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Brian Dean

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Brian is the founder of Backlinko, and now an internationally recognized SEO expert. After failing with his first five online businesses, Brian finally struck gold with a site in the personal finance space in 2012. He created Backlinko to teach the lessons he learned along the way.

Since launching Backlinko, Brian made a name for himself by publishing insanely practical strategies that marketers can use to grow their online business. Backlinko is now one of the most popular marketing blogs online.

After selling Backlinko to Semrush, he started another successful venture, Exploding Topics. But he also stuck around to continue to help set the standards for Backlinko, and we’re thrilled to still have him around as a contributor.

Latest articles:

How to Launch an SEO Campaign [Template Included]

How to Launch an SEO Campaign

This post outlines exactly how to create a successful SEO campaign. (Step-by-step) The best part? You’re going to see lots of real-life examples of these steps in action. Let’s dive right in.

Viral Marketing: The Definitive Guide

This is the complete guide to viral marketing. In this new guide you’ll learn: How to launch viral campaigns from scratch How to make viral videos Helpful tools, strategies and pro tips Lots more Let’s dive right in.

List Building: How to Build an Email List

List Building: How to Build an Email List

Today I’m going to show you how to build your email list (FAST). In fact: The strategies in this post helped me grow my list from scratch… to 172,126 subscribers. And today I’m going to show you the exact list building strategies that I used to get these results.

How To Boost Conversions by 785% in One Day (The Content Upgrade)

How To Boost Conversions by 785% in One Day (The Content Upgrade)

If you want to grow your email list (FAST) there’s one thing you need to know: Traditional bribes like free reports and email courses don’t have nearly the same juice that they used to. So… What CAN you offer that gets people to fork over their email address? The Content Upgrade. It’s a simple strategy that instantly increased my conversion rate from .54%. to 4.82%. And in today’s case study I’m going to show you the exact step-by-step process that I used.