Welcome to the twenty-ninth episode of my SEO tutorial series. In the last tutorial, we covered the best strategy for link building (i.e Anchor Text in the links). Anchor Text is one of the essentials for quick and better ranking and to make it more effective, you need to find the best ratio for LSI and main keywords, as discussed in the previous tutorial.
There is another thing which is extremely important in the link-building process. As you can see, SEO is probably an easy task but it's time-consuming and a bit depressing to see that you are outranked by your competitor the next day. You will have to handle the situation patiently. A little carelessness can result in a huge loss.
Even though I've explained the ways to harm your competitors, I also explained along with the ways that using such techniques is unethical and it is not something you should practice. I shared them for educational purpose and for those who want to take precautions for such possible actions by their competitors.
Back to the point, another important thing in the link-building process is drip-feeding. If your links are coming organically, then you don't need to worry about anything as everything is natural. But if you're using the artificial methods to rank the site which in your opinion is worthy to rank on the first page of Google SERPs, then you will definitely need to take care of how you are feeding the links in your links profile.
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Common Mistakes By SEO Optimizers:
One of the common mistakes of SEO optimizers is that they purchase bulk links all of a sudden and it causes a spike in the link profile. This spike won't be an issue until Google team decides to manually review your link profile. It gives a clear indication to Google that you are buying links to rank your pages fraudulently.
Another mistake of SEO optimizers is purchasing a lot of social signals just after posting the article on their money site. Same is the case here, if you manage to pass the automatic machine review of Google, your case will be handled by the Google team manually. Though it's another thing if you have a lot of likes on your page already as a dummy to fool Google that your social signals are coming from your followers/likes. But in case if you don't have 5k likes on Facebook and purchased 10k Facebook likes and 3k shares, then this is a red signal.
The percentage of people sharing the posts is too low. Also, not every liker is active on Facebook and that's what Google probably keeps in mind.
The Solution:
If you are buying social media likes or tweets or shares to give Google some social signals then you'll need to do it carefully. As I've explained in my previous tutorials, Social Signals is the important ingredient of robust ranking strategy and if you're not doing it, you're losing a lot of possible value. Sure, the links may have "no-follow" tag but it doesn't mean that they are not important. They ARE important.
The best practice is to buy 20% to 30% of the total likes or followers you have in your social media accounts. For example, if you have 100,000 likes on your Facebook page, it is safe to buy 30,000 likes and around 10,000 Facebook shares. It's recommended that you make your own accounts on social media and grow them organically so that it could serve your sites well enough, though buying signals from Fiverr is the most common strategy. Anything that is common is less effective.
In case of link-building through a PBN network or buying backlinks from sites, it is recommended to wait for a week or two and then start drip-feeding the links slowly. Drip feeding refers to slowly generating the backlinks to prevent any spike in your link profile.
Anyways, that's all for today. If you've loved the tutorial, make sure to follow me at @princewahaj for updates of more useful content. Thank you!
Previous Tutorials:
1st: How to Optimize Your Steemit Content for Search Engines
2nd: How To Give Your Steemit Content Even More Visibility In Search Engines And Beat Your Competitors
3rd: How To Benefit From Images You Use In Your Steemit Content - Internal & External Links - The Proven Method
4th: How To Generate Steemit Content Ideas - Keyword Research - Exact Search Volume Of Keywords From Google!
5th: Turn One Keyword Into Thousands Within Minutes - Long Tail Keywords - The Proven Keyword Research Technique
6th: Understanding The Leading SEO Metrics - Domain Authority And Page Authority
7th: Understanding The King Of Metrics In SEO Industry - Majestic - Trust Flow And Citation Flow
8th: An Introduction To Semrush - Keyword Estimated Traffic Calculation And Difficulty Score By Semrush
9th: Keyword Difficulty Analysis - The Second Core Part Of SEO - How To Find Out Your Ability To Compete - Steemit Metrics
10th: How To Perform Keyword Difficulty Analysis - The First Complete Strategy Explained - Can You Beat Your Competitors?
11th: Keyword Analysis Made Easy - Find Out The Competition Of Keywords In One-Click - The Proven Method Revealed
12th: How To Automate Your Keyword Analysis Task - Analyze Thousands Of Keywords With The Blazing Speed
13th: The Summary Of All The Proven Strategies Related To On-Page SEO
14th: Introduction To Off-Page SEO & The Strategy Of Social Networks To Boost Rankings With Social Signals
15th: Introduction To Backlinks And The Backlinks History
16th: Introduction to No-Follow and Do-Follow Backlinks & Their Importance
17th: Introduction To Link-Building Strategies - Blogs Commenting Explained
18th: Use Cases of Blogs Commenting Strategy - Forum Posting & Signatures Strategy Explained!
19th: Guest Posting Strategy Explained! - Step by Step Guide to Guest Posting
20th: Learn How To Boost Your SERP Ranking With Testimonials - The Robust Strategy Explained
21th: Private Blog Network (PBN) & How It Works! - The Robust Link-building Strategy To Rank ANY Keyword
22nd: PBN Strategy Explained - The Complete Guide To Find The High-Quality Expired Domains
23rd: The Easiest Way To Create Your Own Private Blogs Network (PBN)
24th: The Most Effective Method To Find High Quality Expired Domains - PBN Strategy Explained
25th: Techniques To Avoid Footprints & Protection Of Your PBN Network
26th: The Final Guidelines And Tips For Setting Up The Successful PBN Network
27th: Monetize Your PBN Network & Earn Additional Income With It
28th: How Your Competitors Are Harming Your Site's Ranking- Know The Techniques & Defend Yourself
29th: How To Use Anchor Text When Generating Backlinks From The Network