My Best Digital Marketing Articles 🚀
New to my blog? Well, nice to meet you! I am Alejandro Rioja, a serial entrepreneur that created Flux Ventures and Future Sharks (among other things such as Pickleland, read more about me). I’ve spent the last 8 years learning all I could about digital marketing and SEO. In this round-up, you will find my best…
If you work through these guides, you will learn how I currently get over 500,000 organic visitors per month on my blogs, how I scaled Flux Chargers to $110,000/mo in sales and more!
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My most popular posts with more than 1M reads
- 🔥 How to increase your traffic to 250k/mo
- ☑️ How to get verified on Instagram
- The Highest CPC keywords out there

These are my favorite tools
- Absolute Must Haves
- Canva (design beautiful things)
- G-suite (for gmail, google drive, etc)
- 🔥 Lastpass (don’t use easy passwords ever again!)
- Calendly (stop wasting time finding times for meetings)
- Slack (why use anything else to communicate with your team?)
- 🔥 Raycast (best tool for productivity)
- 🔥 Zapier (automate your entire work)
- Outsourcing
- Fiverr (read my review)
- 🔥 Freeup (way better than Upwork)
- 🔥 Hire me to outsource your marketing (schedule a consultation)
- Marketers secret weapons (you will have to click on them to find out what they do 🤫)
- Ecommerce Tools
- BigCommerce
- 🔥 Shopify
- Read my list of the best e-commerce platforms
- SEO tools
- Productivity
- 🔥 Airtable
- 🔥 Coda (I write the tutorials for my VAs here)
- Google Data Studio (for making better analysis of data) – works amazingly with Supermetrics
- Hosting (trust me, I tried them all. I’m currently on Cloudways)
- Speed up your site
- Others
- Website Builders
- 🔥 Get themes from Envato
- Webflow (if you want to impress your friends)
- WordPress (what I use on my sites given the millions of plugins available)
- Wix (if you want something simple with 0 technical knowledge)
- WordPress Page Builders
- BeaverBuilder
- Elementor
- WP Bakery Builder (the one I’m using on this site)
- Monetize your ads better
- Website Builders

Best SEO Articles
- What is SEO?
- On-Page SEO Factors
- Off-Page SEO Factors
- How to do keyword research
- A list of SEO tools
- Get SEMRush (discount included)
- 🔥 How to do SEO
- Other white hat SEO strategies
- Others

Best E-commerce Guides
- How to Setup Your First E-commerce Store
- Which Ecommerce Platform to Pick?
- 🔥 How to make a million dollars with your e-commerce store
- How to rank on Amazon: Amazon SEO

My Favorite Social Media Tricks
- 🔥 How to go viral on Linkedin
- Twitter scripts for growth
- Verifications
- Get more Snapchat followers
- Youtube SEO
- IG instagram caption ideas
Random Facebook tricks
- 🔥 Invite all your friends to like a page on Facebook
- How to change your FB page name
- How to delete/deactivate your Facebook/Messenger
- Reverse image search on Facebook

My Best Business & Mindset articles
- 🔥 How to be a productive machine
- How to Pick a Niche
- 🔥 How to Scale Your Business
- 🔥 How to Sell Anything
- How to get written up on Forbes, Mashable and Huffington Post
How Startups make money
If you have a startup (or are thinking of starting one!), I think it’s very useful to understand the monetization models of other startups, that way you can learn how to take yours to profitability! Here are my favorite ones:
- Facebook’s monetization strategy
- How does Google make money?
- This just in: Snapchat is in trouble
- Instagram’s revenue model
- Robinhood’s $0 trades model
- Whatsapp’s data is worth $19B
- Discord money making plans
- Pinterest revenue model
- Twitter’s revenue strategy
If you liked these articles, leave a comment below or message me on FB and tell me which article I should write next!
Feel free to connect with me on any social media (send me a short message telling me where you found me!)
The shorter version
If you’re reading this because the workflow it describes is eating your week, that’s the kind of loop I build AI agents for. Two build slots open at a time.
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