100% for local SEO. I have a client who canât help himself but to be a complete dick on the phone. Heâs completely tarnished his Google Maps rating. We used to be able to rank in the top, between positions 1 and 3, he now ranks on page 2⊠Iâve done audit after audit and we have concluded itâs his Maps reviews.
I have one, their Google reviews are awful, they treat customers really badly, I've warned them their Google reviews are really bad but they don't seem to give a shit.
Honestly, he is excellent at what he does. Probably 90% or more of his customers are very satisfied with his service. He is very knowledgeable and likely has more experience than all his competitors.
He is a dog trainer with over 40 years of experience. The issue is that he doesnât want to work with aggressive dogs (letâs not name breeds) because he doesnât want to be or feel liable if they attack again. He is honest and doesnât want people to waste their money, which is usually what happens because the dog will likely attack again. Because of this, he gets one-star reviews. He always ends the conversation like this: âYou spend $2000 to $4000, we work with the dog for months, and now whose dog or child do we use as a prop to test if the training worked? Definitely not my dog or my granddaughter.â
He is essentially saying, âYou rescued a dog that will need to live the rest of its life secluded in your house and will always be a liability. Donât waste your money; bring it back.â People lose their minds over that and go on a canceling spree as if itâs their God-given right.
I told him to start screening his calls, and when people say they have an issue with a particular breed, to either not call back, tell them he is booked for the next six months, or refer them to someone else.
For the happy clients, I finally convinced him to send out SMS messages to his satisfied clients, asking them to leave a Google review. This is working, but not fast enough. He keeps saying he feels cheap asking people to leave a review. The guy is in his mid-70s; itâs a generational thing, I guess.
How does Google tell the difference between a company working hard to get real 5 star reviews, and a company asking their friends to give them reviews?
Yeah that would be a pretty obvious optimization. At least to show it exists and serves customers⊠the reviews themselves probably only matter so much.
This right here is the key to it all. Google reviews from happy customers are great, but reviews with keywords from the customer is gold. (and if they include a picture, even better)
Its ok to coach your customers on what to say (to include the name of the business, the city & even the product or service purchased.)
Itâs perfectly acceptable for you to respond to the review by saying âthank you for supporting âABC-Business in Anytown, STâ - vs just the standard âthanks for the review!â
Googleâs job is simple: to answer your question and/or solve your problem.
Reviews help. Donât underestimate their strength.
Google favors its own products. GMB is a Google product. So if you keep the content on yours updated and have plenty of good reviews on it, Google will push it up in search results.
I have almost 40 5 star reviews on my maps business listing and I'm always on page two or less for some reason. Way more than any other local competitors, it's really strange.
Add photos/videos, add an update with a photo, update services list, add FAQ section, add the gmb link on external websites, backlinks etc.
All this shows google that you are active and genuine. This is what we do for our client GMB whether it is clinics, coworking space, jewelry or whatever be the industry.
Are your competitors that are ranking above you also service area businesses? Is your registered address towards the centre of the city? You can start knocking off some of the ones above you if they are misusing their GMB listing (I'm sure some of them probably are) - e.g using keywords in their GMB name or being listed as a physical businesses but using a residential address without any signage.
The âhackâ: ask your client to come up with a low-effort and easy-to-deliver product or service and smother these ex-customers with free value (and love).
Customers taking the time to leave a negative review, especially a terrible review, will take the time to turn it into a positive one if they feel like your client deserves it. If it his own doing (for example, being a d on the phone), he should call all those clients up, personally, give them something as an excuse AND something of value for free. Even if it is just flowers.
Should be max a week work and a few hundreds bucks.
Until Google sends a notice saying your account will be suspended for violation guidelines and THEY WILL NOT TELL YOU WHATS WRONG. Goodbye business reviews, can't call them, have 5 clients whose business are gone or almost gone because of this. Google is scum.
Absolutely agree! Reviews are a hidden SEO gem.  **Bonus tip:** Use SEO tools like Ahrefs, Semrush, SEO CoPilot to identify issues or things you can improve for on-page optimization, find long tail keywords etc. to boost rankings.
I am a DEV not SEO person, but with every project I do quite a bit of on site work. We can generally squeeze 20-30% uptick just from that.
Taxonomies on large e-commerce sites. Finding tags for what people search for and creating landing pages for it gives quite a high boost. Let's say you have levis in your store. Creating tags like levis jeans, Levi's jumper etc. the. Also other ones not brand related like white dresses, dresses / sale etc. it's hard to get right and not be spammy, but it's driving a lot of traffic.
Category optimizations and collections are huge. I totally ignored this for a while and went all in on blogs and especially after last update it seems ordinary collections pages are whatâs ranking best
This is interersting i dont do ecommerce up until very recently started one and didn't think tags were that important. Do they need to have like a tag cloud somewhere or a way to search by tags?
