I am absolutely O.C.D. when it comes to tracking, measuring, and recording data. One of the best skills you can have in SEO is to be able to stay efficiently organized. Only by keeping track of what actions you’ve taken, will you be effectively able to make correct decisions about what to do next.
Famous management consultant Peter Drucker once said: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” I couldn’t agree more.
Welcome back to Episode 2 of the SEO Spotlight series. In the last episode, we visited three SEO’s that think outside-the-box in order to tackle their problems.
Being a person who appreciates creativity, I’ll be keeping up with the same theme here by interviewing three more SEOs who have made great progress in the areas of affiliate SEO, PBN, and client scaling. You’ll learn their thought processes and find out how you can apply these same ideas to your own SEO projects.
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I was a strange child. I always seemed to do things a bit differently than the other kids. The habit stuck.
I use four fingers to hold a pen. I’m right-handed but left-legged. I never wear underwear. You should see the process I use to tie my shoes.
Needless to say, I’ve always been fascinated with the various ways we can solve the same problems. In my own SEO business, I spend a majority of my time testing. What I’ve found is there is no cookie-cutter blueprint for success in SEO. It’s always going to depend on your particular situation, skill set, and resources. Read more »
Has this ever happened to you?
You send some links to your money site and wait for the result. One week goes by… nothing. Two weeks… still flatline. An entire month goes by and nothing has changed.
Or even worse: after you send the links, you see the rankings actually drop. Read more »
Along this continual road as a student of SEO, there have been a handful of breakthrough techniques that I’ve picked up which helped me rise to new level. Actually, I hesitate to call them techniques, since some of them are so simple, they really could be coined as “tricks” or “hacks”. Nevertheless, before I had these breakthroughs I was stuck with a particular problem, and after I had integrated them into my knowledge-base, my entire suite of client and personal money sites experienced huge gains.
Some examples of these breakthroughs can be found in my posts on:
The particular hack I’ll be discussing in this article is how to create “On-page Topic Relevance”
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Indexing can be a pain in the ass. Until I found this trick, I was fumbling around impatiently, trying to use pinging services and social bookmark blasts in order to get something indexed.
This trick is:
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Definition: When you build links to a site and you see little to no ranking benefit.
Back around mid-2014, we started to see a sandboxing effect on new domains that had been recently registered.
Before that time, you used to be able to register a new domain, build some backlinks to it, and within 5 days it could potentially be on page 1. Now a days, SEOs are reporting sandbox periods of 3-6 months long. Read more »
There’s a ton of buzz going around about what the next face of SEO is going to look like. Those who stay ahead of the curve are going to reap the benefits. In case you’re not up to speed, here’s a summary on a few SEO techniques are being hyped up right now and my testing results on each.
Tweets, Shares, G+’s, Facebook likes, Pins, and bookmarks.
There’s been a ton of talk about social signals over the past 3 months. People have come forth saying that they’re ranking local search YouTube videos solely on social signals. The main debate seems to be over how the social signals are obtained. Namely, if they should come from real accounts or automatically generated accounts. Read more »
It’s no secret: Google isn’t a big fan of affiliate websites. Look at it from their point of view. They’re trying to rank the site with the best information. An affiliate site’s primary purpose is selling a product, so they know you’re going to be saying damn well anything to get people to click on those affiliate links. Which is likely far off the mark from “quality content.”
Leaving your affiliate links looking how they usually do (i.e.: long and sloppy) is a dead giveaway that you’re an affiliate. Not only to Google, but to your visitors as well. If you site is a “unbiased” product review site, you’ll lose credibility when a reader sees that you’re directly making money off the product you reviewed.
So whats the solution? Read more »
