Schwartz: Passively waiting for organic search traffic can take years
Eli Schwartz · SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator · Sep 27, 2018 · at 21:10
Eli Schwartz, Director of SEO and Growth at SurveyMonkey, discusses content distribution tactics for newly published websites.
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“You can't hope for organic. You could wait like years for the organic traffic to show up. You need to be proactive about that.”
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