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SEO hacks thread. What are your little less-known tricks? Here are 2 of mine:
Basically title. Here are 2 less-known SEO tricks I use on the reg, what are yours?
# #1. Find easy keywords w/ Quora or Reddit
If either Quora or Reddit ranks for a particular keyword, chances are, it’s very easy to rank for.
So, do this:
1. Run either Reddit or Quora through Ahrefs
2. Go to “Top Pages”
3. Add your seed keywords as a keyword filter. E.g. if you’re in the pet niche, that would be “dog,” “cat,” whatever.
4. You’ll get a list of all the keywords that Quora/Reddit is ranking & driving traffic.# #2. Find easy niche opportunities w/ Ahrefs
Want to start a niche site, but no idea which niche to pick?
Do this:
1. Go to Ahrefs Content Explorer
2. Look up a generic keyword that’s associated with niche sites. E.g. “best” or “review”Set the following filters:
* Website traffic: 5,000 – 300,000
* Website DR: 0 – 35
* Language: English
* One Page Per Domain**Bam** \- you get a list of websites that drive a top of traffic with a relatively low DR score. Go through the results and find a niche that works for you.
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I thought reddit and quora had a lot of first page rankings because Google had decided to put more value on consumer content.
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Good tips. Will check it out.
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Can I do this with Semrush?
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Great ones Nick!
Working on international sites; ahrefs / reddit / quora doesn’t help as much as they do in english; thus I always end up using Google’s keyword planner tool.
My customers’ are usually revenue oriented; thus I target high conversion searches. Here’s a great trick; if you add +price to the keyword; you target the people at the end of purchasing funnel. They are about to make a purchase, they’re checking prices.
Another one; is probably well known but a few does it; is to benchmark top 3 searches on a specific search. I literally put them side by side, analyze, and write better (more complete) content if I can.
Cheers;
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Great tips! Agree about Quora and Reddit. If they are in the SERP, then the competition for this keyword is very low. But Ahrefs does not always show reliable data, so its metrics need to be additionally checked.
My trick – To find simple niches and keywords, I often use Keyword Golden Ratio (KGR)
The Keyword Golden Ratio is the number of Google results that have the keyword phrase in the title, divided by the monthly search volume, where the search volume is less than 250.
If the KGR is less than 0.25, then you should rank in the top 50 as soon as your page is indexed.
If the KGR is between 0.25 and 1 it will be more difficult, but still possible.
More than 1 is very difficult, it’s better not to even try.
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