’s be honest: none of us can run a successful blog solely on our own intuition.”

blog.heyo.com

10 29 Website Design Elements That Kill Your SEO And Conversions

“Everyone hopes to choose the right website design elements for creating a visually appealing website that’s easy to use.”

shanebarker.com

 

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Growth Hacks Top 10

 

1 Increase Your Search Traffic With These Google Analytics Hacks

“You might think that Google Analytics (GA) has no value to your SEO efforts because it hides your precious keyword data.”

medium.com

2 Does Google Treat URL Mentions Like Links?

“Have you ever seen those URLs that people sometimes include on their pages, but which are not implemented as physical links?

stonetemple.com

3 Technical Marketing is the Price of Admission

“Mike King’s HubSpot’s Inbound 2015 talk about how technical skills are no longer optional for marketers.”

slideshare.net

4 45 Experts Share Their Best SEO Ranking Boosting Techniques

“You work like a dog for hours… days… weeks and months… writing blog posts left and right, with little to show for it.”

serped.com

5 How We Increased Our Traffic by 12,024% with Zero Advertising

“When we started out, our lack of traffic threatened to crush us. Here’s how we fixed that.”

groovehq.stfi.re

6 [Case Study] Testing The Skyscraper Technique

“In the digital marketing world there’s an annoyingly persistent myth which undermines the work of marketers all across the world.”

seonick.net

7 5 Ground Rules for Creating Google Panda Friendly Content

“After the release of Panda 4.2 last July 18 (2015), a lot of SEO folks are expecting to see quality websites to finally overrank sites with poor content.”

seo-hacker.com

8 How to Build 100 Quality Links Without Writing Fresh Content

“Links are still very important to site owners. Recent Google algorithm updates only shaped a new context for legitimate link.”

neilpatel.com

9 10 Ways to Improve Your Link Building Efforts

“Independent of the link building strategy you are working on, there are simple improvements that can make your effort so much more efficient.”

searchenginewatch.com

10 8 Ways To Build Backlinks In Boring Niches

“Link building in boring niches makes SEO more challenging. There are less active blogs, the sharing culture is not common, webmasters take advantage and ask money for links or they rarely respond to emails.”

kikolani.com

 

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Growth Hacks Top 10

 

1 One of the Best Ways to Find New Content Ideas: Write What you Want to Read

“Coming up with new topic ideas is one of the hardest parts of content marketing.”

blog.ghost.org

2 100 Ace Ideas For Your Social Media Content

“Never run out of social media content ideas again! The following list covers just about everything you could possibly post on social media.

topimnews.wealthmagnate.com

3 How to Increase Blog Traffic: The Complete Blog Traffic Guide

“Knowing how to increase blog traffic is an essential skill, not only for professional bloggers but for anybody who wants to attract the maximum number of visitors to their blog.”

techlila.com

4 How to Optimize Your Mobile App for App Stores

“I was trying to download a photo editing app when I saw how many applications were available out there. And then it made me wonder.”

seo-hacker.com

5 How Can We Really Measure The ROI of Optimization?

“Imagine you’ve been working on optimizing a site for a while now, say 3, 6 or even 12 months.”

conversionxl.com

6 5 Powerful Ways to Keep Building Authority Once Your Content Has Matured

“You’ve launched. You now have loads of content on your blog. You’re happy with the growth and the traction you’ve gained.”

copyblogger.com

7 Why Interactive Content Marketing is the Future

“You probably know a thing or two about creating good content. Perhaps you dabble on your own blog or write for your company.”

convinceandconvert.com

8 How to Conduct a Content Audit for Better User-Experience

“Everyday we try to craft content that will be available for everyone to see. We spend time brainstorming, thinking of topics to write, creating compelling content that is worth sharing and we are constantly coming up with ways to amplify it.”

seo-hacker.com

9 How Social Media And Content Marketing Work Together

“Social media and content marketing are intricately interconnected. Used together, social media and content marketing give you marketing superpowers.”

heidicohen.com

10 6 Non-SEO Tools You Should Be Using For SEO

“You’ve read tons of reviews for the most common SEO tools, but what about other tools that can assist in your daily SEO efforts?”

