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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

Your mission is to grow, and for B2C companies it means more users. Russia, with its 145M population has been providing 21 percent of our downloads ever since, and it is our second largest market after the US to date. ASO (Appstore Search Optimization) for apps plays a similar role to SEO for websites. It cost us exactly $0.

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The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Makeā€¦ And How To Avoid It!

Occam's Razor

Here's my process for doing that… ~ Visit www.google.com (or Baidu in China, Yandex in Russia etc). Run a bunch of search queries with the intent of looking for the company's products and services. Organic search rankings (rank, page titles, snippets). Paid search ads (title, creatives, urls shown).

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Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster!

Occam's Razor

You start to see weird things like Russia and India are the same. No better way to optimize for all of search behavior, rather than the absolutely silly obsession with a few keywords (it is fatal when apply to single session conversion scenarios!). are more clearly visible, and you get a much stronger sense of proportions.

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