
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

Link building is the “hard” part of SEO. Links are a challenge to build, they take time or money,
Mike Taber • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
You shouldn’t plan to sell to a customer on their first visit
Mike Taber • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
you will begin to see that many sources of traffic do not convert at all. And you can stop pursuing that traffic and focus your efforts on methods that bring in sales.
Mike Taber • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
The first month you launch you will be lucky to break $100 in revenue.
Mike Taber • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
Writing basic posts focused on keywords and building no audience whatsoever can still be an absurdly valuable asset to your business and is much easier than trying to build a real blog audience.
Mike Taber • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
Google alerts71 is one of the most under-used tools in online marketing.
Mike Taber • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
The best day revenue your startup ever has will be the day you cash in a bit of your list equity and email them with a time-limited promotion.
Mike Taber • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
Then, the first person who signs up will receive the first email, then a two week gap, then the second email. And the 500th person who signs up a year down the line will receive the same first email, a two week gap, and the same second email. In this manner none of your content is wasted; you haven’t created throw-away emails early in your list, ev
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Google likes straightforward link structures such as the fact that nearly every blog has an archive page that links to every post ever published, and category pages that group posts into categories (called silos in SEO-speak).