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Three Ways to Grow Your Curated Email Newsletter Faster

By Brian Clark

Note: This is the second of three core lessons related to content curation based on a case study of my new email newsletter Further. You can listen to the first episode here: Position Your Content Curation for Success With These 5 Essential Elements.

A key aspect of last week’s episode was identifying the purpose of any smart content curation project – audience building. Specifically, building an audience asset in the form of an email list.

This week we’re focusing exactly on that essential element. After smartly positioning your curation project, you want to do everything you can to …read more      

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How to Increase Your Website’s Traffic Without Any Marketing

By Neil Patel

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What if I told you that you can increase your traffic without any marketing? That’s right… even if you don’t have a marketing bone in your body, you can generate more traffic and sales.

“How?” you may ask. All you have to do is follow this long tail strategy:

Leveraging long tail SEO

Who doesn’t want to rank for terms like “credit cards” and “auto insurance,” right? Although those terms are lucrative, they are actually extremely difficult to rank for.

On the other hand, long tail keywords are much less competitive, and they will drive the majority of your traffic.

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10 Key Factors That Will Determine the Future of Google+

By Eric Enge

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Google+ seems to be the social network that people love to hate. The industry almost has an internal clock about when to print the next article about Google+ dying.

So what’s the real story here? Is Google+ going to die soon? Should you invest time in it?

I will outline the way I look at it in today’s post, and while I will bring in many discussion points, bear in mind that for Google it’s all about the data.

Whether or not Google+ lives or dies will be determined by its utility as a data source, because data is money for …read more      

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Why Creating Your First Blockbuster Online Product Is Easier Than You Think

By Danny Iny

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Imagine you’ve just launched your first product.

It’s a short little course, just a few weeks long, that teaches the “DIY” version of the topics you help people with every day. You built it once, delivered it online, and now it works for you while you’re off doing other activities you love.

This online course has been a transformative force in your life.

You’ve found financial freedom, because you’re no longer constrained by the economics of trading time for money. And you’ve multiplied your impact, making the world a better place for dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people.

It’s …read more      

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The Ultimate SEO Checklist: 25 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Your Next Post

By Neil Patel

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Do you know what the largest traffic source for your blog is? It’s not social media or direct visitors…

It’s actually Google. And if it isn’t, that means you haven’t thought about your SEO the right way.

Just look at the image above. It shows that Google drives 40.51% of the traffic to Quick Sprout.

So, how do you ensure that your blog is optimized for search engines… other than just installing the Yoast SEO plugin? All you have to do is ask yourself the following questions before you publish your next blog post:

Keywords

You should never stuff your blog posts with keywords, …read more      

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