SEO Testing: 8 Experiments To Improve Organic Traffic
Is your search engine optimization strategy stuck in a rut? Here are some things you can experiment with to improve your ranks and drive traffic.
SEO Training 2023: 7 Easy Ways to Grow Your Organic Search Traffic
In this new SEO training for 2023, I’ll show you 7 ways you can increase your Google rankings and organic search traffic.
More specifically you’ll learn:
1. How to optimize the bare-bones essentials – these are factors that EVERY website needs to optimize for. Think of them as the bare minimum to compete.
2. How to optimize for E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) – almost every website is doing this wrong right now and it’s critical going forward.
3. How to optimize for “low-hanging fruits” – these are golden SEO opportunities that most websites completely ignore.
4. How to use the “Authority Transfer Technique” to skyrocket your rankings without any backlinks.
5. How to leverage “Featured Snippet Jacking”
And so much more!
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SEO Mistakes: Why 91% of Content Gets No Organic Traffic
We studied ~1 billion pages of content and found two common SEO mistakes holding 91% of pages from ranking on Google.
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Additional SEO Resources
How to Get Backlinks By “Stealing” From Low-Quality Pages ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPjPjNK-bDM
Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer ► https://ahrefs.com/keywords-explorer
Guest Posting at Scale: Get Tons of High Quality Backlinks ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQK1Vbgb-RY
The New SEO Toolbar by Ahrefs (and How to Use it) ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyWi352p8NI
How to Increase Organic Traffic with a Content Audit ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWNvAGwiVqo
SEO For Beginners Tutorial ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvwS7cV9GmQ
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In addition, we found that 4.5% of pages get less than 10 search visitors each month.
While the stats may seem alarming, our data points to two common SEO mistakes to avoid to be in the top 5% of web pages across the entire internet!
The first SEO mistake we discovered is that pages with no traffic do not have any or many quality backlinks.
In fact, we found that 55.24% of pages have zero referring domains pointing at them. And 29.79% of pages have backlinks from less than three websites.
Some marketers believe that link building is useless. However we found a clear positive correlation between the number of referring domains pointing at a page and its organic search traffic.
And the same goes for the total number of keywords a page ranks for.
Bottomline: if you want to get organic traffic to your pages, then you need to build links as it is foundational and an SEO best practice.
This tutorial covers a couple link building strategies to get backlinks to existing content.
If you’re relatively new to link building, then we strongly recommended you watch the tutorials in this playlist to sharpen your skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAIWG8883uo &list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2tjUTuAHpHidz5e2hAedP_m
The second SEO mistake that we saw in pages with no search traffic is that they are not targeting a topic with enough search traffic potential.
Even if you have all the links in the world, but you’re not targeting a meaningful keyword with search traffic potential, then you may not be able to reap the passive SEO traffic that’s possible with Google.
This is one of the biggest mistakes that you’ll see news sites doing.
For example, we found that nearly 30,000 pages had over 200 unique websites linking to them, but had no monthly search traffic whatsoever.
This was most commonly found in two scenarios.
The first were pages that went overboard with black hat SEO techniques. And the second type were news websites.
Since news articles are often focused on “click-worthy” headlines, it can be challenging to ground them behind meaningful keywords. Also, journalists are trained to write, but not necessarily for SEO copywriting.
If you happen to have pages with a lot of links, but are not gaining search traffic, you’ll learn a couple ways to use these pages to increase your organic traffic.
Timestamps:
1:01 Mistake #1. Pages don’t have enough quality backlinks
1:58 “Steal” links from the top-ranking pages for your target keyword
2:39 Use guest blogging to get links to pages that need the boost
3:57 Mistake #2. Pages are targeting topics with low traffic potential
5:27 Match your content with the searcher’s intent
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SEO Checklist: How to Get More Organic Traffic (Complete Tutorial)
This video walks you through our complete SEO checklist that’s helped us get over 300k monthly SEO visitors from Google. Learn how to rank higher in Google and get more traffic.
