a few months ago I get this email out of the blue the email said hey Brian when I read your skyscraper technique post a couple months ago I was intrigued I had recently taken over SEO at our blog that was receiving very little organic traffic after many hours
spent creating promoting and manually link building this happened on Monday that's us at number one I'm brian dean the founder of backlinko and in this video I'm going to show you exactly how Emil got his site to the number one spot in Google step by step when I
first launched my blog backlink accom I knew that I was entering the insanely competitive online marketing space I was a one-man show banging out articles from my apartment and I was competing against huge marketing teams from sites like Forbes search engine land and Inc calm and I knew
that to have a chance against these mega brands I need to do something crazy to stand out that's when I decided to use a white hat SEO strategy called this skyscraper technique in this single strategy increased my new site's organic search engine traffic by a hundred and ten
point nine percent in 14 days one day one of my blog readers Emil Shore saw my results and decided to give the skyscraper technique a shot and it quickly boosted his site's traffic by fifty nine percent and today because Emil site ranks number one for his target keyword
his piece of content brings in over ten thousand page views per month like clockwork now that I've showed you how well the skyscraper technique works it's time for me to walk you through the step-by-step process step number one find content that already ranks for your target keyword step
to create something even better step 3 promote your content so your first step is to find content that's already ranking for your target keyword because Emile's business sells healthy snacks for offices he realized that a keyword like wellness program ideas is something that his target customers searched for
so he googled employee wellness program ideas wellness programs and corporate wellness programs to get a sense of what was already out there and he noticed that the content that was ranking on Google's first page had the same flaws for example four of top ten results for employee wellness
ideas were PDFs needless to say most people rather read content in a blog post than in a PDF Emil also notice that the list of wellness program ideas lacked important details in fact most were literally just lists of ideas without any information on how to execute them Emil
also saw that the content on the first page lacked multimedia like images videos charts and screenshots according to a study by skyward content with at least one image gets an average of 94 percent more social media views than content without an image that's why it's so important to
use images in your content last but not least but Emil notice that the content on the first page was boring obviously employee wellness programs isn't as interesting as something like cute cats but that doesn't mean that your content has to be boring like this as I'll show you
in a minute Emil worked hard to make sure that his content was fun and interesting but first it's time for me to show you step number two of the skyscraper technique which is to create something better than the content you just found despite what you may have heard
about what has Co first page rankings have nothing to do with keeping your site updated with fresh quality content really instead your ability to ranking Google depends on two things seeing one create something that deserves to rank number one thing to promote that content seriously that's it question
is how do you create content that deserves to be number one let me answer that by showing you exactly how Emil executes is step number two of the skyscraper technique first Emil listed more program ideas than any other guide most of the content that Emil found listed about
ten Wellness Program ideas but Emil knew that there were way more than just ten Wellness Program ideas out there so he set out to list a whopping 120 ideas unfortunately Emil realized that listing out 120 ideas was easier said than done so Emil asked his team to get
employee wellness experts to contribute ideas to the post and many of these experts were more than happy to lend a hand Emil also reached out to bloggers in the Wellness space and they hooked a meal up with amazing ideas that he could use in its content and as
you'll see in a minute these expert contributions generated lots of bonus shares and traffic to Emile's post next Emil added multimedia to his content like I mentioned earlier most of the articles ranking on page one had zero images and Emil knew that publishing a post with lots of
multimedia would be a huge competitive advantage that's why he included a ton of high quality images and helpful videos finally Emil made sure his content was fun upbeat and interesting because the truth about content marketing is this whether you write about wife insurance or life hacking your content
simply can't be boring Emil knew this and that's why he made sure his copy was fun and compelling and once he edited his post Emil hit publish and his content was live the end result 121 employee wellness program ideas for your office now that a meals post was
live it was time to sit back relax and let the backlinks roll in right wrong like you Emil realized that hitting the publish button was just the beginning for your content to stand out today you need to actively promote it which leads us to step number three of
the skyscraper technique process which is to promote your content yes Publishing great content is important and that's why Emil spent so much time on a single post but unless you promote your content it's going to get lost in the sea of blog posts YouTube videos Facebook posts and
emails that come out every day with that here are the four promotional strategies that Emilia used to get the word out about his new piece of content first Emil reached out to influencers to let them know about his post before he even published it I call this pre
outreach specifically Emil found blogs that wrote about workplace wellness and sent them a heads up about his upcoming post when the blogger said sure send it over Emil sent them a heads up this pre outreach led to dozens of social shares but also a nice contextual backlink next
Emil used something called the content roadshow here's how it works first Emil use Google to find blogs that wrote about employee wellness human resources and other related topics and when he found a high-quality piece of content around one of those topics he emailed the author this technique also
led to a high-quality backlink once he was done emailing bloggers Emil reached out to brands that he mentioned in his post for example Emil mentioned Authority nutrition in his content so he sent them a message to let them know that they were featured and as you can see
here these brands were more than happy to share meals post with their audience finally Emil hit up the experts that contributed ideas to his posts remember when I told you that Emil asked a bunch of workplace wellness experts to contribute an idea here's an example well when the
post went live Emil let the experts know that he is their idea in his post not only were the experts happy to share meals content on social media but one of them even linked to a meals post there you have it the three-step process that led to a
first page ranking and a 59 percent boost in organic traffic did you get something valuable from today's video if so make sure to subscribe to my youtube channel right now that way you won't miss out on any actionable videos like this one now I want to turn it
over to you what do you think about the skyscraper technique or maybe you have a question about the process either way leave a quick comment below right now more ok no it's good blah blah blah I got I like sit back relax did I say I can't sounds
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