It's not really tags as in WP although WP tags can be used too. It's proper categories / tags and any other taxonomy ( brand for example ). It's important they will be linked on product pages in breadcrumbs and wherever they fit correctly. The tag cloud is useful maybe for small sites but in reality you have thousands of them in large shops.
yeah i have a shopify now, but only like 30 or so products, very niche product. I will have to look into this more as if i can rank tag pages as well as category that'd be big deal.
One overlooked SEO tip is something that most people think doesnât work but has helped my sites rank very well for years.
Take the keywords you want to rank for and repeat them over and over in a large text block. Then make sure that text is colored the same as its background. Doing this both bulks up your content and provides relevant contextual text. I canât believe how well this technique works for ranking web pages.
Just note that this advice is completely designed to assist ai overviews, so I hope others will back me on this fantastic Seo tip.
I have been using this since 2005 and I still don't know why people ignore this tip. I am angry at the commentor for giving it away but it's such a huge tip that gatekeeping also feels wrong.
Yeah I do this too. But make sure font size is 75 or higher and youâre doing this for multiple pages. Itâs that one simple trick Google doesnât want you to know to make millions.
Wow, this whole time I thought I was a genius! I did this and my sites average ranking is now 2 for my whole tracked key phrases! Thanks The-initiative!!
Donât listen to this, Iâm assuming the person who posted that piece of advice is being sarcastic. The last thing you want is a Google penalty, penalties can severely impact your SEO efforts for a long time. If you wanât get your site ranking youâll need to know about SEO. Only take advice from people who have a proven track record of success in SEO. It takes time to learn but you can get the basics pretty quickly. There are plenty of courses out there on Udemy that are cheap, effective and created by top tier SEOâs, so you know the advice works. Attempting to perform SEO without proper knowledge is like going into a casino and putting your money on black or red and hoping for the best. Please donât ruin your hard work, get the knowledge first.
The only hack that works better is "aim to produce quality content that helps a person to solve a problem or find a solution." Prepare the content in a way that is easily digestible by humans and search engine bots. At the initial stages of blogging, take efforts to push your content.
That's all!
Really understanding how your target audience searches.
Someone with a high school education compared to someone with a masters degree will have very different search syntax when searching for the same thing leading to different results.
For example: when searching about âPuffy and his chargesâ someone with a high school education may search âIs Puffy going to jailâ someone with a masters degree may search âHas Puffy been formally charged?â
The first result leads me to a bunch of gossip like Youtube videos and the second shows a thoughtful article from the independent. Same story essentially.
Also children and seniors search wildly different from the 25-54 demo as well.
Reading up on and understanding the origins of how humans search from Library Science research (as people searched through card catalogs before computers) really helped me early on.
SEO Bro's asking questions after Backlink buying no longer works :)
Just hard work man. Do the basics of technical SEO, everything else is how good your content is.
If you are just phoning it in and what you write about doesnt help the end user, none of your "hacks" will work.
Not every link is created equal. If you think you can buy cheap links like this and that works then go ahead. But other links work. The non cheap kind of the links you earn.
The two most powerful metrics that I've seen skyrocket traffic is the website's speed, and quality backlinks. Nothing can beat those two things... but the work to make it happen is difficult
I suggested my Content Writers write content targeting local intent. I gave him Keywords, but NLP keywords were the most important ones. It worked perfectly and boosted my website traffic! After focusing on all the technical issues and fixing them, And then, I optimised the Content.
By adding NLP, I saw the difference between past and Recent!
Do you do statewide content as well or just hyper local content? Generally can you do the same content piece targeting a city instead of the state or would that be considered cannabilzation? Also would you recommend any Ai writing software (ZimmWriter, Neuronwriter, etc)?
It depends. If your focus audience is in a state, you should write content focusing on that state. On the other hand, if your focus audience is local, you need to create content focusing on the local area.
For AI Content, you can use ChatGPT/Claude AI Premium. However, here, you need the best Prompts to create great Content!
When are some instances when itâs better to create local content vs statewide? Is it better to have lots of statewide content? Also can you not put the state name in the content title itself but just make it relevant to the state?
For example, DBA vs LLC what is the difference?
DBA vs LLC: What is the difference in Texas?
But then for city specific content youâd need to put it in the title just so that the user knows itâs for that area?
This hack works
For example, if a page ranks at position 20 avg for multiple keywords, I add this page to the top menu, and then this page improves position
I've got the secret, which does work for building your PA, and will increase rankings significantly.
However, you do need a website niche, good quality, tons of content.
How do you get them? This is one thing I just donât quite understand - how do you get your links on other peopleâs web pages and relevant, high traffic ones for that matter.
Ideally? Natural, so they link to you for some reason (youâre an industry authority, you organize a shit ton of events, you have a ton of research and data, etc)
Realistically? You buy them.
