Ranking without link (latest tricks)?

[zodiamc]

I have a project going that uses the zero link building concept. I mainly started it to see how it would evolve over time. Average rank of all pages on the domain was 94 on 19th Feb this year and it has slowly grown to around the 53 mark recently.

It uses a fresh domain as the MS, zero backlinks, solid on page close to PHPBuilts guide, Internal SILOing but I personally don't believe that has did anything regular internal linking wouldn't and has around 100,000 words of content on it with articles being 1200+ words. Its only made $50-$100 so far but its getting little to no traffic as it hasnt picked many long tails up but I am interested in seeing how it turns out over the next 18 month or so.

NICE! wish you all the luck you can get.

 

[hangovernd]

If i look at some statistics, the latest semrush analysis told me , that 18% of all websites ranking number one for some keywords, dont even have the keyword on their homepage. this tells me, that google takes your over-all topic into consideration by analyzing your "blog" content. so what you actually are advised to do - and this has worked pretty damn well for me (skipping from page 2/3 to page 1) is the following:

NOTE: I know, for some of you this seems pretty obvious or pretty standard or some old school trick, but CONTENT IS KING. It is not for readers, but for search engines. If a search engine has to decide between a website who has 10 posts about "buy socks" and a website with 300 posts about "buy socks" guess which one will rank better? and you will only need a few links for that, they dont even have to be high quality.

NOTE2: I do e-commerce, not affiliate marketing. my strategies are very, very long term thinking and i cant afford to burn a site.

let's say you want to sell socks and you website is named, goodsocks.com

then you make a menu button with "buy socks"

then you make a drop-down menu with 10 articles linking to your "buy socks" article

it looks like this

Buy Socks
-- Buy socks for christmas
-- Buy socks for Easter
-- Buy socks for Halloween
-- Buy socks for XYZ
-- Buy socks for your parents

all these articles link to your "buy socks" article. buy socks links of course, back to your homepage

and then: start writing a blog posts

like buy socks for your uncle
buy socks for your aunt
buy socks for you aunt for christmas ect. and you always link those blog posts to your "sub-menus" and your "main menu" articles.

and you will need a shit load of those blog posts. in most cases i write about 300-500 words only, but 2-3 articles every day (or buy them, when i`m lazy, though buying german articles is pretty expensive in the long run)

I have about 6 online stores in germany, which are very specialised with high competition for the top3 positions and 4 of them (the other 2 are pretty new) rank very well without loads of backlinks, heck the only authority links i have a from fiverr gigs pdf/image/powerpoint/audio - shares and german social bookmarking. the main keywords are all between 2000 and 8000 search entries per month.

But this strategy has worked very well for me, of yourse i have about 200 - 300 articles on "buy socks XYZ" in each store and keep adding new ones, but i've never been hit by a penalty or things like that, my rankings stay the same or go up for my main keywords.

I agree. Proper Internal link structure + Silo works good to rank low competitive keywords without any backlinks

 

[iulianalex]

What happens if we all learn how to rank for free?

we all will be rich mate

 

[W9go]

Thanks. My worry is that if I use the image on my site, I will get copyright infringement. Can anybody explain if it is safe or how to lower the risk of being flagged.
Thanks

change the size?
Pixelate a little?
Change ALT?
Change the color slightly.
Rename it and should be good to go
As others have said, dont use on client site,
at most you probably get away with it if it comes up on goodle or TinEye

Ok, sorry for the long post, but my english is not that good that i can explain it in a few sentences:

About the Blog Posts: I write them about some random topics. most content is written "on the go", you know, i just start writing and some of that is just some bullshit content as why you should buy socks for your grandma for christmas.
and thats basically it. all my topics are like

buy socks - relatives - occassions - cheap or some other keyword like red blue whatever

my topics are all like

"Buy red socks for christmas"
"buy blue socks for valentinsday"
"buy blacks socks for cat"
"buy green socks for your girlfriends dog"

you know, shit like that, most people dont even read my blog. they just read the main article. My main article and my 10 sub articles are high-content pretty well done. and people click on them and read them. the blog posts - no one ever licks on my blog and reads the shit i'm writing, but well you have to understand your customer. most people stay on may homepage for about 60 seconds, then they check my products for about 30-50 seconds and after that they check one of the main articles and read it for maybe 30 seconds (i guess they are only reading headlines, and are just skipping). after that, they may return and customize their product and buy. but no one ever clicks on my blog. especially as 50-60% of my visitors are mobile, 5% through tablet-devices and the rest is pc ect. this works for me, because the blog is purely for google.

LINKING:

i have a main article and sub articles

Buy Socks
-- Buy socks for Christmas
-- Buy socks for Valentinsday

I never link words like "click here", doesnt make any sense to me (though, germany is maybe different than american markets. in germany people often use thinks like buy-socks.xyz, americans would rather gat a domain like buysocks.xyz)

if my mainkeyword is alone without relevance to the sub aticle, i link it to the main article. for example:

"Buy Socks is not that expansive" - i link "buy Socks" to the main article"

if the sentences is "Buying socks for christmas is not that expansive" i just take the whole sentence and link it to the sub article buying socks for christmas (the sub article links to the main keyword again anyways). and yeah, that's basically it. it is just more natural to me linking whole sentences but maybe that is just my "thing".

