Archives for February 2017

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Growth Hacks Top 10

 

1 What I learned Growing an 8 Figure Business

“Sumo has grown massively in the past 12 months. Our team has more than tripled in size (now 40 people), and our revenue hit eight figures for the first time ever.

I don’t say this revenue number to brag. It’s been a tough journey filled with TONS of mistakes and failures along the way. I want to show you how I got here so you can do it for yourself

No matter where you’re at in your own journey, whether you’re going from zero to $1— or $100k to $1m — you’ll be able to take some of these learnings to help grow your own business.”

okdork.com

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Growth Hacking Strategies for 2017 Recommended by the Pros

“Even though growth hacking has only been around for a few years, but now it’s one of the inclined terms in the tech world. Every startup is looking for growth hackers. Because, they too want to grow fast, and get millions of users and dollars in revenue.”

crazyengage.com

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Anti-Piracy Code to Be Implemented by Google

Google has been doing their best to fight the outbreak of fake news. In line with this, Google with the cooperation of the other ‘big’ Search companies is nearing the completion of an agreement that aims to implement anti-piracy measures for search results. The code is essentially a means to purge the presence of links that violate copyright, or the law in general.”

seo-hacker.com

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SEO Mythbusters : Top Marketers share the most counterintuitive SEO truths

“The internet today is overwhelmed with tons of DIY SEO tips and tricks. What might be even worse, there are countless case studies that show how great some particular tactic worked for a single website.”

ahrefs.com

5 Alphabet’s bets beyond search are starting to pay off

“Google reported mixed earnings for its fourth quarter today — but we’re starting to see some flashes of improvement in its “other bets” category, which is where it stuffs pretty much everything that lives outside of Google proper.”

techcrunch.com

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How to Create Content That Keeps Earning Links 

“Everyone talks about the long-term benefits of using content marketing as part of a link building strategy. But without the right type of content, your experience may be that you stop earning links as soon as you stop doing outreach.”

moz.com

7 Proximity to Searcher is the New #1 Local Search Ranking Factor

“Have you noticed that a lot of local pack results don’t seem to make sense these days? Almost every time I search Google for a local search term, the pack results leave me wondering, “Why are these businesses ranking?”

moz.com

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How Ad Blocking Has Altered Digital Display Advertising

“As if ad fraud and viewability weren’t enough to keep the online advertising industry up at night, over the past few years, a new monster has taken their place under the proverbial bed. It’s ugly, it’s mean, and it blocks your ads.

While adoption of ad blockers is on the rise, undoubtedly affecting publishers, many wonder if it has, in fact, affected advertisers and ad spending?”

semrush.com

9 What is Schema? The Beginner’s Guide to Structured Data

“Schema (schema.org) is a structured data vocabulary that defines entities, actions, and relationships on the Internet (webpages, emails, etc).

This vocabulary makes it possible for search engines to understand the meanings behind subject matter (entities) on the web, and in turn, serve a better user experience for Internet users.

As Google continues to build a more semantic web, these markups become increasingly valuable in effective Internet communication.”

semrush.com

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Anti-Piracy Code to be Implemented By Google

Google has been doing their best to fight the outbreak of fake news. In line with this, Google with the cooperation of the other ‘big’ Search companies is nearing the completion of an agreement that aims to implement anti-piracy measures for search results. The code is essentially a means to purge the presence of links that violate copyright, or the law in general.”

seo-hacker.com

 

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Growth Hacks Top 10

 

1 We Can’t All Be Storytellers: Why Creating Great Content Isn’t Enough

“Many companies invest thousands of dollars in creating incredible content for their website, blog, or social media accounts. They labor over the words and images, adding in detail and testing headlines.

But they never see results. It just keeps costing them money.”

yesoptimist.com

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Analysis of 1 Million Backlinks: Udemy (Part 1/10)

“We analyzed 1 million backlinks via 10 random sample sets of 100,000 backlinks across 10 different websites from a variety of business verticals to determine how the link metrics from those backlinks would impact gains or losses in organic search visibility.”

singlegrain.com

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Top 10 Most-Read Articles on ConversionXL in 2016

“Every year we publish a list of most read articles on ConversionXL that were published that year. The following 10 new posts got the most pageviews in 2016.

Starting from number 10 and moving up”

conversionxl.com

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8 Predictions for SEO in 2017

“It’s that time again, friends… That time where I grade my 2016 predictions to see whether I’ve got the clout and foresight to get another shot in 2017. This year is gonna be really close, as I was more aggressive last year than in prior ones, so let’s see where we end up, and what I’ve got to say for the next 12 months..”

moz.com

5 Best SEO Practices to Dominate In 2017

“For this roundup post I asked Sujan Patel, Sean Si, Neville Medhora, Ana Hofman, Bill Slawski, Jayson DeMers, Ron Sela and other experts to share their best SEO practices to dominate in 2017.”

semrush.com

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Introducing the Mobile-Friendly Test API

“With so many users on mobile devices, having a mobile-friendly web is important to us all. The Mobile-Friendly Test is a great way to check individual pages manually. We’re happy to announce that this test is now available via API as well.”

webmasters.googleblog.com

7 25 Social Media Marketing Experts On The Career Advice They’d Have Given Their Younger Selves

“Careers are tricky beasts to navigate. So many of us go through life unsure of what we want to do, of how to find our life’s ‘purpose’. And now that we’re all practically expected to have our career paths mapped out before we’ve even learnt to crawl, it can sometimes be good to take a step back and find inspiration from those who have done it right.”

kubixmedia.co.uk

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How to Create Authentic Hyperlocal Content At Scale

“A recent report on national-to-local marketers mentions that, with the exception of email marketing, “enterprise brands are struggling to make digital as effective as traditional tactics and media” for local branches’ ad dollars. With locally focused email newsletters, it’s generally easier to automate locally targeted sales or events. On the other hand, local content is much more essential for local SEO and social media engagement, and this is where enterprise brands have not yet fully conquered the local space.”

moz.com

9 Pro Tips for Growing your Mobile Ranking Significantly

“The best part about SEO is also its worst part. SEO specialists are almost always going in blind especially when Google releases an algorithm update or two.”

seo-hacker.com

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Facebook Is Changing How it Ranks Stories in 2 Ways

“Facebook is changing the way it ranks stories in the News Feed. The social network is adding and updating signals to its ranking algorithm.”

searchengineland.com