Cant believe i did this stupid seo mistake

I've never read it. I'm just going by my own experience.

There's almost no keywords that have 1000 highly competitive sites. You'll always get in the top 1000 if your content, structure and on-page is right.

Yes, you won't always hit page 1, but you'll get in the serps.

Very few people understand how to structure sites for maximum relevancy and rely on lots of backlinks to establish extra relevancy that could have been done without a single one.

You don't need backlinks to establish relevancy. Only extra authority/power.

First of all look at this.

Keyword: payday loans (broad)

I'm sure we can agree that's ultra-competitive.

Now here's a site ranking on page 19 for me

Macroeconomics: A Contemporary Introduction

books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1133170404
William A. McEachern - 2011 - ‎Business & Economics
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS ' Banking for the Poor: Payday Loans A ?payday loan? is a relatively small amount of money?say, $300?borrowed for a short ...





Keyword not in title or url. It ranks because it's a strong domain and it's mildly relevant. A weak domain with strong relevance will beat it.

But, it's very easy for me to prove what I'm saying.

I can see literally dozens of sites in the top 1000 with 0 backlinks here.

Examples:-


  1. Payday loans online. Payday loan!

    www.paydayloansuol.com/payday-loans-online.php





    Payday loans online, Payday loan! The ideas of live frugally, invest in the Market is depressed and selling stocks/bonds below market value; Sell payday loans ...
0 root and page bls.


loan payday loans - Quick Advance Match

www.quickadvancematch.com/loan-payday-loans



Implement Along with awesome loan payday loans Cash advance Online is your very best self alternative for rapidly Payday loan. We'll provide Payday loan as ...



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Low Interest Payday Loans - 1 Stop payday

www.1ststoppaydayuk.co.uk/Low-Interest-Payday-Loans



Quick Payday Loans-Convenient way to grab quick loan, Low Interest Payday Loans|Insights On No-Fuss money loan Programs Payday Loans Today Payday ...


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24 Hour Payday Loans - 1 Stop payday

www.1ststoppaydayuk.co.uk/24-Hour-Payday-Loans



Quick Payday Loans-Convenient way to grab quick loan, 24 Hour Payday Loans|Options For Painless Methods For money loan Payday Loans Online Same .


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I could go on and on here, but take a look at what all these have in common.

allintitle and allinurl

Ranking is based on both relevance and power. Low relevance, but very high power? You'll rank low. High relevance and no power? You'll rank low. High relevance and medium power? You'll rank very high. medium relevance and very high power? You'll rank ok.

Relevance is everything. 5/10 relevance and 10/10 power will lose to 10/10 relevance and 5/10 power and both 1/10 relevance and 10/10 power and 10/10 relevance and 1/10 power will rank somewhere in the top 1000.

Another quick example.

Keyword "seo". Again, very competitive.


What is SEO? | New York Search Engine Optimization

hypertrafficseo.com/seo-services.../what-is-search-engine-optimization/



19 Dec 2013 - Don't feel bad if you've heard the terms ?SEO,? or ?search-engine optimization? 100 times and still find yourself thinking, ?Okay, I get it?SEO is ...



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Seeing the pattern here? :)

Do your own research/analysis and you'll see what I'm talking about.





Please remain calm. There's no need to get upset because someone in the world says something that doesn't align with your beliefs.

I responded to your statement that he's not ranking in the top 1000 because he has no backlinks. Why you're now mentioning page 1 is baffling.

You said. "Apples are blue", and I responded "No, apples are red" and you've replied "Of course fucking bananas are yellow".

*baffled*

I think payday loans guys use private net works for links and block spiders so it can't be tracked. If you can rank for payday loans with no links... great for you! :rolleyes:
 
@splishsplash

Thanks for the thorough post. Like you and others are demonstrating, there are a number of ways a page can rank highly. Obviously a mistake in a WP theme can cause a drop in rankings, but rarely anything dramatic like below 1000. Still, the most proven method of increasing SERP for existing websites are high-quality contextual backlinks from authority sites.
 
I think payday loans guys use private net works for links and block spiders so it can't be tracked. If you can rank for payday loans with no links... great for you! :rolleyes:

They won't have all private net links, and those ones I posted above on page 20 or so definitely won't all have 100% blocked private network links.

@splishsplash
Thanks for the thorough post. Like you and others are demonstrating, there are a number of ways a page can rank highly. Obviously a mistake in a WP theme can cause a drop in rankings, but rarely anything dramatic like below 1000. Still, the most proven method of increasing SERP for existing websites are high-quality contextual backlinks from authority sites.


Yep, definitely. It's just good to wait and get your initial rank from purely on-page before you backlink to get a base to improve from and to make sure there's no on-page issues. If you have bad on-page, then get quick backlinks and hit page 3, then you might not realize your on-page wasn't up to standard. With the good on-page you may have hit page 1. All you'd have to change to go from page 3 to 1 is the on-page, but the person would keep pushing backlinks in the attempt to get to page 1.


 
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