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Hey Guys, when i say Great, i mean superb.

Just checked my email and got this one from Brian Dean, from backlinko. Also he visits here from time to time.

Here is the link to his post. Some really smart stuff here.

21 SEO Techniques You Can Use Today to Get More Search Engine Traffic

I especially like the reddit one.
#great #seo #tips
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Find Broken Link Building Opportunities on Wikipedia
    I guarantee you there's a better way to get relevant Wikipedia links that just about nobody does, and with keyword anchor-text & no links deleted (100% success rate on links from a few years ago). Chasing down those dead links on the article pages will be moderated, you can bet on that.



    Copy Adwords Ads to Make Killer Title and Description Tags
    Keywordspy & Spyfu have been around for years, copying successful PPC campaign ideas & ad copy is nothing new. That's the only reason those two sites exist. Check those two sites out If that's what your interested in, it will speed up the process. Manually sifting through Google SERPs would take too long & you would never know the ad/copy history on live SERP pages. If you see an ad/copy on Keywordspy & Spyfu that has months/years of live ads, it's most likely successful. Once you find some ads with a long history, then go to the live Google SERPs & double check that they're still running the same ad copy.






    Send Juice to Pages Sitting on Page 2 or 3
    Sorry, that's far from being a great tip, it's basic SEO, it's what everyone does when they're trying to rank a page.





    Identify authoritative pages on your site.
    C'mon, moz has no idea what authority is. Might as well be trusting something like Traffic Travis for pushing buttons.




    That's all I read.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      That expert roundup tip is one huge link magnet.

      The product review one is also great but pretty costly, impossible to include that in my services.

      Not so crazy about the Reddit one, if you build some review site then you can just load all your keywords + model numbers in Adwords and request the search volume there.
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      • Profile picture of the author seonutshell
        Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

        That expert roundup tip is one huge link magnet.

        The product review one is also great but pretty costly, impossible to include that in my services.

        Not so crazy about the Reddit one, if you build some review site then you can just load all your keywords + model numbers in Adwords and request the search volume there.
        I agree with that.

        Although i think the Reddit one is more for people trying to find what real people are looking for, without relying on A: The keyword tools and B: Your own knowledge of the niche.
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    • Profile picture of the author seonutshell
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      That's all I read.
      Ah yes! I had a feeling you wouldn't like this... Probably because you didn't write it, so you need to slate it to keep up with your image of being a "Guru"

      I can see through you............................................... ...............
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by seonutshell View Post

        Ah yes! I had a feeling you wouldn't like this... Probably because you didn't write it, so you need to slate it to keep up with your image of being a "Guru"

        I can see through you............................................... ...............
        Can you see me laughing?

        I gave you a way better tip than trolling live SERPs for ad copy.

        Try the Wikipedia dead links, say hi to the Mods.

        Wikipedia tells you exactly what content they need, there's a couple different things they need more than anything else, but you can still pick up outbound links on old Wikipedia pages. Read the Wikipedia wanted pages, it's all in there.

        You can fight them or you can help them, your choice.
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        • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          Wikipedia tells you exactly what content they need, there's a couple different things they need more than anything else, but you can still pick up outbound links on old Wikipedia pages. Read the Wikipedia wanted pages, it's all in there.

          You can fight them or you can help them, your choice.
          This is one of the ways to really use Wikipedia, you go to the pages where they need content and you can give it to them and you get credited for it, here is one of those sites:

          Wikipedia Requested Pictures

          And if you are fluent in another language or targeting something else besides English there are even more opportunities there to get traffic and backlinks
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by patadeperro View Post

            This is one of the ways to really use Wikipedia, you go to the pages where they need content and you can give it to them and you get credited for it, here is one of those sites:

            Wikipedia Requested Pictures

            And if you are fluent in another language or targeting something else besides English there are even more opportunities there to get traffic and backlinks
            Lol, you are so close to what I've done only I put a very small spin on it.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEODollz
    I don't think that the purpose of the technique is to get links on Wikipedia though.

    I for one think that it was a great write up though massive outting lol
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by SEODollz View Post

      I don't think that the purpose of the technique is to get links on Wikipedia though.

      I for one think that it was a great write up though massive outting lol
      He was talking about dead links on Wikepedia. That will be moderated.

