None to Run · B2C · beginner running app
Write a blog post that ranks for 'alternative to Couch to 5K' and links to the app
Became the app's main traffic source
Workedseocontentweb-to-app
What they did
One blog post ranked high in search for 'alternative to Couch to 5K'. Readers went from the post to the App Store and became subscribers.
What happened
Host says it was the app's main source of traffic.
In their words
Sub Club by RevenueCat · Making Web2App Work: From Basic Landing Pages to Complex Sales Funnels — Nathan Hudson, Perceptycs“Their main source of traffic was people searching alternative to couch to 5K, and they had this one blog post that ranked really high for that.”
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