Is it REALLY possible to rank without Blackhat SEO?

JamaicanMoose said:

As others have said - yes it is possible. If you want to do it yourself, it's going to cost you an incredible amount of time. Time to write, time to design and maintain your site, time to do outreach, time to manage social media, and more.

But there is something more important than time that you will need.

You're going to need a lot of patience and discipline.

You'll need patience not to take a shortcut by buying the latest new hot amazing SEO package on BHW.

You'll need the discipline to keep writing a HQ, lengthy article every single day. Discipline to continue searching for blogs in your niche, reading a couple of their articles, and sending a custom outreach script to their editor. Discipline to never stop working.

Can you do the above? Really think..

If not, then be like the rest of us and buy some articles from @blackbeans , @jedediahd , @PHPInjected , and @LuckyCharm007 , a diversity package from @LukaB , some social signals from @ExpressFans , some web2.0s from @7thAmigo , a few general PBN posts from @reallife , some expired domains from @Nargil , and PBN hosting from EasyBlogNetworks and make some fucking money.

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Mr Cracker said:

I get what you're saying but as I said time is something I've got. Time is really not an issue, my question was how was it possible. Not to sound rude but it just looks like you're promoting friends/your service on this thread without really offering any value based on my actual question. FYI - I never buy services on forums (besides keyword research, bots, but that's about it). I have a team that write articles, find my PBN domains, and everything else.

But thanks.

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Mr Cracker said:

Thanks do you have any links I could grab, I'm rusty to be honest and have no clue about going about things without anything besides spamming, or using PBN'S.

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MisterF said:

Yes it is without a doubt.
There's a couple of people I know on Facebook who are doing just this, great onpage seo, great content and they're ranking and generating traffic.

Off pafe / Blackhat is a shortcut to gaining top spots, but with time it can be done.

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alwaysinvisible said:

@t0mmy just wrote this excellent post: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/10-ways-to-improve-your-seo-that-your-lazy-competitor-is-ignoring.908953/

In addition, I think it's really important to make your website look like a freaking blog, and not JUST an Amazon affiliate website. One of my favorite examples is Wellness Mama. She drops affiliate links in almost all of her posts, but she gives such valuable information that no one even cares. She talks about family stuff and natural remedies, and what she does for her family. She has Amazon affiliate links in her site, for anything from cleaning products to ingredients for homemade toothpaste. But they are all sprinkled about in posts surrounding issues that people want solutions for.

So, if you plan to sell cleaning products on Amazon, look up problems that people have with cleaning problems. Maybe they're tired of chemicals and want a natural cleaner. Maybe they're cheap and would rather make their own cleaner than buy them. (I do this btw. Dawn soap + vingear = cure for every stain on almost every surface ever.) Maybe they're allergic to something in popular household cleaners so they need a product that doesn't have that ingredient in it. Maybe their baby has super sensitive skin and they need a special laundry detergent for their clothes.

The possibilities are endless. Just set up a blog post about the problem and offer a solution. Every blog post doesn't have to be a review of a product. Those are boring as fuck to be honest. Think outside the box.

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onlineonly said:

Yes it's possible. Does it take a lot of time and money? Yes it does. Below is a screen shot from semrush from one of my sites which I haven't built a single link too. But it's taken almost 4 years to reach to this point but if you create content that actually helps people, links will come naturally. If you don't have the time and patience, I wouldn't go completly whitehat.

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Shree said:

Yes ... it's possible to rank affiliate sites without PBNs.

Your on page SEO has to be excellent, site structure has to be great - and your content needs to be very, very good.

It goes without saying that your keyword research skills have to be very good too.

That said, I have seen pages with no external links - and very few internal links - take between 8 months to a year to break into the top 5.

PBNs can help you rank pages much faster - but building large PBN networks that stand the test of time requires expertise.

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WebzSuite said:

Just keep creating high quality content ! Google loves unique content.


You can get a Google traffic without ANY SEO, what so ever on a brand new domain. You just need a lot of unique, valuable content.

I have prepared some small web app for my pre-final software engineering module in a last year on my Uni and after I've published a web app, Google started to send traffic daily from over 120 countries.

They still doing it, despite the fact that web app is not finished (I've finished that module), lots of content is invisible to Google (can't navigate through some content) and yet, no SEO, just unique content and Google will start driving traffic few days later (I just submitted short version of sitemap).

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