      Well you could re-create that dead resource on your site and replace the dead link in Wikipedia with yours.
      I know he said you/we could build the one link but he's still suggesting it to people that don't know anything about Wikipedia links. I'm sure most will try & will build that one link. Repeat...

      I think most people look at Wikipedia links from a BH POV, instead of actually posting something useful. Not you, just most link builders in general.
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      • Profile picture of the author seonutshell
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        He was talking about dead links on Wikepedia. That will be moderated.
        But you can then see how many other sites where linking to the same dead link as Wikipedia, and alert them (hoping that they replace the dead one with your one)

        Like Wikipedia is nofollow anyway, so i think the whole idea for the WIKIpedia idea was for it to be a stepping stone to finding other sites that will link to you.

        EDIT: Probably doesnt make sense what i said ( i have a knack of not being able to write down whats in my head clearly) Hopefully someone who can write better can explain it more clearly
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      • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        He was talking about dead links on Wikepedia. That will be moderated.



        I know he said you/we could build the one link but he's still suggesting it to people that don't know anything about Wikipedia links. I'm sure most will try & will build that one link. Repeat...

        I think most people look at Wikipedia links from a BH POV, instead of actually posting something useful. Not you, just most link builders in general.
        Read the article

        He was talking about broken link building from the external links pointing to the wiki reference. Not getting them on Wiki itself. The theory being that if the original link was good enough to get on Wiki, the content it linked to would most likely be an authority page itself. With its own set of external links.

        Or some shit like that..I don't have time right now to read the article
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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by Kevin Maguire View Post

          Read the article

          He was talking about broken link building from the external links pointing to the wiki reference. Not getting them on Wiki itself. The theory being that if the original link was good enough to get on Wiki, the content it linked to would most likely be an authority page itself. With its own set of external links.

          Or some shit like that..I don't have time right now to read the article
          Learn something old (link rot).

          Welcome to 2005.
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          • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
            Originally Posted by yukon View Post

            Learn something old (link rot).

            Welcome to 2005.
            OMG OMG OMG

            Not the links to wiki. The links to the pages wiki linked to.

            Example:
            Wiki linked to a page because it was a good authority page on a subject. 1000 other sites also thought that page Wiki linked to.
            Recreate that page.
            Contact those 1000 sites and try get them to fix their broken link to your new page.

            It's broken link building, but starting from the top down. In other words, if Wiki found it worth a link, then there's a good chance other sites did too.

            Those are the links your after.
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            • Profile picture of the author yukon
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              Originally Posted by Kevin Maguire View Post

              OMG OMG OMG

              Not the links to wiki. The links to the pages wiki linked to.

              Example:
              Wiki linked to a page because it was a good authority page on a subject. 1000 other sites also thought that page Wiki linked to.
              Recreate that page.
              Contact those 1000 sites and try get them to fix their broken link to your new page.

              It's broken link building, but starting from the top down. In other words, if Wiki found it worth a link, then there's a good chance other sites did too.

              Those are the links your after.
              Huh?

              The Wikipedia link rot page was dated 2005, my point was nobody discovered anything that hasn't been done (for years). Odds are he read a forum/blog or knows a guy that did.

              I know the overall point was domains, I'm sure most will still try & also drop that Wikipedia link. If they don't know about dead links on Wikipedia then they don't know anything as far as Wikipedia goes.

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              BTW, each Wikipedia article page/history is different than the live web page & sometimes has additional reference links. My point is searching on Google for dead links only finds the live web pages, not the article history pages. Even If a live page doesn't contain a dead link, it's still possible to have dead links on some of the history pages.
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            • Profile picture of the author Oscarfishlover
              I have looked and tried out various keyword research tools and to be perfectly honest I just don't see the point in them. For instance, I've just been looking at a tutorial for "keyword blazes". In the tutorial the chap demonstrated something called "niche storm" in which he used a keyword, which ironically happened to be "fishing" (I'm a huge fisherman) a little box popped up with various suggestions that included the word "fishing". I can't understand how this is supposed to help anyone, it doesn't give you any relevant or useful advice whatsoever. If I'm setting up a website about "carp fishing" that includes what baits, techniques, fishing tackle etc why on earth would I need an keyword suggestion tool? If you have an article on what type of baits to use for small carp in small ponds then you don't need any help with keywords, that is what people are going to type into a search engine.

