the hoth presents: Quick Tricks to boost your seo & Traffic

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1 the hoth presents: Quick Tricks to boost your seo & Traffic

2 Intro Everyone wants more traffic. There are simple ways you can boost your SEO and get more out of every keyword, so we included some of our favorite tricks in this guide. This guide includes tricks on how to get more links, rank in alternative ways, boost your results and more. Enjoy! Trick #1: Boost Easy-To- Rank Social Properties For Your Keywords There are many social properties and web 2.0 type sites that Google loves to rank. These properties will often rank easier than a normal website because they can borrow authority from the main domain. For instance, a new domain that you just registered will not have links initially and will take time for Google to see it as an authority, as opposed to a website like weebly that has been around for years and has millions of links already coming to it. On top of that, optimizing your social properties and web 2.0s can help you rank more times on page 1 for your money keywords.

3 You can put your main keywords in social properties and use boost to rank them in the serps for your keywords. This is sometimes referred to as Parasite SEO, or barnacle SEO or a handful of other terms. Here are some examples of web 2.0 or social type properties ranking in the serps for valuable keywords: Weebly ranking for protein powder packaging Weebly ranking for real estate wholesalers los angeles

4 Weebly ranking for lake oswego plumber A Google doc ranking for water removal phoenix

5 As you can see, you can use lots of different types of properties to rank for high quality terms. The idea here is that you can borrow from the authority of the properties and they will rank easier. You can also be more aggressive with your links. Here is a short list of properties you can use: Weebly, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, about.me, blog.com There are many more properties that you can use, and well get to those next! Trick #2: Boost YouTube Videos For More Clicks YouTube is a good property to boost because it gets a lot of internal search traffic (#2 search engine behind Google) and you can also rank the YouTube videos in the serps as well. Here are some examples: Youtube ranking #2 for motorcycle accident attorney atlanta

6 Youtube ranking #5 for locksmith cupertino To rank YouTube vidoes, you ll want to make sure you get all your youtube onsite right. Backlinko has a great guide on how to do that here. These are great tips for ranking inside of YouTube. After you get the YouTube SEO right, you ll need to build links and HOTH Boost is one of the best ways to do that. Getting embeds is also good in addition to links. Again because this is a huge authoritative property, you can hit it will all kinds of links and get aggressive with it.

7 Trick #3: Boost Directory Listings For More Rankings For many keywords, especially localized keywords, there may be directories that rank highly for those keywords. You can do a couple things with this - First, make sure that you are listed in the page that is ranking. Then, you can also get your specific URL for your listing and boost that. You can find the best directories a few ways: 1) Main Keyword Search Look for high ranking directories you re already listed in. Type in your main keywords and see what directories come up. Make sure you have a listing in that directory. If not, create a listing HOTH Boost that URL Here are some examples: Keyword: Lansing Web Design For this, Thumbtack is ranking. You want to make sure you get listed there:

8 Just visit Thumbtack and sign up and you ll be on page 1 for your keyword. Here s another example: Keyword: Milwaukee Personal Injury Lawyers Both avvo.com and findlaw.com are ranking on page one. You ll want to make sure you re listed in both.

9 Another example: Keyword: Denver Invisalign You probably wouldn t have guessed it but a Groupon page is ranking number 1 and it is definitely going to pull a lot of clicks - people know groupon as getting a good deal, so you ll definitely want to get listed there. 2) Your Top Directories By Industry & City Just in case you aren t listed or don t know what directories you should have your information in, here are the top directories: By industry By City

10 Make sure you go through the top 10 and get your business listed there (plus a link!) at minimum. Include your keywords in your business description. Most of the good directories have some nice DA as well. flowershopnetwork.com DA73 Trick #4: Increase Page Authority Of Your Backlinks For More Powerful Links Sometimes when you get a backlink, it may be in a page buried in the site and won t deliver a ton of power. There are a few reasons for this: 1. The post rolls off the homepage 2. You get a link on a high authority domain, but you re on a buried subpage without many internal links I talk more in detail about this here in our article how to increase page authority. You can fix this by adding Boost links that will bump up the Page Authority and give your link more juice.

11 First, just go find backlinks you already have that you can boost by visiting ahrefs: Log in, type in your domain, then grab some of your links that you d like to boost:

12 Then just order a HOTH Boost here and send the links to your chosen backlink(s). This will send extra juice to your backlinks making them more powerful. Trick #5: Find Questions on Quora And Rank For Question Terms & Long Tails Before customers buy and they are in the research stage, they will type actual questions into Google as opposed to just keywords. Quora ranks for a lot of question-type long tails as well as keywords, so you can just answer questions on their and use boost to bump up the properties. For instance: Quora ranks #1 for b2c CRM - a very valuable keyword.

13 You can just log in and answer the question and you will be included on that page. You can even drop a link back to your site. How to find these: First, check through the serps for you main keywords and see if any question sites pop up like Quora or Yahoo answers. Second, try finding questions that your target customer would ask. A good resource to find questions that are being asked is Answer The Public.

14 Third, you can try just going to quora and looking for questions that have lots of upvotes.

15 Next, you want to provide a good answer to these questions and then drop an appropriate link back to your site. After that you can use HOTH boost to boost that url for whatever keywords you want it to rank for! Conclusion There are tons of properties that you can boost and the best way is to look into your main keywords and analyze what is ranking in your niche. Don t be afraid to go to page 2-3 of Google for your keywords to find opportunities OR just create your own pages :) Thanks for reading, and if you have any questions, just us at support@thehoth.com Cheers!