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I'm going to post advanced SEO Techniques here, if you have any legit ones feel free to add them.

First up:

The Anatomy of Top Performing Articles: Successful vs. Invisible Content – SEMrush Study - The Key Findings

- Longreads of 3000+ words get 3x more traffic, 4x more shares, and 3.5x more backlinks than articles of average length (901-1200 words).​
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- Shorter articles (300-900 words) have zero shares 4.5 times more often than long reads of 3000+ words.​
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- Articles with long headlines (14+ words) get 2x more traffic, 2x more shares, and 5x more backlinks than articles with short headlines (7-10 words).​
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- Articles with list headlines (those that start with a number like “N things…”, “N ways…”, etc.) get 2x more traffic and 2x more social shares than other types, followed by guides and “how-to” articles.​
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- 36% of articles with H2+H3 tags have higher performance in terms of traffic, shares, and backlinks.​
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- Articles with 5 lists per 500 words compared to articles with no lists get 4x more traffic and 2x more social shares.​

source: The Anatomy of Top Performing Articles: Successful vs. Invisible Content – SEMrush Study
 
Great info. Most of these i already use. This shouldn't be on "STDDM" . It's valid info!
 
Link Prospecting: https://neomam.com/blog/link-prospecting/


- What Links Are, and What They Are Not
- Leaving the Automation Nation and Getting Rid of The Metrics Mindset
- Step 0: Define Topic Areas and Verticals to Target With Your Content
- Step 1: Spend Time Online to Identify Suitable Types of Sites and Verticals
- Step 2: Handpick Sites Your Content Could Resonate With
---- Approach 1: Find sites that match your strategy and your content
---- Approach 2: Find news sites that have featured the format of your content recently
---- Approach 3: Find sites that have covered similar content to yours
---- Approach 4: Find sites that have covered similar stories in the past
---- Approach 5: Find sites from verticals you’ve identified in your outreach strategy
- Step 3: Dig Deep for Solid Contact Details
---- Stage 1: Identify the best person to approach with your content
---- Stage 2: Find a backup contact
---- Stage 3: Find the direct email address of the person you want to pitch to
- Step 4: Keep Building Your List Based on What’s Working During Outreach
- Step 5: Stop Prospecting Blindly If It’s Not Working And You Don’t Know Why
- A Case for Humanity in Link Prospecting
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Great guide to round out SEO knowledge: Rarely Used SEO Techniques


- Wikipedia Link Rot – A Secret Goldmine for Broken Link Building
- Boost Your Traffic Using the Synonyms Ranking Technique
- Benchmark Your Competitors’ Broken Links
- Use the Adwords Campaigns to Inspire Your Keyword Usage
- Use Content Curation to Create In-depth Articles that Engage
- Get Ahead of the Game by Diversifying Your Link Profile
- Diversify Your Rankings with Youtube Descriptions
- Engage Extra Audience and Gain Traffic with the Skyscraper Technique
- Use Long Tail Keywords to Target Specific Audiences
- Get Keyword Ideas from Wikipedia
- Publish Information-rich Content
- Use Internal Links to Spread Your Page Authority Sitewide
- Turn Evergreen Content into a Constant Traffic Source
- Rank Better in Search Engines by Creating Your Own Keywords
- Create an Expert Roundup to Generate Awareness about Your Blog
- Keep Track of Your Competitors’ Strategies with In-Depth Link Audits
- Improve Conversion Rates – Optimize Your Landing Pages
- Create a Mobile Friendly Site to Increase Your Rankings
- Use Infographics to Increase Visibility
- Build a Robust Profile on Authoritative Social Media Platforms to Boost Rankings
- Help Your Page Indexing with Internal Deep Links
- Get More Traffic by Updating Old Content and Sharing It on Social Media
- Try Guest Blogging to Increase Exposure and Consolidate Your Brand
- Optimize Your Website for Better Page Indexing
- Be Creative In Your Outreach and Link Building Strategy
- Use Influencer Marketing to Frame Your Content Marketing Statements
- Associate Photos with Your Brand by Asking Websites to Give Image Credits
- Engage with Influencers Who Recently Mentioned You on the Web
- Use Comment Marketing to Generate Leads
- Improve Brand Management – Use Press Releases When You’ve Got Something Big Going On
- Target One Keyword Per Page to Avoid Cannibalization
- Make Multimedia Part of Your Content and Increase Engagement
- Link Out – Use Appeal to Authority to Back Your Statements & Gain Credibility Boost
- Create Tables of Contents to Improve User Experience
- Use Heatmap Tracking to Optimize Your Call to Actions Display
- Minimize Bounce Rate with Friendly 404 Pages
- Rank Better – Get Rid of the Unnatural Links & Prevent Negative SEO Attacks
- Show Social Proof of Your Popularity
- Use Diacritics to Perform to a Specific Level in Terms of SERPs
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Structured Data which results in feature snippets are available with examples: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7358659?hl=en

