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Can you rank without off-page SEO ?
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Anyone who considers this dangerous is on drugs.
It's the safest form of SEO that you can basically do. There was a great thread about this in journey section, where guy targeted long tail KWs with 0 - 10 search volume according to google and was pulling some decent money, considering he hasn't built a single link. Choose a main niche and target every single keyword out of it regardless of search volume. Build 100 - 300 pages, let it age and you will see it getting more and more traffic after cca 9 months. Then a few well placed guest posts will push it even higher.
Bottom line. If you have a good and cheap writer, then you have already won. You will rank for hundreds of long tails that you don't even have any idea about and the traffic will come. Not to mention the price of the domain, if you decide to flip it, will be higher, due to none or minimal offsite SEO and smaller risks associated with it.
It's the safest form of SEO that you can basically do. There was a great thread about this in journey section, where guy targeted long tail KWs with 0 - 10 search volume according to google and was pulling some decent money, considering he hasn't built a single link. Choose a main niche and target every single keyword out of it regardless of search volume. Build 100 - 300 pages, let it age and you will see it getting more and more traffic after cca 9 months. Then a few well placed guest posts will push it even higher.
Bottom line. If you have a good and cheap writer, then you have already won. You will rank for hundreds of long tails that you don't even have any idea about and the traffic will come. Not to mention the price of the domain, if you decide to flip it, will be higher, due to none or minimal offsite SEO and smaller risks associated with it.
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Why bother ranking for one heavy keyword, when you can rank for hundreds of its longtails, which will bring X times more traffic? And you will rank for the fraction of the cost. This is a common technique, which involves less risks, but requires more patience. Easily done and unless some neg-SEO lowlife decides to screw you over, you are as safe as you can possibly be. Depends on the point of view. For long term stuff it's perfect.
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Yes .. It may possible but it will be how the competition of keyword is ? For high competition it is not easy to get rank with On page only
newsworldinside
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If the KC is under 15, I believe only on page seo and some social signals can ensure your ranking.
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Yupp, the man is right! You do not want to fall in for such scenario as you will be forced to work on reverse SEO stratesgies to get back on track,meanwhile your competitiors would be ruling the SERP.
Now, how did I fail to notice this post
Now, how did I fail to notice this post
MikeFenton
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- Sep 8, 2016
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I would differ from what max seo experts think. For my clients I have ranked their sites with just a handful of links and that too in competitive niches like gaming, business marketing.
trivialchall
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- Nov 24, 2016
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If your competition has backlinks then you wouldnt be able to rank with onpage only.
XZixZi
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The reality is that if a keyword is profitable, there will be other sites competing for the same traffic. Maybe you could make $40 or $50 with a site that has low competition, but for anything halfway decent you're going to need to build links and use off-page SEO.
DKolen
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You can get to the top for low and mid-competitive keywords with on-page tactics only, still I would agree that you`ll be at risk to be outranked easily, especially if you are targeting local seo and use the locations in your keyword phrases. I once got a client`s website to the page 1 by only optimizing the pages and improving the website structure (back then we`ve also concentrated a lot on the mobile version performance), however, after some thoughtful competitors` link-building I almost got to where I`ve started.
Some say link-building is close to dead, but from what I see - Google wouldn`t issue the updates like Penguin or manual penalties to prevent the manipulation over PR if the links wouldn`t matter anymore. Surely, on-page and technical improvements, UX and even social shares are among the top ranking factors to aim for, still the backlink profile seems to be an important ingredient in that cocktail to preserve the positions you gain.
Some say link-building is close to dead, but from what I see - Google wouldn`t issue the updates like Penguin or manual penalties to prevent the manipulation over PR if the links wouldn`t matter anymore. Surely, on-page and technical improvements, UX and even social shares are among the top ranking factors to aim for, still the backlink profile seems to be an important ingredient in that cocktail to preserve the positions you gain.
Little Dove
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Low competitive keywords can be ranked without backlinks. I have done it with our websites. If the competition is moderate or high, no way but to build links to push your keywords forward
RiverDave
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Thank you! I always wondered why not everyone does this to their competition. So having backlinks makes you safe(r) from those kinds of attacks. Should be in every SEO 101 article. One of the best arguments for Off-Page SEO, especially important in high competitive blackhat niches like adult or gambling niche.
Well not really.. quote from that topic:
So yes you can rank for keywords without building links yourself but you'll need links to do so
- Mar 21, 2013
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SEO 101 articles are copypasta from the Google webmasters blog. They don't reveal anything really effective, just the obvious common sense stuff.
getgoodseonahah
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I think link building is really important to rank