{"id":3846,"date":"2015-12-01T06:31:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:13:06","slug":"ranked-website-targeting-competition-keywords-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/ranked-website-targeting-competition-keywords-real-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Well Ranked Website Targeting Low Competition Keywords &#8211; A Real Life Example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building backlinks to rank high on search engines especially on Google has been and is continue to be the major talking point for many SEO professionals and webmasters.<\/p>\n<p>For many website owners, especially the ones who don&#8217;t have the resource to build backlinks, this has been a real obstacle for them to implement SEO. Many believe SEO is pretty much useless without building backlinks &#8211; which obviously is not true.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I have experimented with various methods of backlink building but with limited success largely due to continuous Google algorithm updates.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong. Backlink building still works, but it needs to be implemented in substantially different ways today and still requires substantial resources.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I decided to change direction and look for ways to maximize the limited resource I had by mainly focusing on\u00a0Onpage SEO.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, I am going to share with you\u00a0a website that my team and I created, which manages to rank high for many of low competition keywords without creating any substantial backlinks other than sharing on social media sites\u00a0and some blog commenting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/improvements-in-organic-traffic.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3847 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/improvements-in-organic-traffic-1024x211.png\" alt=\"improvements in organic traffic\" width=\"960\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/improvements-in-organic-traffic-1024x211.png 1024w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/improvements-in-organic-traffic-300x62.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/improvements-in-organic-traffic.png 1221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will also be able to see the actual Analytics data and in depth analysis of what was done on the site to achieve such result.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, this is a member&#8217;s only content so please <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/affordable-seo-packages\/\">join us<\/a> to watch this video.<\/p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/affordable-seo-packages\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3317 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DRM-video-thumbnail-with-button-300x168.png\" alt=\"DRM video thumbnail with button\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DRM-video-thumbnail-with-button-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DRM-video-thumbnail-with-button-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/digitalreadymarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DRM-video-thumbnail-with-button.png 1154w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building backlinks to rank high on search engines especially on Google has been and is continue to be the major talking point for many SEO professionals and webmasters. For many website owners, especially the ones who don&#8217;t have the resource to build backlinks, this has been a real obstacle for them to implement SEO. 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