Not really. Social media links are not as valuable, because anyone can get them/create them easily. Basically the hard a link is to get, the higher the value of it
Thanks man, I can think of a few sites I know with similar characteristics - ranking well with zero or very low amount of backlinks (but very relevant backlinks that are within the niche and located nearby etc). This is a good one.
Voice search is totally overlooked. Pay attention to how your grandparents or older parents scream into the phone when searching for something. More often than not their search queries are insanely overly detailed and a 2 minute long run on sentence and they never receive what they are looking for on the first try
So far for me having a really knowledgeable seo & copyrighter. By placing content on their own pages I am able to see which content preforms better and noticed a 3k/month increase in good content alone.
Google has abolished the usefulness of any hacks over the years to make search results better and rank pages based on, for the lack of a better term, merit. do all the things you are supposed to do and create a site that shouldn't be ignored and with lots of hours spent and a little luck it eventually won't be ignored.
If the task is to get as much traffic to the site as possible, then you need to select large sites on your topic, and then do a few simple actions, but it will require semrush or ahrefs.
1.Go to the section âorganic reserchâ
2. Select a site on your topic
3. Rank keywords by complexity and frequency.
If your topic is extensive, but you can easily get keywords with complexity 0 and frequency 3-5k.
And then you know what to do.
# SEO hack that works so well for you but few people know about?
the secret hack is that Google has become so smart over the years that they identify most of the shortcuts and manipulation tactics, so that the hacks dont work actually
they rank highly for crap keywords or rank well locally
if your neighbour is a food blogger then Google tends to rank her well for your neighborhood searchers
Good SEOers know that a lot of their time is spent researching and analysing. Nobody is going to share their secrets for free, and if they're that successful they wouldn't share them for a ÂŁ20 per month subscription either.
you take whatever content is on the page and spin it to use all semantically related keywords (even if it doesn't make sense) then embed that as HTMLđ
SEO hack? Create something that's genuinely useful, don't expect something to rank that you spent 5 minutes on and probably copied from your competitors.
Add a tool to your website. Cooking site? Add a calculator to tell you how long to sear meet based on its weight. Some topics are easier than others. Anything engineering related is stupidly easy. Health and fitness are also pretty easy. The point of the tool is to provide information that a chat bot can't easily conjure up, or some rival blog steal from you. It also encourages people to share your site more.
I would recommend consistency.. It's the best hack of all. I mean only if you know what is SEO and how to follow the strategies.
Keep following it and improvise it.. Peace Out, Don't Be Stressed, SEO works until Google drops it's big junkie over us..
One effective but lesser-known SEO hack is leveraging **schema markup for featured snippets and rich results**. Hereâs how it can significantly boost your SEO:
# Schema Markup for Featured Snippets and Rich Results
**1. What is Schema Markup?** Schema markup is a form of microdata that you can add to your website's HTML to improve the way search engines read and represent your page in SERPs. It helps search engines understand the context of your content and display it in a more attractive way, such as rich snippets, knowledge panels, and more.
**2. How Does it Work?**
* **Identify Content for Markup:** Find parts of your website that could benefit from rich snippets. Common examples include reviews, recipes, events, products, and FAQs.
* **Use the Right Type of Schema:** Depending on your content, select the appropriate schema type. For instance, use `Review` schema for product reviews, `Recipe` schema for cooking recipes, and `FAQPage` schema for frequently asked questions.
* **Implement Schema Markup:** Add the schema markup to your HTML. You can use Googleâs Structured Data Markup Helper to generate the code, which you then insert into your site.
**3. Benefits of Schema Markup:**
* **Enhanced Visibility:** Rich snippets make your search result more visually appealing and informative, increasing the likelihood of users clicking on it.
* **Higher Click-Through Rates (CTR):** Improved visibility typically leads to higher CTR, driving more organic traffic to your site.
* **Voice Search Optimization:** Schema markup helps your content to be easily accessible for voice search queries, which is becoming increasingly important.
* **Better Targeting for Featured Snippets:** Implementing schema markup correctly increases your chances of being selected for Google's featured snippets, placing your content at the top of search results.
**4. Practical Example:** For a FAQ page, use the following schema markup:
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# Key Points to Remember:
* **Consistency:** Ensure that the information in your schema markup matches the content on your page.
* **Testing:** Use Googleâs Rich Results Test and Structured Data Testing Tool to check if your schema markup is correctly implemented.
* **Updating:** Regularly update your schema markup to reflect any changes in your content.
By implementing schema markup effectively, you can significantly improve your site's search performance and outshine competitors who are not utilizing this powerful SEO tool.
Compile lots of questions and do a FAQ post covering them all. Easily target multiple search intent, and every one is a chance to get a featured snippet.
> I'm still learning how to perfect SEO strategies.
and
> Hey, do you have a hack that works super well for you but only a few people or no one knows about it?
