msyaz
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Are you doing blackhat, greyhat or whitehat stuff?
Do You Think SEO Got Easier?
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rafark
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Not at all. Lately I’ve been watching closely some keywords for a product and the serps are dominated by big-name publications and the blog section of the big brands. And I’m not talking about exact match product name. I’m talking about “best product for” and “product review” keywords. Now add featured snippets to the mix and it’s pretty though for small and independent websites to rank these days...
Only whitehat, or I guess greyhat at most but accidentally.
No idea of how Blackhat is and I don't use any tools.
rankjacker
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I'd say it has got simpler, now all you need to focus on, is to generate good, relevant content from anywhere on the web. You got to have strong basics, with regard to marketing. The ultimate aim is to convert traffic, which is the job of a good offer, great copywriting. You need multiple content topics (support Articles) to scrape your target audience on every step of a customer life cycle, aid your support articles further with targeted traffic from other sites/platforms (backlinks). run awareness campaigns to generate interest and qualify random visitors to funnel them in.
Reverse the whole steps, you might find a long term strategy to follow with your SEO. Every trick of the book will work until you're following the said path.
Reverse the whole steps, you might find a long term strategy to follow with your SEO. Every trick of the book will work until you're following the said path.
hideath
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ofc it's not,
a couple of years back in time, you could easily rank by sending GSA links when indexing was just a piece of cake,
nowadays, even genuinely made websites are falling out of the google index for no reason (lack of traffic mainly),
you'll have to invest in better content, good old domain & better links which simply will cost you much more
a couple of years back in time, you could easily rank by sending GSA links when indexing was just a piece of cake,
nowadays, even genuinely made websites are falling out of the google index for no reason (lack of traffic mainly),
you'll have to invest in better content, good old domain & better links which simply will cost you much more
noellarkin
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Relatively new on the SEO/linkbuilding scene, so I have no idea what SEO was like before 2018. But even over the last 3 years..I used to follow the OMG method (build out thousands of social profiles), and this method has become more and more inefficient over time. Still works, but the hardest part is indexing the thousands of web 2.0s built. It still works for long tail keywords, but nothing significant.
Also, the search results are becoming more homogeneous, every search result has authority news sites, some important social sites (IG, FB, Pinterest, Reddit).
It seems to me Google is becoming more of a curation service than a search engine.
Also, the search results are becoming more homogeneous, every search result has authority news sites, some important social sites (IG, FB, Pinterest, Reddit).
It seems to me Google is becoming more of a curation service than a search engine.
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I would say you find it easier to rank a site today compared to 5 years ago because you're knowledge of SEO has improved, not necessarily because it got easier or because there's less competition. There are actually more competition especially from those with big SEO budgets.
warriorsam53
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I think it’s easier now. Since you can’t just spin an article and fire up GSA to rank, there’s less competition.
Plus if you have money to spend, getting organic traffic is a joke. There’s a guy on YT who’s doing a journey. He spent 45K on content in 3 months or so and he’s already making 3K a month. Just hundreds of articles. No links.
Not everyone has 45K to spend of course. But being able to outspend the competition definitely makes it much easier than earlier.
Plus if you have money to spend, getting organic traffic is a joke. There’s a guy on YT who’s doing a journey. He spent 45K on content in 3 months or so and he’s already making 3K a month. Just hundreds of articles. No links.
Not everyone has 45K to spend of course. But being able to outspend the competition definitely makes it much easier than earlier.
FrostPepe
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That is a good point. High quality content is super expensive. You used to ne able to rank spun articles and a bunch of shit so easily
warriorsam53
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To be honest, duplicate and translated content is very easy to rank if you do it right. The only problem is monetizing it.
If you want to monetize content to make more than a few cents, it’s expensive. If you don’t directly pay for the content, you’ll pay with your time. Most people don’t agree but time is much more valuable than money.
Being able to spend money significantly increases the barriers to entry for the competition.
Yoram
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Who's the guy?
Black Adam
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No. It is different and difficult than old age SEO. also it is now expensive.
but some blackhat seo still work to some ways. we do not much effort to do blackhat seo.
but some blackhat seo still work to some ways. we do not much effort to do blackhat seo.
Mxty
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How can you say SEO is easier?
There are still things that you can do that are easy, of course there are. Back in the day though, you'd just need to get some spun content up, with the right keywords and spam some links - walla, top rankings.
For actual high search volume terms with difficulty, it takes months, even years and thousands of pounds of investment to get anywhere.
There are still things that you can do that are easy, of course there are. Back in the day though, you'd just need to get some spun content up, with the right keywords and spam some links - walla, top rankings.
For actual high search volume terms with difficulty, it takes months, even years and thousands of pounds of investment to get anywhere.
You can just buy a complete SEO package. Give me any niche and necessary funds and I will rank you in 14 days.
Mxty
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Ha! Complete BS. I'm sure you've emailed me several times over the years.
"You can just buy a complete SEO package" - point me to a link package that does everything, so well that you can rank any keyword. I'll sit here and eat my words.
I'm currently trying to rank for a competitive keyword for the best part of two years. I've bought around £30k worth of links I'd say. Only just pipped the first page.
There is first time for everything.