Archives for December 2018

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Growth Hacks Top 10

 

1

3 Growth Marketing Principles You Need to Create Your Unicorn

I believe in taking big risks, reaping epic rewards, and constantly adapting my strategies to increase conversions and engage customers.

mobilemonkey.com

2

Google’s mobile-first indexing now powers over half of Google’s search results

“Google announced Wednesday that over half of the pages shown in search results globally are from Google indexing that content using mobile-first indexing procedure.”

searchengineland.com

3

Do Exact Match Domains Still Work Anymore?

“If it was still 2012, it would be a no-brainer to buy an EMD. But what about now? Do exact match domains still work?”

searchenginejournal.com

4

Content marketing for Google SERPs in 2019

“What once seemed like a harmonious relationship, the bond between consumers and producers of content has become somewhat volatile, asking marketers to be agile in their approach to content.

searchenginewatch.com

5

Why Local Businesses Will Need Websites More than Ever in 2019

“As local brands and their marketers watch Google play Trojan horse, shifting from top benefactor to top competitor by replacing former “free” publicity with paid packs, Local Service Ads, zero-click SERPs, and related structures, it’s no surprise to see forum members asking, “Do I even need a website anymore?”” 

moz.com

6

How Visual Search is Transforming the Retail Industry

“Search providers solve these problems using AI-based neural networks and large repositories of images and tagged image libraries. The accuracy on these searches has hence over time, improved tremendously.”

medium.com

7

How to Recover From the Google Medic Update

“As every SEO professional knows, Google will always find ways to optimize their services on a daily basis, and this means adding occasional minor updates and launching major updates that shake things up every now and then.

seo-hacker.com

8

Three Research-Driven Tactics For Overcoming Sales Objections

“Rejections loom especially large at the beginning of sales cycles. In 2007, it took an average of 3.7 cold call attempts to reach a prospect, according to research by TeleNet and Ovation Sales Group.”

forbes.com

9

Life, the Universe (of Data) and Everything

“The Web is a spectacular place, created out of words, links and entity relationships. The deeper we can look into how they work together, the richer the digital identities we weave will be.”

searchnewscentral.com

10

SEO Hacker 2018 Round-up

“2018 was a big year for us here at SEO Hacker, from growing our team to establishing more business connections that brought in more opportunities for the future.”

seo-hacker.com

 

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Growth Hacks Top 10

 

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Why Sites in High-Growth Industries Have Terrible UX

If you generate a $200 million quarterly profit with an online product, your website’s user experience must be world class, right? Wrong.

conversionxl.com

2

The Hotjar story (part 3) – growing our team & product while going from €1 to €3 million ARR

“When we founded Hotjar in 2014, we had an ambitious vision for our product, but we were also an unknown team of five with no external funding and little experience in the world of SaaS.”

hotjar.com

3

Facebook confirms years-old messages are randomly coming back to haunt users

“Unless you actively delete the history between you and another user, Messenger retains the entirety of your back-and-forth conversations, stretching back years.”

theverge.com

4

A Step-by-Step Guide to Create Content That Attracts High-Quality Links

If you want to earn top-tier links, you can’t cut corners on the content you create. You have to do everything the right way.

searchenginejournal.com

5

What startups need to know about SEO and domain names

“If you are a startup, you cannot simply ignore the crucial factors of your business i.e. the domain name of your website and its SEO strategy.” 

searchenginewatch.com

6

Two Facebook engineers built a tool to cut down on meetings. Now it’s a $900 million company

“There’s work, and then there’s the work that goes into doing your work. And a lot of workers spend more time on the latter.”

qz.com

7

SEO Hacker Tool Review Round-up for 2018

“Along with new technologies and strategies, new SEO tools have helped us step up our game and create more efficient processes.

seo-hacker.com

8

It’s Time to Get Serious About Regulating Tech

Although regulation is not a topic anyone wants to talk about, there comes a point at which it becomes necessary.”

medium.com

9

The Hidden Potential Of Augmented Reality

“Such heavy investment in the technology indicates real potential beyond entertainment, and there are some people looking deeper into AR and how to combine it with other emerging technologies.”

forbes.com

10

SEO Strategies and Trends That Will be Big in 2019

“Speaking of the near future, 2019 is coming in very soon, and like every other year, new trends, tools, and strategies abound. “

seo-hacker.com