5 Years On BHW + Some Of My Favourite SEO Strategies/Tips/Advice Inside 15,000 Words..

That was sweet. As someone said this should be stickied! Thanks!

This is a gold mine. I feel soo amazed to read all this. Soo much I didnt know.

The anchor text guide.. will deff use this.

NOW I am stuck on the 2nd page for some client kws... high comp keywords.. for about 3 weeks or so.

Here a pic of the STUCK rankings.





Now I will go out and post some good content.. Gonna write 5 to 10 articles around the main kws and see what happends.

Right now the website ONLY has 8 pages of content.. all top notch... NO BLOGS SECTION.. and ive made it to the 2nd page.

Gonna make a blog section now and post this new content there.

Lets see what 15+ pages can do.

I will update in a couple of weeks.

Thanks Leith.

Take a bow man Thanks for it !

Holy fvck... BEST thread I've ever read on BHW. I spend most of my time lurking but people like you make me want to participate in giving back to this wonderful forum. Hopefully one day I can give back even a fraction of what you just contributed.

Super awesome, Leith! Thank you.

Wow . . . this is phenomenal Leith. I'm blown away by the amount of useful information.

Truly, this has got to for sure one of the best threads (if not the best) I've read on BHW (or really anything relating to IM); therefore, thank you sir.

Best regards,
Saroekin

Hell to the YEAH.... Man that is some awesome juicy stuff. I really appreciate all your efforts.

If only I could put you and t0mmy brain together and fit it into my house, I would be golden

I do have a quick questions if your fingers are to blistered up...

On the Page2 "stuck" topic.

Not to sound nOObish, but how would we write 10 articles on City/KW I mean do we talk more about the actual city? or just make stuff up? If we are not really writing about the main topic just wanted to get some ideas to write about for relevance. Hope this makes sense.

Okay Leith, I am picking through the data and have a few questions I hope you do not mind answering:

Anchor text is the big one. My ratios is a bit different but I think you may be right.

Exact 30
LSI 34
Naked 13
Generic 8
Brand 15

As an example of course, I never had brand so high, nor have I pulled apart competition and took averages like you do. I normally just prune number one through three and eye ball it. But your approach of using referring domains appears to be far superior.

That really was not a question, so I have a good one.

What are your long term money site anchors like?

The rest of this is fairly spot on to what I do. Controlling SERP top ten, un sticking stuck KWs, Parasites / Leechers, and Twitter profiles.

I was surprised no one was selling them on BHW considering I have been buying them on Fiverr / Source Market for a while now.

All in all, ever after a second read to digest, this is some excellent information.

And I did not know about that free source for a logo. That will save me $XXX annually on logos. Thanks!

First of all, thank you everyone for the messages, PM's, Skype messages, etc. Appreciate it and it's relieving knowing that this thread was worth it in the end.

helll0a said:

This is a gold mine. I feel soo amazed to read all this. Soo much I didnt know.

The anchor text guide.. will deff use this.

NOW I am stuck on the 2nd page for some client kws... high comp keywords.. for about 3 weeks or so.

Here a pic of the STUCK rankings.

Now I will go out and post some good content.. Gonna write 5 to 10 articles around the main kws and see what happends.

Right now the website ONLY has 8 pages of content.. all top notch... NO BLOGS SECTION.. and ive made it to the 2nd page.

Gonna make a blog section now and post this new content there.

Lets see what 15+ pages can do.

I will update in a couple of weeks.

Thanks Leith.

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Sounds good mate, will be an interesting test/case study for sure! Keep us updated.

accessted said:

Hell to the YEAH.... Man that is some awesome juicy stuff. I really appreciate all your efforts.

If only I could put you and t0mmy brain together and fit it into my house, I would be golden

I do have a quick questions if your fingers are to blistered up...

On the Page2 "stuck" topic.

Not to sound nOObish, but how would we write 10 articles on City/KW I mean do we talk more about the actual city? or just make stuff up? If we are not really writing about the main topic just wanted to get some ideas to write about for relevance. Hope this makes sense.

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I don't want to give away the exact keyword I used, but let me use the same example as I did on the thread.

If the keyword was "london personal training", I would just make my content relevant around that. You could talk about personal training, why people need personal training and then maybe talk about why people would want personal training in a city like London (busy work times - no time for guys to mess about in gyms.. they'd rather get a trainer who knows what they're doing, night life - partying - looking good for girls, etc). Just make sure the content is closely relevant to the landing page or page that you're focusing on.

lightningblitz said:

Okay Leith, I am picking through the data and have a few questions I hope you do not mind answering:

Anchor text is the big one. My ratios is a bit different but I think you may be right.

