Guest posting for link bait is dead, according to Matt Cutt's recent video. How helpful are the social signals to SEO? Can someone bring light to this topic?

Hi,

Affiliate marketing is not a part of SEO.

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I'll agree with this. One of my primary strategies for my clients is to focus mostly on solid content & social media, should they have the budget for it then Pay-Per-Click as well. Once you get your content out there and gain a following, back-links will follow. It's a much slower process, but its the only sure-fire safe way for the future.

Social Signals. Right now they are the backbone of all of my SEO campaigns.

Do not try to manipulate Google.

Ha and the 2 people above rank for......... Nothing!

Seriously though, social doesn't have enough of an impact to rank a site....yet and not manipulating Google haha, then don't ever try to build a website because from then on every marketing activity you do is trying to manipulate their algorithm for your personal benefit.

There is no suck thing as a "latest technique" the number 1 SEO technique that works these days, in terms of off page at least is the same thing that people did when google launched.

This is something I just posted in another thread, it fits perfectly here:

Fresh content (quality)
Relevant backlinks with low OBL
Social Signals

to name a few

of course someone will tell you differently in about 2 minutes.

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Well, In my opinion fresh content is the only trick that can help you in getting top of the search results.

The first two posts aren't new or latest techniques anymore.. just saying
Video Blog instead of Blog.

So.. what happens to the microniches?: For example, a website with only 6-7 articles/pages but very specifics. This web page is never updated because the content will always be the same...

Are sites dedicated to a very specific topic (microniches) dead ?.
I don't think so...

I love these types of posts. How many of the people here sharing "tips" make a direct living from SEO?

Hi,

My blog is about 3 months old and last month (March) was when I actually started to build momentum. If you want to know what worked for me, it‘s high quality original content. Let me tell you guys something...

Many times people are focused on writing 3-4 blog posts per week however these posts are not the best work they can do. I‘d focus on writing 1-2 blog posts per month and research everything before publishing your post. Make it so your blog content is the only content that the reader needs to look over so they can find all the information they need.

Rather than suggesting you do x to achieve y, I think it's a better idea to constantly monitor sites that are ranking for competitive keywords in your niche and see what they're doing.

SEO used to be more "static", for lack of a better word, where the same types of techniques were successful over long periods of time but now things are changing much more regularly so you need to just constantly watch what's happening and try to keep up.

Actually laughed out loud to the first post with that "latest technique", and the second two are pure comedy too. Guys, you gotta use smilies with stuff like "social signals"!

Edit: ah sorry, saw the post dates and realized it has to be April fools.

If you want to rank in 2014 then this is best for your seo campaign this is a complete road map and best strategy to rank a website so read this How to Rank: 25 Step SEO Master Blueprint - Moz

Nobody is going to share the latest "working" and effective technique. Why would they? As soon as any SEO trick becomes popular the Google hammer will follow. Also many "secrets" shared as WSOs are just the strategies/tools that stopped working or are no more efficient.

Be creative and look for non trivial solutions - reading forums in the hope of finding latest and greatest is not the right approach.

Somewhere in this world there's a kitten crying each time someone tries to rank a page with articles & social.

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Add content on your website on regular basis, if its not a blog, better to add a blog with your website. Also, share your content on social websites to get social signal.

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Build super bad high PR networks and point them to money site (as well as the other stuff that comes with SEO)

and tada. You got rankings.

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Simple, manipulate Google at every turn. Outsmart your competitors, and learn what works by testing for yourself.

My main focus is getting our quality content as often as possible

latest seo techniques are writting high quality content..
URL optimization
URL canocilization

Build high PR forum profile backlinks. You can purchase 10K forum profile backlinks from fiverr just for 5 bucks!! All backlinks are from different class C IP addresses, No duplicated domain, only from .com, .net and .org domains. After building backlinks saller will ping your backlinks during 7 days. Also some sellers will submit links into their linklicious pro account! Not only that you will get 1 free gig on purchase of every 5 gigs!!

Even more Bonuse!!: 10 .edu blog comment backlinks with every order!!!

I got a page (not even completely finished) ranked in the top 10 of google for my preferred keywords by just backlinking, setting up my meta tags, putting a few keywords on the page in header tags and adding the page to the various search engines and I used a free offer from Directory Maximizer and I am in the top 10 of Google, Bing and Yahoo for my chosen keywords.

