At first glance, the question in the headline seems simple, as a yes or a no. Is there a correlation between traffic and rank? Does more traffic mean a higher rank? Or does traffic have nothing to do with rank? Unfortunately, a simple yes or no answer wouldn’t mean anything here. Correlation vs. Causation The…
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AdSense puts ads on your site, and you earn money when people click them. Therefore, you want as many people to click them as possible. Of course, the simplest solution would be to pay people to click them, at a lower rate than what you make from those clicks, so you still make money. Google…
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Google Analytics is great about categorizing traffic from various sources, so you can see it at a glance. How much of your traffic comes from social networks, versus how much comes from organic search, versus how much comes from email referrals? All you have to do is click the acquisitions tab, and under “all traffic,”…
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The online dating market is huge, offering plenty of dating affiliate programs to choose from. It also happens to fall neatly into the “big three” of affiliate marketing — health, wealth and love. Then when you look at the numbers behind it, you find that the dating industry is worth US$2.5 billion per year in…
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Online guides on how to make money blogging are a dime a dozen — and are often written by people who have never actually made any money blogging. But THIS guide is going to be different. Why? Because I’m the one writing it, and because our blogs have made millions of dollars in the past…
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Every marketer knows that finding new customers today is a multi-step process. It requires several touchpoints and channels, each an opportunity to connect and interact with potential audiences, warming them up until the point of conversion. In fact, the average customer journey from awareness to relevance has no less than 12 touchpoints. The customer journey,…
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High-quality leads are worth their weight in gold. That’s why 79% of marketers say their top marketing priority is to generate more of them: So it’s no surprise that many brands use affiliate marketing to generate leads. Rather than rewarding affiliate marketers for bringing in sales and revenue, pay per lead affiliate programs pay commissions…
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Want to know what people ask me about more than almost anything? Outsourcing content. It’s a major pain point for lots of marketers, and it’s one of the most difficult hurdles to jump when you start to scale a site seriously. For most people, one of the most crucially important things to get right when…
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This article is from the Unstuck newsletter archives — a 5-minute weekly read about what’s working in the world of entrepreneurship for creators just like you. I hope you enjoy it! If you do, join the 127k+ readers who are getting unstuck (100% free!) every week. The post The Most Powerful Way to Show Up…
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As we move closer to the holiday shopping season, we’ve updated the seasonal marketing calendar with fresh links and content to help you. Dive in! Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Super Bowl Sunday, Kwanzaa, Australia Day…what do these all have in common? They are all popular holidays in different markets, which makes them fantastic opportunities for increasing…
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