in this video I'm going to show you how to increase your website traffic without
building backlinks what's up guys my name is Greg Kononenko and I run this
YouTube channel caffeinated blogger on this channel I put out regular video is
dedicated to traffic generation niche marketing affiliate marketing and making
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videos let's get into it I want to share with you the analytics stats for one of
the websites that I have recently started this website is only three and a
half four months old and as you can see my organic traffic is growing very
steadily so on a couple of occasions I've gotten close to two thousand
visitors in a single week and as you can see the traffic is constantly growing
I have not built a single backlink through this Web site guys and it is in
a fitness niche this is a very highly competitive niche and I'm gonna show you
exactly what you can do as well to start getting traffic to your website without
building any backlinks as we know backlinks can be very expensive it can
cost you thousands of dollars every single month to build backlinks but
guess what you don't need to do it if you do things correctly and I'm gonna
show you seven things that you can do in order to start getting traffic like what
you can see here and pretty much any niche step number one is to choose the
right keywords I'm gonna walk you through exactly what I do every single
time when I publish a new piece of content and I've got this recipe pretty
much down pat it works every single time I'm gonna show you an example from my
blog Kathy a native blogger so let's first look into these blog post high
paying affiliate programs if I take this URL and then I analyze this URL in a
giraffe's you can see that for all of the keywords that I was targeting I'm
not ranking anywhere on page one in the top ten positions for this keyword
highest paying affiliate programs I'm ranking at position 13 so I'm not
actually on page one of Google let's look at keyword difficult here so I went
after some keywords that were a keyword difficulty thirty five 15 and so on and
of course there is quite a lot of competition for the keywords with higher
keyword difficulty so when somebody searches for high paying affiliate
programs on Google my website does not come up on page one and I don't get any
traffic now let's look at this article stock photos that don't suck best stock
photo sites if I analyze this URL in edge revs you will see that I'm actually
ranking on page one for a lot of the keywords which is really good news
that's what I wanted and that is because keyword difficulty here you can see is 3
okay so if you go as you can see if you go for keywords with low keyword
difficulty then it is quite easy to end up on page one of Google as you can see
if I type that into Google and I scroll down then here we are my website is here
on page one I am coming up at the number 10 spot in the Australian Google however
in the US Google as you can see I'm currently on position 6 and my website
is actually getting reasonably good search traffic from this particular
keyword on to this page so you can now see that choosing the right keywords is
very very important but the question now is how do you actually find the right
keyword I'm going to show you step by step exactly how to do that and I want
to remind you that I personally did not build any backlinks to the caffeinated
blog website so all of these rankings and all of this traffic that I'm getting
now is without any backlinks at all first of all you should install a free
tool bar called edge rafts toolbar so just type in a href tool bar and install
the stool bar into your browser after you have installed the edge rafts
toolbar the next thing is to find a competitor web site that we're going to
reverse engineer so for this example I'm going to put in a key phrase how to
start a blog but you can use any niche for this this works in any niche so for
example if the niche in which your website is in is about pets or dogs you
know you can put in how to train puppy so you can use this method in any niche
so after you've entered your target key phrase what you want to do is you want
to start analyzing the websites one by one and the first thing that you will
want to do is you will want to take the very first website that comes up the
most relevant one the one that Google seems to think is the authority website
for this particular key phrase so for how to start a blog the first one that
I'm seeing is this domain called the blog starter so let us take this URL and
let's analyze it in H revs I'm here inside the air traps dashboard I've gone
into site explorer I've put in the blog started calm into site explorer and here
are the results that it's showing me it showed me that this domain is ranking
for 41.4 thousand different organic keywords it's getting a ton of traffic
the traffic score is one hundred eighty seven thousand which is really really
high and what we want to do now is check exactly which keywords this blog is
ranking for so that we can try to sort of ethically borrow some of the keywords
because they've already done all of the keyword research okay we can see that
they've published a ton of content and we can pick out of these keywords we can
pick some keywords that we might want to use as well so let's go in here and
let's apply keyword difficulty filter or fifteen fifteen generally is a good
guideline I find that any keywords with keyword difficulty up to about fifteen
you can generally rank for just by publishing good content you do not need
to build backlinks for easy keywords like that the other filter that won't
apply is volume so let's apply a volume of a hundred or more and now what you
will want to do is take a look at all of the different keywords and find some of
the keywords that are relevant to your website to your niche that you might be
able to start writing content about as well so right here I can see already
some pretty cool keywords that if somebody is in the blogging and
WordPress niche might want to use such as for example header image so that's
three and a half thousand volume how to edit this header in WordPress keyword
