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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>The 6-Steps Behind A Successful SEO Strategy</h1>
In this article, we will cover everything about how to create an SEO strategy to increase your organic traffic and rank your website high in major search engines. Today, search engine optimization (SEO) is more important than ever. Internet users are constantly making search queries to meet their needs, and what they find affects their decision-making process. The internet and major search engines like Google&#8217;s search results have completely changed the way people search for information about brands, products, and services.

A solid SEO strategy can look easy on the outside, but when you dive deep and begin the process of ranking your website on organic search platforms, you&#8217;ll realize it&#8217;s much more work than anticipated. Before hiring an <a href="https://fireflyseo.com/seo-services/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SEO service</a>, it&#8217;s important to know that they have an efficient SEO strategy. Here is an infographic outline of our strategy to increase your organic traffic:

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<h2>1. Keyword Research &amp; Competitor Analysis</h2>
In order to create an SEO strategy, you need to start with basic keyword research, and following this, you must do research to find who your main competitors are. There are many SEO ranking factors so there are many audits involved within the first step of the process, it&#8217;s best to begin writing down a list of all your competitors that you&#8217;re aware of, then use a search engine (the best being Google) to find your other top competitors with the keywords you&#8217;ve researched. After you have a final list of competitors, the next step is to run a competitor analysis to see who has the best SEO success. Once complete, you&#8217;ll have an idea of how much resources it will take to rank your site and increase your organic traffic.
<h3>The Keyword Strategy To Find Winning Keywords For Free</h3>
The keywords your top competitors use may be different than yours, so you need to do some research on what keywords are most commonly used by your market. Without spending money on expensive SEO tools, the best place to find keywords is using the <a href="https://search.google.com/search-console/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google Search Console</a>. In order to use this feature, you must already have an established website that has a reasonable amount of existing content that ranks within Google. If you&#8217;re starting new or you&#8217;re not as established, then the best place to find keywords is using <a href="https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google Keyword Planner Tool</a>. Either tool will show you how many impressions certain keywords get each month. You don&#8217;t necessarily want keywords with the highest search volume because some of these will be highly competitive. The best keywords to pick are either long-tail keywords for eCommerce which are key phrases that are 4-word minimum or ranking in minor cities and suburbs for local SEO. Long-tail keywords will also work great with local SEO. Once you&#8217;ve found at least a dozen keywords, it&#8217;s time to start looking for your competition.
<h3>Competitor SEO Analysis</h3>
One of the ultimate pieces to an effective SEO strategy is to know who your best competitors are. You need to be aware of the main keywords they rank for which will help you understand their current search strategy. There are many things to consider when doing a competitor analysis such as:
<ul>
 	<li>How many pages do they have?</li>
 	<li>How often do they create content?</li>
 	<li>What sites backlink to them?</li>
 	<li>What is their website speed?</li>
 	<li>How many internal links do they have per page?</li>
 	<li>Does their site have any technical errors? (broken links, 404 errors, or UX issues)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Competitor On-Page SEO Analysis</h3>
By now you can see why an SEO tool is important when conducting SEO tasks. These tools will save you thousands of hours in the long run which will end up in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of your time. One of the best SEO tools for competitor research is <a href="https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool</a>. For an annual price of only £149 per year, you get nearly a complete website audit tool at your fingertips. Screaming Frog will help you analyze a website&#8217;s page count, internal links, outbound links, title tags, meta descriptions, character counts, 404 errors, broken links, bulk website processing, and much more.
<h4>1. On-Page SEO: Find Top Ranking Pages, Title Tags, and Meta Descriptions</h4>
Without using SEO tools, you can search your main keywords on Google to find your main competition for each keyword. You want to make sure to do this in an incognito tab so you load fresh results each time you search. After you have the SERP loaded, then you can analyze the title tags and meta description for each ranking web page with the search rankings. We usually stick with gathering data from the top 5 results.
<h4>2. On-Page SEO: Discover How Many Pages Your Competition Has</h4>
Once you go through all of your main keywords and collect the top 5 results from each page, you&#8217;ll have a mighty list of competitors. Your next step is ranking each competitor&#8217;s site by the # of pages. A simple Google search command for [site:domain.com] (while just switching domain.com for your competitors) will show you exactly how many pages a website has indexed with Google.

<figure id="attachment_3335" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3335" style="width: 1460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-3335" src="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/google-site-function.png" alt="Photo Example Using &quot;Site&quot; Function in Google Search" width="1460" height="264" srcset="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/google-site-function.png 1460w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/google-site-function-300x54.png 300w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/google-site-function-1024x185.png 1024w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/google-site-function-768x139.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1460px) 100vw, 1460px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3335" class="wp-caption-text">Example of &#8220;Site:&#8221; Function in Google Search</figcaption></figure>
<h4>3. On-Page SEO: Analyze For Big Content Assets, UX and Technical Issues</h4>
The more pages a site has, the more content it&#8217;s likely to have. Once you figure out which sites have the most pages, you have a better idea of which of your competitors have the best SEO strategy. Your next task would be to analyze each website&#8217;s user experience and see how well each website works. Note what you like and dislike about each website. Are there any 404 errors? internal links? broken links? How often do they post new content? This is another huge reason why SEO is important. Screaming Frog is great because it covers all the on-page research we just listed in this section under &#8220;Competitor On-Page Analysis.&#8221; The only Screaming Frog does not cover is a website speed test.
<h4>4. On-Page SEO: Run A Speed Test On Your Top Competitors</h4>
The final step for on-page competitor analysis is running a speed test on your top competitor sites. The top 2 tools in the SEO industry for speed testing are Google&#8217;s <a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Page Speed Insights</a> and <a href="https://gtmetrix.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GTMetrix</a>. Having a fast website is important because nobody wants to wait for a long time for any experience. Studies show that you have just 4 seconds before someone decides to click off.

<figure id="attachment_3334" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3334" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-3334 size-large" src="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/google-pagespeed-insights-1024x917.png" alt="Google Pagespeed Insight Screenshot Example" width="1024" height="917" srcset="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/google-pagespeed-insights-1024x917.png 1024w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/google-pagespeed-insights-300x269.png 300w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/google-pagespeed-insights-768x688.png 768w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/google-pagespeed-insights-1536x1376.png 1536w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/google-pagespeed-insights.png 1728w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3334" class="wp-caption-text">An Example of What Google Pagespeed Insight Looks Like</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Competitor Off-Page SEO Analysis (How Many Backlinks Do They Have?)</h3>
Researching backlinks is not an easy task, and it&#8217;s not something you can do without an SEO tool. The best tool we&#8217;ve found for researching your competitor&#8217;s backlinks is <a href="https://ahrefs.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ahrefs</a>. With Ahrefs you can do much more than just research competitor links, you can do website audits, keyword research, and content research. One of our favorite tools is the content gap tool that shows you what keywords your competitors are ranking for that you are not. Ahrefs also has a ranking system that works very great and follows the most major search engine algorithms nearly perfect. In Ahrefs, their website rank is also referred to as a domain rating (DR).