I didn't do much really and I guess maybe my keywords aren't that competitive. My site is hxxp://www.cmit.com.jm and my keywords are web design, website, jamaica, affordable, graphic design, and a few others (Jamaica has to be in the search query since I am focusing on that market). Any variation of that gets my site on the first page, go ahead try it - you will see it there.

My point, I think back linking is a good method (still),
Have good Meta tags
Content is barely important as you can see if you visit my site, It has practically none (since it is still being worked on, just can't get the time to finish it up).

We have to remember, its a bot that checks the site and it is hard for the bot to determine what is 'good' content. Good content gets readers and gets them coming back, keywords and links get the rankings which is what helps to get visitors.

I have a list of all the sites I backlink from. I'm still there on the first page of Google, Yahoo, Bing, Duck, and a couple others (just checked to make sure).

PM me for my referral link to sign up for directory maximizer (as far as I know it worked for me).

P.S. On that matter of content, I guess if you want readers and subscribers then good content is important to keep them, if you want search engine ranking then it isn't very important.

I think content is King and Social Signal is queen. However I think ranking doesn't depend on Back Link / On-Page / Off-Page only. Because I think if we have a bad behavior from customer such as High Bounce rate ratio or exit rate generated by GA, Google would be drop our keyword down cause the customer don't interested.

Daily blog posts to optimize site + social shares

According to me, update blog with unique content. Do properly on page optimization, guest
blogging , url optimization are latest search engine techniques.

Attract massive traffic from SM (Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr)

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I see people are still getting their SEO information from Matt Cutts..

Good luck ranking anything other than phrases with little to no search volume with that whiter than white BS.

This forum is full of "SEO" experts who think earning $10k a month makes them an SEO Guru.

I genuinely feel for the sheer number of folks participating in never ending work , not having a clue they are going to get nowhere or if they do, it will be very short lived.

Blind leading the blind.

Thanks for the suggestions and the searches guys... One important keyword that was missing is 'affordable' I need to backlink to get good results without the need to have affordable all the time. I did get a page one listing when I used a US browser (via teamviewer) to search for 'affordable web design jamaica' was about number 4. I figure the google.com.jm affected my results when I did manual searches.

Now that the 'affordable web/graphic design jamaica' brings me in the top page, do you think I need to backlink for 'affordable web design' without the Jamaica, I doubt I need to since I am focusing on the jamaican market.

Below is the screenshot of my search in google.com.jm

There it is at the top, it was not yesterday and I signed out of google and this OS install is a fresh install.

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Don't trust Mat DeCuttz !
Do your own research, experiment and test, and Do Not Trust G's spokes"man"

Be original in what ever you do. Do anything keep in mind your target customer not Google algorithm!

I recommend On Page SEO and providing valuable stuff to the users through Content & Social Media...

For On Page SEO, Check the superb post by Brian Dean hxxp://backlinko.com/on-page-seo

Everything boils down to this - High quantities (varying brand/text/URL) backlinks to your website from highly relevant, high quality websites.

That's it.

On-Page Optimization, unique content and Social sites paying good as a result now a days

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1. Write genuine and out the box.
2. Be the first to write on HOT topics, that way you will get a lot of back-links naturally.
3. Use Google auto fill suggestions for keywords long tails.
4. Don't rely on ADWORD keyword tool. That's almost crap

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I have read few articles on page seo techniques earlier.

Can the warriors here suggest on page seo techniques that still hold good / the latest on page seo techniques.

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I am using
>> Social media networks for getting links and traffic to my websites
>> Guest posting having high quality and unique contents
>> Proper On-Page Optimization
I thinks these are now good for Website ranking.

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I think everyone should follow the Audiences not Search Engine.

Just work on Quality of your Content and share it with relevant websites and add all social icons to get more social signals and they will increase your natural rankings.

According to me, Unique content is most important for any website. Do properly on-page SEO. Do Guest posting, forum commenting, blog commenting on quality sites which supply you backlinks and do daily SMO. SEO and Social media must come jointly for better search rankings.

in on page optimization write themed content to get rank your website in Google Search ... use LSI keywords in your content it helps you to get rank in #1 page on Google ...

h1 tags are the most important if you ask me. Get the keyword in the tag, then build a raw url link to the page.

Treat h1's like you used to treat anchor text.

So you buy an expired domain, just to create a blog and then post to it?

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Unique articles on human edited sites. A lot of effort but it works well. Quality not quantity.

