Part of the guide: Blog Traffic
(This is part two of 6 Little Known Steps To SEO Success, click the link for part one.)
At this stage your site should be ready for traffic, your Google Plus Authorship should be claimed and you should have begun to form your social presence by creating social profiles on the biggest social networks.
Here are a couple of extra steps you can take to improve your social presence:
a) Setup Facebook Vanity URL (Setting up a vanity URL is essentially choosing your FB page URL instead of it being a random string of letters and numbers – Google it)
b) Create and upload a video to your Youtube channel (put link to your site in description)
c) Add all of your accounts to LinksAlpha.com for syndication. (Checked as of July, 2024)
4. Step Four: Fiverr Gigs
Once you’ve fully completed your social profile setup; it’s time to make your site popular. First things first; unleash your website to the search engines, launch! (Change your privacy settings to allow search engines to index your site)
Fiverr is a great way to quickly get little SEO tasks done. I don’t advise anyone basing their entire SEO strategy on Fiverr gigs alone; that would be foolish.
Fiverr is useful for getting small jobs done quickly. Here’s a list of gigs/things to do – if the gigs are expired when you read this simply browse for ones similar.
a) Google Plus Ones
Right now Google are cracking down on fake Google Plus Ones so it’s difficult to purchase them from Fiverr. However there are some gigs out there that offer real Google Plus Ones.
– http://fiverr.com/michel_verrendo/give-you-50-real-google-1 (Broken link)
The gig above gives you 50 “real” Google Plus Ones. You should distribute them between all of the pages on your site apart from the basic legal/contact pages. Ideally you should get at least 10 Google plus ones to each page of your site. For best results have them drip fed across 10-30 days.
You can contact the gig vendors and ask them to customize your order.
b) Pinterest Backlinks
Pinterest is quickly becoming one of most popular sites on the internet. It’s great for gaining powerful backlinks and is actually a picture sharing site which makes the backlinks very unique. There are numerous Pinterest link building services out there, but you only need some base links from them so Fiverr is the easiest option.
– http://fiverr.com/mikemeth/make-200-pinterest-backlinks-200-incoming-from-pr7-domain-best-social-media-signals-to-boost-google-rankings-and-traffic-social-signals (Broken link)
– http://fiverr.com/youtubekath/make-500-pinterest-backlinks-500-pr7-social-site-to-gain-rankings-and-traffic (Broken link)
c) Blast Links To Your Social Profiles
Your social profiles link to your site, so it’s a good idea to blast some links at them to boost their authority/drive some link juice through to your own site. I know most social profiles are no-follow, but many are not. Blasting them with some comments is worth the $5.
– http://fiverr.com/crorkservice/make-40000-blog-comment-backlinks-and-ping-them (Broken link)
d) Retweets
Retweets are an important part of social SEO. For some reason Retweets are more effective than normal tweets. Create a tweet with a link to your site and have it retweeted by hundreds/thousands of accounts with LOTS of followers.
– http://fiverr.com/tweet_retweet/tweet-your-message-to-my-active-real-170500-twitter-followers-and-share-itwith-10000-facebook-friends-with-proof (Broken link)
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 →To ensure continuous search engine success, you should keep pumping your site with these social signals. Most of these signals simply cannot be artificially created via software or plugins; you need to pay someone to do them.
In the beginning it’s especially important to build them to your site to generate a rapid social presence.
5. Step Five: Press Release
Sending out a press release is the ultimate way to kick start your website. Even if it’s not new, you should launch a Press Release talking about how you’re about to start publishing lots of great content etc etc, talking about your site & its business.
Above all press release services I recommend PRWEB.
– http://prweb.com (Checked as of 2024)
There are cheaper options out there or even free options, a simple Google search will do the trick.
6. Step Six: SEO Services
Lastly, if you really want the highest rankings for all your pages you should consider subscribing to a few monthly SEO services. Or even sporadically purchasing link packages from forums and SEO companies.
Word of caution: build up some site authority before you start sporadically purchasing link packages. They can do more harm than good if Google doesn’t trust your website yet.
The easiest place to find link building services and packages is on the Warrior Forum or other SEO forums like backlinksforum.com.
It’s not difficult to find a good link building service. In terms of value for money; forums are the best places to look. Otherwise search Google and you’ll come across a bunch of SEO services. (Checked as of July, 2024)
In conclusion; this whole strategy is about firing your site up with social SEO to ensure it’ll rank well from the get go. Remember the principles and stick to them.
The best way to steadily grow your website while staying on Google’s safe side is to increase your content marketing, decrease your optimization.
In Prosperity,
David Wood
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Comments (carried over from the previous site)
TyronneRatcliff, October 13, 2012, 21:11
Feeding the search engines with fresh content is the name of the game, and like you said don’t focus too much on optimization, thanks for the helpful tips!
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Sorry if this is a silly question, but the whole Fiverr section is about paying for fake engagement signals to fool Google into thinking you’re popular, isn’t it? I want to make sure I’m reading that right before I go spend money on any of it.
You’re reading it right, Bonnie. Worth noticing the post’s own hedge — ‘don’t base your whole strategy on this’ comes right after recommending six kinds of it.
Bonnie, you’re reading it right. Look. Buying Google Plus Ones from a stranger on Fiverr was never a growth strategy. It was a bet that Google wouldn’t notice, and the post even admits Google was already cracking down on it at the time of writing. Same with the retweet gigs — paying for engagement from accounts that don’t actually read anything isn’t social proof, it’s a receipt. Fine, press releases and legitimate SEO subscriptions are a different category, those are real services with real costs. But four of these six steps are describing how to fake the signals Google uses to detect real popularity, and calling it a ‘social presence’ doesn’t change what it is.
Marla’s right about what these are. I don’t have two hours a week to sort legit gigs from vanished ones — working nights, that’s its own unpaid job.
So talented!
Genuine question about step four — is anyone actually automating the outreach to these Fiverr gigs, or is this all manual copy-paste? Because if it’s manual, the time cost of finding, vetting, and re-ordering a dozen expired gigs every month, then following up when a vendor doesn’t deliver on schedule, probably eats whatever the $5-a-pop price tag saves you in the first place.
From the company side, the ones we saw people actually keep using long-term were the press release and the legitimate monthly SEO subscription — anything requiring constant manual sourcing like the gig-hunting Trina describes tends to get abandoned within a month or two, automated or not, because nobody has the patience to keep replacing vendors who vanish.