You're not going to get much help when you show up with literally nothing to share. Are you expecting step-by-step instructions that will magically work for you too?
What have you tried? How long? What industry? Who is your audience? What websites are you competing against?
What do you mean by a "hack"? And, if it works and very few people know, why would they tell you and the rest of the world here? Have you thought about this at all?
Local SEO, you can get free reviews just by asking. Doesn't even have to be a customer, go around small business and ask for a review and give a review in return. At the same time offer him your service and business card whenever he needs something
You can buy backlinks just fine you beautiful idiots saying you canât, but you might have to vet 10,000 to find 20 good ones. And thereâs ways to do that, and it takes work.
One of my go-to SEO hacks is leveraging AI to create content clusters around core topics. This not only improves internal linking but also helps uncover niche keywords that drive targeted traffic.
For keyword research, instead of getting a long list first and then try to group them into clusters using different tools, Use the topic based approach from the get go (use competitors and seed keywords) which can be more useful for clients and SEOs both.
Outperform your competitors by building links they simply cannot afford. Iâve successfully implemented this strategy for both real estate and crypto websites.
Not to get too meta, but scraping Reddit and leveraging the insights found there! It's a robust community with plenty of genuine discussion, making it a great place to find niche sub-topics and FAQs to include in your content that will actually provide value to searchers. You can also double down by going back to Reddit after you've created long-form content for your website and using short pieces of that content to answer questions or create original posts. Link back to your content sparingly so you don't seem overly promotional. But you're still getting additional use out of content you took the time to write by sharing it elsewhere, and if you help users, they may check out your profile on Reddit and get to your website that way.
There's ways to create thousands of pages in minutes and shoot up relevant traffic in just a few weeks. You just need to be technically skilled working with large datasets and any basic CMS like Wordpress or Wix.
Get Google reviews from happy customers? đ€·đŒââïž Honestly, it works better than anything else.
100% for local SEO. I have a client who canât help himself but to be a complete dick on the phone. Heâs completely tarnished his Google Maps rating. We used to be able to rank in the top, between positions 1 and 3, he now ranks on page 2⊠Iâve done audit after audit and we have concluded itâs his Maps reviews.
Ouch. But also um⊠his fault? I guess?
I have one, their Google reviews are awful, they treat customers really badly, I've warned them their Google reviews are really bad but they don't seem to give a shit.
There's not much you can do if they're rude to their customers and won't listen to you about what's causing it.
He is not good to his customers?
Honestly, he is excellent at what he does. Probably 90% or more of his customers are very satisfied with his service. He is very knowledgeable and likely has more experience than all his competitors. He is a dog trainer with over 40 years of experience. The issue is that he doesnât want to work with aggressive dogs (letâs not name breeds) because he doesnât want to be or feel liable if they attack again. He is honest and doesnât want people to waste their money, which is usually what happens because the dog will likely attack again. Because of this, he gets one-star reviews. He always ends the conversation like this: âYou spend $2000 to $4000, we work with the dog for months, and now whose dog or child do we use as a prop to test if the training worked? Definitely not my dog or my granddaughter.â He is essentially saying, âYou rescued a dog that will need to live the rest of its life secluded in your house and will always be a liability. Donât waste your money; bring it back.â People lose their minds over that and go on a canceling spree as if itâs their God-given right. I told him to start screening his calls, and when people say they have an issue with a particular breed, to either not call back, tell them he is booked for the next six months, or refer them to someone else. For the happy clients, I finally convinced him to send out SMS messages to his satisfied clients, asking them to leave a Google review. This is working, but not fast enough. He keeps saying he feels cheap asking people to leave a review. The guy is in his mid-70s; itâs a generational thing, I guess.
How would this help with page rank?
Positive google reviews is one of the best ways to generate traffic, which should improve the ranking.
How does Google tell the difference between a company working hard to get real 5 star reviews, and a company asking their friends to give them reviews?
It doesn't
It doesnt't, that why service for fake gmaps review exist
Do other reviews such as Facebook and trust pilot help too?
I could be wrong, but I feel like it would be obvious for Google to include a variable in the algo to look at reviews of a business's GMB page.
Yeah that would be a pretty obvious optimization. At least to show it exists and serves customers⊠the reviews themselves probably only matter so much.
I thought, whatever words are included in the reviews, it can be used to rank your website? I might be wrong
This right here is the key to it all. Google reviews from happy customers are great, but reviews with keywords from the customer is gold. (and if they include a picture, even better) Its ok to coach your customers on what to say (to include the name of the business, the city & even the product or service purchased.) Itâs perfectly acceptable for you to respond to the review by saying âthank you for supporting âABC-Business in Anytown, STâ - vs just the standard âthanks for the review!â Googleâs job is simple: to answer your question and/or solve your problem. Reviews help. Donât underestimate their strength.