Exact 30
LSI 34
Naked 13
Generic 8
Brand 15

As an example of course, I never had brand so high, nor have I pulled apart competition and took averages like you do. I normally just prune number one through three and eye ball it. But your approach of using referring domains appears to be far superior.

That really was not a question, so I have a good one.

What are your long term money site anchors like?

The rest of this is fairly spot on to what I do. Controlling SERP top ten, un sticking stuck KWs, Parasites / Leechers, and Twitter profiles.

I was surprised no one was selling them on BHW considering I have been buying them on Fiverr / Source Market for a while now.

All in all, ever after a second read to digest, this is some excellent information.

And I did not know about that free source for a logo. That will save me $XXX annually on logos. Thanks!

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Haha, you picked the wrong question for me, lol. To be very honest with you, I'm still working on my "longer term" sites and I don't think I'm versed enough to give you solid advice on your question. I do have a few long term sites that are ranking, but they're still quite a long way away from where I need/want them to be.

Anyways, for my long term sites, I'm trying to play it very, VERY safe. I'm currently following the "industry standard" ratios although I'm taking slight risks by increasing the % of the exact anchor. I really don't want these sites to tank.. so I'm just following the percentages that others have found to be the safest (as seen on the Ahrefs article). Because I have my churn/burn sites doing well, I'm not exactly in a rush to get these long term sites ranked. I don't mind waiting as I plan to try and sell these in a few years for a handsome payday.

And for that reason, my anchor ratios are very "normal". It's taking a lot longer to rank though, but as I said above, I don't mind waiting. I would love to hear what you're doing with your long term money site anchors. You playing it safe, or are you altering it a little to try and increase the speed of results?

P.S - I was going to sell those expired Twitter accounts but with my own added twist, but I figured sooner or later someone else would sell the same thing for $5, lol. So I ditched the plan.

Whoa! I need to bookmark this for later!

:You_Rock_

Great work. But takes more time to read

Make it the stickiest sticky.

Damn, here I thought I was going to learn a secret from you Leith!

Okay, here is how I do things:

I launch a page or site and preload links into audio files, doc sharing, Press Releases, etc.

I use naked anchors at first. I then tally up how many PR links I have.

Then I move to phase two, which I build branded anchors. I want to build about half the number of branded anchors of the total number of naked URLs I have. These link types are business citations, business directories, Web 2.0s, etc.

Phase three (Which is by this time a few weeks later) when I fire up PBN and Web 2.0 links which target LSI and exact match anchors.

I want my combines LSI, long tail and exact match to sit less than 10% combined.

It is always rough and random, but in general I always pump up naked, then branded URL.

For my long term money sites I always target several KWs per article. So that allows me to have far more exact match and LSI KWs than regular sites and allow me to pump my LSI / Exact Match combination to up to 20% in most cases. But that is how I do sites now where I target 10 or so terms per article which vastly improves ROI and allows me more link building freedom.

It took me about an hour but I literally read all of this and through all the links you had. Thank you! I'm currently in college. That post about being stressed out for tests really hits home! Currently venturing into all parts of IM with failing in some and having temporary success in others. Just wanted to say thanks for all this information! I will definitely be putting it to use!

Took a quick look and learned on that "how to unstuck on second page" was awesome. Time to create more relevant content. Thank you very much Leith.

Amazing posts! I'm going to start testing a lot of these strategies for my own campaigns.

Amazing post as always Leith. If anyone is still confused and if anyone is not willing to take action now, that guy is the biggest fool. Its literally spoonfed!

Such a detailed post with such valuable information would be extremely hard to find. You rock Leith! I am glad to be in touch with a knowledgeable person like you.

+1 to make this post a sticky.

lightningblitz said:

Damn, here I thought I was going to learn a secret from you Leith!

Okay, here is how I do things:

I launch a page or site and preload links into audio files, doc sharing, Press Releases, etc.

I use naked anchors at first. I then tally up how many PR links I have.

Then I move to phase two, which I build branded anchors. I want to build about half the number of branded anchors of the total number of naked URLs I have. These link types are business citations, business directories, Web 2.0s, etc.

Phase three (Which is by this time a few weeks later) when I fire up PBN and Web 2.0 links which target LSI and exact match anchors.

I want my combines LSI, long tail and exact match to sit less than 10% combined.

It is always rough and random, but in general I always pump up naked, then branded URL.

For my long term money sites I always target several KWs per article. So that allows me to have far more exact match and LSI KWs than regular sites and allow me to pump my LSI / Exact Match combination to up to 20% in most cases. But that is how I do sites now where I target 10 or so terms per article which vastly improves ROI and allows me more link building freedom.

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You do have a good approach, I usually pumped my site with 100 percent branded url within the first month, giving that site a solid branded foundation and giving me lee way to hit the site with exact anchor, lsi keys..

So I am not the only one who eases into things then.

Glad to hear I am not crazy!