From ZERO to 1,000 Visitors a Day in 6 Months with SEO
– Hey guys, so the other
day I spoke to a friend who'd just bought a new website. And I was like, "Right, "what sort of keywords
are you gonna go for?" And he replied to me, going, "Nah, man, I'm just gonna write "whatever I wanna write about. "I mean, keywords, "I don't care about them. "I'm just gonna write things
that I enjoy writing about." And as an SEO, I would say that's the
fastest way to fail.
Now, of course, sure, you don't wanna be writing about topics that you don't enjoy. But at the same time, if you want results with SEO, then you need to seriously
consider your keyword strategy. So that's exactly what I'm
gonna teach you in this video, and I'm gonna show you the exact blueprint that made my website go from zero to 1000 visitors
a day in six months. And this is such an easy process
that you can copy yourself. So, by all means, go ahead and click that
Taylor Swift video, but if you wanna learn how to
seriously scale your website with a strong keyword strategy, then make sure you keep watching. And, by the way, if you haven't already subscribed, please make sure you do because my SEO videos will
help you grow your website, boost your rankings and drive more traffic to your site. Okay, so the first thing you wanna do when it comes to keyword research is go to ahrefs.com/keywordexplorer. You'll see a screen like this, and you wanna type in the
relevant keyword to your niche. So let's say you've got
a website about dogs.
Now, you can search for that, and, obviously, as you can see here, the keyword difficulty
is insanely super hard. So you don't wanna try and rank for that, you're never gonna be able to do that. But what you can do is find loads of keywords
relevant to your niche by clicking phrase match. And this will break down
all of the relevant keywords around dogs, for example, right? And it lets you see, as we scroll down here, you can see there's thousands of them. So we need to find a way to
filter those keywords down to only relevant keywords that
you can actually rank for. Now, there's a few ways
to filter out the results to make sure you can find
easy keywords to rank for.
The first way that I recommend is clicking KD over here, which means keyword difficulty, right? And this score goes all the way up to 100, but what I'd recommend doing is going after keywords between zero to 10 just as I'm doing here. And this will basically filter loads of low competition keywords that you can start
ranking for straight away. So it's basically like
you can mine the gold and find the low hanging fruit. Next up, it's time to
start filtering by volume because if no one's
searching for that keyword, it's a waste of time going for it, okay? Because there's no point producing content around keywords that
nobody's searching for. So instead of throwing darts in the dark, you can actually click on volume over here and then you can type in the minimum. Now, actually, I would say
the minimum is 100, right? Because after that volume, there's a decent amount
of people searching for it and that means that's a relevant
keyword you should go for. Now, obviously, as you can see here, we're in the dogs niche.
There's a huge amount of volume and we've got a huge list of keywords that have a low difficulty
but a high volume. I mean, literally all the
volumes are in the thousands, so these are great keywords to go for. But there's one more trick
that I wanna show you, so keep watching. So, obviously, it's 2020 now and search engines have
changed a lot, right? So let me give you an example, right? If we copy and paste this
keyword into Google like this, you'll see that on the search result, there's not just websites ranking. So you can see, right, there's a big feature snippet here, but then there's a people
also ask question here. Which means that the real
stake for other websites not ranking number one
is tiny almost, okay? So you can there's just
a few results here, but you have to scroll
1/2 way down the page, which most people don't even do.
And then, even after you do that, there's a bunch of videos, there's some pictures here, there's some related searches. And all of this means that there's a very
low click through rate, and that actually means that
if you target this keyword, you're not gonna get
that much search volume. So if we look at the keyword, sure, it's got a 42K volume. But actually the clicks
per search is pretty low, and you can see that
by this green bar here. Only 17% of results are clicked. So what you wanna do when
you're filtering down this list is find results that actually have a much higher click through rate. So to do that, click on more filters over here, click on clicks per search over here and then type in something like 0.4. And this will filter out the results that actually get clicks. And the more clicks, the better, as long as it's a relevant search term that you can actually rank for.
So as we scroll down, you can see a bunch of keywords that now are relevant. And if we go down, we used to have thousands of results, and that's actually gone down to 151. But at least these are results that are actually gonna
drive volume to your website. Because if you're ranking for a keyword but it doesn't get any clicks, it's kinda pointless. Most people don't realize this, it's the fact that, sure, search volume is important, but click through rates
are just as important, especially in 2020 and especially as Google
updates more and more to include more video carousels, more pictures, more galleries. Which means that the click through rate and real estate for your website to rank on the number one page of Google is going to get smaller and smaller.
Now, as promised, here's a quick way to
supercharge the results you get from keyword research. And when I say supercharge, it's no exaggeration, right? So as you can see with this website, as I increase the number of
backlinks going to this site, the actual amount of organic traffic pretty much increased
over the same pattern. So you can see, right, we started getting traffic around January, but actually around March, that's when the real traffic came in. And if you look here, yeah, we started getting backlinks to this website in January, but around March is where we got a decent
volume of backlinks, and that's where we saw
the biggest increase in organic traffic. So if you really wanna see massive results with your website and
your keyword research, then make sure you build links too. That's a huge hack that will help speed up the
results of your website. Now, if you're wondering, right, that sounds great, but how do I get backlinks, Julian? Okay, what I'd recommend is going to my YouTube channel here, click on playlists over here and you'll see all these playlists that will teach you how to build links.
Now, actually, this is the best playlist you wanna check out, it's got loads of case
studies and tutorials that will teach you exactly
how I build backlinks across loads of different niches. So if you want more backlinks, check out that playlist and make sure you subscribe
to my channel too..
