- You put in all this time
into writing content on your website.
Sometimes, it gets a lot of traffic.
Other times, it doesn't.
A lot of times you get traffic
and then all of a sudden, a month, two months later,
six months later, a year later,
it stops getting traffic altogether.
That sucks, because why would you want
to keep writing content that no one reads in the long run?
Hi everyone, I'm Neil Patel,
and today, I'm going to teach you four simple hacks
to bring dead pages back to life with massive SEO gains.
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The first step I have for you
is to make a list of all your posts.
I want you to log into Google Analytics,
click on behavior, then click on overview,
click view full report.
Then I want you to click export
and choose your preferred file format.
This will give you a list of all your pages and posts.
This is great, because the next step,
step two, I want you to pick the post
that you want to optimize.
Posts with good conversion rates,
posts with good time on page,
posts with good bounce rates.
You'll find that a lot of times,
these pages aren't the most popular.
You're not getting the most traffic.
That's okay.
You want the pages that are getting the most sales,
the most leads, the most revenue,
because if you take them and then you go and adjust them,
and make it better,
which I'll show you how to do,
at least you'll be getting traffic that converts into sales.
The last thing you want to do is just take random pages,
get them more traffic,
and then find out your sales, your leads, your conversions,
all stay the same.
This brings me into step three.
I want you to use one of the hacks I'm going to teach you,
or a combination of them.
Here are the hacks I want you to use.
Hack one, leverage powerful internal linking opportunities.
Right?
You can go and see all right, what are your top pages?
You can either do that through the Google report
that you just exported,
or you can use Ubersuggest, put in your URL,
check out the pages that are getting the most traffic,
the ones that are the most popular.
Consider taking those pages and linking from those pages
to the pages that you want to optimize and rank higher.
because the more you link to the pages
that have the best conversions,
the chances are, they'll increase in rankings over time.
And pages that are already loved by Google,
if those pages are linking to the pages
that have high conversion rates and low traffic,
eventually you're passing more juice to those pages
which helps them push up.
Hack number two, combining content pieces
that are around similar topics.
Check which of your articles
are on very similar topics or duplicates.
You can go into Google Search Console
and see if they're ranking for similar terms.
If they are, start combining these, take the URLs,
pick the most popular version, put it all on there,
take the least popular version,
301 that non-popular version to the most popular one,
and that'll combine the content,
put more emphasis, more juice,
into one URL and that'll help you increase in your ranking.
Reason being, if you have two articles on the same topic,
how does Google know which ones to rank?
Well doing this will help solve that problem.
This is why Wikipedia does so well.
They just keep having one page on a specific topic,
and then they keep expanding it
versus having 10 pages on the same topic.
You'll also want to update your internal links
using Screaming Frog.
It's another way to detect
hey, what's working, what should be deleted?
Because a lot of times
you'll have old outdated posts and pages that have issues
and Screaming Frog can help you identify this,
which will also give you more opportunities, as well.
Hack number three, consolidate cannibalizing content
with redirects.
So, find pages that aren't getting traffic,
and then find pages that are on similar topics,
even if they're not on the same keyword,
and start combining them.
When you do this,
what you're doing is getting rid of junk pages
that Google doesn't want to rank.
This will take your authority
and push it into the pages that matter,
versus spreading out your site authority
into all these thousands of pages
where most of them aren't ranking.
And when you delete a lot of the old ones,
you want to make sure you 301 redirect those old pages
to their right revived URLs, or the most relevant ones.
Hack number four, land and expand technique.
This is one of my favorite tactics.
So, what I do is, I go into Google Search Console,
I already know the pages that are doing well in traffic,
I already know the pages that are converting well
because I saw that in Google Analytics,
and I go into Google Search Console
and I look at all of the queries
that are driving traffic to those URLs.
I take those keywords, I put them into Ubersuggest.
The reason I put them into Ubersuggest is,
it shows you the long tail variations of those keywords.
If you're already ranking for the head terms,
it's really easy to rank for the long tail variations.
I take all the long tail variations Ubersuggest spits out,
I go back into that page,
I add in all the relevant ones that makes sense.
And by doing this, within 30 days,
I usually pop up on page one
for all the long tail variations, as well.
If you follow all those tips and hacks,
you'll start reviving your dead pages,
getting more traffic, and more sales.
If you need help doing this with your site,
check out my ad agency, Neil Patel Digital.
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