You&#8217;ll want to use Site Explorer and run a query for each competitor. After that, you need to analyze the backlinks for each competitor, the best way is to just export a CSV file for each competitor and then create a tabbed spreadsheet file for the top picks. Now you can analyze the links from each competitor to find common links within your industry and any opportunities for you to acquire backlinks. With this process, you&#8217;re essentially reverse-engineering the SEO strategies within your competition and what&#8217;s currently working within your market. Once you&#8217;re able to replicate, then you can begin to one-up the competition.

We can&#8217;t stress enough that competitor backlinks are not something to do without a tool. This is very tedious and time-consuming. Good backlink analysis of your top competitor&#8217;s websites conducts of finding all of their backlinks, where those links are coming from, and analyzing their anchor text distribution.
<h2>2. Website Analysis &amp; SEO Audits</h2>
After you&#8217;ve researched your competition and you have your main keywords listed, we must analyze your own site and its existing content to discover the content gap between you and your competition. If you decided to use Ahrefs for your backlink research, then you&#8217;ll be pleased to learn they have a tool called Content Gap that analyzes you and your competitors to tell you exactly what pages they have that are ranking for keywords you are not. It&#8217;s important to run a complete website analysis and SEO audit before moving forward with the rest of your SEO strategy.
<h3>Website &amp; Content Gap Analysis</h3>
Your website analysis is a content gap analysis between you and your competitors. It&#8217;s not completely necessary to do on-page SEO at this point, because after you add all your new content assets you will be able to run through the complete on-page SEO for every page on your site. What you want to find for the content gap analysis are the <strong>gaps</strong> between you and your competitors of the following items:
<ul>
 	<li>The # of Content assets (About pages, Service Pages, Blog posts, and Portfolio Items)</li>
 	<li>Types of content used (Videos, images, infographics, blog posts, and anything else that stands out)</li>
 	<li>The # of words used on each piece of content</li>
 	<li>Total # of pages for yours and their website total</li>
 	<li>Internal &amp; External links on each page</li>
</ul>
<h3>Technical SEO Audit</h3>
Once you&#8217;ve analyzed your website, it&#8217;s time to do a technical SEO audit. Screaming Frog as mentioned earlier in the article will be best to use because it crawls the entire website and provides an accurate SEO analysis of each individual page. Some items that need to be checked are:
<ul>
 	<li>SSL</li>
 	<li>Site structure</li>
 	<li>Internal links</li>
 	<li>Site speed</li>
 	<li>Redirect 404 error pages</li>
 	<li>UX &amp; Accessibility</li>
 	<li>Schema markup</li>
 	<li>Google Search Console &amp; Analytics Setup</li>
</ul>
<h3>Off-Page SEO: Link Gap Audit</h3>
Once you&#8217;ve completed your competitor backlink analysis, then you&#8217;re ready to find the link gap between your and your competitor&#8217;s websites. As mentioned earlier, the best tool for backlink gap analysis is Ahrefs. They even have a new tool now called Link Intersect and it completes the entire link gap analysis for you! You can simply visit the tool from Site Explorer. Once you have it open, all you need is to enter your top competitor websites then enter your own website domain underneath, then Ahrefs will show you a complete analysis of all the backlinks your competitors have that you <strong>DON&#8217;T</strong> have. This is truly an incredible tool because even just a few years ago this did not exist and all of this work was outsourced to professional link building services.
<h3>Mobile Responsive: How Does My Site Look On A Phone Or Tablet?</h3>
With mobile traffic reaching more than 50%, having a responsive website and mobile SEO is becoming a requirement for websites. With Google&#8217;s mobile-first index, you must make sure that your website is mobile responsive. The best way to see how your site looks on mobile and tablet is by doing a quick test with <a href="https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google&#8217;s Mobile-Friendly Test</a>. If your site is not mobile responsive, then you must consider a <a href="https://fireflyseo.com/web-design/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">new web design</a>.
<h2>3. Content Creation</h2>
So you&#8217;ve analyzed the competition of your content gaps, have completed your keyword strategy, and now you&#8217;re ready to create new content. Your SEO content strategy first begins with the foundation of your website, and you&#8217;ll need to create a new site outline.
<h3>Building A New Site Outline</h3>
Most sites that lack good rankings are lacking good site architecture and category pages. This also causes a bad user experience (UX) because it&#8217;s harder to navigate your site. In order to improve your site&#8217;s foundation, you&#8217;ll want to analyze the content assets of your competition from your gap analysis and build a new site structure based on the additional pages your top competitors use. You&#8217;ll find companies that rank higher have dozens of internal pages describing more and more about what they do. This is because the more content your site has, the more information Google can read and determine more relevant keywords for your site to rank. Once you&#8217;ve analyzed your competitors, you can create a simple rough draft of your website outline using a word document. The idea here is to create new pages based on your competitors that rank well. What pages do they have that you don&#8217;t have? This is why your content gap analysis is so important because it shows you the exact pieces of content you need to get on the level of your competition, then you can 1-up them with additional pieces of long-form content.
<h3>Search Intent Within Search Engines</h3>
Search intent is exactly what it sounds like, it&#8217;s the actual intent of all the search queries within each search engine. For example, &#8220;buy car insurance now&#8221; in Google has a completely different intent than &#8220;local car insurance companies.&#8221; That&#8217;s because Google understands a user&#8217;s search intent and serves their content based on exactly what they&#8217;re looking for. While not a direct ranking factor, search intent is still a metric that influences your rankings. By understanding the intent behind certain keywords, you can create content for it and improve rankings by providing exactly what users are looking for when they type in a search term into Google.
<h3>Creating New Content Assets</h3>
The best way to find relevant content ideas is to research what assets of your competition are ranking the most. The best content assets are referred to as skyscraper posts and they have 2K+ words total, so be sure to keep an eye out for long-form blog post ideas. It&#8217;s a good idea to write down the number of words for each content asset you&#8217;re competing with, so you have a better idea of how long your article should be. Once you have a list of content ideas that you&#8217;d like to write about, then you can begin planning your blog article strategy. Write down the main topic for each blog post then you&#8217;ll need to add the keywords from your initial keyword research to each page. Lastly, you&#8217;ll need to figure out how you can take a different approach for your own articles, so it doesn&#8217;t look like you&#8217;re copying any competitors.
<h3>Developing Your New Site Structure</h3>
Once you have a rough draft of your website outline and all of your content assets, it&#8217;s time to build out the rest of your site structure. This will be the foundation of all the web pages on your site and this plays a huge role in ranking your main keywords in major search engines. You can open the same Word document you used to create your initial site outline to make changes to it. Your website should be clean and neat, for example, if you&#8217;re building out more service pages then be sure to have your main services as your main service categories, then add sub-services under each service category. Another term to describe this is Silo Structures. In Silo Structures, your 1st tier of pillar pages are your Homepage, About, Services, Contact, Buy Now, Blog Etc&#8230; Then your 2nd tier of pillar pages is the About page assets, Main services, Blog Categories, and so on. The 3rd tier of pillar pages is the sub-services, blog posts, and any other sub-category of the 2nd pillar.
