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How I grew 347+ LinkedIn connections in a few hours without writing any post (LinkedIn)

Invite your email list. That's a great way to grow your audience quickly.

On Friday, I was randomly browsing the internet and suddenly an idea flashed i.e. importing your contacts on LinkedIn. I downloaded my email list from MailerLite and uploaded it to LinkedIn. Then I selected 843 contacts (with a profile picture) > sent a connection request in 1 click to all. > Grew my LinkedIn account from 349 connections to 696 connections. 

Tip: If you have an email list, upload it on the import contacts on LinkedIn. And don't forget to send me a connection request on LinkedIn.

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Request internal links for your guest posts to get more traffic

Guest posts are a powerful way to reach a new audience, but they can do even more with a simple ask. Give them more juice by requesting that the publisher link internally to your article.

After writing some guest posts, Nick Ventouris of Syndesmos experimented with getting each site that published one of his articles to link internally to it.

He used Ahrefs' "best by links" tool to find the most powerful pages on each site that were relevant to his guest post. And he made sure that these pages were only two or three clicks from the homepage so that more SEO juice would flow to his article.

Then, he reached out to each site and requested that they add internal links to his guest post, offering these pages as suggestions. And he let them know that this would be good for them too, as the links should increase time on site.

Of course, not everyone will bite. They may even ask for payment. But it's worth a shot. In Nick's experiments, it boosted his search ranking significantly in every case.

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Snippets

• You don’t win fans from fighting with people. You win fans from lifting others up. (Tweet it)
• AdTargeting.io is a free ad targeting and analytic tool which can help you discover more hidden interests and the most cost-effective Google keywords to effectively control ad costs and increase ROI of your ads
• Use Formito’s favicon maker to create a letter-based favicon like most big tech companies, or be playful and create an emoji-based favicon. Don’t like an SVG icon, simply download the PNG file and you’re ready to go! It's Free.
• Tailwind Play, an advanced online playground for Tailwind CSS that lets you use all of Tailwind's build-time features directly in the browser. Checkout the Product Hunt video to know more.

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Shower Thoughts

A treat for you. Enjoy!

• A wireless charger restricts your phone much more than a wired one does. (Tweet it)
• Dropping a cup of coffee usually wakes you up more than drinking it. (Tweet it)
  
• Listening to podcasts before bed is the adult version of story-time. (Tweet it)
• Your hand size determines the size of your sign language font. (Tweet it)
• Porn sites prove that companies can just develop fully functional websites for mobile clients instead of insisting you download an app. (Tweet it)

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