270 Free Vintage Vectors - Free to use for Personal and Commercial use. Growth Hacks. Rand Fishkin: Inbound Marketing for Startups - Speakers - Hackers & Founders TV. Neville's Financial Blog | Financial blog tracking the road to financial success from the age of 22 (now 29). How ThatHigh.com Solved the Chicken and Egg Problem and Grew to 1 Million Pageviews a Month with No SEO. I dispense a lot of marketing advice on this blog. Most of it is backed up by data, or my own experience, or the conventional wisdom accumulated by thousands of marketers.
But it’s important to remember that, in marketing, there are no hard and fast rules or surefire strategies for success. Here’s an example of a project that eschewed conventional wisdom, broke all of the rules, and managed to generate explosive, viral growth through somewhat more unconventional channels.On the surface, ThatHigh is a site that should have never gotten any traction. The primary paradigm of the site is derivative of FMyLife and not particularly unique. It falls into an incredibly competitive and increasingly fragmented humor site for college kids niche. Given how stacked the odds were against it, the meteoric growth of ThatHigh to over 1 million pageviews a month is all the more impressive.
Getting the Idea for ThatHigh Struggling to Retain Traffic Seeding The Site With Content Growing Without SEO. Business Tips for Successful Startups. On Getting Traction. Interviewed by Gabriel Weinberg [video] Gabriel Weinberg, the entrepreneur behind the search engine Duck Duck Go interviewed me earlier today for his upcoming book on getting traction. The video, which runs about an hour in length, is available here. I always look for a summary of contents prior to committing myself to a video (since they’re so much longer than reading a post), so here you go: An outline of Bingo Card Creator’s SEO strategy including… using mini-sites using widgets using scalable content generationMy thoughts on conversion optimizationA/B testingThe multiplicative effect of improvements in your funnels.A wee bit of “How do I do it all?” While previously being employed (outsource, automate, eliminate).
In fact, I was so convinced that I’d rather read videos than watch them 99% of the time that I took the liberty of transcribing it, with Gabe’s permission. Some links to things mentioned in the interview: Speaking of which, it looks like he has Peldi from Balsamiq booked for April 28th. Howdy!