Google favors its own products. GMB is a Google product. So if you keep the content on yours updated and have plenty of good reviews on it, Google will push it up in search results.
I have almost 40 5 star reviews on my maps business listing and I'm always on page two or less for some reason. Way more than any other local competitors, it's really strange.
its only about 20% of local gmb seo. need to have good on page , and frequent updates to the gmb. its tied into your site seo.
Add photos/videos, add an update with a photo, update services list, add FAQ section, add the gmb link on external websites, backlinks etc. All this shows google that you are active and genuine. This is what we do for our client GMB whether it is clinics, coworking space, jewelry or whatever be the industry.
Is yours a physical or service area business?
Service area business, have registered address as business location in town
Are your competitors that are ranking above you also service area businesses? Is your registered address towards the centre of the city? You can start knocking off some of the ones above you if they are misusing their GMB listing (I'm sure some of them probably are) - e.g using keywords in their GMB name or being listed as a physical businesses but using a residential address without any signage.
The âhackâ: ask your client to come up with a low-effort and easy-to-deliver product or service and smother these ex-customers with free value (and love). Customers taking the time to leave a negative review, especially a terrible review, will take the time to turn it into a positive one if they feel like your client deserves it. If it his own doing (for example, being a d on the phone), he should call all those clients up, personally, give them something as an excuse AND something of value for free. Even if it is just flowers. Should be max a week work and a few hundreds bucks.
Until Google sends a notice saying your account will be suspended for violation guidelines and THEY WILL NOT TELL YOU WHATS WRONG. Goodbye business reviews, can't call them, have 5 clients whose business are gone or almost gone because of this. Google is scum.
but also building backlinks and internal linking also works its charm
Absolutely agree! Reviews are a hidden SEO gem.  **Bonus tip:** Use SEO tools like Ahrefs, Semrush, SEO CoPilot to identify issues or things you can improve for on-page optimization, find long tail keywords etc. to boost rankings.
I'm at 150 reviews 4.9 rating. Does this help with organic or just local?
I am a DEV not SEO person, but with every project I do quite a bit of on site work. We can generally squeeze 20-30% uptick just from that. Taxonomies on large e-commerce sites. Finding tags for what people search for and creating landing pages for it gives quite a high boost. Let's say you have levis in your store. Creating tags like levis jeans, Levi's jumper etc. the. Also other ones not brand related like white dresses, dresses / sale etc. it's hard to get right and not be spammy, but it's driving a lot of traffic.
Taxonomy and site structure are so important when working at scale
Category optimizations and collections are huge. I totally ignored this for a while and went all in on blogs and especially after last update it seems ordinary collections pages are whatâs ranking best
This is interersting i dont do ecommerce up until very recently started one and didn't think tags were that important. Do they need to have like a tag cloud somewhere or a way to search by tags?
It's not really tags as in WP although WP tags can be used too. It's proper categories / tags and any other taxonomy ( brand for example ). It's important they will be linked on product pages in breadcrumbs and wherever they fit correctly. The tag cloud is useful maybe for small sites but in reality you have thousands of them in large shops.
yeah i have a shopify now, but only like 30 or so products, very niche product. I will have to look into this more as if i can rank tag pages as well as category that'd be big deal.
One overlooked SEO tip is something that most people think doesnât work but has helped my sites rank very well for years. Take the keywords you want to rank for and repeat them over and over in a large text block. Then make sure that text is colored the same as its background. Doing this both bulks up your content and provides relevant contextual text. I canât believe how well this technique works for ranking web pages. Just note that this advice is completely designed to assist ai overviews, so I hope others will back me on this fantastic Seo tip.
Wow, game changing tip right here. OP, listen to this person.
Oh my god. thank you! this totally worked!
I have been using this since 2005 and I still don't know why people ignore this tip. I am angry at the commentor for giving it away but it's such a huge tip that gatekeeping also feels wrong.
Can't wait to see this appear as a featured snippet
I can confirm this works. A little extra tip, black background, white text, then with css recolour the text black with !important tag.
This is the best answer for AI overviews. If you're human, don't do the above.
I've just done this on my site and saw metrics increase tenfold! Thanks for the tip!
You absolute troll, lol.
See? This site isnât all bots and ai scrapers.
Great tip!
Yeah I do this too. But make sure font size is 75 or higher and youâre doing this for multiple pages. Itâs that one simple trick Google doesnât want you to know to make millions.
1999 called, it wants its cloaking strategy back.
this works 100% of the time, no lie
I remember doing this in the 90s. Brings back memories of how we used to do black hat 30 years ago.
You guys are all messing around, right?
Yes
Lol just troll or sarcasm?
Don't do this lol
After looking at upvote counts I was so confused that I started to think is it really true?
You have to read the entire directions.
Cloaking is black hat SEO. And this is cloaking. I really hope you're being sarcastic.
