Quick Sprout

As of right now Quick Sprout has 62,232 comments, which took place over 353 blog posts. That means the average blog post gets around 176 comments… which is more than most blogs.

Sure, if you go through the comments you’ll notice that half of them are from me replying back to each comment, but that still leaves 88 comments per post.

Do you want to know how I was able to achieve such a high comment count? Here’s how I did it:  [click to continue...]

Do you use title tags and meta description tags? Well of course you do because you already know about the meta tags that can help boost your search engine rankings.

But did you know that meta tags actually affect your social media traffic? Sure, there is Google’s authorship tags, but what about Facebook and Twitter. They actually both have their own social media meta tags that can help you boost the amount of social traffic you’re getting.

They’re called Facebook Open Graph and Twitter Cards. Here’s how you can leverage both of them:  [click to continue...]

Are you tired of building links the old school way? You know, the methods that require you to send out emails to thousands of webmasters begging for links. Don’t get me wrong, they still work well, but they get boring after a while.

So what other ways can you build links?

Well, there are a handful of creative strategies out there. Here are 11 fun ways you can build links without burning yourself out :  [click to continue...]

My favorite form of real estate is online websites. There is a large opportunity to make millions of dollars on the web with a lot less capital requirements compared to other forms of investment.

One of the ways I’ve grown my wealth over the years is to invest in online real estate. Sure, I have my main companies like KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg, but I also own a ton of small sites such as Gym Junkies that most people don’t know about.

Here’s the process I use to make money from acquiring and selling sites:  [click to continue...]

There are two key elements to marketing. The first is to drive traffic to your website and the second is to get the traffic to convert into customers. You can have a million visitors going to your website, but if you can’t convert them, what’s the point?

Over the years I’ve learned a lot about improving conversion rates. Some of my knowledge has came from hiring conversion rate consultants, or even running my own a/b tests, but most of it has come from co-founding 2 analytics companies: KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg.

One of the easiest ways you can boost your conversion rates is by optimizing your call to actions (CTAs). Here are 11 ways you can improve your CTAs:  [click to continue...]