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Gallery page: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/search-gallery
 
Log File Analysis: 9 Actionable Ways It Can Be Used for SEO

1. Find Where Crawl Budget is Being Wasted
2. Are Your Important Pages Being Crawled at All?
3. Find Out If Your Site Has Switched To Google’s Mobile-First Index
4. Are All of Your Targeted Search Engine Bots Accessing Your Pages?
5. Spotting Incorrect Status Codes
6. Highlight Inconsistent Response Codes
7. Audit Large or Slow Pages
8. Check Internal Links & Crawl Depth Importance
9. Discover Orphaned Pages

Log File Analysis: 9 Actionable Ways It Can Be Used for SEO
 
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SEO for Progressive Web APPs (PWA) and JavaScript sites

  • 1 What is a PWA and how it works
  • 2 How Progressive Web Apps work
  • 3 How search engines deal with Javascript nowadays
    • 3.1 Crawling != Rendering != Indexing != Ranking
    • 3.2 Rendering a JS site costs a lot
    • 3.3 Google won’t wait indefinitely to render a page
    • 3.4 Google renders JS in 2 phases
    • 3.5 Types of events and links that Google follows
  • 4 Rendering approaches for JS sites
    • 4.1 Client Side Rendering (CSR)
    • 4.2 Server Side Rendering (SSR)
    • 4.3 Hybrid Rendering
    • 4.4 Dynamic Rendering (DR)
    • 4.5 SSR better for users, CSR better for servers
    • 4.6 Google’s official recommendation
  • 5 Good practices for PWA and JS sites
    • 5.1 PWA and performance audit
    • 5.2 Mobile-Friendly Test
    • 5.3 Fetch and Render
    • 5.4 Crawl and compare staging with production enviroments
    • 5.5 Crawl emulating mobile and rendering JS
    • 5.6 Check meta tags with other User Agents
    • 5.7 Browse without JS emulating other User Agents
    • 5.8 Check console errors and links on Chrome 41
    • 5.9 PWA SEO Checklist for CSR
    • 5.10 PWA SEO Checklist for Dynamic Rendering/SSR
    • 5.11 PWA Checklist UX & WPO
  • 6 Experiment: PWA without prerender (CSR)
    • 6.1 Test 1: rendering
    • 6.2 Test 2: rankings
    • 6.3 Test 3: new content indexing
    • 6.4 Test 4: the two waves of indexing
  • 7 Conclusions

https://www.christianoliveira.com/blog/en/seo-progressive-web-apps-pwa/
 
Thin & Duplicate Content: SEO Guide for eCommerce Sites

What is Duplicate Content?

Internal Technical Duplicate Content
Non-Canonical URLs
Session IDs
Shopping Cart Pages
Internal Search Results
Duplicate URL Paths
Product Review Pages
www vs. Non-www URLs & Uppercase vs. Lowercase URLs
Trailing Slashes on URLs
HTTPS URLs: Relative vs. Absolute Path

Internal Editorial Duplicate Content
Similar Product Descriptions
Category Pages
Home Page Duplicate Content

Offsite Duplicate Content
Manufacturer Product Descriptions
Staging, Development or Sandbox Websites
Product Feeds
Affiliate Programs
Syndicated Content
Scraped Content
Classifieds & Auction Sites

What is Thin Content?
Thin/Empty Product Descriptions
Test/Orphaned Pages
Thin Category Pages

Tools for Finding & Diagnosing Duplicate eCommerce Content
Google Search Console
Moz Site Crawl Tool
Inflow’s Cruft Finder SEO Tool
Search Query Operators (site:, inurl:, etc.)
Plagiarism, Crawler & Duplicate Content Tools
Additional Resources

https://www.goinflow.com/duplicate-content-ecommerce-seo/
 
Cheap hosting will kill your rankings eventually. I'm not sure why Shared hosting is still a thing when Digital Ocean, Linode, and other solutions like AWS exist at a cheaper rate, but now we've got a long term experiment that shows shared hosting is killing your SEO:

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Sauce: Long Term Shared Hosting Experiment
 
As soon as I read this, I knew this was me. I am cheap when it comes to my own SEO and going after my own competitors. I do a little here, and there, but it's crap. I am the first to admit. I have been a lurker of CCarter and this forum, because I am scarred of forum name recognition, mostly from Wicked. But, the funny thing is, when CCarter posts stuff that is aggressive about us, I relate.