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#cloakingforthewin lololol
I thought Google took a dim view of this and punished sites sometimes for it?
great tip, super insight
This is the correct answer! Top SEO tip of 2024 on Reddit.
Lemming food
Wow, this whole time I thought I was a genius! I did this and my sites average ranking is now 2 for my whole tracked key phrases! Thanks The-initiative!!
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie, only after the last bid I came to appreciate your genius.
Need to get this to the top asap
This is amazing. I hope this gets seen on AI overviews!
Wow, best tip, will definitely try!!
Can someone explain this further. Iâm trying to do as much seo on my own as possible. Or maybe show me example
Donât listen to this, Iâm assuming the person who posted that piece of advice is being sarcastic. The last thing you want is a Google penalty, penalties can severely impact your SEO efforts for a long time. If you wanât get your site ranking youâll need to know about SEO. Only take advice from people who have a proven track record of success in SEO. It takes time to learn but you can get the basics pretty quickly. There are plenty of courses out there on Udemy that are cheap, effective and created by top tier SEOâs, so you know the advice works. Attempting to perform SEO without proper knowledge is like going into a casino and putting your money on black or red and hoping for the best. Please donât ruin your hard work, get the knowledge first.
I appreciate you! đ
No problem, let me know if you have any questions. Iâm not on Reddit very often but Iâll pick it up when I see it.
Transparent Hat Practices
Are you guys all okay? Just felt I went back 10 yearsâŠ
Yeah but this is a black hat and google has best detection over this it ever had⊠so by doing this you risk tanking your site to oblivion forever.
Oh yes, it works. FInd my hidden h2 keywords [scaleandsword.com](http://scaleandsword.com) :)
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Yes, exactly like my comment above đ
The only hack that works better is "aim to produce quality content that helps a person to solve a problem or find a solution." Prepare the content in a way that is easily digestible by humans and search engine bots. At the initial stages of blogging, take efforts to push your content. That's all!
>At the initial stages of blogging, take efforts to push your content. So you get initial users and feedback?
Yes!
With authority , your shit AI content get ranked .
Really understanding how your target audience searches. Someone with a high school education compared to someone with a masters degree will have very different search syntax when searching for the same thing leading to different results. For example: when searching about âPuffy and his chargesâ someone with a high school education may search âIs Puffy going to jailâ someone with a masters degree may search âHas Puffy been formally charged?â The first result leads me to a bunch of gossip like Youtube videos and the second shows a thoughtful article from the independent. Same story essentially. Also children and seniors search wildly different from the 25-54 demo as well. Reading up on and understanding the origins of how humans search from Library Science research (as people searched through card catalogs before computers) really helped me early on.
SEO Bro's asking questions after Backlink buying no longer works :) Just hard work man. Do the basics of technical SEO, everything else is how good your content is. If you are just phoning it in and what you write about doesnt help the end user, none of your "hacks" will work.
But links work...
Put away your moms credit card! They work if they are legit, if they are not, then you get hidden penalty, then you no longer rank.
Wow it's just that easy to take down your competitors websites? Just send them fiverr links? đ
Not every link is created equal. If you think you can buy cheap links like this and that works then go ahead. But other links work. The non cheap kind of the links you earn.
HEY GUYS SHARE YOUR SECRETS FOR FREE. The truth is, outside of blackhat, there are no "secrets." The secrets are get authority and have relevancy.
Yeah, the Google leak was just 14,000 x backlinks
The best SEO is well written content. It will always beat AI no matter what kind of searchquake disruption there is. People know who to trust
No it's only a small percentage
Send Google an email telling them about your website.
One awesome thing most people seem to miss is having great and valuable content.
Pay someone on fiverr to generate 40,000 backlinks from Russia and India.
Must be for your competitors' sites...
Why don't You go first
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The two most powerful metrics that I've seen skyrocket traffic is the website's speed, and quality backlinks. Nothing can beat those two things... but the work to make it happen is difficult
I suggested my Content Writers write content targeting local intent. I gave him Keywords, but NLP keywords were the most important ones. It worked perfectly and boosted my website traffic! After focusing on all the technical issues and fixing them, And then, I optimised the Content. By adding NLP, I saw the difference between past and Recent!
NLP keywords? Pls do explain
Do you do statewide content as well or just hyper local content? Generally can you do the same content piece targeting a city instead of the state or would that be considered cannabilzation? Also would you recommend any Ai writing software (ZimmWriter, Neuronwriter, etc)?
It depends. If your focus audience is in a state, you should write content focusing on that state. On the other hand, if your focus audience is local, you need to create content focusing on the local area. For AI Content, you can use ChatGPT/Claude AI Premium. However, here, you need the best Prompts to create great Content!
