Recent content by Blackout188

Aged domain have an edge but combination of good domain name and quality content and easily beat aged domain.

What is the purpose of your PR work? Is it backlinking or traffic? I have built my own PR relation over the years to get PR content on local and national news sites. Most of the backlink you get from these type of site are no-follow links. They have some value but not as much. Also, sponsored...

It's not easy to become a google news site. You will first need to have a very high-quality site then enroll with google publisher. There is a slight chance that your site will then become google new approved site but it does not mean it will rank. It will take many optimizations and...

In a highly competitive niche, PPC is the only way to go. Take home improvement niche for example, the top 4 results are PPC, then local listing, then snippet, then images. then about 5 organic result then PPC again. half of the user probably won't even click on the search result. Capitalism...

I lost significant amount in stock market lately, I cut loss too late and learnt my lesson as well.

at the end of the day, I think we will all have to suck it up and use it. I'm sure it will improve over the next few years.

Welcome!

putting things into perspective. 80 posts total and adding to it on a weekly basis. CTR is crazy low for the home improvement niche.

YMYL in Google's eye seems very general and covers a lot of things. I have not seen any CPA or affiliated sites get penalized under the rule. I'm unsure about the other.

It's a business site, I did a few general profile link-building. The majority of the link started about two years ago, and I have been doing it drip-feed. I'm in the home improvement verticle and the competition is steep for keywords I like to rank for.

Wow, how did you achieve this without link building? What is the niche and average word count per article? I started my site 4 years ago and just slightly better than this.

What bot would create citations? I'd love to have one of these. I'm doing all manual and it takes forever.

Thank you all for the answers. I will look into semrush.

I have been browsing around to find a tool that can replace ahref content explorer. The filter with the tool is quite powerful and I have not seen another tool that does the same.

Thank you for your suggestion, I will definitely look into it. Thanks.