SEO in 2017, IT'S ALIVE!

[quanttastic]

You might try checking out some of the stuff from backlinko. That site is probably one of the best on SEO. Has amazing case studies.

On really counterintuitive thing is that google will penalize your site if you have a lot of pages that don't get a lot of traffic or do well. So he is encouraging a lot of sites to take down content that isn't popular.

 

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[hughjasle]

Fantastic insights everyone! Thanks so much for the detailed information and case studies.

I used to be on the SEO bashing side of things and 100% for paid traffic. I was wrong. SEO can be an extremely powerful tool, even more powerful when coupled WITH paid traffic. Doesn't have to be one or the other.

Just a side not here, but it always fascinates me how one can earn so much money by mastering any one thing and being smart about business. Paid traffic, Social Organic Traffic (think fb and insta pages/groups), Search PPC, Email marketing, Amazon, Shopify, Google Analytics, Coding, SEO, & countless others. I just mention things in my immediate realm but I assume this is true throughout many areas.

 

[eliquid]

Might want to track whats actually going on in YOUR niche than taking generalized SEO principles. This is what has hurt a lot of people new to SEO ( IMHO, from someone that's been doing this for over 20 years now ) who took generalized advice and then did the wrong thing with it.

This idea is what I created my 3rd SaaS all around... finding out what's actually going on in your SEO niche specifically via monitoring over the long term and reverse engineering what actually is going on for YOUR specific needs.

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• Find out if a niche or term is too volatile for you possibly. Find a better alternative that has easier to rank for traffic.
  
  
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