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People don’t backlink so how can I beat the competition?
I run an e-commerce website for a niche product and am struggling to get ahead of the established competition. My DR is stuck at 8 but competing sites are the 20+
It seems that competitors have some solid back links from previous years but now the industry only share on social media (which I understand don’t count as back links).
My question, is how can I beat the competition when they have a legacy of links but no one links in the industry any more? Blogs are essentially dead.
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Use Google ads.
Seo doesn’t make much sense for professionals for the reason you mentioned. It’s too much of a long game. You’ll be lucky to still be in business by the time it pays off and your strategy might be obsolete by then.
Ads will get immediate results and will allow you to adjust your strategy in real-time.
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The thing here is you need to focus more on where do you want your traffic, or in this case customers to come from. Also ads will give you instant result than waiting for backlink to work and propel you higher to searches result.
You should consult ads agency or you can take some online courses on how to run a successful ads campaign whether its google or fb. Good luck on your journey.
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I am going to do you a solid here. It may come back to bite me.
99% of SEOs are buying backlinks. If you’re smart, you buy them from reputable vendors who have pre-existing (paid) relationships with decent blogs/websites with high DA and the common sense required to sell links sparingly.
Fringe grey-hat folks also spend money on tiered link building.
As you are finding, building ‘organic’ or ‘natural’ links is incredibly difficult because webmasters are inundated with crap requests and a lot now understand that they can/should charge for the priveledge of linking out.
However, if you do start looking into link buying, make sure every link is from a relevant site and that you’re careful with your anchor text. If you’re smart, you can probably get from DA8 to DA20 for a few thousand dollars.
Note: DA doesn’t actually matter. Those third party metrics are incredibly unreliable, but it is a useful yardstick for measuring the growth of your backlink profile.
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Please, for the love of all that is good in SEO, stop using DA/DR/PA and all that other nonsense to measure links.
A link is normally given when there is something worth linking to. Create link-worthy content, and then do the work to gain the links. This is where PR heavily comes into play. But, even if you have a million dollar PR budget, if you are not linking to anything that is worth linking to, it will mean nothing to your rankings and SEO. And yes, just like with actual PR you will have to pay for it. Unless your content really is out of this world, most websites that mean anything in terms of a quality backlink charge a fee. Publishers need to make a living too, even if they publish online.
Look at the Yandex ranking factors leaks and then change your thinking around links and building links. It will serve you well, in the long run, to get away form using DA/DR as any type of indication of the quality of a link.
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Blogs are not dead and you can absolutely acquire backlinks. In fact, if you have stiff competition, you need to acquire backlinks.
What link strategy have you tried that isn’t working?
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I might go to jail for this but…BUY LINKS!
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There’s no proof that those links provide value to their rankings.
The numbers you’re talking about are proprietary formulas from companies who do not know the search result algorithm.
There’s much more to search results thank backlinks, and from what I’m finding, most backlinks don’t matter, and the ones that do don’t provide as much values as the other **hundreds of factors** that determine rankings.
Now, it might be worth it to obtain backlinks at sites where people actually clink on the link, review your products, and potentially buy. Because that’s how the web works.
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You gotta buy them. As you grow it becomes easier to get them for free but initially you just have to vet websites and pay. We took a website from 0-25 DR with about $1000 and some solid links/content. The back links helped us rank and the content helped us sell.
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What’s your monthly traffic vs competitors
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SEO costs real money. All these DIYs trying to do SEO themselves is ridiculous.
It’s sort of like trying to do your own electrical or plumbing without any experience.
I’m venting here a little but, if I’m gonna answer this question, the answer is that you need to buy backlinks. Nobody is giving you backlinks for free. They are rare.
Now, finding a quality backlink provider at a reasonable cost is the challenge for most. Unless you do this every day, you won’t have the net work or connections to do this. You will either overpay or be sold on crap links.
This is one of the huge benefits of a good marketing agency. We already have the network and connections to acquire , good, pre-vetted, backlinks at competitive market rates.
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Who told you that people don’t buy links, just make sure they are good quality.
And if you can have your own PBN of good domains,you can beat your competition very easily.
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Perhaps consider better tuning of your pages. Backlinks are not the only part of SEO and certainly not the most important part.
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Why would someone create a link to you? What value do you bring that deems it the best resource available?
Secondly, do link exchanges with partners as they are already doing business with you.
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I am attempting to go for the poster/vendor rather than the link. Who do I want to be connected with, who has a linkable space. Introduce yourself, offer to help and then ask for a reciprocal link.
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You don’t have to buy them, you just gotta look a bit outside your most desirable industry. I’ve personally built 1000s of links throughout my career and never paid for them. But it is expensive, the agency I currently work for spends $50k p/m on guest post writers. Also, and as another said, this shit is expensive, you can’t just DIY it and expect to have great results.
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