So, I read this, and knew this was me. I am Siteground shared hosted on GoGeek, so I paid the few bucks to immediately be dedicated IP, then I also paid to be WP Rocket (even though I am all about FREE), then I paid their CDN built in for a few more bucks. Well, I did this, because I reverse engineered the top #1 guy, and they did have fast TTFB and mine was embarrassing. I saw that they did not have any Cadillac hosting, but did have WP Rocket and their CDN

The thing that sucks for this lazy study is, there was a Algorithm change during the switch up. I also did not do a before after screen shot, or scientific study.

I did a lazy shoot from the hip, threw cheap money at it. Well, I went from rank 10/11 depending on the days, to #6 with nothing else.

I did do all the speed tests, pagespeed, ttfb tests, etc.. and they all came out awesome.

So, in conclusion. If you have the resources, then experiment too. I actually think its all about TTFB as the primary factor, but this is my non testing, non scientific, guesSEO opinion. The great thing about being a OGSEO, is your wisdom and instincts.

Thank you CCarter for posting all the posts. I am a reader/follower, and I'm certain you have other lurker readers too.
 
DanielS said:
Could this same technique work for other sites as well?
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It works for Wikipedia due to the platform leaving "dorks" around (aka footprints). It'll mark (or people are trained to mark) a link as a "dead link" and that phrase "dead link" gets indexed.

A Wordpress site has no such thing built into its platform. There are other platforms that might, though. There are thousands of footprints we used to use back in the day for scraping up spam targets. The challenge is discovering the footprints that aren't already exploited by a million other people.

The 2nd best way of doing it was to crawl the sites yourself and check the HTTP status code of each outbound link.

The best way to do it now is to toss your target sites into Ahrefs and click "broken links" on the left under "Outgoing links" and then filter from there. You can export dozens of these and then deal with them in a spreadsheet if you want.
 
Google API: "penguinEarlyAnchorProtected"

This is an interesting one uncovered by @Grind. I saw this in his newsletter and obviously was baffled no one was talking about it ANYWHERE due to how big this is.

penguinEarlyAnchorProtected (type: boolean(), default: nil) - Doc is protected by goodness of early anchors.

(Direct link: Attributes)​

As he explains in his experiment, the first place Google finds a keyword anchor to your page, it takes the trust of that page into account. So he ran an experiment where be bought a massively high authority site's backlink and used a specific keyword anchor.

The page jumped to the page 1 position #4. He then spammed the page to death with 4 other keywords, and the 1 keyword that he got the anchor for bumped up #2, but the other 3 keywords he saw a -50 drop across the board.

This is a quick summary of the experiment - based off my memory.

So the quick conclusion is that the first time an keyword anchor text is see by Google for your page, Google will determine the trust of it and "protect" it to so to speak. So it's best to get high authority sites/pages linking to your anchors first before low quality ones.

Take a look at the leaked Google API warehouse stuff for more tidbits, but that one is massive.

PM Grindstone for more details and hopefully he'll be kind enough to send you the email he showed the experiment in.

Perhaps this was suppose to stay private, but WOW. Only 2 people have mentioned this gold on Twitter. Wild. It shows you how many people are actually in the trenches.

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the word minus 50 makes me tune in cuz I see myself getting defeated by it constantly.

Where do I sub to this news letter.

Also I'd bet money grind is some form of light shadow banned based on how he shows up in my feed. Stupid musk posts and non subs burying his tweets. Why would you expect good seo content to be findable.
 
CCarter said:
Perhaps this was suppose to stay private, but WOW. Only 2 people have mentioned this gold on Twitter. Wild. It shows you how many people are actually in the trenches.

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Generally speaking, yes. But I love you bro so I don't care.

Also we both know it doesn't fucking matter one iota, you could give 1000 people a guaranteed system for success and only 1 of them would do anything with it.

So me reporting on minimal viable product SEO tests will probably see 1 in a million adoption. Maybe.

secretagentdad said:
the word minus 50 makes me tune in cuz I see myself getting defeated by it constantly.