searchengineland.com

 

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Growth Hacks Top 10

 

1 Insights from Google’s Quality Rater Guidelines in the Age of Quality Updates

“An earthquake called Phantom Update shook the whole SEO scene several weeks ago, as we observed enormous rises and falls in different sites’ rankings.”

advancedwebranking.com

2 Your Content Engagement is Begging: Stop Using Stock Images

Stop. Just stop. If you want to do something right in the last half of this year, give yourself this resolution.

info.roojoom.com

3 What To Do When Content Marketing Fails To Improve SEO Performance

“You had big dreams for your content marketing initiatives — but unfortunately they’ve fallen flat.”

searchengineland.com

4 How to Develop the Right Plan to Grow Your Blog’s Readership

“We’re getting to the end of our time together, and in these last few days I like to look to the future and see how we can use what we’ve learned over the last few weeks on our blogs.”

problogger.com

5 How to Rank with Less Links?

“This is the question that my friend and I have been discussing since last year, which I believe is also the question of many.”

seo-hacker.com

6 5 Actionable Tips to Increase Your Site Speed in 30 minutes

“Today’s Google is more focused toward UX than ever before… And the footprints give crystal clear answer: you give the users what they want and they’ll give you what you are looking for!”

seonerdy.com

7 9 Tactics that All Content Publishers Need to A/B Test

“Publishing websites engage audiences with content aimed to keep users on the site longer, encourage users to read more pages, and turn users into loyal subscribers.”

experimentengine.com

8 The 9 Most Common Startup Marketing Mistakes

“As a startup founder, you have to wear many different hats within your organisation.”

inboundrocket.co

9 5 Awesome Design Hacks to Create Highly Shareable Social Media Graphics

“Have you noticed how visual social media is these days? It’s not just about text updates.”

socialmouths.com

10 How to Use Social Media for Growth Hacking1 – Top 10 Tips

“The term growth hacking began as a largely misunderstood concept, and most believed that it was just a buzzword used by highly paid professionals in the marketing industry, or that it was yet another shady, hacking technique.”

blog.drumup.io

 

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Growth Hacks Top 10

 

1 How Improving our Linkbuilding Process Saved us $60,000 in 4 Weeks

“”Sean, I’m gonna be honest with you mate.” He said through a series of half-smiles.”

seo-hacker.com

2 12 Tools You Didn’t Realize Could Send You More Blog Traffic

“It’s no secret. We all want more blog traffic.”

jeffbullas.com

3 Mobilegeddon: Nearly 50% of Non-Mobile Friendly URLs Dropped in Rank

“In this study, we look at the impact of the so called “Mobilegeddon” update.”

stonetemple.com

4 The Untold SEO Secret Behind Dwell Time Metrics

“There are very few things written about Dwell Time Metrics (A.K.A. User Activity Metrics) as a ranking factor relative to linkbuilding, on-site SEO, and yes, even microdata.”

seo-hacker.com

5 How to Explain to Your Boss You Got 5,000 Shares on TechCrunch, Kissmetrics & HubSpot (But Didn’t Improve a Single KPI)

“In the past few months, I’ve written posts for sites like TechCrunch, Kissmetrics, and HubSpot. Collectively, these have garnered over 5,000 shares so far.”

blog.yotpo.com

6 Why Content Marketing Will Look Radically Different In 12 Months

“Content marketing has shown that it’s here to stay.”

business2community.com

7 7 Content Promotion Strategies That Drive Traffic, Leads, and Sales

“An editorial strategy without distribution disappoints brands and marketers invested in the thoughtful creation and production of quality content.”

salesforce.com

8 5 Circles of Hell You Need To Pass Before I Call You A True SEO Copywriter

“Sometimes becoming a world-class SEO copywriter can seem like a passage in Dante’s inferno.”

blog.ahrefs.com

9 14 Social Media Hacks from the Experts

“Every brand seems to be obsessed with social media ROI nowadays, but achieving fast-track growth on social networks is often a Herculean task for many business owners, marketers, and entrepreneurs.”