<h4>Check out an example of SEO Silo Structures below:</h4>
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone" src="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/seo-silo-structure.jpg" alt="Example of an SEO silo structure" width="1407" height="1759">
<h3>Internal Link Building</h3>
Now that you&#8217;ve built out much of your website, it&#8217;s time to think about how people will navigate around from page to page. The best way is to start internal link building is by linking to all other pages that are relevant to the current page you&#8217;re analyzing. Think of this as a way to have your new content assets be easily accessible for visitors to navigate around, it also helps Google navigate your website easier. A good internal link strategy will serve your content assets to Google on a silver platter.
<h2>4. On-Page SEO</h2>
After you&#8217;ve created and implemented your new content assets, you&#8217;ll need to run a final on-page SEO audit and compare your new site&#8217;s content with your top competitors. With on-page optimization, you are finally comparing the following of your new site pages with your competitor&#8217;s:
<ul>
 	<li>Page Title tags</li>
 	<li>Meta tags</li>
 	<li>Headings</li>
 	<li>Keyword density</li>
 	<li>Internal linking</li>
 	<li>Outbound links</li>
 	<li>URL Structure</li>
 	<li>Schema markups</li>
 	<li>Technical SEO &amp; UX errors</li>
</ul>
<h2>5. Link Building</h2>
The final stage of an effective SEO strategy is building links. Once you&#8217;ve completed your link gap analysis as mentioned earlier, you&#8217;ll have a blueprint of exactly what links you need to replicate in order to outrank your competition in the search engine. It&#8217;s important to note that you do not need to replicate every single link, in fact, it&#8217;s impossible. You&#8217;ll notice the internet has tons of spam and some competitors may have links from trusted and authoritative news sites, .edu&#8217;s, or government sites, which are really difficult to replicate. The idea is to replicate as many links as possible, then find additional link opportunities to 1-up your competitors. You&#8217;re going to want to be smart about how you go about acquiring these new links to your site because it&#8217;s not worth paying cheap money to buy backlinks as this could result in a penalty and a loss of all your hard work.
<h3>Your Foundation Of Link Building</h3>
If you&#8217;re new to backlinks and have never done SEO to your site, then you are probably missing most of your foundation links other than whatever social profiles you have set up. Foundation links for a local business consist of the following:
<ul>
 	<li>Social Media Profiles</li>
 	<li>Relevant Niche Forum Accounts</li>
 	<li>Data Aggregators</li>
 	<li>Main Citation Sites</li>
 	<li>Local and Niche Directories</li>
</ul>
These foundation links are very important for both your local SEO and organic search results. Your SEO plan must have these foundation links in place because they offer more trust to Google that you are a real business. Try not to create a ton of forum accounts unless you actually are active because then it will look spammy.
<h3>Replicating Your Competitor&#8217;s Links</h3>
For this process, you&#8217;ll just need to analyze your link gap analysis to find which links are the best for you to replicate. Ignore any links you see that are Blogspot profiles or any Web 2.0 site at all because these sites are mostly spam and blackhat techniques so they&#8217;re not necessary. You want to find any social profiles, directories, local chamber of commerce, and relevant niche blogs to then find if you can replicate those links. We don&#8217;t consider the Chamber of Commerce a foundation link because you don&#8217;t always need to join for every relevant city, but if you have the funding we definitely recommend using as many Chamber of Commerce organizations as you can because they all have directories and link to your site providing lots of additional trust for you.
<h4>1. Replicating Links: Finding Guest Post Blogs &amp; Article Opportunities</h4>
Guest posts and news articles are the next best way to 1-up your competition with links. Some local news sites offer directories to get listed on, but the best type of link is a contextual link. A contextual link is a link that&#8217;s within the Body of the content of the page it&#8217;s on. This means the best types of links are articles and blog posts. To get a link in on news websites, the best way is to ask around your community to see if you can find anyone that writes for a local news station. Other than looking for articles on news sites, you can find relevant niche blogs for guest posting opportunities. Many blogs on the internet offer opportunities to write content for them, and in return they will let you link back to your site using 1 or 2 links. We found it&#8217;s best to only use 1 link when linking back to your site, and it&#8217;s important to add at least 1 or 2 external links to sources of your post. To find these blogs, you can use a cool function in Google to find sites that accept blog posts:
<ul>
 	<li>inurl:guest-post-guidelines + &#8220;Niche Keyword Here(Eg. roofing, lawn care, plumbing, pest control, etc&#8230;)&#8221;</li>
 	<li>inurl:guest-posts + &#8220;Niche Keyword&#8221;</li>
 	<li>inurl:write-for-us + &#8220;Niche Keyword&#8221;</li>
</ul>
These keywords will help you find tons of amazing guest post opportunities.
<h4>2. Replicating Links: Using ScrapeBox To Automate Your Link Prospecting</h4>
Our favorite tool for scraping organic search results to find these sites is ScrapeBox. ScrapeBox is like the Swiss Army Knife of SEO, it scrapes dozens of different search engines including YouTube and DuckDuckGo. You can use ScrapeBox to scrape many different phrases at once and the program will take all the results and save them in a CSV file. This means you can find all of your guest post opportunities at once.

<figure id="attachment_3337" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3337" style="width: 1972px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-3337" src="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scrapebox-guest-post-results-example.png" alt="Using Scrapebox to Find Guest Posts" width="1972" height="1398" srcset="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scrapebox-guest-post-results-example.png 1972w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scrapebox-guest-post-results-example-300x213.png 300w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scrapebox-guest-post-results-example-1024x726.png 1024w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scrapebox-guest-post-results-example-768x544.png 768w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scrapebox-guest-post-results-example-1536x1089.png 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1972px) 100vw, 1972px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3337" class="wp-caption-text">We Found 923 Potential Guest Post Websites Before Filtering</figcaption></figure>

It&#8217;s important to filter through the results on ScrapeBox before saving because there will be many duplicate sites and you will find some to be spam. You&#8217;ll want to just filter out all the sites that don&#8217;t have these phrases in their URL: guest-guest-guidelines, guest-posts, and write-for-us. Once you filter these out, you&#8217;ll want to save 1 CSV file as &#8220;Guest Post Opportunities With Link.&#8221; Make sure you have removed all duplicate sites, then you want to trim all the URLs to their root domain in ScrapeBox Trim options and save another file as &#8220;Guest Post Opportunities Root Domains.&#8221; This is so we can run the root domains in Ahrefs to find their true link profiles to determine which sites are worthy of a link.

