As I’m sure you’ve figured out by now, building a website takes lots of hard work. This is even more so the case for those of you who are creating an ecommerce site. In addition to your website design, architecture, and all of the standard website elements, you also need […]
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If you’re on the hunt for a new web hosting service, Bluehost is definitely a top option to consider. This platform powers more than 2 million sites across the globe. All web hosting services are not created equally. I see so many new webmasters make the mistake of just going […]
Everyone’s heard of “the cloud.” Broadly speaking, the cloud refers to remote storage. For example, you can store pictures from your smartphone or documents on your computer to a cloud storage space like Google Drive. This is different than storing files locally on something like an external hard drive. I’m […]
Content marketing has arguably become the biggest buzzword in the marketing industry today. It seems like you can’t have a conversation with a business owner who has an online presence without the term being brought up. Every online “expert” claims to hold the secret to content marketing. But the reality […]
It doesn’t matter what type of business you have or what industry you’re in; everyone needs to incorporate email campaigns into their marketing strategy. There’s a common misconception that email marketing is dead. That’s just simply not the case. So for those of you who are struggling with your email […]
SiteGround is one of the most popular web hosting services available on the market today. It’s a safe and reliable way to host your website in 2019. More than 2 million active domains are hosted with SiteGround. One of the reasons why this service is so popular is because they […]
In order to operate a fully functional ecommerce website, you need to be able to accept payments from your customers. There is no way around this. Your entire business revolves around getting paid. That’s why you starting selling online in the first place, right? To make money. But there are […]
WordPress is one of the most popular CMS platforms on the planet. In fact, according to a recent study from Kinsta, 33.6% of all websites are powered by WordPress. Furthermore, the platform controls 60.5% of the CMS market share worldwide. That’s the number one ranking position for both of those […]
So you’re ready to build a website but don’t know how to get started. Don’t worry; we’ve all been there. One of the first steps is finding the best website builder to meet your needs based on the type of website you’re trying to create. But if you run a […]
Squarespace is one of the most popular website builders available on the market today. It’s a quick, easy, and legitimate way to get a new website up and running from scratch. Anyone can build a website with Squarespace. You don’t need to be too tech-savvy, know how to code, or […]
Creating content is hard work. It takes time, effort, and resources to make landing pages, write blogs, build custom infographics, and create videos for your website. But all of that hard work will go to waste if people aren’t navigating to your site. Creating the content itself is only half […]
In a perfect world, all of your website traffic would be organic. That’s the most ideal scenario for everyone. But sometimes it can take 6, 12, or even 18 months for you to really notice the benefits from your organic search strategies. That’s not to discourage you. While you should […]
Blogging is arguably the best content creation strategy for promoting your website. Publishing blogs on a regular basis boosts your site traffic, adds SEO value, generates leads, helps you build backlinks, and increases your internal linking opportunities. Blogging gives your website visitors a reason to keep coming back to your […]
I wrote a ton of blog posts. Over the last year alone, I’ve published a minimum of three blogs per week here at Quick Sprout. Some weeks it was even more, at times with multiple posts per day. If you’ve been reading my blogs for a while now, you know […]
SEO goes far and beyond keyword research and building backlinks. There is also a technical side of SEO that will largely impact your search ranking. This is an area where your robots.txt file will become a factor. In my experience, most people aren’t too familiar with robots.txt files and don’t […]
In the past, I’ve shown you how to build links and traffic from link roundups. This strategy involves creating content that will get featured in a weekly or monthly roundup post on other websites. Now I’m going to teach you how to create an expert roundup. What’s the difference between […]
There are so many different elements of SEO. For the most part, all of these various aspects can be broken down into two main categories; on-page SEO, and off-page SEO. The biggest factor of off-page SEO is backlinks. While on-page SEO is comprised of elements like content copy, title tags, […]
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Human-to-human connections are the heart and soul of business. At the end of the day, you’re dealing with people — your company is solving problems, alleviating pain points, and providing delightful customer experiences. Revenue is something that happens as a byproduct of a sound business model and a positive customer […]
You’ve launched an amazing product or service. Now what? Now, you need to get the word out. But you’re on a budget and can’t afford the $10K a month to hire a fancy agency and put out press releases. That’s fine. You’re better off executing you’re on strategy or hiring […]
A push strategy usually involves interrupting the content that is being consumed. You aren’t the tweet they want to read, but instead, you’re the tweet ad that they read on their stream. You aren’t the YouTube video they want to watch, but you are the pre-roll ad that they watch […]
So, you want to get new visitors to your site? There are three fundamental ways to get traffic. No more. No less. You can pull people in, push people in, or you can use the product to get people in. These are the 3 p’s of getting traffic. What’s the […]
Now you have visitors to your product, but that’s the problem. They are just visitors. You’ve found a way to get them to come to your product, but if this is all you do then they will bounce at an incredibly high rate. Your goal is to activate them. Activation […]
The ability to use the product itself to get new visitors is one of the most exciting aspects of growth hacking. Pulling visitors into the top of your funnel is good, and so is pushing them in, but there is something magical about using the product itself to drive traffic. […]
