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Dramatically Improve Your Site’s Speed, Stability, and SEO Without the Pain (or Cost) of Migrating

By Jerod Morris

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At this point, it’s common knowledge.

But it’s so essential to your online success that it bears repeating one more time.

You need a seriously fast website.

And you know why: The likelihood of losing a visitor due to impatience or frustration increases with each extra millisecond of load time, and fewer happier visitors means fewer leads and fewer sales.

The math is simple. The stakes are high.

And this week only, we’re removing the biggest pain point of switching hosting providers: we’re giving you a free migration.

(You can jump right to the details here.)

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The Perfect Execution of Conversion Rate Optimization

By Neil Patel

The Perfect Execution to Conversion Rate Optimization

Only one in seven A/B tests actually improves a website’s conversion rate. Why? Because conversion rate optimization is more than just testing colors or call-to-action buttons.

If you want to see significant gains in your conversion rate, you have to learn how to come up with the right tests, and you need a better understanding of the conversion optimization process.

In order to help you boost your conversions, I’ve created an infographic that will do just that.

Click on the image below to see a larger view:

Click here to view an enlarged version of this infographic.

Conclusion

I myself run a new A/B test …read more      

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Do Lower Prices Lead to More Sales?

By Sean D’Souza

Sean D'Souza, speaker at Authority Rainmaker 2015

Let’s say you’re choosing between three photography courses covering similar topics.

The prices are stacked like this:

  • $200
  • $250
  • $2,000

What’s going through your mind right now?

Curiosity floods your brain. Even if you’re not sure you can afford the $2,000 course, you want to know why it’s so expensive, compared to the other photography courses.

If we were truly happy with lower prices, we would simply snap up the $200 workshop, right? We wouldn’t so much as take a glance at the rest.

But that’s not how we’re built as human beings.

Many years ago, when …read more      

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5 Traffic Strategies That Build Your Curation Audience

By Brian Clark

Note: This is the third of three core lessons related to content curation based on a case study of my new email newsletter Further. You can listen to the initial two episodes here:

Now we tackle the eternal question: how do you get traffic to your curation site so you can build an email list? Should we start building a war chest for advertising?

Not yet. First we’re going to apply some creativity and sweat into driving …read more      

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7 Proactive Ways to Get Backlinks That’ll Actually Boost Your Traffic

By Neil Patel

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Are you tired of people telling you that if you write great content, people will naturally link back to you?

It’s actually true to some extent, but if you wait for people to “naturally” link to you, it will take you months, if not years, to hit thousands of visitors a month.

So, how do you proactively get backlinks without spending hours every day? Just follow the 10 tactics below, and you’ll start seeing an increase in traffic:

Backlink tip #1: Respond to questions on Quora

Quora is filled with people looking for help. All you have to do is search for keywords …read more      

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