Alek Asaduryan

Happy New Year to all my friends here.

May this year bring good health, happiness, and new opportunities into your life. 😉

In April, I pivoted completely from traditional SEO to social media and Reddit marketing.

Best decision ever.

Reddit is such a nice channel for brands that want to try something new.

Now I'm working with 15 brands in B2B and B2C, and what they get from this is brand awareness and leads.

Oh boy, HARO is back!

Here we go.

Ooops.

Recipe site traffic spikes during Christmas and New Year eve are bonkers.

I'm selling one of my experimental sites in the travel space.

I guess the site itself is not worth it, but the domain could be used for something else.

It is a dot travel domain DR5 and 1 year old.

DM me if you are interested.

I remember trying those out during my teenage years, but they felt way too complicated for my young mind to grasp.

Everything changed in my 20s when I discovered WordPress—it completely transformed the game for me.

This is your quick annual reminder to stay safe online.

-Change your important passwords.
-Turn on 2FA (use an authenticator app).

You’ve got this! 🙌

9. The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
10. The Green Mile

What are your favourites books for 2024?

5. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
6. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
7. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
8. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

I've read 28 books this year. Here are the 10 that I liked the most:

1. Travels with Charley: In Search of America
2. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
4. Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

If you are a small local business, forget about a blog in 2025.

Spend your time on other things like:

-Optimize Google Business Profile
-Create very strong location pages
-Sponsor local events to strengthen your brand
-Share content on TikTok, IG, YouTube...

What else?

3/ Annual Review of Search Deals:

The company is open to allowing browser developers to revisit and renegotiate default search engine agreements annually, ensuring flexibility and responsiveness to market dynamics.

2/ Unbundling Android App Licenses:

For a period of three years, Google proposes to decouple licenses for its services—such as Chrome, Search, and Google Play—from the mandatory preinstallation of other Google apps on Android devices.

Google has proposed a counteroffer to DOJ.

1/ Non-Exclusive Search Agreements:

Google suggests modifying its deals with companies like Apple and Mozilla to make them non-exclusive, allowing for multiple default search engine options across different platforms and browsing modes.

If you ask my wife, no. It doesn't count. 😂

Just added 5 amazing new growth marketing tactics to my database.

They are just perfect for e-commerce sites and work for every possible industry.

Once I hit 100 tactics, I will find a new home for the database. Maybe Airtable or Notion?

Why does this matter?

Because storytelling through numbers makes your content relatable, credible, and engaging.

Are you using the "before and after" data points in your titles?

For example: "How Switching to X Software Boosted Our Team's Productivity from 40% to 85%"

This approach works because:

✅ It creates a clear narrative of change.
✅ It vividly shows your impact with tangible results.
✅ It invites curiosity—people want to know how you did it.

Here’s a hidden gem that can transform your content:

Leverage "before and after" data points to tell a story.

Numbers on their own are powerful, but when you pair them with a clear transformation, they become irresistible.

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If you know your industry well, you can sometimes come up with fantastic topic ideas without using any KW research tools.

And those will be super valuable because 99% of your competitors use Ahrefs/SEMrush.

Hey Roberto, thanks. This place is awesome.

My first impression for this Bluesky app is that I like it a lot.

It looks like Twitter from 2010 or something. I really hope that I would be able to find my tribe here.

Removing broken internal links might not be super beneficial for your SEO.

But your users will hate the experience if you have too many broken links.

This is why you should regularly crawl your site with Ahrefs Site Audit or Screaming Frog.

This is your weekly reminder. 👇