<figure id="attachment_3339" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3339" style="width: 1575px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-3339" src="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scrapebox-guest-post-results-after-filtering.png" alt="Scrapebox Guest Post Results After Filtering" width="1575" height="704" srcset="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scrapebox-guest-post-results-after-filtering.png 1575w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scrapebox-guest-post-results-after-filtering-300x134.png 300w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scrapebox-guest-post-results-after-filtering-1024x458.png 1024w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scrapebox-guest-post-results-after-filtering-768x343.png 768w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/scrapebox-guest-post-results-after-filtering-1536x687.png 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 1575px) 100vw, 1575px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3339" class="wp-caption-text">After Filtering, There Are 653 Total Websites to Analyze for Potential Guest Post Link Prospects</figcaption></figure>
<h4>3. Replicating Links: Using Ahrefs To Find All Your Link Prospect&#8217;s Data</h4>
Ahrefs has a Batch Analysis tool you can use to run the root domains and find all the stats for each site. The tool only takes 200 URLs at a time, so if you have more than 200 then you&#8217;ll need to do this in batches. After you run a batch of 200 domains, you can export a CSV file with the results. The CSV file from Ahrefs will have the results in the same order as your guest links file, so you can open that file and then copy and paste all the data next to the guest post links column. Double-check to make sure everything matches up from top to bottom, then move on to your second batch. Once you&#8217;re done, you can sort the sites from high to low based on DR so you can analyze each site based on their total trust.

<figure id="attachment_3340" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3340" style="width: 1453px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-3340" src="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Ahrefs-batch-analysis-example.png" alt="Using Ahrefs Batch Analysis Tool to Find Link Prospect Data" width="1453" height="1446" srcset="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Ahrefs-batch-analysis-example.png 1453w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Ahrefs-batch-analysis-example-300x300.png 300w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Ahrefs-batch-analysis-example-1024x1019.png 1024w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Ahrefs-batch-analysis-example-150x150.png 150w, https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Ahrefs-batch-analysis-example-768x764.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1453px) 100vw, 1453px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3340" class="wp-caption-text">Example Using Ahrefs Batch Analysis Tool to Find Link Prospect Data</figcaption></figure>
<h4>4. Replicating Links: Filtering Your Opportunities To Find The Best Blog Sites</h4>
Not every site with a high DR is good because there are tons of sites that use spammy links and duplicate content. You&#8217;ll want to visit each website to view its design and content to make sure it&#8217;s a legit blogging site and not just a Private Blog Network (PBN). PBN&#8217;s can easily be spotted by low-quality web design, logo design, and blog posts that don&#8217;t make complete sense. All three of these together are a huge red flag and mean you should avoid this blog site. If the site has a good design and high-quality content, then the final step is running it in Ahrefs to analyze its backlinks and their link anchor texts to make sure the site doesn&#8217;t have very much spammy backlinks. Every site acquires natural spam links, but when you notice an abnormally large number of spammy links, it&#8217;s not a good site to add to your list of opportunities. The easiest way to find spam links is by looking at the Anchor Text tool after you&#8217;ve looked up the link prospect using Site Explorer. If you find any anchor texts that are in other languages or contain spam about viagra and any other explicit products, these will not be good opportunities and you should delete them from your list
<h4>5. Replicating Links: Performing Outreach To Your Link Prospects</h4>
When reaching out to link prospects for a blog post, it&#8217;s best to either have an article or a list of ideas ready to show the editor of the blog. Most of these sites will either have an email address, or a form on the guest blog post page. A lot of these pages will also have specific rules for guest posts. You can use your Spreadsheet with the links to visit the guest post link for each site, then reach out via email or the site form with a simple message like this:
<blockquote>Hey [Name]:

My name is [Your name] with [Your Company Name]. First, I just want to say I&#8217;m really impressed with your site, I&#8217;ve been researching a lot of blogs in the [Your niche] industry and your blog has some of the best content out of all the websites I&#8217;ve researched.

Are you currently accepting any new posts? I&#8217;d love to talk more about helping create more high-quality blogs for your site. Here are some topics I&#8217;ve already been thinking about:

[Topic 1]

[Topic 2]

[Topic 3]

Let me know what you think, thanks!</blockquote>
This will easily get you a response for more information about how their blog works. Once you find out the specifics for each website, you can add more columns to your Spreadsheet and record the additional data for each site.
<h2>6. Search Engine Optimization Reporting &amp; Analytics</h2>
Once your new website is live, you should take weekly screenshots of your rankings. If you&#8217;re using Ahrefs, then the Rank Tracking tool will keep track of your ranks every 5 days. You&#8217;ll also want to take a screenshot of Google Analytics each month to see which keywords are converting the most search traffic and providing the most value for your business. You&#8217;ll also want to save all of your Keyword Research data, link prospects, and a file with all the new links you&#8217;ve added to your site. With a good reporting system, you&#8217;ll be able to see what&#8217;s working, what&#8217;s not working, then you can make changes to improve.
<h2>BONUS: The 3 Types Of SEO Strategies (And Why You Should NEVER Follow #2)</h2>
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As mentioned in the above terms, white hat SEO involves ethical strategies to help build your brand&#8217;s visibility online. White hat SEO techniques include:

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Grey hat SEO rides the middle line of Black hat and White hat. Grey hat SEO is very effective, but is it safe? Well, if you&#8217;re not 100% sure of what you&#8217;re doing then it&#8217;s best to stay away from Grey hat SEO strategies. Grey hat includes:

