How to get links without doing anything – this is the strategy that has worked for me
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:00 am
Carlos Bravo15
I am lucky that I receive a link to my blog almost every day. I no longer feel the need to do proactive link building to call it something. Over the years I have gained popularity in the eyes of Google, so when someone searches for something related to blogging, entrepreneurship, Facebook Ads or these things, sooner or later they may end up here.
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Create content that is not as searched for
When you start your own blog and you start getting informed, japan telefonnummer one of the first pieces of advice you are given is to focus a lot on creating content that is searched for a lot . This tip is common sense. Since you are writing, the idea is to write about something relevant. Right?
The bad thing is that hundreds or thousands of bloggers are going to apply this same strategy just like you. If you are not an SEO specialist, you will have a hard time achieving quick results.
There is an alternative strategy that has been generating links for me since the beginning of this blog without me having to ask for them. It consists of doing the following. At first it may sound a bit strange but keep reading until the end: 90% of my content deals with topics that are not in high demand .
In other words, I don't focus on what most people are looking for, but rather I look for niches within my topic that are not very common to show a different angle.
This helps me a bit to follow the purple cow strategy to start with . I don't do the same thing as everyone else. This makes me stand out (for better and for worse).
Without having to optimize much, I come out in the first positions for the “weird” topics that I deal with here.
Long tail searches are more likely to generate links
This last point is the key. Even if you don't search a lot, from time to time there are people who think in a similar way and start looking for exactly the topic I have dealt with.
I am lucky that I receive a link to my blog almost every day. I no longer feel the need to do proactive link building to call it something. Over the years I have gained popularity in the eyes of Google, so when someone searches for something related to blogging, entrepreneurship, Facebook Ads or these things, sooner or later they may end up here.
Linkbaiting - getting links from third partiesPhoto rights by Fotolia
Create content that is not as searched for
When you start your own blog and you start getting informed, japan telefonnummer one of the first pieces of advice you are given is to focus a lot on creating content that is searched for a lot . This tip is common sense. Since you are writing, the idea is to write about something relevant. Right?
The bad thing is that hundreds or thousands of bloggers are going to apply this same strategy just like you. If you are not an SEO specialist, you will have a hard time achieving quick results.
There is an alternative strategy that has been generating links for me since the beginning of this blog without me having to ask for them. It consists of doing the following. At first it may sound a bit strange but keep reading until the end: 90% of my content deals with topics that are not in high demand .
In other words, I don't focus on what most people are looking for, but rather I look for niches within my topic that are not very common to show a different angle.
This helps me a bit to follow the purple cow strategy to start with . I don't do the same thing as everyone else. This makes me stand out (for better and for worse).
Without having to optimize much, I come out in the first positions for the “weird” topics that I deal with here.
Long tail searches are more likely to generate links
This last point is the key. Even if you don't search a lot, from time to time there are people who think in a similar way and start looking for exactly the topic I have dealt with.