If you’ve experienced a drop in traffic since mid-March…then more than likely you were penalized by one of Google’s recent actions.
Which one of those updates is hard to tell, but the biggest one was the Penguin update, which seemed to take a lot of people by surprise.
In order to help you understand exactly what the Penguin update was…and how other actions by Google during this time, like their parked domain mistake and Panda 3.5, might have affected you…and how to tell if you were penalized by any of these actions…
Let’s take a look: [click to continue…]
Getting your app discovered is the fundamental challenge every app marketer faces. With millions of apps across iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and other platforms, standing out in the boundless sea of available apps is becoming increasingly difficult.
The best app marketers will pursue a comprehensive, well-rounded app marketing strategy that includes pre-launch work and post-launch work. The best strategies will include organic and paid app marketing channels.
Here’s the complete guide to app marketing that every app owner needs to follow. [click to continue…]
Pinterest is now the third most-popular social network in the U.S., and the best part about Pinterest is that it is an image driven site, and people love browsing image after image. And if your business is a product based one, you’re a great fit for Pinterest.
If you have a service business, you can still leverage Pinterest, but it will probably be through other means such as producing viral image rich content. If you can get other people to share and repin your images, then you’ll create a boom in traffic to your site.
Here are 9 tips on how to help you do just that: [click to continue…]
You need a college degree to succeed, right? Sure, it does help give you a leg up on your competition, but to be an entrepreneur you don’t need one.
I recently ran into Quick Sprout reader, Alex Mangini, who was sharing his story with me. Within minutes I was amazed at his story because he was telling me how he went from making nothing to $10,000 a month in less than a year.
So I naturally started to dig a bit deeper and ask him a few more questions, but the conversation took a drastic turn. As I was asking Alex some more questions, he politely interrupted me and told me how he had to go back to class.
At first I thought he meant that he had to go to a college class, so I quickly asked him his major… but then he said… “I am a high school student”.
So naturally I felt that I had to share his story with you because there aren’t that many high school kids that I know that make $10,000 a month ($120,000 a year). Heck, there aren’t that many people in the world that actually make $120,000 a year.
So here is Alex Mangini’s story: [click to continue…]
There is nothing worse than waiting for a page to load. As a user you probably get impatient won’t wait that long…and if it’s your site that is taking so long to download, understand that for every additional second of download time you lose 7% of your conversions!
So naturally you would want to strip out anything from your website that isn’t necessary… such as images, right?
But here’s the issue…images are so much more important these days, especially for blog posts. Images explain complex information, they are easier to consume and they generate more social media shares.
In addition to that, images can drive a lot of traffic to your site from search engines. And, according to this Poynter eyetracking study, when people are at your site they will look at the images before the text.
The question is…are your images optimized for search, speed and social media? In other words, are they helping your site or hurting it?
The following 6 tactics will help you to optimize your images so they can bring you more traffic to your site…and keep that traffic there. [click to continue…]
This amazing course will teach you, step by step, how to double if not triple your traffic over the next 30 days.
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