difficulty of just five header image is keyword difficulty of just two so these
are some really really good keywords actually to go forward here is another
one that's on page two how to become a food blogger volume or 300
50 keyword difficulty of just 12 which is of course a little bit higher than
some of the other ones some of the other ones have zero or even one and five etc
but this is also a very good keyword because a lot of people would be wanting
to buy courses etc so if you can rank for how to become a food blogger you can
generally sell your own courses or promote affiliate products you know so
that's a really really good keyword to go for h refs is a paid tool but you can
also use a tool called uber suggest and it works in a similar manner so you
would enter the blog URL here and click search and then take a look at the
results and then once you here on the results page you would click on organic
keywords to see all of the organic keywords that these domain is ranking
for and then you can use it in a similar manner to what we did in H refs where
you would basically look at SD which is SEO difficulty and only go for the
keywords that are green that have a difficulty of as long as possible really
for example this one how to block a website is good I see a difficulty of
just 11 which is really really good once you finished analyzing one website you
can go back to your search results and then look at all of the other websites
so we've done the blog starter so then you would go to blogging basics 101 then
you would go into coding WP 2 why Rob etc so you can never really run out of
ideas and you can never really run out of keywords because all of these guys
all of these websites that are there on page 1 they have done the research
already so then you can kind of take the research that I have done analyze it in
H refs or an uber suggests and you can pull out the best keywords that are low
competition that's exactly what I have been doing with several of my niche
websites and you know it works in I would say 70 to 80% of cases of course
that I don't hit a homerun I don't successfully post and get
traffic with every single blog post but I would say 70 to 80 percent of the time
if I follow this technique I uncover some really good keywords ok so now the
most important the foundational thing is done we've got our keywords next thing
to do is to create a post outline that
will make it easy for you to actually create
the blog post itself so when I was writing this article about stock photos
that don't suck what I did was once I knew that this is a good keyword with
difficulty of just three and a good volume I went into Google and I typed
that into Google then I opened the top ten results and I studied them for
example we know that this article on medium and this article on impact B and
D are ranked as number one and number two so it means that they've got the
content that Google likes and presented in a way that Google likes so our job
now is to create content that is at least equally good or ideally better
so it's either needs to be longer or more in-depth or include more resources
so the medium.com article as we can see is very very short
there is almost no text on here just links to various websites that provide
royalty-free images likewise the article on impact B and D is also very short it
pretty much just has links and it's got a few sentences over actually like a two
or three sentence description of each of the websites so I knew instantly that I
can produce content that is at least equally good and I can also make it
longer and more in-depth because all I need to do is just provide links to some
websites and write a little bit about them that is exactly why I keep saying
that your keyword research is so important this is why this has got
keyword difficulty of three if you look at the actual websites that are ranking
on page one the picture mate might look scary you will think that you
will never be able to compete with medium because their domain rank is 93
next one is domain rank 82 etc but if you actually look at the websites
ATF's takes all of those things into consideration that there is almost no
content on these sites guys and if you write something reasonably decent and
in-depth then you can outrank these websites so then for our outline I would
literally put in intro and then I would put in the names or this then for the
intro I will take a look at what these guys write for the intro so here it says
finding great stock photos is a pain I'm going to
take that idea of course I'm not going to copy this word-for-word but I'm going
to take this as an idea which I'll explain expand later then from here I
will take some other idea so from here I might take breathe new life into the
website then after that I will just take some of the resources from here okay so
maybe every second one because there are so many of these stock websites okay so
maybe take three or four from here take another few resources from here then go
through the rest of these websites here on page one and borrow a few of these
resources so that your list is unique but for research you can use a couple of
sources from each of those other websites that's it that's pretty much
our outline done so then the next thing that you would need to do you would need
to write the actual content in WordPress and then using your outline just simply
start writing write that intro and then put in each of the resources and write a
little bit about each of the resources a few sentences just the way that the
competing websites have done so all you need to do is just to make sure that
your text is equally good or ideally at least a little bit better than your
competitors on page one I want to make it clear that you cannot just take this
and copy it and paste it onto your website you need to rewrite it in your
own words so instead of writing pixels not only has awesome photos but
high-quality video too you can say that users of text cells can use this website
to get great stock videos and stock photos so just rewrite it in your own
words next step after you have written your content is to use the plug-in
called Yoast SEO after you have installed and activated this plug-in you