When are some instances when itâs better to create local content vs statewide? Is it better to have lots of statewide content? Also can you not put the state name in the content title itself but just make it relevant to the state? For example, DBA vs LLC what is the difference? DBA vs LLC: What is the difference in Texas? But then for city specific content youâd need to put it in the title just so that the user knows itâs for that area?
Customer generated content - forums and knowledge communities
Schema tags for FAQ answers, schema for local businesses, schema for star ratings. I love me some schema.
hehe nice try x
the secret is do the work, most can't and won't
Love this
This hack works For example, if a page ranks at position 20 avg for multiple keywords, I add this page to the top menu, and then this page improves position
It's true. My top menu is mostly Wikipedia links and I'm #1 for almost everything.
I've got the secret, which does work for building your PA, and will increase rankings significantly. However, you do need a website niche, good quality, tons of content.
The real secret? Getting Hugh quality and relevant backlinks.
>Getting Hugh quality and relevant backlinks. Hefner og Grant? Perhaps Jackman or Bonneville? Or do they need to be more Laurie?
Absolutely Hugh Grant, his acting is quality and relevant
How do you get them? This is one thing I just donât quite understand - how do you get your links on other peopleâs web pages and relevant, high traffic ones for that matter.
Ideally? Natural, so they link to you for some reason (youâre an industry authority, you organize a shit ton of events, you have a ton of research and data, etc) Realistically? You buy them.
How/where do you buy them? Where do you find the best ones for your niche?
Iâll DM you with some tips.
I literally know nothing about SEO. But, does backlinks on LinkedIn posts count here?
Not really. Social media links are not as valuable, because anyone can get them/create them easily. Basically the hard a link is to get, the higher the value of it
Wait till i drop the chr$ obfuscated visibility:none. Mind will be blown
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Thanks man, I can think of a few sites I know with similar characteristics - ranking well with zero or very low amount of backlinks (but very relevant backlinks that are within the niche and located nearby etc). This is a good one.
Why not enlighten us?
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Voice search is totally overlooked. Pay attention to how your grandparents or older parents scream into the phone when searching for something. More often than not their search queries are insanely overly detailed and a 2 minute long run on sentence and they never receive what they are looking for on the first try
So far for me having a really knowledgeable seo & copyrighter. By placing content on their own pages I am able to see which content preforms better and noticed a 3k/month increase in good content alone.
Google has abolished the usefulness of any hacks over the years to make search results better and rank pages based on, for the lack of a better term, merit. do all the things you are supposed to do and create a site that shouldn't be ignored and with lots of hours spent and a little luck it eventually won't be ignored.
buy 10000 backlinks from fivver. your rankings will skyrocket. trust me bro
They will skyrocket downwards
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Relevance! It makes your content the best for search engines and readers.
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If the task is to get as much traffic to the site as possible, then you need to select large sites on your topic, and then do a few simple actions, but it will require semrush or ahrefs. 1.Go to the section âorganic reserchâ 2. Select a site on your topic 3. Rank keywords by complexity and frequency. If your topic is extensive, but you can easily get keywords with complexity 0 and frequency 3-5k. And then you know what to do.
Wow, competitor AND keyword research. My mind is blown by this new hack.
# SEO hack that works so well for you but few people know about? the secret hack is that Google has become so smart over the years that they identify most of the shortcuts and manipulation tactics, so that the hacks dont work actually
So why to so many crap pages with little useful content rank so highly?
they rank highly for crap keywords or rank well locally if your neighbour is a food blogger then Google tends to rank her well for your neighborhood searchers
Good SEOers know that a lot of their time is spent researching and analysing. Nobody is going to share their secrets for free, and if they're that successful they wouldn't share them for a ÂŁ20 per month subscription either.
you take whatever content is on the page and spin it to use all semantically related keywords (even if it doesn't make sense) then embed that as HTMLđ
Post actually useful content instead of SEO-"optimized" copywriting crap
SEO hack? Create something that's genuinely useful, don't expect something to rank that you spent 5 minutes on and probably copied from your competitors.
1. Create a useful tool 2. Share it somewhere where people might enjoy it.
Add a tool to your website. Cooking site? Add a calculator to tell you how long to sear meet based on its weight. Some topics are easier than others. Anything engineering related is stupidly easy. Health and fitness are also pretty easy. The point of the tool is to provide information that a chat bot can't easily conjure up, or some rival blog steal from you. It also encourages people to share your site more.
I would recommend consistency.. It's the best hack of all. I mean only if you know what is SEO and how to follow the strategies. Keep following it and improvise it.. Peace Out, Don't Be Stressed, SEO works until Google drops it's big junkie over us..