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 	<li>Building web 2.0 and microsites</li>
 	<li>Increasing keyword density with hidden text</li>
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<p>As a business owner, you&#8217;ve probably heard that SEO is important, but what is SEO?</p>
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<p>SEO stands for search engine optimization and it&#8217;s the practice of improving the visibility of web pages in search engines like Google and Bing.</p>
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<p>First things first, you need to understand how major search engines work. Did you know that 68% of all online experiences begin with a search engine? Simply put, a fraction of your target customers are searching for your services every single day. Improving your website&#8217;s <a href="https://fireflyseo.com/seo-strategy/">SEO strategy</a> gives you the leverage of placing your site directly in front of these customers who are ready to buy right now.</p>
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<p>So when you improve SEO for your website, you&#8217;re increasing the number of visitors for certain web pages within your site. But how complicated is SEO? Is the world of search engine optimization really that complex? And how different is SEO from paid advertising? In this ultimate SEO guide, we&#8217;ll walk through our professional tips and tricks that can help you boost your site&#8217;s rankings in 2021 and into 2022.</p>
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<p>What you&#8217;ll learn:</p>
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<li>The SEO basics and how search engines work</li>
<li>The difference between organic SEO, paid ads, map packs, and Google Guaranteed</li>
<li>Why SEO is vital for your marketing strategy</li>
<li>Top 27 SEO Terms Every Agency Must Know</li>
<li>The 3 core elements behind great SEO</li>
<li>How long does SEO take to work?</li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Basics of SEO &amp; How Search Engines Work</h2>
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<p>When most business owners hear SEO, they immediately think of Google. While <a href="https://www.netmarketshare.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%22%24and%22%3A%5B%7B%22deviceType%22%3A%7B%22%24in%22%3A%5B%22Desktop%2Flaptop%22%2C%22Mobile%22%2C%22Console%22%2C%22Handheld%22%2C%22Tablet%22%2C%22TV%22%5D%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%22dateLabel%22%3A%22Trend%22%2C%22attributes%22%3A%22share%22%2C%22group%22%3A%22searchEngine%22%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22share%22%3A-1%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22searchEnginesDesktop%22%2C%22dateInterval%22%3A%22Monthly%22%2C%22dateStart%22%3A%222019-11%22%2C%22dateEnd%22%3A%222020-10%22%2C%22segments%22%3A%22-1000%22%7D" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Google holds 83.57% of the search engine market share in 2020</a>, there are many other major platforms that still use search engines to help users find their needs.</p>
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<figure><img decoding="async" src="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/netmarketshare-search-engine-market-share-2021-resized-1024x540.png" alt="NetMarketShare Search Engine Market Share Statistics" />
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<figcaption>Search Engine Market Share Statistics For 2020</figcaption>
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<p>Dictionary.com defines a search engine as:</p>
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<p>A computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.</p>
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<p>So in lamen&#8217;s terms, SEO can be applied to any website that has a search box for users to type an inquiry and fetches a list of web pages the search engine believes will be helpful to the end-user.</p>
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<p>With that said, SEO can be applied to many other search engines including:</p>
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<li>Youtube</li>
<li>Yelp</li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Amazon</a></li>
<li>eBay</li>
<li>Bing</li>
<li>Baidu</li>
<li>Yahoo</li>
<li>DuckDuckGo</li>
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<p>This is just to show you that SEO is not all about optimizing your website for just Google. You can apply SEO techniques to just about any search engine, but not all platforms work the same as each will have its own search algorithms.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Difference Between Organic SEO, Local SEO, Paid Ads, and google guaranteed</h2>
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<p>When it comes to search engine marketing, there are 3 main tactics that help you reach new customers. These are organic SEO, local SEO, and paid advertising.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Organic Search Results</h3>
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<p>Organic search results are often referred to as natural results because engines will rank the search engine results page (SERP) based on a variety of ranking factors like the website&#8217;s relevancy and overall authority on the internet. Organic search is included within major marketplace platforms like Amazon and eBay, along with directories like Yelp, and major search engines like Google and Bing.</p>
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<p>Below is an example of a SERP page highlighting the organic SEO results:</p>
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<figure><img decoding="async" src="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/serps-organic-search-example-451x1024.jpg" alt="Google SERP page with organic seo results highlighted" /></figure>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Local SEO / Map Packs</h3>
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<p>Local SEO and search engine Map Packs refer to ranking a business within the 3 map pack in Google or Bing. Local SEO and organic SEO are often confused as the same thing, but they&#8217;re very different. In fact, you can have your business appear within organic SEO AND local SEO results at the same time. This means you can have your business appear twice within the same SERP, organically. In some non-competitive markets, we&#8217;ve even seen businesses rank twice within the Map Pack or within the organic listings.</p>
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<p>Here is an example of the local SEO / Map pack listings on a SERP page:</p>
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<figure><img decoding="async" src="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/serps-map-pack-example-599x1024.png" alt="Google SERP page with local seo results highlighted" /></figure>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Paid Search Results</h3>
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<p>Paid advertising is just what it sounds like. You&#8217;re paying for ad space so your business is the one being shown to potential customers on a particular platform. Another name for paid advertising is pay-per-click (PPC). Paid advertising includes social networks like Facebook and Tik Tok, web search engines like Google and Bing, and finally marketplace search engines like Amazon and eBay. Paid ads are most useful for retargeting users back to your site. Imagine having ranked your business #1 in the Map Pack and for organic SEO. The last thing you could possibly do is start running paid ads for the same keywords, then your company would be appearing 3 times on the same SERP.</p>
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<p>Below is an example of a Google SERP with paid ads at the top of the page, but ads will also appear on the bottom of the SERP as well:</p>
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<figure><img decoding="async" src="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/serps-paid-ads-example.png" alt="Google SERP page with paid ads highlighted" /></figure>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Google Guaranteed Results</h3>
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<p>Google Guaranteed is a new service Google has been testing for some years now but they&#8217;re finally beginning to offer to every city all over the USA. Google Guaranteed listings are similar to paid ads but only for local service-based businesses. To get listed, Google requires the business to submit all legal forms of documentation, which varies based on each state. The cost can be cheaper or more expensive than traditional paid ads depending on your niche.</p>
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<p>Google Guaranteed results always appear at the top of the page as shown below:</p>
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<figure><img decoding="async" src="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/serps-google-guaranteed-example.png" alt="Google SERP page with Google Guaranteed results highlighted" /></figure>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Why SEO Is Vital For Your Marketing Strategy</h2>
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<p>Now you might be wondering why so many business owners are spending so much time and money on SEO. Well, here&#8217;s why:</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">1. SEO Establishes Your Authority Within The Digital World</h3>
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<p>On average, <a href="https://www.impactplus.com/blog/seo-statistics" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">91% of all pages never get any organic traffic from Google and only 0.78% of Google searchers click on results from page 2</a>. With billions of searches every day, SEO is one of the most lucrative sources of traffic for your website. <a href="https://videos.brightedge.com/research-report/BrightEdge_ChannelReport2019_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">53.3% of all website traffic comes from organic search</a>, and with most searches having the intent of finding information about products and services, good SEO assures consumers are finding your company and not your competitors.</p>
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<figure><img decoding="async" src="https://fireflyseo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/BrightEdge-oragnic-seo-study.png" alt="BrightEdge SEO Traffic Study" />
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<figcaption>BrightEdge Traffic Study</figcaption>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">2. Great SEO Helps Build More Brand Awareness</h3>
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<p>By using SEO tactics to rank your website on Google, users can discover your business when they are searching for keywords related to your industry. No matter how much money you spend creating content on social media or paid ads, the most important part of any marketing initiative comes down to how people find your company in the first place.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">3. SEO Drives High-Quality Organic Search Traffic To Your Website</h3>
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<p>Once a user finds your website through an organic search engine result, their experience with your company begins. When people are looking for information about a product or service, they are engaging in what&#8217;s called &#8220;information-gathering mode.&#8221; This means they want to read company reviews and research products and services before they buy anything.</p>
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<p>Let&#8217;s say a prospective customer finds your company offline via a billboard, newspaper ad, yard sign, etc&#8230; They may do a quick search of your company name to find reviews and more information about your products or services. Next, the consumer may type a search looking for other companies in the area, and that&#8217;s where SEO retargeting comes in handy.</p>
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<p>When your prospect comes to a search engine to look for &#8220;best companies in Indianapolis&#8221; and your website appears #1 rather than your competitors, then you have successfully retargeted your potential buyer. This works well for tons of businesses because you can promote deals on your website to attract customers to buy now.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">5. SEO Gets More Competitive Every Day</h3>
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<p>With more consumers using search engines to find products and services, competition for rankings will continue to increase. This means that the market value of SEO is only going up over time, making it wise to invest sooner rather than later. The sooner you build your site&#8217;s presence with SEO, the sooner it will pay off. Your investment in SEO will not pay off within just a few days or months even. Search engine optimization takes 9-12 months to see serious results.</p>
<h2>Who Can Benefit From SEO Marketing?</h2>
<p>Virtually any local brick-and-mortar business can benefit from SEO marketing. This includes companies like restaurants, medical practices, dental practices, fitness studios, salons, spas, automotive shops &amp; professionals (like dentists), personal trainers/coaches etc. SEO is also highly lucrative for eCommerce brands, because their entire presence is online then SEO is the main driver for the traffic of most eCommerce sites.</p>
<h3>There Are 2 Main Factors To Determine If SEO Is Right For Your Company</h3>
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<li>The amount of competition in your market</li>
<li>Your budget for SEO services</li>
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<p>It&#8217;s vital to understand these in order to have effective SEO, your business must be an industry that has a good amount of competition. More competition is a good and a bad thing. It&#8217;s good because it shows your market is big and there will be tons of traffic for your keywords, but bad because that means it will take more time and resources to achieve search rankings with the top results.</p>
<p>SEO doesn&#8217;t help some new tech companies and startups, especially if you have a unique idea that&#8217;s never been introduced to the marketplace. When you have something so unique that there&#8217;s no competition and nobody knows about it, you will find that search engines have virtually no keywords for your product/service.</p>
<h2>How Long Does It Take For SEO To Work?</h2>
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<p>This all depends on many ranking factors, but it can take anywhere from 6 months to 2 years for SEO to start working. In fact, <a href="https://ahrefs.com/blog/how-long-does-it-take-to-rank/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">almost 95% of newly published pages don&#8217;t get to the top 10 search results within a year</a>. The best part about SEO is that once it starts working, all your traffic is essentially &#8220;free&#8221; (minus the time and money spent on resources to achieve your rankings).</p>
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<p>You may ask, &#8220;why does SEO take so long?&#8221; Well, it varies on the following:</p>
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<li>The competition of your niche</li>
<li>Your budget for SEO resources</li>
<li>The amount of time you dedicate to SEO related tasks</li>
<li>The content on your website</li>
<li>The age of your domain name</li>
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<h2>When Should I Get Started With SEO?</h2>
<p>This answer to this question relies on many factors. Since SEO requires so much money, time, and resources, it depends on these 3 main factors:</p>
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<li>The Competition of the Market Your Wanting To Rank In</li>
<li>The # of Additional Customers You&#8217;d Like To Take On Each Month</li>
<li>Your Company&#8217;s Budget for SEO Services</li>
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<p>A general rule to stick by is your company should be grossing at least $180,000 of revenue per year before SEO can even be a thought. SEO marketing is priced in 3 different categories: hourly, by project, or by monthly retainer. The median hourly cost for SEO is $75-150/hour. For pricing by project, it varies from $5,000 upwards to $100K+ depending on the size of your project. Monthly retainers are as cheap as $1000/month and can be as high as $10K+/month for large-scale SEO projects. Anyone pricing SEO cheaper than this is either very new to the industry or uses cheap black hat SEO techniques to rank&#8211; You&#8217;ll want to stay away from these cheaper companies because they run the risk of getting a manual penalty on your site which means you will lose all your rankings.</p>
<p>So the best time to start an SEO campaign is when you&#8217;re ready to invest $10K+ into your online presence without seeing an ROI for 12 months. SEO is not fast results by any means, but this is definitely the most lucrative source of targeted customer traffic when marketing online.</p>
<h2>What If I Can&#8217;t Afford SEO?</h2>
<p>If you&#8217;re looking for new ways to attract more qualified customers, and you can&#8217;t afford to spend the $1K+ monthly SEO investment, then it&#8217;s best to spend time on other areas of marketing that will produce more revenue. Some of these include:</p>
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<li>Social Media</li>
<li>Google Paid Ads</li>
<li>Yelp Ads</li>
<li>Google Guaranteed</li>
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<p>You can also learn how to do start SEO on your own. It may seem like a daunting task, but Youtube is the greatest source of free content to learn just about anything, and with the help of our Ultimate SEO Guide, you&#8217;re already on a great start to learning SEO! All it takes is time, effort, and sacrifice to rank your website to the top of search engines.</p>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Top 27 SEO Terms Every SEO Agency Must Know</h2>
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<p>The truth is, the science behind SEO is complex and tricky. And with the SEO business being saturated by so many agencies and &#8220;gurus,&#8221; it&#8217;s very hard to find a good company that knows what they&#8217;re talking about. With our list of the top 27 SEO terms every agency must know, you&#8217;ll be able to get a better understanding of the industry and what questions you to ask your future SEO marketing company:</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">1. Algorithms</h3>
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<p>One of the first things you need to know about a search engine is how a search algorithm works. An algorithm is a set of rules that search engines use to rank web pages. Search engine algorithms can be thought of as the brain that powers its search results. Search algorithms are what allow search engines like Google to crawl, index, and rank websites by relevance and authority.</p>
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<p>When one website links to another website, it uses anchor text which is the visible clickable words or phrases within a link like &#8220;click here&#8221; or &#8220;view SEO guide.&#8221; You cannot use just any anchor text, there is a science to it.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">3. Authority (DR and DA)</h3>
