Turning Google traffic into leads, and what’s new in SEO

Julian ShapiroContributorShare on TwitterJulian Shapiro is the founder of BellCurve.com, the growth marketing team that trains startups in advanced growth, helps you hire senior growth marketers, and finds you vetted growth agencies. He also writes at Julian.com.More posts by this contributor

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Without further ado, onto the advice.

What are some new, advanced SEO strategies?

Our community ran an SEO masterclass in which we discussed Google's algorithm updates and shared advanced practices for writing blog content in a data-driven manner.

Tactics for turning blog visitors into leads

Based on insights from Nat Eliason from Growth Machine.

SEO traffic can sometimes be a vanity metric if you're not converting it into lead flow. Here are three ways to convert blog visitors into leads:

1. Prompt blog readers with quizzes to help them identify the product/plan that's best suited for them. Then require their email address to see results. Follow up with drip emails.
2. Create "Buyer's Guides" - downloadable PDFs with nice visuals that help readers figure out how to accomplish their goals (e.g. "paleo cooking starter kit.") Again, require an email for them to download the complete guide.
3. Pixel your blog visitors and retarget them with Facebook ads. Have the ads send visitors to landing pages that match whichever blog content category initially drew them to the site.

How to (re-)target business customers with Facebook ads

Based on insights from Nima Gardideh of Pearmilland Julian Shapiro of Demand Curve.

Most people use their personal email address on their Facebook/Instagram account. So if you're collecting business emails during your user onboarding process, Facebook can have a hard time matching those emails to the corresponding Facebook profiles when creating custom targeting lists.

Here are a few tricks around this: