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I've spent years in paid advertising, UX, and e-commerce and have close to zero knowledge about SEO. I also own a few Adsense sites that get social traffic, mainly from Facebook and Pinterest, that I've build-up for years. All of this means I stayed away from SEO as far as I could :D It was always just too time-consuming and not interesting.

Now, I found an amazing person (native) who can write, and I really want to help her out, so I have an affiliate project in mind. She can write very, very well. I've used her content for a ton of marketing projects, ads, advertorials, articles, etc.

The plan is to build a big website full of content. I plan to order low competition KW from BHW providers, and I can build up a nice-looking, well-optimized website with aff ads.

I'm already reading about the silo/structure of the site, and plan to order an On-page SEO package from the BHW marketplace as well. Based on what I've read, I will go with the idea to not build any backlinks for the first month or two.

Plan:
1. Low competition KW from BHW
2. A ton of content
3. On-page SEO service from BHW
4. ???

And now I need a few suggestions so I can build up a plan in the following months :)

What do you recommend? What is your no.1 tip to improve rankings for a brand new site?


Thank you!
 
Patience is key. Build lots of high quality content. You need to constantly keep building quality content.

I start building some links around month 2. Just a few, links, like 5 or 6 and all to the home page using branded and naked URL anchors. Then the same for the second month. Around month 4 I will start building links to inner pages and use a few long tail anchors as anchors. Also continue building home page links. The number of links will start to increase to 10-20 in month 4, 20-30 in month 5 and then 20-40 in month 6. After month 6 I continue to build backlinks at a steady pace.
 
I am not an SEO expert. But what I usually do and it works well for me; Create a piece of High-quality content on Medium & Reddit and than rank those on G. These are way more easier to rank than a brand new domain.

also when you will get relevant traffic from these sources to your site Google will consider your site as a Relevant. Traffic from Medium,Reddit & Quora will make your property more relevant than SERPs competitors who doesn't get the same type of signals

I hope it helps
 
Asking ‘how do I do SEO’ on a forum post is never going to get you a great answer I’m afraid. It’s a big topic. Take your time and do your research so you don’t waste your time and money doing the wrong thing.

In general terms people overthink a lot of this. Target something doable, write good content (look at your competition and do a genuinely better job) then apply links. Links are usually the hardest part to all this. They’re either expensive or time consuming - if they’re neither then they’re probably not going to actually rank you.
 
I am against buying packages for anything other than high quality niche edits backlinks.

You need to learn everything by yourself..SEO is really simple

Good piece of content + backlinks better than your competitor = Rank

As getting the content part is the always easy, it always ends with who can pay for better backlinks.. so, like any other business, you put money to get more.

Anyway, you need to read a lot and try just like you did with ads
 
As others have mentioned, have patience.
Ensure your onpage is as close to perfect as possible.
Don't cut corners with your offpage, quality over quantity and relevant links only.

Press release is a good way to start off and a few social signals to support this.
 
As others have mentioned, have patience.
Ensure your onpage is as close to perfect as possible.
Don't cut corners with your offpage, quality over quantity and relevant links only.

Press release is a good way to start off and a few social signals to support this.

Do you guys offer on-site optimization services as well?
 
If I had to pick ONE I would go with BETTER content for LOW COMP keywords.
High volume keywords are impossible to tackle on a small budget and in a short period of time.
Which is why I prefer to create a list of mid to low volume super-low KD keywords and create really good content for them.
They start ranking without any backlinks almost immediately.
Over time I add more keywords, and after a loooong wait, the high volume high KD keywords start rolling in, too (we're talking 9 to 14 months).
 
Wow, a lot of great advice! Thank you! I really appreciate it! :)

The main plan is to have a ton of content first. We are definitely not in a hurry to go all-in crazy with backlinks.
 
Although still consider myself a newbie in SEO, I'll give you 2:-

1. Buy an expired domain with good/relevant/niche related backlinks, it really changes the game
2. Make sure your page load speed it real fast :)
 
I'm no expert, but slow and steady has ALWAYS worked for me. One of my biggest problems have been me losing interest in sites months after making them, and slowing down on my building plan. It is my belief that by not being steady and stable with backlinking and posting, big G takes it as a sign that your site and content is losing steam.
 
I've spent years in paid advertising, UX, and e-commerce and have close to zero knowledge about SEO. I also own a few Adsense sites that get social traffic, mainly from Facebook and Pinterest, that I've build-up for years. All of this means I stayed away from SEO as far as I could :D It was always just too time-consuming and not interesting.

Now, I found an amazing person (native) who can write, and I really want to help her out, so I have an affiliate project in mind. She can write very, very well. I've used her content for a ton of marketing projects, ads, advertorials, articles, etc.

The plan is to build a big website full of content. I plan to order low competition KW from BHW providers, and I can build up a nice-looking, well-optimized website with aff ads.

I'm already reading about the silo/structure of the site, and plan to order an On-page SEO package from the BHW marketplace as well. Based on what I've read, I will go with the idea to not build any backlinks for the first month or two.

Plan:
1. Low competition KW from BHW
2. A ton of content
3. On-page SEO service from BHW
4. ???

And now I need a few suggestions so I can build up a plan in the following months :)

What do you recommend? What is your no.1 tip to improve rankings for a brand new site?


Thank you!
2.5 silo

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Personally for me I wait 6 months before I start link building
It depends. But personally, I would focus on social media at first with light link building, then after 4-8 months I will link it harder. As I said it depends, but sandbox is not a great thing.
 
Can you please recommend a
Low competition KW and On-page SEO service?
 
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