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We all do keywords, long-tail phrases and SEO which are visible for anyone to copy, so we must do something that makes us stand out, something that makes us different from others and the only thing is uniquely excellent and informative content. For example, if someone is going to compete...

1. Exceptional content writing (a rarity) 2. Optimization (Search snippets, JSON …) 3. Promotion (Branding, distribution) Shall we re-introduce a bit of reality into this? Imagine you had a business plan and went to the bank for a loan. Before lending you the money the bank would want to...

You’re doing it backwards. Learn about the content, keywords and SEO first and then build your site on what you’ve learned.

I set up a FB account some years ago whilst in China, obviously also using a VPN. It lasted for several days and then I was banned. I appealed and asked why I’d been banned and they couldn’t tell me and so I was un-banned. That lasted for a week and I was banned again. This time they asked for...

Understandably, people tend to focus on countable backlinks, but there are also shares and followers to consider. This is what I see for my articles every week on a site with a domain authority of 91 and half a million backlinks. I want people to mention me and quote from my articles, not join a...

Sound advice, but the chances of getting CNN to link out to you very likely isn’t going to happen. Yet there are lots of other sites. The main one I use to post on has a domain authority of 91 and 22 million plus backlinks. Yes, I wish :) but if it’s attracting so many, then that’s where I’ll go...

Yes it does take a long time, but I didn’t build it, it built itself. I simply concentrated on time and effort in content and promotion. The backlinks, shares and followers came naturally over time. Right from the beginning, I never thought I’m clever enough to fool myself or Google. It’s not...

I don’t know if that’s meant sarcastically, but I was impressed for a free sub-domain site that’s not trying to sell anything and isn’t desperate for backlinks. They’re mainly from others who have quoted and linked back to source and not from sites that have a domain ranking of six! I realized...

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/the-reality-of-building-backlinks.1229029/

Link building, here is how it works in reality Before you begin you have to ask yourself a question. What knowledge or product do you have that would make people pay you for what they can get elsewhere? Are you a NASA scientist, or the CEO of Amazon? It’s not going to happen then, is it. Back...

Who are you? The chances are I’ve never heard of you, don’t care what your site is about and let’s be honest, the vast majority on the planet don’t either. Do you know the Towers in America? No? OK, I’ll rephrase that. Have you heard of Trump Towers? Again, how about Roger Eaton, you must have...

There are an estimated 1.7 billion websites in the world and they all have one thing in common. Every owner thinks their site is best. Now, that may or may not be, but unfortunately it’s not for us to decide. Some will say content is what makes the best, others links, others SEO … But search...

You’re right Surfer30 and if you can get one good link from an authority site, you’ve struck gold. Yet there seems to be this endless competition about outranking everyone else. No one here is going to outrank the major players or anyone near them and unless a site attracts many links, no one...

My most popular article was just under 14,000 words. Yet another popular one was 1,500. Different topics, but original popular content. You won’t get anywhere with a 250 word summary, because you wouldn’t have the space to explain in depth. It has to be quality, of a minimum length, a popular...

It’s a sort of unanswerable question, as unless we knew all the metrics Google uses we can only guess. Optimize what? The html, content, sitemap, internal/back links … Yes, all these and more, yet it’s certainly not quantity. Rubbish in produces rubbish out. President Trump could start a website...

I blog as a hobby, an interest. I’m not here to sell anything, or buy anything and as such I’m about the last person here who would spam. I honestly can’t think of anything I’d spam about. I’m a semi-retired teacher currently in the UK and write mostly about social and political science, travel...

Forty quality articles in a month? Phew, that’s some going! And now what? Take them back off and put them on at a rate of one a week. In that week do guest posts with links for others and promote. Google will keep coming back to you because there’s new content on your site every week.

If we’re being honest with ourselves, are various sites are needles in a haystack compared to the major players. Not only are we not going to beat them, we’re never going to get anywhere near them, despite those trying to make money from telling us we will. Are the ones no one has ever heard of...

I’m sorry you can’t sell me any backlinks, but you know, we all have our opinions. :)