thenextweb.com

10 25 Smart Ways To Grow Your Twitter Following Fast

“Have you ever wondered how to grow your Twitter following?”

bloggingwizard.com

 

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Growth Hacks Top 10

 

1 6 Actionable SEO Tips

“Technical SEO has clearly been one of the pillars that enabled many businesses to thrive in the information age.”

kaiserthesage.com

2 How to Drive High Converting Traffic to Your Website Before Launch (Without Spending a Dime)

“It’s your biggest fear. Pouring yourself into building something that is met with that uncomfortable feeling of silence.”

unsettle.org

3 4 Undercover Ways to Hack Social for More Sales

“How often do you hear the term “Social Selling” and either can’t figure out what it actually means or just want to call shenanigans on it?”

sixteenventures.com

4 How do I know if my SEO Works?

“This is perhaps a question that precedes all implicit purposes of why you’re doing SEO – whether you’re an agency doing it for a client, you’re a freelancer working on your own site or you’re a small business owner trying SEO out for the first time.”

seo-hacker.com

5 How to Create Traffic-Driving Blog Posts: 5 Hacks

“It’s true … blogging has huge benefits, both for companies — think Techcrunch and Mashable — as well as for individuals.”

iblogzone.com

6 Why You Should Let Your Users “Steal” From You

“Retention and growth is the lifeblood of a company. Friction is an impediment of growth. After all, conversion = desire – friction.”

testlio.com

7 7 AdWords Alternatives That Failed, Except For One

“You know all those blog posts about increasing AdWords conversion rates 572%, getting on Product Hunt 4 times in one day, and securing VC funding by hiring a sign spinner?”

blog.kissmetrics.com

8 23 Places to Find the Best Keywords In Your Niche (& 29 Screenshots Showing You How to Get Them)

“I don’t know about you, but every time I have to come up with a list of keywords for a content campaign using only my brain, the results are pretty lame.”

nichehacks.com

9 Why Storytelling Is Important For Your Brand

“People remember stories. We tell ourselves stories, we read stories, and we tell stories to our friends. Most of our days are spent either creating or consuming stories.”

brandamos.com

10 How to Generate Content Marketing Leads Before Typing a Word

“Content marketing has become very popular in recent years as a strategy to establish awareness and interest for a business or brand.”

stuartjdavidson.com

 

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Growth Hacks Top 10

1 7 Actionable Tips for Creating Home Run Content

“Believe it or not, more than 2 million blog posts are published each day. So if you’re getting lost in that sea of content, you’re certainly not alone.”

blog.snappa.io

2 Why You Should Care About Email Design

“This is what I think about most when it comes to email design. You might rather jump in a volcano than wrestle with archaic markup and inline CSS.”

tedgoas.com

3 58 Experts Reveal Best Tools For Keyword Research

“Think you need dozens of tools for keyword research? Think again.”

robbierichards.com

4 Top 5 Reasons Your Social Media is Failing

“Social media can provide great results when done right. In this article I want to explore the most common reasons your social media is failing and provide you with some ideas on how you can easily fix them.”

morefollow.com

5 10 Productivity Hacks Which Will Change Your Life

“Feeling worn out, overwhelmed with stress and lacking motivation to really enjoy your free time by the time the weekend comes around?”

blog.adaptrm.com

6 Building Your Conversion Plan

“At this point, you already know the importance of Conversion Rate Optimization and how it works well in most websites that aiming for sales.”

qeryz.com

7 On-Page Local SEO: 10 Tips To Improve Your Local SEO [Infographic]

“I’m doing all this stuff and still can’t be found online, even for my business name!”

mylocalbusinessonline.co.uk

8 How to change the WordPress login URL

“After completion installation of WordPress, the first thing you’ll find is the form to login to the admin panel on the path/wp-login.php.”

webuilddesign.com

9 The Pros & Cons of Link Shortening

“The pros and cons of link shortening services really come down to what you do with that shortened link.”

brentjonesonline.com

10 21 Things You Need to Know to Validate Your Startup Idea

“This is from a talk I gave today at Lean Startup Machine (LSM) in Silicon Valley. LSM is a three day workshop for learning customer development and Lean Startup techniques.”

trevorowens.com

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Growth Hacks Top 10

 

1 12 Best Practices For Writing Website Copy That Actually Converts

“Blog visitors who only read your blog are enough if you are just counting page hits, but if you want anything of more serious value — sales, for example — you’ll need to turn those readers into customers.”

