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Most SEO’s don’t know what they’re talking about.
It’s true, most of them are running around building web2.0’s and other useless backlinks in the hopes of dominating their niche in maybe 2-5 years time.
The reality is a good SEO can swoop into a niche and take over the search results within 90 days, every time. It’s because the good SEO’s know that what most conventional SEOs teach is complete and utter horse shit.
Here’s why…
On-page optimization is mostly pointless.
It’s true, most of them are running around building web2.0’s and other useless backlinks in the hopes of dominating their niche in maybe 2-5 years time.
The reality is a good SEO can swoop into a niche and take over the search results within 90 days, every time. It’s because the good SEO’s know that what most conventional SEOs teach is complete and utter horse shit.
Here’s why…
On-page optimization is mostly pointless.
If you’ve ever worked with an Internet Marketing or SEO company, or anyone who does white-hat SEO – you’ll find they focus a lot on the detail, on the on-page optimization.
Really, on-page SEO is a waste of time. As long as you have your target keyword in your title, description and few times throughout your content, that is all you need to do.
It’s all about your site AUTHORITY.
If your site is large i.e. lots of content and you have high Page Rank + relevant site wide backlinks (especially to your home page) you will have a lot of authority. Which means whenever you publish a new page, it will rank for anything even remotely related to your main keyword, as well as exactly that; your main keyword.
So that’s why most of conventional SEO is BS. They focus on things like on-page SEO, site architecture (important for big sites), and when it comes to link building: they focus on guest blogging, guest blogging, blog commenting, a few article directory submissions, web2.0 creation and some more guest blogging.
If you find a really good conventional SEO, they might even be smart enough to build some relevant websites and link them to yours, they might even buy links on your competitor’s sites.
With that said, here are 3 weird SEO tactics that work every time for generating instant authority and almost instant search engine rankings.
1. Buying Links On Competitor Sites
What’s the fastest way to rank for the most competitive keywords in the world? Simple.
Get the top 20-50 sites in the niche to link to your site. Boom, that’s it.
You were never meant to do this alone
Reading this changes nothing. Doing it with people who show up changes everything. That is the whole difference between the people who transform and the people who keep starting over.
Start free →If you were trying to rank for ‘weight loss’ and got the top 20, even 10 ranking sites to link to yours; you’d shoot straight to page one. Almost guaranteed, within days or weeks.
The problem is not every site is willing to sell backlinks, which can be a pain but; enough of them will. The smart guys know this, they know this very well.
It’s what they do and if you look at the top 5 sites in a competitive niche, you’ll find they have a lot of the same referring domains in their link profiles. Those are the sites you want to contact.
Using MajesticSEO.com you need to analyze the link profiles of the top 10+ sites in your niche. Look for the same referring domains in a couple of their link profiles. If 5 of your competitors all have links from the same site; the chances are they’ve paid for those links.
Visit those websites, contact the owners and ask them for the price of a link in their sidebar/home page – or wherever else your competitors links are placed.
2. Building High PR Domain Networks
The other week I posted a 2 part article series on this tactic. Click the links below to read the full posts:
- https://workwithdavidwood.com/advanced-high-page-rank-domain-strategies/
- https://workwithdavidwood.com/advanced-high-page-rank-domain-strategies-part-two/
SEO really isn’t that difficult. It’s as difficult as you make it. There are well over 100 link building strategies, but you can rank for just about anything with less than 5 of them. With these two strategies alone, you can rank for the most competitive of keywords, without fail.
It’s just a matter of how much money you have to spend. As an industry, we need to stop looking at SEO as a free traffic source. It’s not free, whatsoever. Time is the greatest commodity of all.
SEO takes time, especially the free strategies like building web2.0’s and submitting articles to directories. The fastest ROI tactics are buying links on relevant sites and building your own high PR domain networks. Backlink quality is defined by 2 fundamental metrics, which I’ve said time and time again; PAGE RANK + RELEVANCY.
Page Rank is the most important metric of all, and if you have a relevant contextual link on a high PR page, your rankings jump – almost immediately. Most webmasters have no idea how valuable Page Rank is, let alone know what it is.
That’s why thousands of webmasters allow their high PR domains to expire when they no longer use them. So buying expired high PR domains and re-positioning them as relevant backlink sites is the ultimate way to do SEO. Yes, but you have a lot of smart SEO’s bidding for the same high PR domains as you.
With that said, you can still scoop up hundreds of high PR domains for much less than they are worth, and experience instant SEO results. Using these 2 tactics together will inevitably result in insane search engine rankings, faster than you’ve ever seen them.
In Prosperity,
David Wood
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Which of these two “weird” tactics has actually held up since Penguin — buying competitor backlinks, or squatting on expired PR domains? Or did both quietly stop working the way this implies?
“A good SEO can swoop into a niche and take over the search results within 90 days, every time” is the kind of claim that should come with a sample size, and it comes with none. Every time, across how many niches, measured how? Page Rank as described here is also a metric Google stopped publicly updating years before a post like this would have been written, which makes me wonder how current the underlying method actually is, or whether it’s being carried forward on reputation alone. Instant authority is a strong claim to make with zero numbers attached to it.
I tried the expired high-PR domain approach for about four months. Bought three domains, redirected two, kept one live with fresh content. The redirects did nothing traceable in Analytics I could point to. The one I rebuilt content on did rank, but for its own new content, not because of the old authority — at least that’s what it looked like from where I was sitting.
Kelsey’s result matches what I’d expect — if the redirect worked because of authority, it should show up somewhere measurable, and it didn’t. I’d add a smaller point: none of this works if you’re not comfortable buying and flipping domains as an ongoing concern. Some of us built an audience by writing, not by managing a portfolio of link assets.
The whole thing collapses into “it’s just a matter of how much money you have to spend.” I work nights, so time is already spent. Now I need a budget too? At some point the advice stops being about SEO and starts being about who already has both.
Forty-five minutes a day and this wants me combing MajesticSEO for who’s buying links off whom first. That’s not a tactic, that’s a part-time research job.
Nia’s fatigue point is worth sitting with beyond SEO. Before adopting any “do this and rank in ninety days” tactic, I have clients list what they’d have to stop doing to make room for it — not hypothetically, on the actual calendar. Half the time the tactic dies right there, before you ever test whether it works. What would you have to drop for this one?
Buying links off competitor sites assumes fifty competitors worth raiding. My town has six feed-and-seed sites and everyone in it already knows everyone.
Strip the swagger and the post says two things: buy links from sites your competitors already bought from, and buy expired high-PR domains before someone else does. Both are pay-to-play, both are framed as “weird” when they’re really just “paid,” and both skip the part where you’d get caught. The gap for me is Google’s stance on paid links, which this doesn’t mention once.