The Growth Toolkit: How Shopify Landed 188,029 Links & 2M Visits

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(Shopify) their growth engine but one that contributes to 2 million organic visits a year and 188,000 inbound links.

An investment in free tools like a Privacy Policy Generator and Logo Maker has helped Shopify have a presence in the search engine results page for over 70,000 different keywords and phrases.

  • There are 5 million searches for “mortgage calculator” per month.
  • There are 135k searches for “business plan template” per month.
  • There are 35k searches for “privacy policy generators” per month.

The Privacy Policy page boasts more than 75,000 organic visits a year for Shopify. The tool has been linked to more than 1,700 times and currently ranks for more than 445 keywords.

The free Logo Maker (Hatchful) generates nearly 500,000 visits a month for Shopify.

Free Tools also:

  • Generate leads through these experiences
  • Generate backlinks boosting their site authority
  • Build stronger relationships with their market
  • Capture emails to help them stay top of mine
  • Strengthen their SEO moat by ranking for new keywords
  • Weaken competitors through arbitrage

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In 2017, Shopify acquired Oberlo.com for $15M

Our data predicts that Oberlo will generate over 2 million visits a month by March 2021.

The total value of the organic traffic they capture is worth $21 million. It’s attracted as a product more than 480,000 backlinks, ranks for 825,000 keywords and is on track to generate 21 million annual visits a year by 2021.

简单来说,Shopify 获取量首先是靠 inhouse built free tools,然后通过收购 Oberlo 来获取更多的流量。