“Structural SEO” is a process of systematically structuring a website so that its pages rank well on Google for multiple keyword combinations naturally. Like the term “growth hack“, “structural SEO” has been applied widely yet didn’t have a name until someone coined the term.
“Structural SEO” is most commonly applied to growth online marketplaces.
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Crunchbase is another good example of Structural SEO. However, there are still a lot of room for improvement.
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We all need different software to run our startups smoothly. The average small business uses 102 different apps, while each mid-market business uses an average of 137 apps based on this 2020 research.
And when you need to integrate one software with another software, the thing you do is probably Googling “integrate A software with B software.” At least that was exactly I found Zapier.
According to SEMrush’s data, Zapier ranks for 3.6M keywords and gets 12M visits/mon. 45.70% of its traffic is from search engines.
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If you ever tried to find home improvement contractors on Google, you’ll probably notice that Houzz ranks well for almost everything such as “kitchen remodeling company in [XX city]”, “[XX city] interior designer”, and “carpenters near me.”.
Today Houzz has 25M monthly visitors and around HALF of their traffic is from search engines based on SEMrush data.
So here’s the billion-dollar question: How the hell do they do that???
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I found all books I can about two-sided marketplaces. Most of the books I found center around their founders’ founding stories. That’s actually better for me, because, who doesn’t love good stories?
They are my personal reading lists.
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We’re not talking about how your store can rank well on Amazon. We’re talking about how to out rank Amazon on Google.
However, Amazon is the king of eCommerce currently. At almost 1.7 TRILLION market cap, Amazon is a tough SEO competitor.
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Most effective ways to build quality backlinks. As I always way, SEO, in a nutshell, is “relevancy + authority“. Structural SEO is the most effective way to create “relevancy” to capture thousands (if not millions) of search quaries on Google. But what about “authority”?
What the best ways to increase domain authority?
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Pablo Picasso is often quoted as saying: “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” It’s debatable if Picasso did say that, however, this is so true in growth hacking. Most of the time when hearing about famous growth hacking stories, you can’t simply copy someone else’s “tricks.” You need to tweak here and there to fit your context.
Continue reading “How HubSpot Steals Hotmail’s “Signature Growth Hack” and Get Users to Promote HubSpot for Free”Looking for growth hack inspirations? You’re in luck.
Some people collect stamps, some collect cars, Well, I collect growth hack stories, especially marketplace startups’.
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Most of TripAdvisor’s revenue was generated by users clicking from its site to hotel booking sites, on the other hand, Yelp mainly makes money from advertising. Should I even compare them?
I’d argue, YES! because in terms of SEO, they both focus on local searches.
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