search engine optimization

Expired domains snapped up by scammers and black-hat SEO folks could erode the trust people have in Google.

Scammers snatch up expired domains, vexing Google

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Demand Curve: How I’d grow Skio

Using Skio as an example, let’s explore how to grow your customer base while maintaining a low churn rate.

Demand Curve: How I’d grow Skio

Earned media carries a ton of value, but not everyone understands how to measure its impact or grasp its full effect on your organic growth.

How to grow your organic traffic with earned media

The company designed its product offerings to connect all of the moving pieces related to booking residential and commercial service work.

Zuper secures $13M to take the sting out of home repairs

HubSpot made a total of 25 investments through its prior fund and expects to continue at the same pace with the new fund.

HubSpot Ventures’ new $100M fund fulfilling ‘mission to help millions of organizations grow better’

While there are hundreds of ways to personalize and optimize your website, knowing what to focus on, and when, can be difficult when you’re seeking maximum impact.

B2B marketing tactics that can help move the needle

The purpose of your company is to sell your solution and generate revenue, but to do that you require customers. So how do you convince someone to bet on you?

The first win: Getting early customers to take a chance with you

Whether you’re investing in your human resources or in critical tech, some outlay in the short term is always needed for long-term success. That’s true when it comes to marketing…

4 ways to leverage ROAS to triple lead generation

Around 15% of website traffic comes through paid search ads. But to turn passive searchers into active shoppers, your ads should answer their question and entice them to click.

Demand Curve: Questions you need to answer in your paid search ads

Much has been made of the rise of the “creator economy” in the last year. With the pandemic biting, millions flooded online, looking for a way to make money or…

Pink Floyd drummer invests in Disciple Media, a platform aimed at the creator economy

In nearly every Google algorithm update in recent memory, Google has rewarded old, megatraffic sites, sending their search rankings soaring at the expense of smaller, newer sites.

5 advanced-ish SEO tactics to win in 2021

Forward-thinking entrepreneurs and growth marketers simply must make time to study their competition, learn best practices and apply them to their own business growth.

5 companies doing growth marketing right

Google search is not what it used to be. We all want to be No. 1 on the search results page, but getting there isn’t enough. It might be worth…

How to land the top spot in Google search with featured snippets in 2021

Every time there is a rumor of a Google algorithm update, a general panic ripples through the SEO community. All this angst is entirely misplaced.

Don’t panic: ‘Algorithm updates’ aren’t the end of the world for SEO managers

While many view Google’s Core Web Vitals as a big hoop to jump through to please the search powers that be, others are seeing — and seizing — the opportunities…

Staying ahead of the curve on Google’s Core Web Vitals

Panoply, a platform that makes it easier for businesses to set up a data warehouse and analyze that data with standard SQL queries, today announced that it has raised an…

Panoply raises $10M for its cloud data platform

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is…

This Week in Apps: Google Play gets new rules, Apple launches app marketing tools, EU looks to rein in tech giants

Utilizing content marketing and digital PR can make huge strides in getting your brand name out there.

2 strategies for creating top-of-funnel marketing content

A lot is debated in the SEO world, but nearly everyone can agree that links are and will continue to be vitally important to the health and rankability of a…

Earn the best backlinks with high-quality content and digital PR

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When you need content to build links, use social proof of concept

Look at what type of topics, methodologies, designs, etc. have performed impressively in the past, learn from what they did and didn’t do well — then create something even better.

When you need content to build links, use social proof of concept

At last month’s Early Stage virtual event, channel growth experts joined TechCrunch reporters and editors for a series of conversations covering the best tools and strategies for building startups in…

Three growth marketing experts share their best tools and strategies for 2020

Landing page optimization company Unbounce is announcing that it has raised $52 million Canadian (approximately $38.4 million in U.S. dollars). Unbounce was founded back in 2009 with what co-founder and…

Unbounce raises $38.4M to build better landing pages with automation

Follow these seven steps to quickly go from having no SEO to a foundation for organic growth and visibility that will serve you well through any economic situation.

In uncertain times, jump start your SEO

Google is making a change to its product search offering, meaning that unpaid listings picked by algorithm will dominate results displayed on the Google Shopping tab instead of mostly paid…

Google switches its Shopping search service to mostly free listings

It requires patience, but it may just make you (and your company) be seen as leaders in your space while improving your insight and building an unfair advantage of trust.

Founders who share insights can build industry trust at scale

Graphite is part of a new wave of growth marketing consultancies launched by former product leaders at successful startups. With a specialization in SEO, and a client list that has…

Graphite brings unicorn product background to growth marketing

Did you notice a recent change to how Google search results are displayed on the desktop? I noticed something last week — thinking there must be some kind of weird…

Google’s latest user-hostile design change makes ads and search results look identical

Google today announced one of the biggest updates to its search algorithm in recent years. By using new neural networking techniques to better understand the intentions behind queries, Google says…

Google brings in BERT to improve its search results

Y Combinator graduate Vendr helps companies manage and renew enterprise software.

Vendr, already profitable, raises $2M to replace your enterprise sales team

Google is making it easier to find and listen to audio content specific to your search interests, with playable episodes surfaced in results that start rolling out today. Playable podcasts…

Google adds playable podcast episodes to search results