in this video I'm gonna show you two
supercool tactics to find thousands of
guest blogging opportunities and an
extremely effective technique to find
low competition keywords using content
Explorer plus I'll show you one bonus
tip on finding highly relevant
influencers in your niche stay tuned
hey everyone it's Sam o here with HFS
first things first we need to talk about
content explorer what is content
explorer anyway content Explorer is one
tool with an hf SEO toolset it's
basically a mini search engine that's
extremely helpful for SEO and marketers
right now our content index is at about
870 million pages and we're constantly
updating these metrics with fresh data
plus we find about 5 million new pages
each day so it's just constantly growing
at this point I'm gonna stop flexing our
Big Data muscles and let's just jump
right into these cool SEO tactics the
first hack is a way to find thousands of
guest blogging sites with content
explorer so first you go to the content
explorer tool and then you'll type in a
keyword phrase that's closely related to
your industry so for example I might
type in something like video marketing
as a phrase match and here you can see
that there are about 77,000 highly
relevant results you can see that there
are multiple articles from the same
sites but all we need right now is a
list of unique websites to guest post
for so you can use this filter right
here one article per domain which is
going to give us only the unique domains
that match our search query now we're
down to about 19,000 results next you're
gonna want to set one more filter and
that's the highlight unlink domains
filter if you click here then you can
enter in your domain so I'll just type
in my own personal domain money journal
comm and click highlight content
Explorer will then highlight only the
domains that have never linked to you so
in general earning backlinks from
websites that have never linked yours
it's gonna bring you more value than a
second third or even fourth link from
previously linking domains so basically
the highlight unlink domains filter it's
gonna save you a ton of time from
pitching websites that you already have
links from and that you might not
actually know what
so in this case I probably wouldn't
pitch buffer entrepreneur content Lee
top ranked blog and a few others
finally you can hit the export button to
get all of these results in a
spreadsheet just make sure that this
checkbox here is selected to only export
the unlinked websites and click the
start export button from here you can
start pitching the different websites
that are blocking about your topic now
if you've never posted a single guest
post before you may want to try pitching
websites that aren't as high profile so
that you can get some experience for
fine your pitch and find what works for
you you can do that by setting the
domain rating filter to something with a
maximum dr of around 30 and a lot of
these sites are they're more likely to
accept your pitch since they probably
don't have hundreds of requests coming
in each day like a lot of the bigger
sites that you might want to write for
alright so another cool way to find
guest posting opportunities is to stalk
the people you're constantly seeing
popping up on other blogs and i'm using
air quotes here on stock because i don't
literally mean to stock them in that
sense so the way that you do that in
content explorer is by using the search
operator author colon and then the name
of the blogger so I'll use Christie
Heinz as an example since I know that
she's written about topics like social
media marketing and video marketing and
there are about 250 results here from
here you can use the same filters as I
did in the previous example so I'll set
it to that one one article per domain
and then use the highlight unlink
domains feature with my domain and
finally I'll click highlight you can
then export it making sure that this
checkbox is checked and we are done this
works particularly well if you are a
solopreneur or if you have a small team
of content creators using the author
search operator it's a really good trick
to use because it's basically proof of
results right the people you're
searching for here are likely guests
authors it's not like they own every
blog that they write on so even if they
don't have a right for us page they're
clearly accepting guest blogging
articles pretty cool right alright so
let's move on to a really unconventional
way to come up with new content ideas in
this keyword research tip that I'm about
to
show you is a super cool way to find
extremely low competition topics with
high traffic potential and you're gonna
love this because it's a data-driven
approach with a little proof of concept
okay so here's how it's done
so again search for a pretty generic
keyword related to your industry so I'll
use gardening as an example and since we
know that quality backlinks help you
rank in Google and that the overall
strength of a website's backlink profile
can help your pages rank - we can set
two filters to find low competition
keywords the first filter that we're
gonna set is the referring domains and
we'll set it to only find results with a
maximum of zero referring domains so no
linking websites at all then we'll set
the organic traffic filter to have a
minimum of a thousand search visitors
per month now when you try this you
might have to play around with the
numbers a little bit
but since gardening is a pretty big
topic and there's nearly six hundred
thousand results here in the content
Explorer results you know I'd say that
it's a pretty good number here after we
set the final filter you'll see that
there are over a hundred pages that have
zero referring domains and they get over
a thousand search visitors per month
like this one this one here one hundred
and seventy one inspirational gardening
quotes and sayings content Explorer
shows that they get 1,400 organic search
visitors each month from this post alone
and if I click on the details button and
then the organic keywords you can see
the keywords insert positions that this
page is ranking for so you'll see that
they rank for garden quotes which has a
search volume of 4500 and they're
currently in position 5 and there's
gardening quotes which has 2,700
searches per month and currently in
position 6 and so on and so forth you
get the point right now if you run a
gardening blog then this might be a good
topic to cover and I probably wouldn't
take too many links or any at all tile
rank these pages and to put the cherry
on the top you'll see that this one has
a pretty low to medium domain rating of
44 and if you keep going through this
list there are a ton of really low
competition keywords you can start
creating content around like this one
here this one ranks for a succulent care
I'm not sure if I said that right but it
has 90 300 searches per month and ranks
in position 5 right now
now when Tim showed me this hat I knew
that I had to use it and I've done some
pretty insane results like I've ranked
on page one in Google in three days from
publishing the article and I can't
remember the exact numbers now but I
think that page that I'm thinking of
gets around five to six hundred visitors
per month from like only a couple weeks
in publishing with zero links now one
more bonus hack if you're interested in
doing some influencer marketing and
prospecting so within content explorer
you can actually find influencers who
might be interested in the content that
you're creating so if we search for a
link building then you'll see that
content Explorer finds over 75,000
articles related to the topic and this
article looks interesting here how long
does it link building take to influence
rankings and since we have a ton of data
here at 8 reps and some of our own
unique case studies like this one on how
long it takes to rank in Google
basically the same topic we could
probably find some influencers who be
interested in our research you'll see
that this post has just over 500 Twitter
shares and if we click on the who
tweeted button we can see all of the
unique people who have shared this
article on Twitter from here you can
click any of the columns to sort by the
tweet date the total number of tweets on
the account the number of people they're
following the total number of followers
they have which might be interesting or
the total number of Lists I'm sure we
could find some pretty influential
people who be interested in some unique
data and share the article with them now
if we go back to the search results page
you can actually select a few of the
articles from here too so I'll just
choose these ones here for demonstration
purposes and then if we scroll back to
the top we can click the who tweeted
selected articles button to get an even
bigger list of prospects that we could
then reach out to so I hope you found
this SEO tutorial helpful and that
you'll start using content Explorer to
find some solid guest blogging
opportunities and I find those low
competition keywords that no keyword
research tool could ever find
now give me a thumbs up if you like this
video and let me know in the comments
which content Explorer hack you're going
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