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Additional SEO Tutorials and Resources
SEO For Beginners: A Basic Search Engine Optimization Tutorial for Higher Google Rankings ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvwS7cV9GmQ
How to Learn SEO Fast and Effectively ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3voFGCpws0
How to Measure Keyword Difficulty and Rank on Google ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSOq3ysvBk8 &list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2tIF-QrFD854Mnb8D4Av5vx &index=3
Guest Posting at Scale: Get Tons of High Quality Backlinks ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQK1Vbgb-RY
Top 10 On Page SEO Techniques ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWiNz-7gZ24
How to Get Backlinks By “Stealing” From Low-Quality Pages ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPjPjNK-bDM
Broken Link Building in Action (Strategies, Outreach Emails and Stats Revealed) ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOSrx95e4lo
Link Building Tutorial Series ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovu2ZYWgOJQ &list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2tjUTuAHpHidz5e2hAedP_m
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The categories of search engine optimization spans from keyword research to on-page SEO, technical SEO, link building and more.
Tackling all these pieces at once isn’t a good idea because they can lead to confusion and overwhelm. In this video, Sam shares an SEO checklist that will help you stay optimized, organized and sane.
Firstly, you learn how to nail your basic setup by creating a sitemap and checking for a robots.txt file. You’ll also find out the essential free SEO tools that you should set up, like Google Analytics and Google Search Console.
Next we delve straight into keyword research by first finding a primary keyword target for your page and assessing search intent.
Sam then shows you a couple of handy ways to look for related queries to your topic and reveals a technique to find relevant keywords and subtopics for your post. We then look into assessing your chances of ranking in Google.
On-page SEO comes next. Based on some findings from Ahrefs’ research, you’ll learn the importance of using short, yet descriptive URLs, and the most important thing to optimize for when drafting a compelling title tag and meta description. Sam also shows a nice little bonus tip to find places to add relevant internal and external resources.
Next up on the SEO checklist is to create your content.
You’ll learn the importance of writing an engaging introduction and get a few tips to learn how to ensure your content is readable for the vast majority of readers. We then look into how you can ensure your content solves the problems readers are searching for.
Subsequently you’ll discover the most important white hat link building strategies and techniques:
– Find prospects who are linking to competing pages
– Expand your list of link prospects using Content Explorer
– Guest posting
– Skyscraper Technique
– Broken link building
Lastly, you’ll learn the basics to ensure your technical SEO is up to par.
You’ll learn how to run an SEO audit with Ahrefs’ Site Audit tool and additional tools to measure and fix page speed issue.
You’ll also learn how to check that your site is mobile-friendly as well as fix external and internal broken links.
Breaking SEO down to smaller bite-sized checkpoints can help you get things done effectively and efficiently. This video gives you the complete SEO checklist you need.
Timestamps:
0:37 Start with a basic setup
2:09 Do the keyword research
6:27 Optimize your pages for search
8:49 Create useful content
11:07 Build relevant links
13:49 Don’t forget technical SEO
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The 8-Step SEO Strategy for Higher Rankings
In this video you’ll see my exact SEO strategy.
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll learn in today’s new video:
#1: I’ll show you how to do keyword research. The keyword research game has changed A LOT over the last year or so. Today, you want to find “Opportunity Keywords”. I will explain what they are and exactly how to find them in the video.
#2: You’ll learn how to create content that ranks today. Traditional content formats (like list posts) don’t work as well as they used to. So if you want to rank on the first page of Google in 2021, you need to change things up. Specifically, you need to make sure that everything that you publish has a “hook” that will push bloggers and journalists to link to you.
#3: How to build backlinks. Yup, link building is still a super important part of search engine optimization. But the game has changed. Today, it’s all about getting white hat backlinks from authority sites in your industry. And I show you how to build legit links using proven link building strategies.
#4: Skyscraper Technique 2.0. This is a modern-day spin on a classic content marketing strategy. Skyscraper 1.0 still works. But to rank your site for competitive keywords, you need to use The Skyscraper 2.0 approach too.
#5: Lots of advanced SEO tips, examples, case studies and more.
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