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On-Page SEO Tutorial: How To Perfectly Optimize Your Website

In this tutorial, I’ll show you the exact on-page SEO techniques you can use to outrank your competitors. Although Google is getting smarter, you still need to optimize your pages if you want to show up as the most relevant result. I have a few competitors in my niches who are not optimizing their site …

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5 Ways to Perform an Effective Content Audit (FREE Template Included)

5 Ways to Perform an Effective Content Audit (FREE Template Included)

Ever heard of the Pareto principle or 80/20 rule? It’s the theory that states that roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Why am I telling you this?  Because it applies to your websites content. Take a look at your content. How well is it ranking? If you’re not ranking in …

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SEO And Affiliate Marketing: How To Properly Optimize Your Affiliate Site Content

SEO And Affiliate Marketing: How To Properly Optimize Your Affiliate Site Content

In order for you to make money through your affiliate site, people need to be able to find it in the first place. It’s you and hundreds, thousands, or even more websites competing for the same result. So what can you do to make sure that your affiliate site is the one getting the initial …

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20 Examples of Successful Affiliate Sites: Top to Bottom in Every Industry

20 Examples of Successful Affiliate Sites: Top to Bottom in Every Industry

In my last post, I talked about the biggest challenges of building a profitable affiliate site. Today I’d like to spread some inspiration and show you actual examples of successful affiliate sites. Below are examples of some of the largest affiliate sites in the world. Some of these companies are 7 to 9 figure businesses. …

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How To Build Powerful White Hat Backlinks (With Outreach)

How To Build Powerful White Hat Backlinks (With Outreach)

SEO is dead. Link building is dead. How many times have you heard that? Ever since Google’s Penguin and Panda updates rolled out a few years back and demolished most of the sites doing SEO at the time, people have been claiming the death of SEO. But is SEO really dead? Does link building not work anymore? No… Not at …

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How To Build A Profitable Niche Website (The Ultimate Guide)

How To Build A Profitable Niche Website (The Ultimate Guide)

Ready to start your very first niche website? Follow along and build it the right way. In this guide, I’m going to show you exactly how to build a profitable niche website, even in competitive niches. This is an exhaustive guide at over 16,000 words long. Every step of the journey is covered from setting …

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8 Tips to Increase Your Adsense CTR (Click Through Rate) and CPC (Cost Per Click)

8 Tips to Increase Your Adsense CTR (Click Through Rate) and CPC (Cost Per Click)

The biggest mistake I see with people using Adsense as their monetization strategy, is they forget that Adsense is a CPC based network. You get paid per click, not by impression. Yet over and over again I see people not laying out their ads on their sites to maximize their income potential. Forget traffic for …

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How Much Traffic Do You Need To Make $100 Day with Adsense

How Much Traffic Do You Need To Make $100/Day with Adsense?

Obviously, everybody’s idea of a full-time income will be different. My own number was $3,000/month when I first started out, which equaled to $100/day. For our calculations in this post, let’s also use $100/day, as that seems to be one of the biggest milestones people want to reach with their own websites. When I see …

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Using Egobait To Drive Powerful Links, Without Blowing The Budget

Ego Bait Link Building: How To Use Ego Bait Content For Backlinks And Traffic

Backlinks are among the most important SEO ranking factors. The more backlinks your site has, the higher it’ll rank. It’s that simple. But the traditional link building methods like guest blogging have been used so frequently by marketers that their effectiveness has gone down to some extent. They still work but you need to diversify …

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How I Used Facebook Ads To Get 2400+ Email Subscribers For Only $1.42Subscriber

How I Used Facebook Ads To Get 2400+ Email Subscribers For Only $1.42/Subscriber

This is a guest post from Lucas Lee-Tyson, founder of GrowthCave. This is technically the very first guest post on RankXL, and I think it’s safe to say… Lucas set the bar very high 🙂 Enjoy! Facebook Ads are one of the fastest ways to start driving traffic to a new site or offer. Compared to …

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How To Get High Domain Authority Backlinks From Sites That Seem Impossible To Build Links On

How To Get High Domain Authority Backlinks From Sites That Seem Impossible To Build Links On

If you’re an SEO, you know that it’s almost impossible to get backlinks on these types of high domain authority websites: They usually have massive DA and backlink profiles, and getting a single link can really affect your site’s search traffic. While there is a proven method of getting high quality links from authority websites …

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Can You Rank Without Building Backlinks?

SEO For Bloggers: Can You Rank Your Content Without Backlinks

I’m surprised to see that there are still “SEO professionals” teaching others the publish and pray method – growing a blog by doing nothing but publishing content and ignoring link building altogether. They couldn’t be more incorrect. Let’s take a look at some of the data behind whether it’s actually possible to rank without links …

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Why Your Page Isn't Ranking A Quick Content Quality Check

Why Your Page Isn’t Ranking: A Quick Content Quality Check

Let’s do an honest analysis of your content. I receive at least a dozen emails each month from people frustrated that their article isn’t ranking on the first page of Google for their keyword. They claim they’re doing “everything right” but nothing seems to be working. It doesn’t take long to see what their problem …

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A Giant List Of Every SEO And Digital Marketing Blog I Read And Subscribe To

A Giant List Of Every SEO And Digital Marketing Blog I Read And Subscribe To

I get a lot of emails asking me which SEO and marketing blogs I read and recommend. Below is a list of every blog that I’m either subscribed to, follow, or read on a frequent basis. It’s pretty much the entire list of blogs I have in my Chrome Bookmarks folder. The kinds of blogs …

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Email Outreach For SEO: How To Write Outreach Emails That Get Backlinks 1

Email Outreach For SEO: How To Write Outreach Emails That Get Backlinks

When I started my full-time job at an SEO agency, my perception about “good” backlink building changed pretty quickly. Up to that point, I had only known things like article marketing, web 2.0’s, commenting, social bookmarking, and all the other forms of “spam building.” Many years ago, they worked to a certain degree for low …

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