100daysofgrowth.com

2 5 Customer Retention Strategies to Increase Growth Now

“Recently we’ve been reviewing our customer retention, and I wanted to share with you some of the concepts driving our current thinking.”

blog.popcornmetrics.com

3 11 Things That Successful Social Media Marketers Do Differently

“Social media has become an integrated part of our lives for quite some time. Even more, many small business owners have been incorporated this new channel into their overall marketing strategy.”

hotinsocialmedia.com

4 17 Persuasive Writing Techniques You Can Use Today to Sell More Products

“17 Persuasive Writing Techniques You Can Use Today to Sell More Products”

intertwinemarketing.com

5 How Subdomains and Subfolders Affect SEO

“All of the fantastic copy in the world, no matter how delightful to read, means nothing if it doesn’t convert.”

seo-hacker.com

6 How Much Traffic Will You Lose From The Upcoming Mobile SEO-Pocalypse?

“Google’s mobile-friendliness update is coming this April, but should you be rushing to make your site mobile-friendly?”

searchengineland.com

7 How to Be Smart in a World of Dumb Bloggers

“Note from Glen: As a kid, I remember my mom rubbing antiseptic ointment onto my bloodied knee after a fall.”

boostblogtraffic.com

8 46 (Tweetable) Tips For Launching/Relaunching A Website

“A lingering kiss at the door before you leave your wife, you wish her all the best for today. It’s come around quick.”

rickeliason.com

9 How A Startup Attracted 64,000 Twitter Followers, Before It Even Launched

“Leash Yourself built a social media base before it even launched, and you can apply the same strategies and techniques for your startup or small business.”

getmoovd.com

10 10 Killer Email Marketing Infographics

“In the age of “infobesity,” we are bombarded by information at every turn.”

emailonacid.com

 

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What Most Marketers Don’t Know: The Knowledge Graph and the Future of SEO

“Google’s Knowledge Graph has been changing the search result landscape for years, but some marketers aren’t even aware of it, and few know exactly what it is and how it works.”

propecta.com

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Content Marketing for Start-ups According to Experts [Part Two]

“Last week we shared to you some of content marketing ideas from experts. Today we will continue with the second and last part of our two-part  post about Content Marketing for start-ups according to experts.

seo-hacker.com

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14 Marketplace Mistakes That Are Killing Your Startup

“One week ago, I hosted my fifth Marketplace Dinner. This particular one took place at the DogVacay headquarters in Santa Monica.

500.co

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12 SEO Experts Revealed Their Best Link Building Strategies

“SEO is becoming challenging day by day. Google is continuously launching updates one after other just to filter low quality content and reward quality bloggers.

bloggingcage.com

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Content Marketing: How To Get More Bang For Your Buck

“One of the best ways to build credibility for a product or company is to demonstrate that you’re the expert in your field – and a great way to build credibility is through thought leadership.

goapprise.com

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61 Tips for Increasing Engagement on Your Website

“The key to a successful blog is high engagement. If you’re like most people (and me at a time) you’re probably concerned about getting traffic to your site.

blog.captainup.com

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16 Killer Content Marketing Resources All Entrepreneurs Need

“Content marketing is here to stay, so if you’re working on your 2015 game plan, make sure to include the following articles in your “must read” list.

sujanpatel.com

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“Why do email newsletters continue to be a viable business model? No matter how much we are into social media, emails continue to play a huge part in our lives.”

technoworldnews.com

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10 Reasons Why You Should Care About Visual Content Marketing

“Creating visual content can be expensive, time-consuming and difficult to produce. So, why bother?

neomam.com

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4 Cold Email Mistakes Even KISSmetrics Made

“Nobody is immune to bad cold emails. Not even companies like KISSmetrics, who has enchanting web copy and an amazing blog.

salesfolk.com