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There’s a formula to SEO and as long as you follow it, you’ll get rankings. So, what’s this formula? Well, you write amazing content, optimize your code, create a great user experience, and you mix in some backlinks. Sounds simple, right? Well, the formula isn’t too complicated, but it does require hard work and patience. Now what makes SEO challenging isn’t the formula, or the time, or the patience. It has more to do with how you beat people who have more money than you because, in theory, they can do more of everything, which should cause them to outrank you. But you know what? I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I love SEO because it’s the one channel where you can beat big companies even if you can’t outspend them. How? Well, let’s go over that. Let’s first start with the two mental shifts you’ll have to make. Mental shift #1: Speed is everything What most people won’t tell you is big companies need to spend more to get the same results that you can for pennies o...

There’s a little growth hack that every ecommerce site should be using. It’s the easiest hack… it doesn’t require money, you don’t need a following, and it works instantly. But you know what? No one is using it. Can you guess what it is? Well, I’ll give you hint… just look at the image above . It’s not related to SEO, paid ads, or anything else you are used to reading about here on the blog. The beautiful part about it is no one is leveraging it, which means it works roughly 100% of the time. 🙂 A simple way to get more ecommerce sales Alright, do you want to know what it is? Well, I’ll give you one more hint before spilling the beans. If you watched a video like this on YouTube about the best makeup products, what do you think would happen? There’s a good chance you’ll buy one of the products recommended. And if you don’t, someone else will. The issue is, it only works if you generate enough video views. And I have a lot of articles breaking down how to get more YouTube ...

Please note that you may have to clear your browser cache to see the latest version of Ubersuggest. Do you want to know how many people are linking to you? Do you want to find more link opportunities? Well, I created a free backlink tool that will allow you to do that (and much more). I decided to call it Backlinks . And, as you may have guessed, I integrated it within Ubersuggest so that way you can do more within one simple tool. Here’s how Backlinks works… How Backlinks works The first step is to head over to the Backlinks landing page and type in a URL or a domain. You’ll then want to select the type of backlink report you want to pull up. As you can see, there are 3 main options: URL – this report will pull backlink information ONLY for that specific URL. Domain/* – this report will pull backlink information for that domain EXCLUDING subdomains. *Domain/* – this report will pull all backlink information for that domain, including any subdomains. This option wi...

Do you know what the number one email request I get is? Come on, take a guess. What do you think it is? Ok, its people asking me for money. But, do you know what the second most common email request I get is? Companies asking me to rank them number 1 on Google for a specific term. And I have to say, it’s a big waste of time for you to focus all of your energy on ranking number 1 on Google for a specific term or even a handful of terms. Just take a look at my site… here’s my Google traffic over the last 31 days: As you can see from the graph, I’m generating 2,375,455 organic visits from search engines each month. And can you guess how many keywords I’m tracking when it comes to my rankings? A big fat ZERO! I’m not saying I don’t do SEO, I’m saying I don’t focus on rankings. Can you increase your search traffic without tracking rankings? The short answer is yes. As you saw from the graph above, I’m getting over 2 million visits from organic search each month. If you lo...

You already know it’s harder to get traffic from the social web unless you spend money on ads. There’s nothing new with that fact… just look at the graph above: It breaks down how the average number of social shares per blog post has been dying year over year. But the reality is you can’t ignore platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or any other new contender that comes out and gains traction. These social sites command so much traffic, that we have no choice but to be on them. Just look at the Similar Web numbers for Facebook … they get an estimated 19.2 billion visits a month . That’s ridiculous! And it’s not just Facebook either… according to Similar Web, all of the big platforms get tons of traffic: LinkedIn – 917 million visitors a month Twitter – 3.62 billion visitors a month YouTube – 22.77 billion visitors a month Instagram – 2.86 billion visitors a month In other words, whether you like their algorithm tweaks or not, you have no choice...