Lucky Ducky
Newbie
- Dec 21, 2016
- 22
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Hello guys, I appreciate you taking the time to look over this topic. So diving right into it, I've been experimenting with SEO on my website for the past year. I hired a company and didn't get anywhere near the results I was expecting. I decided to learn it on my own. Minor stuff - basic on page seo, optimizing meta tags, adding anchor text into the forums in which I advertise on, and building up my social media profiles.
A Bit About My Niche:
My niche is selling a virtual currency. More specifically Runescape Gold. My website is fairly well known throughout the community. I get more traffic than any other vendor, and for a long time I thought that this alone would push me to the top of google rankings. I do rank on the front page for many major keywords. I bounce around the bottom and middle of the front page. I am now turning to you guys for a little guidance on how I might be able to push it to the next level.
My Social Media Profiles:
I'm including this info just incase it's relevant.
- Instagram: ~2,500 followers - 1k reach per post - 3-10 biolink clicks per day
- Twitter: ~1,000 followers - 300-500 impressions per post - 10-20 website clicks per day
- Facebook: ~1500 followers - ~700 impressions per post - 40-50 website clicks per day
- Google plus: ~300 followers - other infos is basically negligible.
- Pintrest: 15 followers: I started this to just experiment, don't think it'll being any real traffic for this niche.
*All followers are real people with interest in the game.
My Website VS The Top Google Spots
My website gets more overall traffic, but they have a clear edge when it comes to organic. Below are the comparable Ahref stats.
Mine:
Them:
The Facebook and Google+ share information I don't believe is correct. If I am right in assuming that it's counting how many times my post have been shared, both should be well 100. Unless I am mistaken and the shares represent something different? All SEO on my website has been whitehat, there are very limited spots where we can advertise effectively for this market. Due to the number of referring domains to my competitor I assumed that they were blackhat and would fall off after some time. But that hasn't happened. They have remained at the top of google for over a year in all the major $ terms.
My competitors do have a smaller facebook page than mine, and no significant other accounts on social media. Over the past few days I have been researching and wondering if I should start posting about my business on several websites with high DR ranking (ahrefs rank that they say is most correlated with search engine position). My website is in the process of being re-made to include a more friendly user experience, and a daily blog systems.
So my burning questions are:
- Do you think they are using some sort of blackhat SEO method?
- Am I overlooking something?
If you've made it this far... thank you
A Bit About My Niche:
My niche is selling a virtual currency. More specifically Runescape Gold. My website is fairly well known throughout the community. I get more traffic than any other vendor, and for a long time I thought that this alone would push me to the top of google rankings. I do rank on the front page for many major keywords. I bounce around the bottom and middle of the front page. I am now turning to you guys for a little guidance on how I might be able to push it to the next level.
My Social Media Profiles:
I'm including this info just incase it's relevant.
- Instagram: ~2,500 followers - 1k reach per post - 3-10 biolink clicks per day
- Twitter: ~1,000 followers - 300-500 impressions per post - 10-20 website clicks per day
- Facebook: ~1500 followers - ~700 impressions per post - 40-50 website clicks per day
- Google plus: ~300 followers - other infos is basically negligible.
- Pintrest: 15 followers: I started this to just experiment, don't think it'll being any real traffic for this niche.
*All followers are real people with interest in the game.
My Website VS The Top Google Spots
My website gets more overall traffic, but they have a clear edge when it comes to organic. Below are the comparable Ahref stats.
Mine:
Them:
The Facebook and Google+ share information I don't believe is correct. If I am right in assuming that it's counting how many times my post have been shared, both should be well 100. Unless I am mistaken and the shares represent something different? All SEO on my website has been whitehat, there are very limited spots where we can advertise effectively for this market. Due to the number of referring domains to my competitor I assumed that they were blackhat and would fall off after some time. But that hasn't happened. They have remained at the top of google for over a year in all the major $ terms.
My competitors do have a smaller facebook page than mine, and no significant other accounts on social media. Over the past few days I have been researching and wondering if I should start posting about my business on several websites with high DR ranking (ahrefs rank that they say is most correlated with search engine position). My website is in the process of being re-made to include a more friendly user experience, and a daily blog systems.
So my burning questions are:
- Do you think they are using some sort of blackhat SEO method?
- Am I overlooking something?
If you've made it this far... thank you
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