Hope this helps!

EDIT: As i said, this is no churn and burn tactic. i have about 200 - 300 posts on my blogs on e-commerce stores. when i started doing e-commerce , i was writing like 3 - 4 articles related to my niches per day. nowadays i'm only writing like 1-2 articles per week to tell google that "i`m fresh and new"

EDIT2: I have links, must mostly links from "obvious" places like pdf shares, image shares ect. and i have a professonal social sharing account for my stores. everytime i write a blog post, i share it.

THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN BUT THEY DO HAPPEN: My google+ shared post was ranking higher for my main keyword for about 2 weeks, then my website lol

lot of work

do you link on blog posts which are for the sub articles to the main as well ???
means 2 links 1 to sub and 1 to main ???


thanks

 

[zodiamc]

lot of work

do you link on blog posts which are for the sub articles to the main as well ???
means 2 links 1 to sub and 1 to main ???


thanks

Well i`m in for the long run. I want my stores to be there in 5-10 years and not getting killed by google.

Yep, every blog-post links to main article, sub article and to 2-3 other blog posts which might be the same topic ("blue socks for your grandmas cat", "blue socks for your uncles dog" "blue socks for your wifes lover") and then i have always 2-3 links which link to wikipedia or some google news article which is about that topic (for example: i take christmas and link it to the christmas wikipedia link, as i dont want to rank for christmas anyway). and i add some dates and talk about that google news article (just some general talk about the article). this makes content creation easier as you can just rewrite the google news article or just talk about it and what your thoughts are.

EDIT: Nice forum btw. having been reading a lot on this since i try to learn some new stuff and you dont find many of the blackhat-stuff you use on german forums. i guess i try to chrun and burn a website for some main keyword which i will link to one of my new stores.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

we all will be rich mate

But if we all ranked #1, who'd rank #2?

 

[iulianalex]

But if we all ranked #1, who'd rank #2?

Not need to rank #1 on all niches to be rich

 

[bartosimpsonio]

Well i`m in for the long run. I want my stores to be there in 5-10 years and not getting killed by google.

Then get ready to spend on adwords.

 

[zodiamc]

Then get ready to spend on adwords.

already spending more than i should

 

[bartosimpsonio]

already spending more than i should

You're right where Google wants you to be.

 

[zodiamc]

You're right where Google wants you to be.

I dont have a problem with that. spending 1k on a 4 weeks old store, revenue 3k, profit 1k not even in the top50 serps. could be worse.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

I dont have a problem with that. spending 1k on a 4 weeks old store, revenue 3k, profit 1k not even in the top50 serps. could be worse.

That's some excellent ROI right there. But Google took a 30% cut off your revenue for sending you traffic that everyone used to be able to get for free a while back.

 

[zodiamc]

That's some excellent ROI right there. But Google took a 30% cut off your revenue for sending you traffic that everyone used to be able to get for free a while back.

yeah, as more and more people open their stores i get the feeling, that adwords-clicks rise higher and higher. some 2-3 years ago i paid 50cents for top1 position for my first store. now i`d have to pay 2€ for one click in first position. i have a store which was on 5th position for a 800 per month buyers keyword and i got like ZERO traffic. people really understemate it.

if your keyword has 10.000+ monthly searches, then maybe page 1 is enough. if your keyword has <2000 monthly searches, you need to be in the top3 to earn something. i guess sometimes people forget, that google has 4 adwords campaigns at their top, so being in 3rd place in the organic search is like being 7th on the page. and being 7th in the organic search feels like page 2 because you`re number 11.

well i cant complain as my "old" stores are ranking well and i get a lot of traffic, but i notice that newer stores/websites have difficulties to generate revenue if i dont do ppc in my first year.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

i notice that newer stores/websites have difficulties to generate revenue if i dont do ppc in my first year.

That's what will get Google in trouble soon. They are delaying sites on purpose to force their ad sales on them. Soon as this becomes mainstream, Google will pay another $ 9 billion in fines.

Their delays are proven to be designed to increase adwords sales. You buy adwords, you escape the sandbox. This is the thing antitrust needs to focus on.

 

[aidenhera]

That's what will get Google in trouble soon. They are delaying sites on purpose to force their ad sales on them. Soon as this becomes mainstream, Google will pay another $ 9 billion in fines.

Their delays are proven to be designed to increase adwords sales. You buy adwords, you escape the sandbox. This is the thing antitrust needs to focus on.

their engine their rules

 

[nickjones91472]

make your own keyword like
Why The Hell i posted this on BlackHatWorld.
These kind of keyword will rank better and faster but you have to make backlink for that also

 

[LetterCraft Inc.]

The keyword would have to have some ridiculously low competition and some seriously good on-page SEO and interlinking.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

their engine their rules

Not my rules.

 

[BlackShield]

If you have low competition KW, you can share your pages to high authority social media and social bookmarking sites. Hence, you no need to buy links or build links for ranking.