There’s a story about foolish builders.
There are two builders working on two castles.
The first built his castle on a foundation of sand, the second built his on the rock.
Everything was fine in the summer when the weather was good.
But when the storms came…
The sand washed away and the castle fell down.
But the castle on the rock?
It was unshaken because it was built on a solid foundation.
The same lesson applies to your website.
To build an unshakeable website you need to have a solid foundation of on page SEO.
In this module, we’ll look at how you can build these foundations and set your website up for long-term SEO success.
People are obsessed with link building but it’s only 1x part of a complete SEO strategy.
We were recently able to grow a website from 2,732 monthly visitors to 38,420 with just 76 links in an ultra competitive niche.
How?
By focusing on building a solid website foundation.
On page SEO is the most overlooked element, yet it’s essential to good rankings.
Good on page SEO means your website is:
That also helps search engines to determine the quality of your page.
If your website is:
You’re going to end up in the low-quality bracket and rank poorly regardless of backlinks.
But if your website is:
You’re giving yourself the best opportunity to rank well.
Having this foundation is critical to your website’s success.
(This is the rock to build your castle on.)
And before you move forward with any other strategies in this course, you need to spend the time getting a solid foundation in place.
Starting now…
To successfully build (and maintain) your foundation you need to know:
All of this can be done with free, easy-to-use tools.
So this week I’ll show you how to set up:
Meaning you have no excuse not to do things the right way.
So pay attention.
As an agency owner I see hundreds of sites each month.
It amazes me how many of them don’t have the basics right but are hell bent on building more links to rank for difficult keywords.
SEO doesn’t work like that.
You need to take a calm, intelligent approach.
Build a solid foundation and you won’t spend the rest of your life putting out (needless) SEO fires and reacting to algorithm changes.
This has been a pretty busy week to say the least! And at this stage you should have started to build your castle on a solid foundation of rock- You setup Google Analytics for SEO success You unlocked the benefits of Google Search Console You got setup with Bing You are monitoring uptime with UptimeRobot […]
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