- How quickly can you increase your website's domain rating?
Well, recently, I took my website from DRzero to DR54
in one single year.
So in this video, you'll discover how I increased
the domain rating on my website,
and you'll learn how to boost your website's domain rating
and drive more backlinks to your site
without paying for a single link.
In fact, all the backlinks I built were completely free
and white hat too.
So let's just jump into it.
By the way, if you don't know what Ahrefs' domain rating is,
this is score of how many backlinks your website has
and the authority of those backlinks
compared to every other website in Ahrefs' database.
So the higher your domain rating is,
the stronger your backlink profile.
And the stronger your backlink profile is,
the easier it's gonna be to rank number one on Google.
So how did this happen?
Well, back in 2017, I started my website
and I had zero backlinks.
That means I had zero domain rating too
because Ahrefs' domain rating,
is just the measure of how many backlinks
you have your site and the authority of those backlinks.
So I wasn't ranking for anything.
I wasn't getting any backlinks
and I had to start completely from scratch.
So today you'll learn how I grew my website DR54
and how you can do the same too
using the exact Link Building strategies that I followed.
So how did I first start getting backlinks to my site?
Well, I started using the good old fashioned technique
of guest blogging, and this actually worked really well
for getting my first five to 10 links to the site.
You know, it was very easy,
we just reach out to other webmasters,
offer them a guest blog, usually four
and a few different topics,
and then say which ones you want.
And this works very well, you know.
I was landing links, but the problem is,
its not that scalable.
And you can't get so many links from it,
because you've gotta produce the content,
you've gotta wait for the content to be published.
And it's not always a guarantee
that your content will be accepted.
Also, the other thing is, well, but nowadays,
because so many people are offering guest blogging,
there's loads of websites,
that actually charge you just to write your own content
and get it published on their site.
So you have to be very careful about that too.
Not only that, but sometimes we would write all the content,
we'd include the link,
but then when the webmaster publish that guest blog,
they wouldn't include the link inside
or the link wouldn't be do follow.
So I mean, that's fair enough the webmaster is
the editorial right to change the links in the content,
but it meant that if I really wanted to scale my DR
and get to a decent level,
I needed a new Link Building strategy.
So then I decided to do something completely unique
that I've not seen anyone else do so far.
And that is audio Link Building.
This is essentially where you contact the webmaster,
you say, hey, I really loved your content.
In fact, I loved it so much
that I recorded an audio version of it.
Here's the code to embed on your site for the audio version.
And inside that code,
you include a little sneaky link back to your website.
And this is a really great way of creating unique content.
For a webmaster, there's a very high value.
And because it's so unique, you just stand out.
Now the cool thing about this Link Building strategy
is that it's very unique.
You know, it makes you stand out, and it helps to create
a great impression with the webmaster.
But the biggest problem is that it's not that scalable,
you still have to record the audio content
that can be quite time consuming.
In fact, recording it can be quite painful too.
So you know, it's not that scalable.
And if you really wanna hit a high level of DR,
you need a far more scalable strategy.
By the way if you wanna learn how to do audio Link Building
for you're own site, then check out my video tutorial.
And this will give you a full step by step breakdown
of the exact steps you need to do
to start building audio links to your site.
And it will also give you a breakdown of the pros cons
and whether you should use it for your own site too.
So at this point, we started using The Skyscraper Technique.
And this is where we saw a far more scalable way
to build links for a site that were high quality
and could bring us links every single day.
In fact, we're building so many links,
we're getting two to three links per day.
It was very easy, it was very scalable.
And basically, if you aren't familiar
with The Skyscraper Technique,
this is where you look at your competitors.
You see who's linked to them,
and then you reach out to those websites
and say something like, hey, I'm not selling to Joe Bloggs,
maybe you want to link to me here's my content.
Here's why you should link to me.
And this was an awesome way of getting links to our site.
it's very scalable, it's very easy to do.
There's so many tools that can help you out there.
And if you've seen any of my videos,
you know exactly how to use The Skyscraper Technique
to get links to your site.
Now some people do ask does Skyscraper Link Building
still work in 2020 because there's so many people
sending outreach emails that are using
the Skyscraper Link Building technique too
But the truth is, so many people are doing that,
because it works so effectively.
And sure, the conversion rates aren't that high.
You might have to send 100 emails
before you get one link back.
But that doesn't mean it's not effective anymore.
And the truth is that Skyscraper Technique
is so low maintenance its so easy to do
and replicate itself, then if you want
high quality links to your site on a consistent basis,
then The Skyscraper Technique is gonna help you.
But the truth is, for our website,
where we're at this point of trying guest blogging,
skyscraper technique and audio Link Building.
We needed something more scalable.
So the problem is that we really wanted to scale up
the skyscraper outreach that we're doing,
because, you know, we're getting three to four backlinks
a day, which is really good.
But we wanted it's sort of 10X,
to grow our website to substantial point,
Where we're hitting above DR50.
And, you know, the thing is,
that I've my own Link Building agents,
two, I work with nearly 30 clients
and I have to manage their campaigns
and also The Skyscraper Link Building
that I'm doing for my websites, too.
So that's when we decided to put the skyscraper technique
on steroids and really scale up.
So here's how we did it.
So we created 30 email accounts, sending skyscraper emails
and add a whole team managing email inboxes,
managing the email campaigns and topping up the prospects.
Then we actually sent 30,000 emails
to 10,000 webmasters across 30 different outreach accounts,
and built thousands of backlinks along the way.
So by this point, we'd hit DR50, which was awesome.
But it also meant that if we wanted to get to DR51,
it was far harder than getting from like DR49 to DR50.
Because Ahrefs' domain rating is a logarithmic scale.
And that basically means that the gap between Drzero
and DR10 is much lower than the gap between DR10 and 20.
So it gradually gets more challenging
as you try to level up.
And at this point, we started using
HARO to get high quality links to our site
so that we could level up our DR even higher.
So for example, with skyscraper outreach,
you're never really gonna get those DR80 and DR70 links
or you're not gonna get them very often.
But with HARO you know,
there's loads of high quality links on this website.
This is basically where journalists pitch your story,
and you know, you as a website owner
can respond to that story with your own opinion.
And in return, you usually get a backlink to your site.
And this was the tipping point
between going from DR50 to DR4,
because we're getting so many high quality links from HARO.
And if you're interested in using this yourself,
then you can check out my video tutorial
on Link Building tactics.
With HARO, it'll teach you exactly how to do this yourself.
So what were the results because obviously,
you know, getting to DR50 is great.
But at the end of the day is kind of just a vanity metric.
We have to follow in all of the steps of my video,
my website is now 10X in traffic,
and I have one page on my website alone
that gets over 105,000 pages for you.
I generate five figures with this website,
and I make money affiliating Amazon products
and also generating money with ads.
Plus, I expect this to keep growing.
And of course, I'm not just saying this to boast,
but to show you what's possible with Link Building
because of course, Ahrefs' domain rating
isn't an official Google ranking factor
and it's more of a vanity metric.
But the truth is, that Link Building
makes a huge difference to your site.
And if you do this, you'll build authorities your site
and you'll make it easier to rank on Google.
So thanks for watching.
If you have any questions, please let me know
on the comment section below
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