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<p>Authority is a complex concept that has different meanings in search. One way authority is measured is through Domain Rating (DR) by <a href="https://ahrefs.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ahrefs</a>. The next best way to measure is with Domain Authority (DA) by <a href="https://moz.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Moz</a>. Google takes into account how authoritative websites are by the number of backlinks each domain has. It&#8217;s not all about acquiring backlinks though, websites like .GOV and .EDU are naturally the best sites to get links from. Then news sites like Forbes, Bloomberg, and Inc are great examples of .COM websites that will have high authority. DA and DR specifically measure the overall authority of an individual website based on its number of linking root domains, link quality, backlink age, along with several other ranking factors.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">4. Backlinks</h3>
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<p>A backlink is defined as incoming hyperlinks that point to your web pages from other websites. Simply put, it&#8217;s a link from one website to another. Search engines consider more backlinks as a sign of authority which can boost how high your website ranks on SERPs. The easiest way to explain backlinks is that they&#8217;re like &#8220;votes&#8221; on the internet, the more you have then the higher your website rankings will be. When you purchase <a href="https://fireflyseo.com/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SEO services</a>, we will work on building more backlinks for your domain so this ranking signal will increase.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">5. Black hat and White hat SEO</h3>
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<p>Black hat or &#8220;bad&#8221; SEO is the use of unethical tactics to increase search rankings. These practices include hidden text, cloaking, sneaky redirects, spammy backlinks, and keyword stuffing.</p>
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<p>White hat or &#8220;good&#8221; SEO involves using mostly ethical techniques like on-page optimization and content marketing to improve your website&#8217;s authority and visibility online.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">6. Bounce Rate</h3>
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<p>Your bounce rate is used to describe how many times people leave your website after only viewing one page. The higher this number, the worse your bounce rate is. Anything above 60-70% is very high, within 40-60% is considered average, and 10-40% is ideal. Bounce rate affects SEO because if users immediately click off your site, then the content is not serving their search or the website is not UX optimized.</p>
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<p>You can improve your bounce rate and SEO by producing high-quality content that users find relevant and useful.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">7. Canonical URL</h3>
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<p>Canonical URLs are the preferred and authoritative web pages for specific keywords, phrases, or pieces of content. These &#8220;canonical&#8221; versions should be original pages that search engines crawl and index to compete with other unauthorized versions which can lead to duplicate content issues. Basically, it&#8217;s not a good idea to create 2 pages targeting the same keyword or phrase. Each page on your website needs to serve a purpose, which should be to provide valuable content for your end-user.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">8. Citations</h3>
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<p>Citations are often referred to as NAP listings, they are a company&#8217;s name, address, phone number, and other important information (this is your NAP data). This data is used by search engines to determine a company&#8217;s geographical location. Citations can be ranked based on many different factors, but the basics are to get as many quality listings as you can. Examples of citation listings are Yelp, Apple Maps, Yellow Pages, 411 Directories, etc&#8230; Many big cities also have local directory websites you can submit your NAP data like your local Chamber of Commerce. Certain niches also have niche-based directories like roofers, cleaning companies, and tax consultants, etc&#8230;</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">9. Crawler (Spider)</h3>
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<p>A crawler is a program that crawls the web, often used by search engines like Google or Bing. Bots crawl websites for fresh new content on a regular basis. Search engines will find your fresh content and then analyze it, but will not actually index it unless they deem that page or website valuable. Some reasons a page will not get indexed are because the website contains viruses, is known for phishing or has illicit content. One way to submit your domain to Google to index is with the <a href="https://search.google.com/search-console/about" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Google Search Console</a>. When you own a domain on the Google Search Console, you can submit new URLs of your domain to Google to get added to the index queue.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">10. Do Follow and No Follow Links</h3>
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<p>Do-Follow and No-Follow links are 2 options of backlinks that point to websites, but a do-follow link allows the website to pass on some of its authority while a no-follow link does not. It&#8217;s not good for a website to have 100% do-follow links because it&#8217;s not natural. Some websites naturally have under 50% do-follow links, but on average we like to stick to the 80/20 rule with 80% links being do-follow and 20% no-follow.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">11. Featured Snippets</h3>
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<p>A featured snippet is a result from Google for a specific keyword that displays the answer to a question directly below the search bar. These snippets are very beneficial for a website&#8217;s SEO as they will increase organic search traffic and conversions by providing direct answers to your visitors&#8217; questions. Since Google wants to provide their users with the best possible results, they want to display content that helps.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">12. Google My Business (GMB) Listing</h3>
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<p>Google My Business (GMB) is a free service offered by Google to create, manage, and optimize your Google business listings. This is your listing that appears on Google Maps and the local map that appears for local search results. A complete profile with accurate information will ensure that you appear when people search for your service on Google Maps. You must add photos, videos, services, and unique descriptions of your business to help show Google exactly what your company does. The more info on your GMB listing, then the more Google will understand what you do.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">13. Headings</h3>
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<p>Headings are HTML tags that serve the purpose of structure on a page. The most common types are h1, h2, h3, and going up to h6. Heading #1 is your web page&#8217;s main title, there you should only have 1 h1 per page. The rest of your heading tags are subheadings, and there&#8217;s no limit for each subheading, but it is a good idea to structure your content in a hierarchy that makes sense. This will improve your SEO because the content will be laid out nicely for search engine crawlers to easily understand.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">14. Inbound and Outbound Links</h3>
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<p>Inbound and outbound links are the connections between websites. Inbound links point to your website, while outbound links go to other websites. This is how websites pass value from one to another to improve SEO. You want your inbound links to be coming from quality sites that offer a similar audience as you because this will give your website more relevancy.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">15. Index or Noindex</h3>
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<p>The index status of a page determines whether Google will display the webpage in search results or not. When you set a page to noindex, Google will know to exclude it from appearing as a search result. This is good for pages where you have duplicate web pages that have slight variations, so you don&#8217;t affect a canonical URL.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">16. Internal Links</h3>
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<p>Internal links are links to other pages within your website. This is an important SEO factor for providing relevancy to your content, but it&#8217;s also good for usability purposes. You only want to add internal links to other pages on your site when it&#8217;s relevant to do so. One of the best strategies of internally linking is called Silo Structures. This refers to building internal links within specific &#8220;silos&#8221; of relevant content, helping search engines understand your website more.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">17. Keywords</h3>
