Took me 4 months competitive niche plus great content with buying links for page 1 local serp and #2 for a 10 mile radius google maps. Well built website with Elementor switching to ACF now cost around 15k. That’s with me doing off-site SEO and Phillipino In house free lance team. If USA in house team mortgage house lol. It takes money to make money. Pest control my niche ultra competitive and now I am starting a agency next week. Do not waste money with ads nobody trust ads. The companies I out rank pay agencies probably 20k a month for years now but that includes ads and agencies generally don’t care about your company or about link building. I just spent 4K switching to ACF that’s on top of the original 15k I already spent. ACF should be done next week and I just dropped 4K on links not yet indexed. I will update BHW on those additions to my house... I mean website lol. Going forward we are using Haro and email outreach. Haro has gone well and nothing yet from emails. Everything I am doing now based on Ben consultation 10 days ago. I believe we will dial in the email outreach for free guest posts. Only buy quality links there’s 2 people I use from here and they are the most expensive the others I am dissavowing. If you think good links are expensive buy spam links.
I know a ton of secrets to crack google algorithm now but most of it can be learned just by watching what works
All content you create is for the user
Keep people on your page
Do not sell educate
What do you mean by brand mentions? Something other than backlinks?brand mentions is a huge ranking factor with each algorithm change backlinks lose power
Are you saying if you buy Google ads, you start ranking worse? lolAdvertising is negative SEO to yourself you become less trusted
I'm having a hard time believing turning off Elementor and adding some code snippets all around your pages would make you rank higher instantly.I’m paying to have mine perfected switching from the bloated Elementor to ACF
Hey everyone my platinum member consultation was extremely educational!
google AI is not that advanced. Google the keyword you want to read page 1 results and look for what they all have in common. This is what googleAI believes is the best answer.
writing should focus on the similarities and than add to it and make content a little bit better, increasing word count can help greatly.
schema markup and meta tags helps googles AI understand and helps you get choosen for rich snippets- A huge ranking jump if your page is picked for a rich snippet you jump to top of page 1 even if you were on page 2 before getting the rich snippet. CTR is around 50% compared to the traditional 30% for a typical page 1 spot 1 search results.
brand mentions is a huge ranking factor with each algorithm change backlinks lose power but do not be fooled Backlinks are the biggest ranking factor by a lot.
google AI is not good at detecting if links are natural or spam but humans can. The google penalties come from humans working for google not the AI it’s very dumb.
A huge ranking factor is how well your website was made ideally you want everything coded. Expensive I know I’m paying to have mine perfected switching from the bloated Elementor to ACF with perfect code googles page ranking boost will happen overnight.
for core vitals update in may well it already happened awhile ago but to check how well your core vitals are use google insights and fix everything they recommend it’s googles property and similar to his page rank was google insights will tell you how to improve your seo.
My goal is to get A’s on everything and 80% for mobile speed my homepage content far too long and if I shorten it than I’ll drop in ranking so it’s a balancing act. I’ll trim the excess content off my homepage and largest image to increase page speed. While still keeping homepage top quality.
I know lots of ways to break the algorithm now for instance if you claim on your website to have a PhD or a well known person on a topic that makes you a trusted authority figure for the topic your writing on.
Your also far more likely to be quoted on another website which is a big ranking factor. Similar to brand mentions.
Social media does not help much with seo but if your mentioned a lot that increases your branding.
Advertising is negative SEO to yourself you become less trusted and if your paying google for rent they don’t want to lose a tenant by your website ranking at the top they lose a paying client
I know Amazon does paid advertising for themselves and they rank 1 but amazon is a Titan it’s not a huge drop but you do lose trust.
One reason googles search engine is the best is that domain age is a tiny ranking factor no sandbox like on yahoo or bing. Other search engines love old domains so if you have a new website your screwed on every format besides google.
Googles the best because there algorithm is common sense stuff. The others lost to google because they used complex algorithms that produce irrelevant results. I visited yahoo and bing just to see and my website that’s 4 months old is google page 1 for all the major search queries for pest control but on the other search engines I gave up looking for my company after scrolling through the first 5 pages. My content and user experience is better than old websites that’s what matters not domain age and that’s why google is by far the best search engine.
it was recommended I create YouTube videos and link to them but a max of 1 per page.
linking out to authority websites increases your websites seo a good rule is 3 OBL per page.
this is why top ranking pages and companies get more powerful. Link to trusted relevant sources that are not competition. I will choose organic pest control page on Wikipedia and other companies in my city when it makes sense.
on gmb citations only move the needle, if hyper local the main ones help your seo a tiny bit but hyper local will move the needle. Use whitespark to find hyper local citations.
You may have noticed the top ranking gmb results correlate with website rankings that’s because your website is a huge gmb ranking factor but your gmb does not influence your websites rank.
the first 30 google reviews help a lil bit and after 30 they decrease in importance. Keywords used in reviews effect rankings for that KW and your core website KW chosen also effect that long tail search.
what city a review comes from does not matter reviews only help client conversions or hurt them. How often your gmb gets clicked or called has not impact on ranking this surprised me, guess too many people learnedto game the system and most of the gmb hacks no longer work like local guides no benefits geo tagging no benefit. Posts do not impact rank but people read them and they help with conversions. That was a good bit of helpful stuff from our consultation there’s much more let me read the passed comments and questions now.
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I heard linking to Wikipedia not helpful from other seo. Ben never said to link to Wikipedia he just said pick about 3 trusted websites per page.
Elementor is awful because of bloat. .
In the new core vital update loading speed is a huge ranking factor. We are Switched to ACF our mobile speed on google insights jumped from 29 to 85
You want to see a huge increase in organic ranking and in gmb get rid of Elementor and switch to Advanced custom Fields.
Or if you can afford it than get your entire website coded..
Back in 2010, Google said page speed was a ranking factor but it “was focused on desktop searches” only. Now, in July 2018, it will look at how fast your mobile pages are and use that as a ranking factor in mobile search.Jan 17, 2018
Source: SEL
paying for advertising causes your website to lose trust that’s why.
