How Ranking on Google Got Easy Again

Since most of the followers of SellBeatsNow enjoy finding great information on how to make more money selling beats online, I expect this article will come in handy for many. If you haven’t already found yourself wondering how to rank highly on Google, then you may be behind the curve so let me explain things. Google is the single greatest traffic source on the face of the planet that is based purely on an extraordinarily complicated algorithm created by mastermind geniuses.

The fact is that Google will always be one of the greatest sources of traffic (ever) as long as it exists because roughly HALF of all traffic on the internet is generated on search engines. Think about it, what websites do you even visit on a daily basis? My guess is they’re all search engines. Google (being the biggest, baddest search engine of all), YouTube, Bing, they’re all search engines with the intent of giving the best possible response to each query.

Google used to be easy to conquer and hell, I was on top of the search engines for all my keywords easily. In fact this very website was #1 for every single keyword that I had targeted. But SEO became much more difficult and much more based on real, powerful links. Instead of blasting thousands of spam links to your website (like before), now you have to work hard to get really good, solid, related links without spun content. I know it sounds crazy, but these days you’re better off building 50 really powerful links to your website all on high PR related niche websites (such as guest blogs, etc) than blasting thousands of links like you could in the past.

What’s funny is, a lot of people are still using the old, ineffective and even dangerous methods to try to rank their website and in fact are doing more damage than good. If you are building bad backlinks to your website then you are definitely going to be hurting your overall performance in search engine rankings.

One resource among many which can help you quickly and easily is LinkDelete.com. They have a really cool free lookup you can use to determine how many bad or “toxic” links your website has. I paid for their service and felt that it was money well spent as I only needed to be using them for a month. But realistically even the free tool can give you a quick glimpse to see if negative SEO is affecting your rankings.

Ranking on Google these days requires the best possible back links and also the deletion of old links. Though, also, disavowing bad links is another easy way to skyrocket through the ranks of Google. Personally I not only spent my time deleting bad links but I also disavowed the links I couldn’t delete. Now my website has a very clean link profile, and every time I check LinkDelete.com for my quick analysis, I find that less and less links show up. They update their numbers every few weeks (possibly once per month) and so while the numbers don’t change all the time it can serve to be a quick look at how your link profile is doing this month.

At this point I’ve manually deleted hundreds of links, had multiple link deletion campaigns run and more. But the good news is this… I’ve been able to rank higher, easier, and that’s been a blast. While I haven’t reclaimed my #1 spot (yet), I’ve been doing good, solid, organic SEO for my website and while it has remained much harder to do, it’s actually easier to rank in my opinion. It seems that there is just less competing websites who are actually trying to rank higher.

Most of the competition seems to stay pretty still with a couple exceptions. This is because basically, if you think about it, SEO is harder than it has ever been before, so that means far less people are link building to their website or trying to rank higher in Google. So while the work is much harder, the actual ability to rank is much more real. You can rise in the charts as fast as you could back in the day, and my stats currently leave me very close to breaking top 10 for all my keywords (the ones I haven’t already broken top 10 for).

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