              The same goes for my website that is Oscar fish related. I have various articles including one on "cloudy aquarium water", and another one on "cycling a fish tank" Again, why would you need any type of research tool to tell you which keywords to use?

              Now I'm not pretending to be any type of expert, I'm certainly not. But what I have learnt over the last few years is that keyword research is only half of it. Good quality content that generates lots of back links is the way to get your website onto the first page of the search engine. Once you're carrying that heavyweight, you only need two or three relevant keywords and as long as those keywords are contained in a phrase, you pretty much cracked it.
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              • Profile picture of the author yukon
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                Originally Posted by Oscarfishlover View Post

                I have looked and tried out various keyword research tools and to be perfectly honest I just don't see the point in them. For instance, I've just been looking at a tutorial for "keyword blazes". In the tutorial the chap demonstrated something called "niche storm" in which he used a keyword, which ironically happened to be "fishing" (I'm a huge fisherman) a little box popped up with various suggestions that included the word "fishing". I can't understand how this is supposed to help anyone, it doesn't give you any relevant or useful advice whatsoever. If I'm setting up a website about "carp fishing" that includes what baits, techniques, fishing tackle etc why on earth would I need an keyword suggestion tool? If you have an article on what type of baits to use for small carp in small ponds then you don't need any help with keywords, that is what people are going to type into a search engine.

                The same goes for my website that is Oscar fish related. I have various articles including one on "cloudy aquarium water", and another one on "cycling a fish tank" Again, why would you need any type of research tool to tell you which keywords to use?

                Now I'm not pretending to be any type of expert, I'm certainly not. But what I have learnt over the last few years is that keyword research is only half of it. Good quality content that generates lots of back links is the way to get your website onto the first page of the search engine. Once you're carrying that heavyweight, you only need two or three relevant keywords and as long as those keywords are contained in a phrase, you pretty much cracked it.
                I have no idea about the software your using but the Google Keyword Planner tool is based on traffic volume. Other than for the sake of relevant text you won't want to target a keyword phrase that has 3 unique traffic (example) per month unless your selling high end products (ex: fishing boats, etc...).
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  • Profile picture of the author Oscarfishlover
    There is an enormous amount of software out there now, most of it is a complete waste of time in my opinion. People seem to be making a lot of money out of making folk think that they need the software in order for them to rank highly. The only piece of software that I value is Rankerizer as it tells me exactly what position I reside at on the search engine. It doesn't give me any suggestions on keywords, it just helps me understand which keywords do well. Having said that, if you have a look at Google analytics, it's quite surprising the sort of things people type into Google and find your website. If you truly know your product then do you really need a keyword research tool? If I am selling a red Harrington jacket then there aren't really many other words that you can use if this is what people are looking for.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by Oscarfishlover View Post

      There is an enormous amount of software out there now, most of it is a complete waste of time in my opinion. People seem to be making a lot of money out of making folk think that they need the software in order for them to rank highly. The only piece of software that I value is Rankerizer as it tells me exactly what position I reside at on the search engine. It doesn't give me any suggestions on keywords, it just helps me understand which keywords do well. Having said that, if you have a look at Google analytics, it's quite surprising the sort of things people type into Google and find your website. If you truly know your product then do you really need a keyword research tool? If I am selling a red Harrington jacket then there aren't really many other words that you can use if this is what people are looking for.
      KW research tools are more helpful for people that want to push out sites that they don't care about, like me

      However 99 out of 100 KW research tools give out such poor results that it's hardly worth to look at them.

      Mostly I just source keywords through scrapebox when I want to build a site around razors or something, then I can later on run them through Adwords to get the search volume and then I'll just pick the ones with the highest amount of searches and pass that on to my writers.

      Better build a site that's optimized for 100k exact searches instead of half of it right, so in that sense it's useful.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

        KW research tools are more helpful for people that want to push out sites that they don't care about, like me
        That's not true, I care about all my sites otherwise I wouldn't waste my time. I still like to have an idea on the traffic volume.
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    • Profile picture of the author danparks
      Originally Posted by Oscarfishlover View Post

      If you truly know your product then do you really need a keyword research tool? If I am selling a red Harrington jacket then there aren't really many other words that you can use if this is what people are looking for.
      If the tool is giving you search volume for keywords, then it's useful. Like Google's keyword planner.

