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I find that 1-hour sprints followed by 10 minute breaks work for me. Some have longer or shorter focus blocks.
How do you handle burnout or creative blocks in your independent work?
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Start with these 3 blogs:
- Moz
- Ahrefs
- Semrush
The resources you'll find here will help you go through the basics of SEO.
Any SEO experts here?
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How to Build Links to Your Sales Pages
Here's the truth. Nobody wants to link your sales pages.
But you need links for them to rank and drive highly qualified visitors.
So what’s the workaround here?
There are two known ways:
1️⃣ Build content assets that are designed to attract links and then set internal links to your sales pages.
Within this tactic lies two approaches:
Digital PR - where you publish a content asset that...
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How to improve your cold outreach game based on eight years of experience sending cold emails.
Cold outreach is a common avenue for SaaS companies to acquire users.
Much like link building, it shares some common patterns.
Let's tackle the basics first A.K.A. deliverability.
You can have the best template in the world, but if it doesn't land in the inbox, it's useless.
So here's a quick fire checklist:
Make sure your email's technical settings are properly...
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Hello @daniellollopik_djd - I can potentially help you but can you tell me more about your business to see if we're a fit?
can you recommend me a link building agency?
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Any specific area of link building you need help with? @chenx552?
Need some help with backlinks, anyone here?
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What are the top 5 marketing challenges of SaaS businesses?
I'm doing some research around the SaaS community and I thought I'd start with this question.
Looking forward to your valuable insights.
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When building backlinks, you have to tie it with specific objectives for your websites.
Looking to build the authority of your startup website?
Guest posts, directory listings and resource pages are they way to go.
Need to push your product pages to the top of the search?
Strategic partnerships and mining top competitor links will do the trick.
Need to drive relevant traffic to your...
How do you build backlinks?
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How to build links on autopilot in 2024
There are two ways to earn links on autopilot.
Well sort of. but first, let's explore these strategies:
One is ranking a piece of content asset that has "linking intent".
This can be a data visualization or report that provides new, interesting points that's not found in the SERP.
Another way is a piece of content that's often searched by publishers to support statistical claims or...
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Semrush, Moz, and Ahrefs are great resources when you're starting out in SEO. It's also important to apply these learnings either through a personal website or a friend's.
You can learn so much more through application. Best of luck!
can you share some SEO advice?
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How to get your first backlinks for your website
Getting your first links for your SaaS website may seem challenging.
However, here are some initial tips to get the ball rolling:
1. Initial Brand Partners from LinkedIn or ProductHunt: Just like you, there are other brands looking to grow.
Identify brands that are indirectly competing with you but serve the same market.
Propose cross-promotions of your posts or landing pages where it...
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Links will still matter in 2024. Here's why:
Will backlinks still matter in 2024?
A question that's always asked in marketing discussions.
And my answer is always "YES" 💯
Backlinks are the web. They are one of the foundations that the search engine was built upon.
Despite the increasing popularity of AI – links will continue to be essential.
Since people will still need to reference data to back up their claims, promote products that...
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Before you launch a link building campaign this 2024. You need to do this first.
It's 2024. Now is a good time to review your backlink profile.
Link rot affects all websites where you lose a portion of the backlinks you've built.
Possible causes of link rot are from content updates, redirected blog posts or removed pages.
Good news is that it's very easy to identify link rot. I use Ahrefs for this example.
1. Plug-in your website on site explorer.
2. Go to the...
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I worked with a brand that lost almost 80% of its traffic since it stopped building links to their pages. After building a 5-10 high-quality backlinks per month, we started to see some traction and slowly regained traffic overtime - it's still a work in progress since we haven't recovered 100%
So yes. backlinks will still be important for SEO in 2024. However it needs to be relevant to your...
Are backlinks still important in SEO for 2024?
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Unfortunately, that's a common link building strategy for websites. There are a few legitimate sites out there where you can build a partnership and work beyond just exchanging links.
But you have to sift through a ton of spam which is quite unfortunate.
Is it just me or is backlinks the underworld of content marketing?
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I saw a recent case study on Linkedin where they tried to steal the traffic of their competitors by creating AI-generated article.
It did give them a boost in traffic, but declined harshly after that. Putting a human element in your articles will certainly help. Especially if the human facilitating the article has some experience in the topic, which helps with your E-E-A-T score.
Using AI in content creation to boost SEO
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If you want to see how well your competitor pages are performing.
SEMRush and Ahrefs will be your best bet.
Both have their own pros and cons.
Ex. SEMRush has better data in keyword research while Ahrefs can provide better reports gauging the best backlinks of your competitors.
At the end of the day, there's no perfect tool so utilize their free trials and go with something that suits you.
Which services do you use for competitor analysis?
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When building links, relevance is key.
Building links for 8 years helped me realize something.
If Google suddenly took away the ability for sites to get traffic from search (and it already is).
Will the links you've built matter?
Sometimes we get lost in the race on who has the most backlinks, who can build higher authority backlinks.
But are those links driving traffic? Relevant traffic? Are you placing your links on...
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Congratulations on your launch! I'm planning to build in public soon so this might be the right time for me to try the tool! Can't wait!
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