Fiverr is a gold mine... But also a time waster. You can spend hours looking for the good providers. Just be sure to use your time wisely.

I also rely heavily on the OP's tactic of buying auctioned or expired domains and repurposing them for a PBN. It's the back bone of my ranking strategy.

In addition, I've been getting a lot of value out of creating a Web 2.0 pyramid to not only supply my non-critical (URL, Brand Misc) anchors, but also to rank monetizable Web 2.0s that make money themselves.

Tier 1: Monetizable Web 2.0s: InfoBarrel, Seekyt, Whizzley, Hubpages, etc.
Tier 2: Web 2.0 Farm created by FCS Networker
Tier 3: 2nd layer of FCS 2.0s
Tier 4: Spam from various sources using GSA

The end result is powerful high PA/DA links and a set of money making network sites.

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This is actually true with a couple of things that needs to be added.
1) get out more - wear clothes that has your website on it. People will then look at it and link back to their fb page / instagram with a pic of it and maybe one of those people will have a follow, index blog that will count as a backlink
2) Have more sex - while having sex promote your site. It can pass on to other people.
3) Doing drugs can make you work harder and your link building will be up to par.
4) Drive a faster car - make sure to put stickers of your website on your car. IT wil stand out

None of the options are easy really.

I am just surprised that everyone always associates sneaky redrects with massive spam.

Well not surprised really but it can be done without and then the results can last for a long time to come as the only reason those sites tank are those spam penalties, nothing more nothing less.

Cause of the redirect the bounce rate is the best you can ever get, and by using other sneaky ways you can create a 100% CTR to Amazon or any other affiliate program.

I just setup a site with someone that contacted me on my blog, he created the content and posted it, I will do the linkbuilding. We're using an expired PR4 domain, the pages were indexed within 8 hours and are all ranking at page 2/3 for the titles now. By building new links we can modify the anchor text of the domain and make it more relevant and I'm sure that will push us to page one to start generating traffic.

It won't be a lot, but with a few 1000 indexed pages you can easily get let's say 100 visitors/day, scale and it adds up rather quickly. Others use sites with a million pages and pull in like 1000 visitors/day. That's a lot of traffic for such a little amount of work/investment. All based on long tail buying keywords, who needs to rank for main keywords ever again when you have an unlimited supply of well converting long tail traffic.

M3C wants proof for something competitive but it doesn't matter at all, and the proof is out in the open, just Google those churn & burn niches. People think they really rank based on a 1 page squeeze page, or is there something going on behind it what most aren't able to see? People rank the TOUGHEST keywords all year long with this strategy, although in that case, yes for a short time.

Like I said I'm doing a small test project now with someone, and I see we just popped up for a "best ......." keyword with 33.000 exact searches at #134 in a pretty competitive electronics niche, and then we haven't even spend any time aiming to rank that, besides that the whole site is optimized around that key phrase, #134 is nothing of course but it does show it's on the right track and the content is totally unreadable. Doesn't even make any sense.

Wait did you just say scraped content is what is new in 2014? :confused:

No robes mi content compadre
(Don't steal my content bro)

This thread gets 5 stars, finally we get a glimpse at Kevin's marketing tricks. (pun intended and delightful, also kidding but you knew that)

So what's new? Same old same old: do things the right way, don't stomp around leaving giant footprints, look legit and BE legit (-ish). The same links that didn't rank you last year are unlikely to rank you this year and social is for traffic not for ranking as a general rule.

That is where you got it all wrong!

Please share the big traffic keywords with the ranked pages that don't have any links. Just one example.

There exactly zero webpages ranking in Google based on DA.

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And only one of them is actually SEO. Updating website and offline marketing? Seriously.

Content marketing has done that already. It's been discussed in generic trade rags, and I think the buzzword is a bit passe.

Mobile - I wholeheartedly agree. I think 2013 was the breakthrough year in my home country at least. Insane growth and very strong ecommerce opportunities.

Google's number one recommendation seems to be responsive design which essentially means the same content accross all devices. In that case there's no "mobile SEO", but just plain old SEO and serving a mobile optimized site to devices that benefit from it. Maybe that's semantics to you, but I'm a web developer who actually builds these things. I like my vocabulary to mean something.

It's really up to Google if they give any benefit in mobile search to mobile optimized websites. I think it's likely they'll do, eventually at least.