SEO, or search engine optimization. What is it? How should I learn it? If you have a website or a blog but you’re not driving traffic to it, or even if you have a YouTube channel but are struggling to get the views, then SEO will help you drive free traffic to your YouTube channel or your blog.
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What is SEO and How It Works?
What is SEO? So let’s say you write a new article on your website. To drive traffic or to promote your article there are 3 options. The first option is that you can promote the link to this article on the Facebook wall or in Facebook groups, or in the link section of your Instagram bio. Now since the majority of you don’t have thousands of people who are following you, so the maximum number of people who might visit your article will be somewhere close to 100 or 200. The second option is that you can run Facebook ads, Instagram ads, YouTube ads, and drive traffic towards your article. But in this case, if you’re not selling a product or a service, and driving traffic only towards your article, then you won’t be able to do it profitably. The last and most important traffic source is organic traffic. The traffic that is coming from search engines. Like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.
So the whole process of SEO is getting your articles or your website ranked number 1 for your target keywords on the Google search results. I’m only talking about Google and not the other search engines like Yahoo or Bing. This is because Google dominates the search engine market. You only have to focus on Google. Once you are ranked number 1 for your target keyword, you will start driving free traffic towards your website or your article. It will be more beneficial for you if I don’t talk more about theory but rather show you everything. So let’s go into my laptop screen, and if you stream this video until the end, I can guarantee you that you will know more about SEO than 99% of SEO experts out there in the market. So whenever I am talking about SEO, I’m primarily talking only about Google because Google has 90% of the search engine space. As you can see that Bing only has 2.45% of the search engine space and Yahoo! At 1.82. So primarily whenever we are talking about search engine optimization or SEO, we are targeting only Google because that is the dominant player in the market.
What Is SEO? A Get-Started Guide to Search Engine Optimization
So for the people who are total beginners who don’t know what SEO is, whenever you are searching for a keyword here like “best washing machine in India”, so these are the listings, right? So the process of SEO or search engine optimization is all about getting your article to the number 1, 2, or 3 positions. The reason we want to get it to the top position is that majority of the click rate comes from the first 3 results. So, has there been any time whenever you are searching for a particular keyword, it could be anything like “best movies in India” etc. Have you ever gone to the second page? I have the advanced settings where I am showing a hundred results per search page. But the majority of the people have 10 results on the search result page. So have you ever been to the second or third page? And even if you have been then the percentage of the people who are actually visiting the second page is very, very low. So the ultimate goal of the website is to get to the first result for their target keyword. I’ll show you this with one more example. I have opened my ahrefs and using the same keyword “best washing machine in India”. If you’ll go to the search results page here, so the first website that is ranking number 1, Biijilibachao.com, you can see that it’s driving 15,000 SEO traffic for its target keyword. And similarly, the first and the second-ranking is driving 12,000 and the website on the third-ranking is driving only 4,000. So if you are a number 1 ranking and if you are a number 3 ranking, there is a huge shift in the amount of traffic you’ll be driving to your website. This is the reason why everyone is targeting the number 1 position. Since the number 1 ranking is so important for any website, this is the reason why SEO is so competitive. Now the website who is ranking number 1, gets the most traffic and hence the most profit. And since this video is part of our affiliate marketing mastery course, your target should be to rank number 1 so that you can drive maximum traffic to your website, and hence make more money by selling more product on Amazon. So now whenever we are talking about ranking number 1 there are 200+ factors that make up the entire process of getting your website ranked on number 1, for your target keywords. Now if I’ll be talking about all the 200 factors, then this video will easily extend to 3 – 4 hours, so I’ll only be talking about the most important factors that make a significant impact on your ranking.
