How I Boosted SEO Traffic by 600% in 24 Months!! I always thought SEO studies with this kind of title were written by snake oil salesmen. After all, stating you raised someone’s organic traffic by 600% can’t be real, right and especially when that person is a multiple-time New York Times best-selling author who already had a lot of traffic. I didn’t think it could have been several years ago. Back then, I tried every SEO technique I could that is known to man in hopes, thinking if any of it could work. What Did I Do: Sad reality? The majority of my efforts went in vain. But I didn’t sit idle. I kept chugging along, and very soon I found such strategies & tricks that resulted in some real traction. And I doubled down on these. Guess what happened next? Yeah, these few things helped me in gaining surprising results. And I’m here to share the main areas on which I focused to finally gain better results and which helped my biggest client that the massive success with SEO so that you can also use these strategies. Keep in mind this is a single case study on SEO One important thing before we dive in: I’m not suggesting that what I’ll be sharing here is the only way to succeed with SEO. Some strategies that worked great for me might not work for you at all as every campaign & niche will have different shades. That said, there are numerous ideas in this case study that can be applied to almost every campaign you’ll ever run. The Starting Point: When I started working for this client, he was generating 20,000 visitors every month from search. Pretty much solid. His webpage ranked for a few competitive keywords as well that had between 1,000 to 5,000 monthly search volume & also received hundreds of email subscribers every month from SEO. However, there was a lot more possibility. He had genuinely amazing content and, since he had so many years of experience and results, the capability to produce incredible content on pretty much any topic in his niche, it was apparent that he had a chance of ranking for nearly any keyword in his niche over time. However, he had a major issue: his content was not optimised, and he required a lot more high-quality links. 4 Strategies That Worked in Gaining More Traffic 1. Conducting a comprehensive content audit I began by identifying all of his blog’s greatest content assets in terms of traffic (with Google Analytics and Google Search Console). He had hundreds of blog posts, but just 10 out of them received regular traffic. And hence I took down 90% of the content on his blogs. What exactly did I do with it? I categorised each post in one of the two buckets. Any existing content with untapped potential was placed in this bucket. Content would be placed in this bucket if it: And only five of the posts fell under this category. I had the author add a lot of information and new sections based on long-tail keywords to each of these posts. After finishing, I updated the publish date in WordPress, and without changing the URL, promoted this as a new post. The majority of these posts were either written on extremely specialised topics with little search volume or contained content that was relevant to one of the content assets we kept. I unpublished all the posts which didn’t have any SEO potential and set up a 301 redirect to the homepage or to the relevant content asset. I kept these as unpublished drafts so that the content could be used for future posts. If a post’s content was substantially similar to one of our content assets, we 301 redirected the post to the asset. He only had approximately 30 blog posts left at the end of the content audit (including those we revamped). But, within a few months, he was generating more traffic than he had ever received before as every blog was extremely helpful, valuable, and SEO-driven. Not just did this content audit lead us to gain 600% more traffic, we required more links. 2. Ongoing outreach to build links To compete in organic search results, you already know that you need to develop high-quality links. I tried as well, however it didn’t help me acquire those links at first. I was sending hundreds of outreach emails each week and getting just 1% conversion rate at best… until I rethought my outreach strategy. Even after following the tactics experts told me to work on in the blog posts I read, I didn’t get results. And when these strategies on which I was working on didn’t work, I started looking for some new angles. I even started providing free access to my author’s courses and membership sites regardless of whether or not someone clicked on my link. And over time, I discovered something: if you have excellent content, go out to someone who has already linked to or produced comparable content, and provide them with tremendous value, you’ll see amazing conversion rates. 3. Consistently producing new, SEO-friendly content Building links regularly, I also coordinated with the author side by side to create new SEO-driven content. By SEO-driven, I mean content created using the relevant keyword opportunities available in his niche. Many individuals create content and then look for a keyword to “optimize” it for. If you want your content to rank, this is backward. You’re simply choosing keywords out of a hat with various levels of competition, rather than discovering amazing keyword opportunities your site can rank for. You could get lucky a few times and find a low-competition keyword that you can rank for with your pre-written content, but you won’t be successful most of the time, and you’ll find it difficult to rank for anything. So, before we generated any new material, I conducted extensive keyword research to identify the best chances in