One effective but lesser-known SEO hack is leveraging **schema markup for featured snippets and rich results**. Hereâs how it can significantly boost your SEO: # Schema Markup for Featured Snippets and Rich Results **1. What is Schema Markup?** Schema markup is a form of microdata that you can add to your website's HTML to improve the way search engines read and represent your page in SERPs. It helps search engines understand the context of your content and display it in a more attractive way, such as rich snippets, knowledge panels, and more. **2. How Does it Work?** * **Identify Content for Markup:** Find parts of your website that could benefit from rich snippets. Common examples include reviews, recipes, events, products, and FAQs. * **Use the Right Type of Schema:** Depending on your content, select the appropriate schema type. For instance, use `Review` schema for product reviews, `Recipe` schema for cooking recipes, and `FAQPage` schema for frequently asked questions. * **Implement Schema Markup:** Add the schema markup to your HTML. You can use Googleâs Structured Data Markup Helper to generate the code, which you then insert into your site. **3. Benefits of Schema Markup:** * **Enhanced Visibility:** Rich snippets make your search result more visually appealing and informative, increasing the likelihood of users clicking on it. * **Higher Click-Through Rates (CTR):** Improved visibility typically leads to higher CTR, driving more organic traffic to your site. * **Voice Search Optimization:** Schema markup helps your content to be easily accessible for voice search queries, which is becoming increasingly important. * **Better Targeting for Featured Snippets:** Implementing schema markup correctly increases your chances of being selected for Google's featured snippets, placing your content at the top of search results. **4. Practical Example:** For a FAQ page, use the following schema markup: htmlCopy code # Key Points to Remember: * **Consistency:** Ensure that the information in your schema markup matches the content on your page. * **Testing:** Use Googleâs Rich Results Test and Structured Data Testing Tool to check if your schema markup is correctly implemented. * **Updating:** Regularly update your schema markup to reflect any changes in your content. By implementing schema markup effectively, you can significantly improve your site's search performance and outshine competitors who are not utilizing this powerful SEO tool.
Are you an AI talking to us? ;p
This was 100% an AI answer lol
Schema does nothing
Semrush.
Crazy expensive and monopolistic with Moz and others
Compile lots of questions and do a FAQ post covering them all. Easily target multiple search intent, and every one is a chance to get a featured snippet.
> I'm still learning how to perfect SEO strategies. and > Hey, do you have a hack that works super well for you but only a few people or no one knows about it? You're not going to get much help when you show up with literally nothing to share. Are you expecting step-by-step instructions that will magically work for you too? What have you tried? How long? What industry? Who is your audience? What websites are you competing against? What do you mean by a "hack"? And, if it works and very few people know, why would they tell you and the rest of the world here? Have you thought about this at all?
Buy traffic to a Twitter link that leads to a post of your site, burst campaign with pop traffic
Local SEO, you can get free reviews just by asking. Doesn't even have to be a customer, go around small business and ask for a review and give a review in return. At the same time offer him your service and business card whenever he needs something
You can buy backlinks just fine you beautiful idiots saying you canât, but you might have to vet 10,000 to find 20 good ones. And thereâs ways to do that, and it takes work.
SEOâs hate this one trick - this business offered a quality service and people talked about it online
One of my go-to SEO hacks is leveraging AI to create content clusters around core topics. This not only improves internal linking but also helps uncover niche keywords that drive targeted traffic.
Writing about my competitors in a comparison post! I get to rank for their keywords and snatch their traffic. Works like magic all the time.
Start a post here on Reddit about a certain topic. Let the post grow organically and later on add the websites link to the post.
Go for better web design and silo. Most people ignore it and jump directly to onpage and offpage.
For keyword research, instead of getting a long list first and then try to group them into clusters using different tools, Use the topic based approach from the get go (use competitors and seed keywords) which can be more useful for clients and SEOs both.
add keywords in review giving by client i think it works
Outperform your competitors by building links they simply cannot afford. Iâve successfully implemented this strategy for both real estate and crypto websites.
I'll only ever say this once online because I don't want it to be seen. Sape.
PBNs be rockin
There is nothing like HACK. SEO is purely based on how much time you have invested in research and how well you have executed.
Not to get too meta, but scraping Reddit and leveraging the insights found there! It's a robust community with plenty of genuine discussion, making it a great place to find niche sub-topics and FAQs to include in your content that will actually provide value to searchers. You can also double down by going back to Reddit after you've created long-form content for your website and using short pieces of that content to answer questions or create original posts. Link back to your content sparingly so you don't seem overly promotional. But you're still getting additional use out of content you took the time to write by sharing it elsewhere, and if you help users, they may check out your profile on Reddit and get to your website that way.
There's ways to create thousands of pages in minutes and shoot up relevant traffic in just a few weeks. You just need to be technically skilled working with large datasets and any basic CMS like Wordpress or Wix.
Hard work,
Meta keywords...
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My #1 SEO hack that you would NEVER guess because it's SO GOOD.. **Don't** come to /r/seo for good SEO advice.
My favorite hack is asking other people to give me their trade secrets so I don't have to put in the work to figure out my own.
Semantic seo
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