SeoWrecker
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@kontentdruid Can you update on how this domain is doing 2 years later? Strangely, I am facing something similar.
Rare SEO Case Study Enigma: Aged Domain Gets No Respect From Google
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kontentdruid
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Basically I took @MisterF advice and aggressively ramped up the word counts for blog posts targeting competitive keywords to 2k each. I also started more aggressive link building. By September traffic had a fantastic upswing. In 2 year span I took it from 1k/mo to 290k/mo this past May. Then in June it got knocked down to 190k/mo after that ridiculous algo update. FYI all content was high quality original, link building was about 80% clean/legit.
Love it or hate it, content is important either new content or adding/updating existing articles and pages.
Did you use Surfer or anything similar mate for the content word counts etc?
kontentdruid
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Nah no Surfer. I looked at the top ranked pages for each keyword, zeroed in on the weaker sites that were ranking well, and simply produced 30 to 40% more words than what they had. But I had some client money to play with, so I made sure the content was super high quality.