can use it here at the bottom and you can enter the focus key phrase of the
keyword that you're trying to rank for and then look at the SEO analysis that
it gives you as you can see here I've got green smiley face which means that
my SEO is good enough and Yoast will actually guide you and it will tell you
what you need to change in order for your website or for your page to perform
better so while I was getting ready for this I changed a couple of things on
this post as you can see now it's a single title so h1 should only be used
the main title find all H ones in your text that aren't in your main title and
change them to a lower heading level okay
so I change this just a small kind of getting into the as I was getting ready
for this video to demonstrate to you that Yoast will actually find problems
with your content it's a brilliant plugin so if you press this I for pretty
much any error here in yours if you press this I it will highlight the text
for you and it will tell you hi you have got h1 tags in here so then you would
need to come in here and change this to h2 so now I have changed these to h2
heading to and you can see that that problem has disappeared all other things
you can see that Yost is telling me are good outbound links and good internal
links are good Meta Description links etc so just simply follow what yours
tells you and you will be in a good shape now I want to draw your attention
to something to the length of the article
I recommend that your content should be a minimum of one and a half thousand
words anything over one and a half thousand words is considered good in
today's world by Google and that's considered authoritative content of
course your content has to be good it can't just be you know some rubbish one
a half thousand words of stuff that doesn't make sense it has to be good
in-depth content ideally you want to write something that's at least 2,000
words or more and Yoast will also tell you whether your text length is good or
not so here it's telling me the text contains 1622 words good job step number
five is to insert internal links this is once again one of the things that yours
is actually paying attention to and internal links are very important to be
in your content for example you can see that I've got a link here check out my
article about niches okay and a couple of other internal links in this article
as well as in every other article that are published this helps because this
keeps the readers on your website for longer so as they read your article on
the website as they're scrolling through and they finish reading everything they
will see that there is a link here so they'll say check out my article about
niches here and if they click on it they land on to another page on my website
and that means that instead of seeing just
page on my site they will see 2 3 4 potentially 5 pages on my website which
is actually a very good metric Google tracks that and they give preference to
the websites that are able to retain the visitors where the average pages viewed
per visitor per session are higher so internal links are very important you
want to make sure that the visitor instead of just bouncing back or leaving
to another website they click on different things onto your website and
they see different pages on your website next thing you want to make sure you do
is inserting outbound Authority links once again yours will actually remind
you outbound links it says here good job because I've actually got links to each
of these websites so here death to stock photos I've got a link to that website
internet was built around links and inserting links into your attic or to
other high-quality resources actually helps you don't be afraid that this is
going to mean that the visitors will leave from your site onto the other
websites you know if they want to leave they will leave anyway but what this is
telling Google is that your website is actually playing the internet game you
know internet was built to be interconnected and links between
websites where you are providing links to other Authority resources means that
you are also an authority so it's very very important that you provide outbound
links this is one of the most important things you can do on your website to
increase your website traffic next thing that I want to talk about is inserting
videos into your content I don't do this action on every single post but I have
done this on quite a few on caffeinated bloggers for example on this post how to
come up with a blog name I have embedded a YouTube video which
talks about how to start a blog this is video from my youtube channel and the
reason why it's important to have some videos in your content is because that
increases your metric of how much time people spend on your website because if
somebody is browsing your blog and they start watching your video while they're
watching the video they're staying on your page very important to understand
this they're actually staying on your page so to Google these signals that if
they spend 10 minutes watching this video that means that they've spent that
extra 10 minutes on your website okay and that impacts your site metrics
and your analytics instead of them just spending one minute on your side while
they were reading the article they spent that one minute reading the article and
then 10 minutes watching the videos that's 11 minutes total that I have
actively spent on your site and this is one of the metrics that Google pays very
close attention to so it's very important to insert videos on as many of
your articles as possible they can be here on videos or they can actually be
videos that you find on YouTube that are related to the topic of your article if
you start inserting videos on your content perhaps you can even go back to
the content that you've already got published and insert some videos into
that content you will see that the metrics if you closely track them the
average time spent on your website by your visitors actually increases and you
will probably see that slowly your rankings will improve as well and that
way you can increase your website visitors without any back well that's
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