All posts by Ivaylo Hristiyanov

8 Multi-Million Dollar CEOs Tell You How to Run a Digital Agency

Chalkboard with the word Success and go get it written below

In this article, you will find out how to run a digital agency from 8 CEOs who have managed to build multi-million dollar digital agencies (each, not collectively).

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Have you ever heard of topseos.com?

Well, in the digital marketing world, TopSEOs is a big deal since they identify and rank the best marketing agencies across the web through a rigorous evaluation process.

Since we aim only for the best content for Linkody users, we decided to interview the CEOs of 8 multi-million dollar agencies from the “Top 100 SEO companies” ranking (where you can also see their revenues, employee count, retention rates, and more interesting stats). Moreover, they agreed to answer 6 questions on how to run a digital agency.

Just like in our latest popular post, where we asked 12 SEO experts for advice on 5 evergreen SEO questions, you’ll again learn some practical tips & strategies from which you can learn how to run a digital agency.

Here are the 6 questions that we asked The Creative Momentum, Be Found Online, Rocket 55, Straight North, 1Digital Agency, PageTraffic, 1st on the List and E2M:

  1. Is it more practical for a digital agency to focus on a specific niche or keep the spectrum broad and why?
  2. What’s your top advice on how digital agencies can find more clients?
  3. What are the determining factors that will get a potential prospect browsing your website to contact you?
  4. How do you deal with over-demanding customers?
  5. How do you keep people on your team focused and productive?
  6. Which channels (e.g. word of mouth, paid ads, cold outreach, etc) have contributed most to your growth?

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Linkody’s Multi-User Support Feature – Version 1.0

Linkody team work

One of the most requested features here at Linkody backlink tracker has been the possibility of multiple people within the same organization to work on a different client projects, all from 1 Linkody account.

Announcing the ability for Linkody Pro and Agency account owners to provide unique logins for their team members. Pro accounts are entitled on up to 2 users and Agency, up to 5 users. Continue reading

How to Find Competitor Backlinks Worth Chasing

NASCAR pit crew servicing a NAPA car with WIN text and Find Competitor Backlinks caption

A competitor publishes something ordinary. It picks up 40 referring domains in a month.

You publish something better. It picks up four.

The usual advice is to go and get their links. That advice skips the only question that matters. How many of those 40 could you ever have won?

Usually the honest answer is somewhere between 12 and 18. The rest were never available to you.

This article will teach you how you can find competitor backlinks and “take” their links.

Linkody is the tool that can not only help you assess competitor backlinks and show which backlinks are not linking to your site but also help to get all your competitor backlinks.

Feeling like you struck a gold mine?

Well, it’s pretty neat what this backlink tracker can do for you.

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Getting Started with Linkody

startup-593327_640This quick guide will explain how to get started with Linkody in under 5 minutes.

Linkody is an easy-to-use and affordable backlink tracker, in real-time. It is most suitable for SEO Experts, Business Owners, Webmasters or Digital Agencies who need 24/7 monitoring of valuable backlinks & their status. Continue reading