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Type of SEO
Let’s talk about the types of SEO. Primarily there are 4 types of SEO: white hat, black hat, grey hat, and negative SEO. Now white hat SEO is what I recommend and what I use. White hat SEO covers all the techniques that you can implement on your website. So that your website gets on the number 1 position, and white hat SEO is what is recommended by Google to do. To compare white hat SEO with black hat SEO, so black hat SEO contains all the techniques that are negative, that are shady and does not comply with the search engine guidelines. And white-hat SEO is what complies with the search engine guidelines. So let’s say you write an article that is really amazing, really comprehensive and it really completes the user intent. And let’s say a particular magazine really likes your article and it features your article and they mention your article in their article. So this creates a backlink for your article. Now, this is the white hat SEO, because this is done naturally. You are not using a shady technique or kind of link buying, etc. We’ll be talking more about white hat SEO techniques later. The grey hat SEO is in the middle of the white hat and black hat SEO. I don’t even recommend a grey hat as well. And negative SEO is whenever one of your competitors builds wireframe or ponlinks to your website. So that your website gives you a penalty. So this is what negative SEO is… We won’t be talking more about- we won’t be talking about negative SEO, rather I’ll be giving you the best recommendation on how to get your website number one using just the on-page factors alone. So to make your website load faster will really help you in getting your article number 1 ranked. The next step is keyword research. So whenever you are searching for anything on Google search engine like “best washing machine in India” in this case, so this becomes a keyword. Now, whenever you are writing an article you need to do thorough keyword research. Like I am using ahrefs here, as I showed you by adding the number 1 result for my target keyword here in the site explorer region. And clicking here on the organic keywords. I can find all the keywords for which this article is ranking. And also the position associated with it. Like for the best washing machine in India, it is ranking number 1. “Best washing machine”, ranking 3. And also the search volume of the keyword. Now since ahrefs is a paid tool you can also use Ubersuggest by Neil Patel. It’s a free tool and it also gives almost similar data. So once you add the domain name, go to the “top pages” here you can see the article “best washing machine in India” click here on “view all”. And you’ll be able to see all the keywords for which this article is ranking. Now, ahrefs is a paid tool you do have to pay money for this, but Ubersuggest is a free tool. So here you can also export the keyword list here, by “export to CSV” and download it for yourself. Now many of the YouTubers I’ve seen… they recommend so many different software and various other tools to find the keywords, but honestly, keyword research is not that complicated. It’s very simple. All you have to do is… whatever article you are writing… maybe you’re writing an article, let’s say… best places in India. Okay, so just search for it. All you have to do is search for it. Take the first article, whatever it’s ranking on Google search engine, copy the URL, go to Ubersuggest or ahrefs, if you are using ahrefs go-to site explorer, paste, and enter. If you’re using Ubersuggest free tool, go to Ubersuggest add the domain name, make sure you select the country for which you are targeting, click on search. With ahrefs, it’s a one-step process because you’ll- like here you can see the keywords for which the article is ranking. I can get the keywords, I can also export it. But for Ubersuggest you first have to go to “top pages” then you can find the article, whichever the article you are looking for and click here on the “view all” button and download the keywords.
Make sure your title is very enticing, make sure your title is very click-worthy. Because if you can increase the CDR of your title, then you’ll be able to rank on your target keywords even with fewer backlinks. If you’ll search for, let’s say “coupon”. Usually, whenever you are searching for coupons you’ll see that majority of the results have the month and the year. And this is because all of these websites know that by adding the month and the year in the meta title, the CDR will increase. This is the reason that you’ll see that almost all the websites are using this technique. Like here in “CouponDunia.in” you can also see “free delivery”. This will give one more reason for the person who’s searching for this keyword to click on this link. Okay, so the meta title is something that you have to keep changing and wearing on a weekly basis and see which one is giving you the best results and which one is giving you the best CTR. Like, look at this particular result, like if you’re searching for a “Swiggy coupon”. Look at the result here, “Swiggy coupons & offers”. He has targeted the main keyword here, apart from that he has also written free delivery, and he has also mentioned, 50% off promo code. Now, who doesn’t want a 50% off promo code, right? So creating a very enticing title will really help you in increasing the CDR and hence getting your articles ranked. But then again you have to make sure, if someone is clicking here and going to your article, they must also get whatever you are offering in the meta title. Because otherwise, he’ll just hit the back button, and he’ll go to the next result. And this instead of helping your website will rather give you a negative SEO. Unless there’s someone who clicks on the back button and clicks on the second result, instead of going to your website, he went to the second result. So instead of helping your website, this will hurt your website more. So make sure whatever you’re offering in the meta title is also delivered in the article content. So look at the various titles of the various other keywords. Not just the “best washing machine”. You can also add various other categories, like best DSLR, best mobile phones. And look at the theme of the meta titles have. And then try to vary your meta title. Apart from that, you should also do a very comprehensive SEO edit of your website. So SEO audit is all about giving you the technical difficulty that your website has. So maybe some of the images are not compressed, or maybe you have a broken link, so all the list of all the problems of your website, will be given to you by an SEO audit. Ahrefs is what I use for my SEO audit, for all my affiliate websites. But if you are not willing to pay ahrefs, so this is another tool called “screaming frog”. It also has a free vs paid version. You can use the free version also, to do the SEO audit. I know SEO audit is a very complex and very advanced step when we talk about SEO. But for all the people who are experienced in SEO and who are streaming the video, they can do their SEO audit here. So this will be all about the technical difficulty of your- maybe some internal link issues, some meta link issues, or content length. This will give you a comprehensive view of the SEO of your website. You should always compress the images that you’re adding to your website. So whatever images that you’re adding to your website, make sure you first upload it to this website, “compressedjpeg.com” Upload the image and this will give you a compressed version, and then always upload the compressed version of your images to the website. Because you would want your website to load at a lightning-fast speed. So make sure your website is not heavy with content, heavy with the videos. Since you are creating an affiliate website, there’ll be a lot of images like this person has added all these images, right? But in your article, you’ll be adding a lot of images. If you’re writing a top 10 article then you’ll be adding at least 10 articles of the product that you’re recommending. So make sure you compress all the images using the “compressjpeg” website. So if you’re following all the videos of our affiliate marketing mastery course then you know that there are various things that really matter on the overall SEO of your website. First is the niche, that you have to go into a particular niche where the competition is low. Second is the keyword research, you have to find the right keywords which have low competition and high profitability.