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It's all about a) your approach and b) what value you can bring to the table. Imagine yourself as a busy, popular blogger. What would make you respond? Maybe they have a piece of content that's out of date that you could spruce up. Or maybe they have a diagram on their site that needs an...

FYI: Publishing lots of article isn't an SEO strategy.

Considering this is the white hat section, let me suggest a few white hat options. Have you considered doing resource page link building? I know that in the travel niche there are A LOT of travel resource pages out there. The best part about them is that they exist for the sole purpose of...

OP: there's no sense in mindlessly adding content to your site. Google doesn't care how large your site is or how often it's updated. And social signals are a joke. If you want to get your page to rank you need LINKS. QUALITY LINKS. Period, end of story.

It could be a million different things: 1. The keyword isn't competitive, and therefore easy to rank for with a YT video 2. They built a bunch of links in a short period of time (it takes OSE time to find them and add them to their index).

Yes you can get rid of them. But I wouldn't contact Google for a reconsideration request. Just remove the links and wait for Google to remove them from their index. Then you basically have a fresh start.

There's no agreement that the Google Sandbox is a real thing. I've personally seen a lot of dancing/shuffling for new sites vs. older, established domains. There's two reasons this can happen: 1. The algo is figuring out your place in the SERPs. It takes time to process the new info coming...

What year is this? Link exchanges? Submitting to search engines? Even by Wikihow standards this is outdated advice.