Where do I sub to this news letter.

Also I'd bet money grind is some form of light shadow banned based on how he shows up in my feed. Stupid musk posts and non subs burying his tweets. Why would you expect good seo content to be findable.
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Sub on site, footer or sidebar if not on home page takes you to the same place.

I guess you win some money?

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Edit: The -50 has always been anchor text related or at least since Penguin 1.0 in 2012.

Ryuzaki said:
It works for Wikipedia due to the platform leaving "dorks" around (aka footprints). It'll mark (or people are trained to mark) a link as a "dead link" and that phrase "dead link" gets indexed.

A Wordpress site has no such thing built into its platform. There are other platforms that might, though. There are thousands of footprints we used to use back in the day for scraping up spam targets. The challenge is discovering the footprints that aren't already exploited by a million other people.

The 2nd best way of doing it was to crawl the sites yourself and check the HTTP status code of each outbound link.

The best way to do it now is to toss your target sites into Ahrefs and click "broken links" on the left under "Outgoing links" and then filter from there. You can export dozens of these and then deal with them in a spreadsheet if you want.
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Scrapebox bruh.

It'll find you all the pages, then parse them all for broken links, marks them internal or external.

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CCarter said:
It shows you how many people are actually in the trenches.
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I beg to differ. You're guilting people for not knowing super technical things, but my business experience has shown me that you will make more money from explaining simple SEO concepts to outsiders and getting them to buy into SEO, instead of getting a super technical edge by knowing some very slight exploite. If you're emphasizing a super technical thing that is hard for people to understand, you're actually alienating people from decoding your message, which is not good communication.

For the people who are solo-entrepreneurs, sure, maybe they can use this but that's a dying breed. For everyone else who works with others, it is about communication that others understand, positioning yourself well in the company, managing perceptions and getting leverage so that you can get good contracts. All this super technical stuff doesn't scale well and is a short term gain. You can show profits with basic SEO. That's all you need.

Why are other SEOs not saying anything about this? Because they're busy playing office politics for more money instead of doing SEO, since that pays more.

@Grind You don't actually make any money from this and this "exploit" is hard to scale. People don't take action on what you say, which gives you low influence, because what you say is not matching up to what their goals are. Your target audience is SEOs and the SEO community isn't talking about needing new ways to get a slight edge in Google. You're not actually solving anyone's problem. If you did, they'd actually implement your solution, or pay you to implement the solution.
 
I made $6400 profit on the parasite before Google manually clapped the whole site.

My target market is my bank account.

I'm not responding to the rest of your drivel.
 
Grind said:
I made $6400 profit on the parasite before Google manually clapped the whole site.

My target market is my bank account.

I'm not responding to the rest of your drivel.
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Then you really don't care that people don't implement what you say then. I think you're just wanting to hear "you're very smart, good job!" and that's it. Good job dude.
 
BakerStreet said:
Then you really don't care that people don't implement what you say then. I think you're just wanting to hear "you're very smart, good job!" and that's it. Good job dude.
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You're likely mentally retarded but I'll try one more time.

I was telling CC that I don't care that he's sharing stuff from my newsletter in public because nobody will put it into use anyway.

Full stop.

The rest is you projecting your bullshit on my words.

Nowhere was I saying I wished people would. Nowhere was I saying that I wish they'd give me credit. That's you projecting your deficiencies on to my words.

Way to shit the place up.
 
Grind said:
You're likely mentally retarded but I'll try one more time.

I was telling CC that I don't care that he's sharing stuff from my newsletter in public because nobody will put it into use anyway.

Full stop.

The rest is you projecting your bullshit on my words.

Nowhere was I saying I wished people would. Nowhere was I saying that I wish they'd give me credit. That's you projecting your deficiencies on to my words.

Way to shit the place up.
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Oh i see. You were outing something but really no one cares, even if it is making you money. yeah, really no one cares.
 
Y u complainin about uncle grind outin?

This forum needs way more outin.
 
This makes a ton of sense from a natural link building perspective. Any time I see a good high authority link from a site that actually gets traffic, a bunch of bullshit spam links are soon to follow. So that penguinEarlyAnchorProtected is likely a way to not penalize a site for that. Not even really an exploit just a smart way to approach link building. Spend more up front for some premium links, then lower tier to fill it out.

Am I interpreting it correctly in that it's a specific anchor text that is being protected?
 
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