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Indexation and Accessibility - The Advanced Guide to SEO. Welcome to the first chapter of my guide to Advanced SEO. In this section you're going to learn some advanced techniques for evaluation and optimization of your website for indexation and accessibility. This doesn't just mean accessibility for the search engines but accessibility for humans too. That's why this section covers best practices for both engines and users - with this like installing Google translate to making AJAX crawlable. After applying to techniques in this section to your website where most applicable, you should have an exceptionally crawlable and accessible website. Browse Your Site Like a Search Engine When optimizing your site for SEO, wouldn't it make sense to put yourself in the shoes of the search engine? Disable JavaScript in FireFox Go to "preferences" and "content" and uncheck "Enable JavaScript".

We do this because items like menus, links and drop downs need to be available to Googlebot without JavaScript. Disable CSS with the Web Developer Plugin Why disable CSS? How We Grew Crazy Egg to 100,000 Users With A $10,000 Marketing Budget. 13 Critically Important Lessons from Over 50 Growth Hackers. I’ve had the incredible privilege of interviewing over 50 of the most-gifted growth hackers working today.

13 Critically Important Lessons from Over 50 Growth Hackers

People like Neil Patel, the co-founder of KISSmetrics; Ivan Kirigin, who helped Dropbox grow 12x; Elliot Shmukler, who helped LinkedIn grow from 20m-200m users; and of course, Josh Elman, who led growth at Twitter during its period of massive expansion. After spending countless hours conversing with the geniuses of growth, here are 13 things I’ve learned: 1. Retention trumps acquisition It’s a rookie mistake to focus on customer acquisition instead of customer retention, especially early in a startup’s life.

Customer development. Google Play Store ranking Algorithm - Get your mobile app ranked fast. Google Play lag after Apple Store. Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing. The rise of the Growth Hacker The new job title of “Growth Hacker” is integrating itself into Silicon Valley’s culture, emphasizing that coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer.

Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing

Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?” And answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. On top of this, they layer the discipline of direct2 marketing, with its emphasis on quantitative measurement, scenario modeling via spreadsheets, and a lot of database queries. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product. After product/market fit, they can help run up the score on what’s already working. This isn’t just a single role – the entire marketing team is being disrupted.

The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies. App Cubby Blog - The Sparrow Problem. We’ve all read stories about and been enthralled by the idea of App Store millionaires.

App Cubby Blog - The Sparrow Problem

As the story goes… individual app developers are making money hand over fist in the App Store! And if you can just come up with a great app idea, you’ll be a millionaire in no time! That may seem a bit hyperbolic, but that is honestly the way the public perceives success in the App Store. I can’t tell you how many people have called, messaged, emailed, and even cornered me at parties with an idea for “the next million dollar app”. Class 9 Notes Essay. 9 Ways To Make Your Startup Grow Virally. Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit.

9 Ways To Make Your Startup Grow Virally

Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter. If you want your start-up to become the next big thing, it’s not good enough to just build a great product. Unless you can afford to buy users, you’ll have to grow virally. The difference between getting one of your new users to convince one friend to sign up and that person getting two new friends, is huge. Below are 9 ways your start-up can grow virally: Get Your Users to Spread the Word. The Economics of Attention: Why There Are No Second Chances on the Internet : Tech News and Analysis « In my last Om Says, Why Some Apps Works and Some Don’t, I started to explore one of my core theses — the growing importance of the economics of attention and how it relates the success and failure of Internet (and mobile) applications.

The Economics of Attention: Why There Are No Second Chances on the Internet : Tech News and Analysis «

I believe that the economics of attention is much more ruthless and unforgiving than the real economic underpinning of a product. What I mean is that you can find money for your company from an investor, but it wouldn’t really matter if you don’t have users’ attention. This is a hard reality that has been obvious in highly competitive and somewhat subjective marketplaces. Hollywood movies, music and even fashion are markets where “attention” determines the outcome. As far as I am concerned, the Internet and mobile applications fall in the same category.

No Second Chances. Why is Facebook blue? The science of colors in marketing. 33.5K Flares Filament.io 33.5K Flares × Why is Facebook blue?

Why is Facebook blue? The science of colors in marketing

According to The New Yorker, the reason is simple. It’s because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind. This means that blue is the color Mark can see the best. Growth Hacking. About distribution. Strategic BD theory & concepts. Growth Hacking.