Growth hacks — advice and tutorials to help you build a business
Below you’ll find some recent articles we’ve written to help you grow your business. You’ll find these in our blog too, alongside our product reviews.
New: check out our in-depth guide on how to start a business.
Blogging
How to Increase Blog Traffic — in 10 Simple Steps
In this article, we share 10 simple ways you can increase traffic to your blog posts — and fast!
March 31, 2022
What is Inbound Marketing?
What is inbound marketing? Find out in our in-depth guide to this important technique for growing a business.
March 2, 2022
Ecommerce
Shopify SEO — How to Optimize Your Shopify Store
Shopify SEO: read Style Factory’s in-depth guide to optimising a Shopify store for the major search engines.
April 9, 2022
How to Buy a Shopify Store using Exchange Marketplace — Step-by-Step Guide
How to buy a Shopify store using Shopify Exchange: some top tips for a successful purchase.
April 1, 2022
How to Make an Online Store — the 6 Key Steps to Starting a Successful Ecommerce Business
How to make an online store — and generate sales with it. A step-by-step guide to getting started with ecommerce.
April 1, 2022
BigCommerce SEO — 10 Essential Tips
BigCommerce SEO — an in-depth guide to making a BigCommerce store rank highly in search results.
March 31, 2022
How to Start a Shopify Store — Step-by-Step Tutorial
A step-by-step guide on how to get a successful Shopify store off the ground.
March 21, 2022
Video: Shopify Review
A video review of Shopify — 7 key pros and 7 key cons of using the platform to build an online store.
March 16, 2022
Email marketing
How to Create a Newsletter (and a Powerful Email Marketing Campaign)
How to create a newsletter — a simple checklist you can follow to create beautiful HTML e-newsletters and effective email marketing campaigns.
April 7, 2022
Autoresponders: What They Are and How To Use Them
Autoresponders — a simple explanation of what they are and how to send them in a way that saves time and generates income.
March 2, 2022
Split Testing — How to Improve Email Newsletter Open Rates
A simple guide to split testing and how it can improve the effectiveness of your digital marketing campaigns.
January 19, 2022
Running an online business
Visme vs Canva — Which is Best?
Visme vs Canva — which of these popular graphic design tools is right for your business? Find out in our in-depth comparison.
March 29, 2022
Canva Pro vs Free — What’s the Difference?
We compare Canva Pro vs Free to help you decide whether it’s worth upgrading to the premium version of this popular design tool.
March 23, 2022
How to Start a Business — 14 Essential Steps
A guide to the key things you need to do when setting up a business.
March 18, 2022
Canva Pricing — The Essential Guide
In this in-depth look at Canva pricing, we take you through the three Canva plans and help you work out which is the best option for you.
March 18, 2022
10 Key Apps For Startups
10 key apps for startups — if you’re starting an online business, here are 10 apps you’re going to need to make a success of it.
March 16, 2022
Canva Review — All the Pros and Cons
In this in-depth Canva review, we look at all the pros and cons of a low-cost graphic design app. Is it right for your business?
March 15, 2022
SEO
Local SEO Checklist — 10 Key Tips on How to Rank Locally
Local SEO checklist — 10 simple tips that can transform your site’s performance in local search results.
April 9, 2022
Shopify SEO — How to Optimize Your Shopify Store
Shopify SEO: read Style Factory’s in-depth guide to optimising a Shopify store for the major search engines.
April 9, 2022
How to Make Your Site More Visible on Google
In this blog post, we share six simple ways that you can improve your site’s search engine optimisation and achieve better rankings in Google.
April 6, 2022
BigCommerce SEO — 10 Essential Tips
BigCommerce SEO — an in-depth guide to making a BigCommerce store rank highly in search results.
March 31, 2022
How to Increase Blog Traffic — in 10 Simple Steps
In this article, we share 10 simple ways you can increase traffic to your blog posts — and fast!
March 31, 2022
How to Recover from a Google Core Update
An in-depth look at what a Google broad core update is, why it might have negatively affected your rankings, and what you can do to recover.
March 16, 2022
Squarespace
Squarespace Pricing — Which Plan is Best for Your Project?
In-depth guide to Squarespace pricing. Which plan is best for your project?
April 20, 2022
Squarespace Free Trial — Everything You Need to Know
Key FAQs about the Squarespace free trial, plus resources to help you make the most of it.
March 15, 2022
How to Speed Up a Squarespace Site — The Essential Checklist
How to speed up a Squarespace site — 9 vital tips on how to make your Squarespace website load faster and perform better in search results.
March 2, 2022
Squarespace SEO — The Definitive Guide and Checklist
Squarespace SEO Checklist — 17 easy-to-follow steps you can take to make sure your Squarespace site ranks highly in search results.
March 2, 2022
How to Add Schema Markup to a Squarespace Site
In this post we show you how to add schema markup to a Squarespace website — and help search engines and users better understand your content.
January 20, 2022
Squarespace GDPR Checklist — The 7 Key Tasks
How to make a Squarespace website GDPR compliant — a checklist outlining all the key steps you need to take.
January 17, 2022