      Like you say, if you write an article about a specific topic, then instinctively you're going to know a good keyword or two to target. But as you kind of mentioned, people can search for what you'd consider a lot of unusual things, or word their searches in ways you wouldn't think are intuitive.

      If you use the tool and start with "red Harrington jacket" and get suggestions based on that, you might find related keywords that have high or decent search volume. Maybe "buy red Harrington jacket" has a lot searches, so you'll want to make sure your post isn't just informative but also talks about where/when/why to buy. Maybe you'll find that "blue Harrington jacket" is getting 10 times the searches as red, so you'll know to start stocking the blue version of the jacket (and to write a post with the emphasis on blue). That kind of thing.
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      • Profile picture of the author Oscarfishlover
        Originally Posted by danparks View Post

        If the tool is giving you search volume for keywords, then it's useful. Like Google's keyword planner.

        Like you say, if you write an article about a specific topic, then instinctively you're going to know a good keyword or two to target. But as you kind of mentioned, people can search for what you'd consider a lot of unusual things, or word their searches in ways you wouldn't think are intuitive.

        If you use the tool and start with "red Harrington jacket" and get suggestions based on that, you might find related keywords that have high or decent search volume. Maybe "buy red Harrington jacket" has a lot searches, so you'll want to make sure your post isn't just informative but also talks about where/when/why to buy. Maybe you'll find that "blue Harrington jacket" is getting 10 times the searches as red, so you'll know to start stocking the blue version of the jacket (and to write a post with the emphasis on blue). That kind of thing.
        "Buy" interesting, that's something I didn't consider. The website I run for a friend of mine doesn't do very well at all, I think it's probably time I looked at optimisation again. At one stage it was getting tons of debts, then all of a sudden things seemed to change. Thanks for the suggestion, I think I'll try that and see what happens. Thankfully neither of us rely on the website to make a living, if he did then we would both be bankrupt :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Peak Curiosity
    Thanks Brian! I read some of your tips and I really liked number 20. Find Niche-Specific Link Building Opportunities Using Flippa it's like ebay for websites. And number 21. Use Facebook Ads for Keyword Research.
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  • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
    Originally Posted by seonutshell View Post

    Hey Guys, when i say Great, i mean superb.

    Just checked my email and got this one from Brian Dean, from backlinko. Also he visits here from time to time.

    Here is the link to his post. Some really smart stuff here.

    21 SEO Techniques You Can Use Today to Get More Search Engine Traffic

    I especially like the reddit one.
    I am reading your post and I honestly can say that I am learning some stuff, I have been doing this for a while and to me is refreshing to read this tuype of posts, instead of some ego-war-chest-beating discussion, thanks for it I am going to apply the one about Wikipedia.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    Some people are missing this one, and it's something I've been planning when I build my authority site this year. This is an absolute golden nugget for linkbaiting. And I kind of wish Brian didn't share this gem so publicly.

    19. Use Expert Roundups to Generate Links and Social Shares on Autopilot

    Playing up to peoples ego's, but In a very easy to comply way for them (Just 50 words), It's pure BAUS linkbait. What egotistic expert would stop writing at just 50 words?, Probably zero.


    Senator...Senator...A few words please........"F**K YOU"
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  • Profile picture of the author Oscarfishlover
    I never realised how much Reddit & StumbleUpon get used until I was spending some time using "real-time" in Google analytics. Somebody had obviously started a conversation about euthanising aquarium fish and because that particular article ranks highly on Google, they link to it in the Reddit conversation. I must have had 500 hits from one link in one article in one-day.
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  • Profile picture of the author Abdul Sattar
    More Trusted Links vs. More Juicy Links – When & What Do You Need?
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  • Thanks for sharing. I have always loved Brian's tips. He has to be one of the most knowledgeable person in SEO field and also one of its most innovative. The most refreshing thing about him is his lack of ego and his approachability which stands in contrast to condescending diatribes of self-anointed SEO experts on almost every SEO forum who are ever ready to pounce on ignoramuses like us.
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