Comments on: Thumbtack: 30,000 Home and Trade Leads Last Week http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2011/04/01/thumbtack-30000-home-and-trade-leads-last-week/ LOCAL MEDIA WATCH. The Nexus of All Things Local Mon, 01 Jun 2015 22:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: RDaraga http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2011/04/01/thumbtack-30000-home-and-trade-leads-last-week/comment-page-1/#comment-973369 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:40:28 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/?p=14066#comment-973369 There’s a new site where people could post jobs and get estimates from business at no cost.
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]]> By: Service http://staging.blog.biakelsey.com/index.php/2011/04/01/thumbtack-30000-home-and-trade-leads-last-week/comment-page-1/#comment-590617 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:50:55 +0000 http://blog.kelseygroup.com/?p=14066#comment-590617 For me this article seems to raise more questions than it give answers.

Some of the questions it raises about Thumbtack are:

1. How have their SEO efforts gone after the Panda update? It seems like the type of SEO that they have suggested isn’t the type that would be looked upon favourably by the Panda update.

2. How did the 11 person team scale to successfully distribute 30,000 leads in a single week to quality local service providers?

3. Did they fill all of these quote requests? Or did they leave their consumers hanging?

4. At 390,000 unique visitors per month that equates to less than 100,000 visitors per week, if that’s correct how did they successfully convert 100,000 visitors into 30,000 leads. A 30% conversion rate from web traffic is unheard of.

5. Did the dramatic increase in traffic come from SEO only? Its very rare for Google to send a site a spike of SEO traffic to a particular site. What else did they do to get this spike?

6. Most importantly how did their 11 person team go about successfully collecting the revenues from the leads that they generated.

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