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<p>Keywords are the most common phrases used in search engines. They are the words used for search queries. These are commonly referred to as &#8220;search terms&#8221; or &#8220;search queries.&#8221; You may have heard that people don&#8217;t search with complete sentences, but rather keywords associated with what they&#8217;re looking for. Keywords are important in SEO because they help us determine what exactly users are searching for within search engines. The beginning of every SEO campaign starts with keyword research. Some keywords are more competitive than others so we need to research how difficult your ideal keyphrase will be to rank for to determine the amount of work it will take.</p>
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<p>Keyword density is the percentage of times a keyword or phrase is used on your page compared to the total number of words. If your page has 100 words of content, and your key phrase is mentioned 6 times, then your keyword density is 6%. This tells Google how important it is for this term to rank in search results, but you don&#8217;t want to stuff keywords. There are no hard or fast numbers for the best keyword density, but the best rule is to research your competitors and copy what&#8217;s working. Sometimes #1 will have the highest density, but not always. Nowadays, the best SEO tool to help with keyword density is <a href="https://surferseo.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Surfer SEO</a>. Surfer does all of the keyword research and competitor research for you, then shows you exactly how much additional content and keywords you need to rank ahead of your competitors.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">19. Link Building</h3>
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<p>Link building is the practice of earning backlinks from other websites. It is a popular, yet complex SEO tactic because it&#8217;s closely tied to many black hat SEO techniques. That&#8217;s why you need to be careful and only use whitehat link-building strategies for your business. Some of the most well-known whitehat link-building techniques are creating infographics, skyscraper blog posts (blogs with 4K+ words of content), social media sharing, building citation listings, and creating local/niche-based directory listings.</p>
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<p>A long-tail keyphrase is a keyword where 3+ words are typed into a search engine by the user. These phrases tend to be more specific and less competitive than shorter keywords, so they convert better for your website. A great example of this would be &#8220;kitchen sink repair Indianapolis&#8221; This is considered a long-tail key phrase because it&#8217;s longer than &#8220;plumber Indianapolis&#8221;.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">21. Manual Penalty</h3>
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<p>Google has search engine algorithms in place to detect websites that are trying to cheat the system with black hat SEO techniques. If your website or web pages have been manually penalized, it means Google has manually applied a penalty against you for spammy link-building tactics. You&#8217;ll need to conduct deeper research into what factors landed your site&#8217;s manual penalty. These are not good and take well over 6 months to years to gain trust back from Google.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">22. Meta Description</h3>
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<p>A meta description is the small snippet of text below your website URL and next to your page title in search results. Google and other search engines will pull the first 155-160 characters of meta descriptions. This tells searchers more information about what&#8217;s on that specific web page, which often influences whether or not they click on your page.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">23. Relevance</h3>
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<p>Relevance is the concept of making sure your content and keywords are targeted and stay relevant to the niche of your site. For example, if you&#8217;re a general contractor, it&#8217;s not good to have a general contracting website that lists so many services because you&#8217;ll have a huge uphill battle to rank for each individual service. It&#8217;s best to find your favorite most profitable service and niche down, like doing all gutter installations or roofing. This way your site is more relevant and will be easier to rank. The same concept follows with backlinks. You&#8217;ll want to find backlinks from relevant websites like home improvement directories, blogs, or your suppliers.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">24. Searcher Intent</h3>
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<p>Searcher intent is quite literally how it sounds, it&#8217;s the search intent of a user&#8217;s search query. When someone types in &#8220;parks near me&#8221; we know they are looking for a specific location because of &#8220;near me&#8221; so Google knows the searcher wants to see a map. When someone types in &#8220;buy games&#8221; the search results will show both the local maps and organic search results, but if you search &#8220;buy games online,&#8221; Google and other search engines will only return the organic search because it realizes the intent of the user is to buy games online rather than in-store. It&#8217;s important to do keyword research and understand searcher intent before creating content or acquiring backlinks.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">25. Search Engine Results Page (SERP)</h3>
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<p>The SERP page is the first page you see when you search for something on all major search engines.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">26. Title Tag</h3>
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<p>The title tag of your web pages is one of the most important on-page SEO ranking factors. It tells search engines and visitors what the page is about in just 60 characters or less. The search engine will often display your title tag as the title of your webpage&#8217;s search result, so it has to be clear, descriptive, and relevant to the search query.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">27. 301 Redirect</h3>
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<p>A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect that tells Google and other search engines exactly where the web pages (and their respective URL) have moved to. When you must remove a page and it has backlinks, you usually need to 301 this page to another relevant page on your site. Sometimes it&#8217;s a good idea to leave a page as 404 not found if you have no backlinks or no more relevant pages to redirect to.</p>
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<p>Well, there you have it. Whether you&#8217;re new to SEO or you&#8217;re a business owner looking to learn more, we covered all the top questions and the most common terms you will see in the industry. We hope this article was able to answer your question of, &#8220;what is SEO?&#8221;</p>
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<p>The only other thing that&#8217;s left is for you to get started building your <a href="https://fireflyseo.com/seo-strategy/">SEO strategy</a>. But before you start, there&#8217;s one thing you should keep in mind:</p>
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<p>SEO is built for long-term results. If you&#8217;re a new business looking to find immediate customers, then SEO is not what you need. For new businesses with less capital, it&#8217;s best to spend more time running paid ads on Google and social media sites to build a strong base before moving on to SEO. Most companies that invest in SEO are already established so it&#8217;s going to be hard for you anyways to compete with someone that has a larger budget than you.</p>
<h2>Bonus: The 3 Core Elements Behind Good SEO</h2>
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<p>SEO can be broken down into 3 main elements: on-page, off-page, and technical SEO:</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">On-page SEO</h3>
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<p>On-page SEO includes all the elements on your website that you can control, such as your page titles, alt-text, keyword density, internal backlinks, etc&#8230; Improving your on-page SEO all comes down to improving your site structure, content pages, site speed, and making sure you add new content to your website on a regular basis.</p>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Off-page SEO</h3>
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<p>Off-page SEO is what happens outside of your website like link-building. Your site&#8217;s off-page SEO is arguably the most important part of every SEO campaign. As mentioned in the terms, backlinks are like &#8220;votes&#8221; on the internet. If your site has no votes, then essentially you have no authority.</p>
<h3>Technical SEO</h3>
<p>Technical SEO is a part of on-page optimization but it&#8217;s actually its own factor. Because so many agencies skip pieces of technical SEO, there are a plethora of websites that can easily have rankings increased by using these simple technical SEO techniques. When building a website, it&#8217;s like building a house; you must lay the foundation before you can put up the walls and decorate. Technical SEO involves these crucial elements you must take before a website goes live: site speed, site architecture, sitemap setup, Schema setup, page redirects, and user experience (UX).</p>
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