Has anyone here built a site with NO BACKLINKS?

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Anybody here ever build a site with absolutely no backlinking?

This also includes building a site with no expired domain link power...

Basically, you just focus on the following to rank

- domain authority
- content depth
- user experience
- niche competition research (basically find a low to no competition niche)

I suppose doing things this way will probably TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS to rank

Care to share your experience?
 
Haven't tried, but site text relevance to niche can contain up to 40% of ranking factor, so it may work in a long run.
 
Haven't tried, but site text relevance to niche can contain up to 40% of ranking factor, so it may work in a long run.

Good point re site text relevance.

I guess the main question that comes to mind is: how do you speed up ranking without backlinks?
 
I suppose this can be done with heavy content and internal linking of related articles
 
Submit sitemap via all search-engines webmaster panels.
Also this may be some link building but setup social profiles and submitting new articles will help to rank too.


Good point re site text relevance.

I guess the main question that comes to mind is: how do you speed up ranking without backlinks?
 
I'm doing something like that, but it has some links from social networks, not many though.
 
Lots of quality contents and good internal links will always rank a website but it takes many months/years. And that also depends on keyword competition.

When you set up a website with contents and good on page seo and leave it for many months, it will start ranking on its own.
 
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Anybody here ever build a site with absolutely no backlinking?

This also includes building a site with no expired domain link power...

Basically, you just focus on the following to rank

- domain authority
- content depth
- user experience
- niche competition research (basically find a low to no competition niche)

I suppose doing things this way will probably TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS to rank

Care to share your experience?

If you're planning on doing this, it would make a great case study < hint hint > :smirk:
 
Anybody here ever build a site with absolutely no backlinking?

This also includes building a site with no expired domain link power...

Basically, you just focus on the following to rank

- domain authority
- content depth
- user experience
- niche competition research (basically find a low to no competition niche)

I suppose doing things this way will probably TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS to rank

Care to share your experience?

I curious one this " domain authority " How you go ?
 
I curious one this " domain authority " How you go ?
Domain Authority is not MOZ DA

Instead, domain authority refers to the CREDIBILITY and AUTHORITY you build up with Google because it has ranked some of your long tail keyword targeted pages

I suppose if you have enough of these, Google is more likely to rank your pages that target more competitive keywords
 
Yes, I did a site without backlinks. Just content in-depth, good On Page SEO, and that's it. This was a new domain. It took months (half year), but the site is ranked good for medium competition keyword.
 
I started such a site at the beginning of 2019 to test KGR. 50 posts over 6 months for very low comp keywords, most of which are now ranking page 1, if not #1. I've only just started to build links.

Before link building the site was getting 20 - 30 visitors per day, and making $30 per month. After building links the site getting 40 - 60 visitors per day, and doing $50 per month.

Yes it is possible to build a site solely based on content, but you would need 100 - 500 posts to make decent money. A great "journey" would be if someone did 1 posts per day for a year. It's all about the keyword research, and finding a niche with 100's of low comp keywords (not easy).

I recently stumbled on one such niche, which a website or youtube channel would do very well and wish I had the time to run with it myself. The base KW is "Can you freeze"... have fun!
 
I do it all the time. Backlinks were not a thing when I first started building websites in 1999, so they are not a thing to me now in 2019. I'm old school.

I only use long tail keywords. It's all you need. Keywords tell Google what is on your website. Backlinks tell Google who linked to your website. Customers don't care who linked to your website. They only care about what's ON your website.

Example:

Backlinks move a website up to the #1 position in the SERP's, correct?
Do you always click the website sitting in the #1 position every time you use Google?

Do you see? Just because a website is on the first page, or in the #1 position, does not mean it will get clicked on. The website has to be RELEVANT in order for it to get clicked on. How do you know if the website on the first page is relevant? It will have the same keywords/query/question/phrase on it that you typed into Google. If none of the results on the first page have the keywords/query/question/phrase you typed into Google, you will search again without clicking on any search result at all. You may even look at page 2, 3, 4, and 5 if you get desperate. If you still can't find anything relevant, you will likely just give up searching for the day. Never clicking on anything. I like to tell people to look at their own Google search behavior when they want to understand SEO. Your own actions answer all of your SEO questions.

The only backlink I have is from YouTube. I post a link to my website in the description box for customers to head over to my website to buy my product. If I am using Instagram, I put the link in my bio. That's it.

The niche, keywords, and where you place those keywords, determine how fast it will rank. Some stuff goes viral fast, other things take months to kick in, but when it does kick in, it's like an explosion of traffic and sales. The longest any of my sites took to rank was 4 months. I started the site in September and nothing happened until one random day in January. I started getting traffic and sales out of the clear blue. It began to rank on it's own after that. But I think someone shared the YouTube video I created and had on the site and that led to the traffic. So you can't really say when something is going to take off, or how long it will take, you know what I mean? It's the Internet. You have to wait for people and Google to actually search for your information and find it.

You can still use backlinks, they aren't bad, but they are definitely a waste of time and money if you don't have the keywords the customer typed into Google on your website.
 
how long does it normally take you to rank WITH links?
I am not creating links for each article, once it reached top 100 by quality content, I start building links and i can see the improvement in 7 - 15 days.
 
It's very possible, like it's been said, it will take 4 to 6 months, lil faster if you're blogging weekly for those landing page terms too and linking properly internally.
Also like it's been said, it will NOT bring in much traffic, unless you've managed to out SEO competitors, but often that extra bit not being seen, is in backlinks, so strike there afterwards and rock onwards.

Trickle some Adwords for very niche intent users and get that money, that pyramid mummy money!
 
I guess it works. Providing value, doing research and finding what the niche is lacking has been good to me so far.

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It's hard to explain without sounding like I was in control of things:
  • basic on-page SEO (I'm probably still missing some minor nuances that make all the difference still, intuition* has found a lot of them though - without backlinks, the on-page has to be overdone)
  • intuition (in terms of the target audience - basically, isn't Google's aim to get the audience what they need/want? Simple reasoning...)
  • due diligence (in terms of Google algorithm - have you noted the trend? It aligns with the intuitive remarks when looking at past updates over the years...).
(note: I created the first pillar money article late in May, 2019)


Again, it could be just luck, it could be unintentional acing - it's hard to not come off as a snob. But it just feels right... I can't stand blackhat, and whenever I hear a Google algo bringing down the abusers and exploiters, I do get malicious enjoyment out of it. Though it could easily be myself getting burned one day.

I'm told to be self-aware, so brining out my subconscious human aspects as if I did this stuff intentionally will sound super, super shady to some1 without the comprehension of mindfulness in general. Again, not to come off as a rude person... try to approach these matters philosophically and challenge my reasoning that way, no need for strawmans and other fallacious demagogue, okay? :weep: (human nature sucks)


Anyway, since these examples are from my 2nd journey trying to make a profitable website (I was in serious disbelief ever making money online - seemed like a scam), I feel like I've learned just one method, a template which I'll use to jumpstart multiple sites with "intention" this time around.

(Hope it helps some1... - I just needed to add all the non-essential background info in case some1 came in here deciphering everything in their biased twisted ways...)
 
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