GrowthBadger just had its one-year birthday, and what a year it’s been.

And it’s time for my progress report.

In this post, you’ll see:

• How I’m validating and pre-selling a product
• Traffic sources to this site
• Why I’m repositioning GrowthBadger

And more.

Read the article for all the details.

I recently analyzed 3.25 billion website visits to find out:

• How much do different industries rely on Google and Facebook?
• What are the other main traffic sources for the top sites in those industries?
• Which social media networks send the most traffic to each industry?
• And what are the largest traffic drivers overall, on average?

The following report is filled with information that should be useful to anyone who competes for traffic online.

Now let’s take a look at the data.

Creating content that people want to share and link to isn’t easy.

You might spend weeks putting together an in-depth article, but when you hit publish…

Crickets.

But I’ve found a nearly surefire method to get traffic, shares, and backlinks for your next piece of content.

It’s called the “Double Survey Technique,” and the first article I created with it resulted in total traffic to this entire site increasing by 843% in the first week.

In this case study, I’ll show you exactly how it works.

The GrowthBadger blog just turned nine months old, so it’s time for its third progress update!

In this post, you’ll see all the latest details:

• Traffic to this site (sources and destinations)
• Growth in email subscribers
• My plan for the next few months

And more.

Read on to see it all.

How important is having a .com URL?

Are newer domain extensions like .io and .blog just as good as more traditional ones?

I ran an experiment with 1,500 people to find out.

Read on for the full results, including performance data on 8 popular domain extensions.

We asked 1,117 bloggers about their techniques and results to find out what’s working best right now.

In this post, you’ll learn what they said about their traffic sources, how they make money, article quality vs. quantity, blog post formats, video, podcasting, and lots more.

Let’s get to the data.

GrowthBadger just turned six months old, and it’s time to update you on its progress.

In this post, I’ll show you how I achieved the following:

• 3x increase in site visits
• 11x increase in email subscribers
• 4x increase in backlinks

… all without publishing a single new blog post.

Plus, I’ll show you something I’m calling the “snowmaker strategy”.

Let’s do it!

Bad blog names are confusing, hard to remember, hard to spell, and hard to tell people about. A bad name makes it harder to gain traction and build an audience.

A good name makes all those things much easier.

But most people don’t think properly about naming their blog or business, and they don’t test their ideas either.

Big mistake.

This guide will help you find an awesome blog name and URL in 4 steps by using psychology, a little creativity, and a dash of science.

Because video, podcasts, and other forms of content are getting more popular, a lot of people assume that long-form blogging is dying.

As this post will show you, nothing could be further from the truth.

Whether you’re working on a content marketing strategy for 2019 or you’re doing research for a new article, I’m going to show you 142 recent blog statistics and trends that demonstrate what’s happening in the world of blogging, what’s working well, and where it’s headed.

Read on…

In the first post on this blog, I shared a plan to test 3 marketing tactics over the following 3 months.

That time has passed, and now I’m going to show you the results in detail, including:

• Which post has gotten 73% of GrowthBadger’s pageviews (and which article has only gotten 1% of them)
• The top 5 traffic sources for the site
• The number of visitors, revenue, and email subscribers I’ve gotten so far

I’ll also share my plan for growing this blog over the next 90 days.

Okay, let’s get into it!