You might be wondering what is really “SEO COPYKAT” , its not just a term I made up  to grab  your attention, But it actually works.

At no point should competitive SEO  analysis be about copying someone else’s SEO tactics or backlinks. Instead of copying, use it for inspiration, new ideas and a better understanding of what Google values and what you can do better than your competitor.

Copying the SEO’s

(this method) Its sneaky but not illegal – because  you are just using information that’s already freely available to  everyone on the internet. SEO COPYCAT is just a method of  copying what  the  popular top bloggers are already doing to make their blog a success and earning heaps of cash and doing the same on your website, but in your own way and not plagiarising.

So what we are really doing here is focusing on some money making and popular blogs and copying  common strategies that work which is used by them.

They are many top and reputed  bloggers  who earn 100’s of Dollars $$$ in money in a month or even day and  also reveal how they did it on their blogs, but do you really believe they have told you all or revealed all their secrets?

Nope  !! yeh that’s right  if they did tell you everything, everyone would be making a million dollars!

But fortunately blogs  or websites that are online and published  as such, cannot hide much – except for maybe a bit of secret code or plugin here and there and backlinks that they have blocked if any to google and the internet.

 

The main  secret of most top bloggers are in their blogs for the world to see by google and also by you. They are many tools available to let you see their backlink profile,  the traffic and the sources of that traffic  to thier blog,  thier social media ranking , their top ranking keywords etc  to find out how they are ranking and banking online.

The people who are able to see the real secrets by analysing these famous blogs  can be winner’s sooner than the rest of the general public and be on their way to financial freedom.

It is not hard to see what they are doing  based on onpage and offpage SEO on their sites and even analyse their backlink structure. Some tools that may help you find out what top bloogers or competitors are doing are software like Ahrefs ( paid membership) , Semrush (paid monthly membership) and SEO PowerSuite  that is standalone Desktop software(NO monthly membership – one off payment)

Guest Posting is good

So what I have noticed, after the recent EVIL Google Animal Updates (panda-penguin) is that these bloggers and many of my favourite bloggers are suddenly getting heaps of guest posts on their blogs .

This means possibly two things “ either Google prefers or likes  blogs that are updated more regularly or then  the blogging scene is getting more competitive  and so more regular content is needed to keep your traffic steady and improving”. ( hint..hint)

Some of my favourite SEO Gurus  that I would recommend checking out in 2018  for SEO tips is  listed below

1. https://backlinko.com
2. https://neilpatel.com
3. https://chasereiner.com
4. https://diggitymarketing.com/blog/

See what they are doing in their own blogs and learn from those online live  websites

Trends in Earning money or making money

The other trend  that  is growing is  that many popular bloggers  have now becoming more of a salesman  and less of a  blogger like on of  the blog i follow of  chris guthrie for eg , which proves that Selling software and plugins means earnings $$$$ .

There are still many who are true to the blogging game  ( giving their audience value) and prefer to blog, but that possibly because they got some  back up site or biz making them their money.

Another trend i have noticed recently  and so have you is that suddenly everybody is talking about EBOOKS because that is also where the new money is , The smartphone market is booming  and so is the tablet market so go ahead and make that ebook that you were planning to make and “make some money”

A classic example of  a blog that is doing really good with guest posts and raking in the $$$  with their massive traffic is Daily Blog tips

 

2018 SEO Update

This blog post needed a bit of a recent update, so below are a few tips to check SEO needed for your blog in your niche.

1. Do a Search for your keyword and  see the top ten results in google.

2. Analyse Site titles and descriptions for top ten competitors and make better ones for yours (

   Meta Tag Analyzer – SEOCentro)

3. Check their back links and link structure (do follow, no follow, edu links etc ) and follow same or better  ratio and test. SEMRUSH and Ahrefs tools will help with this.

4. Check keyword density in competing page for keyword and adjust yours.

5. Check your content quality of writing/article against  top competitors and improve

6. Check content length of your article against others and compare

7. Check UX Design, Responsivesness, Font size ,  https url , Speed loading of site, layout of blog  and other factors against yours to compare and make yours better.

8. Now check all these factors with other top search engines in mind like Bing search and yahoo

Good Luck !!

And  keep checking  back for the series on SEO and  continuation post for this post and if you want to check out what your competitors are upto .

And  maybe  these tools featured in search engine land will give you some nice tips  as well  to help you in your SEO process.

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