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May 13, 2022 12 tweets 5 min read Read on X
There are *very few things* you have control over in SEO. The depth, quality and expanse of your content is one of these.

Here are 3 examples of how onpage/onsite SEO produced results.

🧵 ..
1/ I researched and published popular wedding venue content for a wedding photographer. We chose venues that would align with his target audience (re: budget, values and visual style).

It took a few months to rank👇
Even throughout COVID and lockdown, the page continued to get organic traffic from searches from potential customers.

More importantly, I *know* my client has booked weddings from this onsite content.
And as an added bonus: Because a journalist in the UK searched for "centennial vineyards wedding cost" - the page was the cited in the Daily Mail 👇
2/ For the same client I decided to be ambitious to target a *very* popular wedding venue - again with providing the BEST information for his target audience.

It took months for the page to rank but here it is 👇
Researching, publishing, adding internal links, and adding FAQschema was just the beginning.

It took the better half of a year for the page to hit the bottom of page 1.

But it was the ONLY wedding photographer result on page 1.

Now it ranks #2 beneath the venue's own website.
PS - if you're a #weddingphotographer or you work for one, you can copy my exact onsite SEO strategy👇

danielkcheung.com.au/seo-strategy-w…
PPS - and here is a 19-point SEO checklist👇
danielkcheung.com.au/seo-checklist-…
3/ For a bridal store, I ran a survey using IG ads to get 300+ responses. I paid someone to turn the data into stories and published it on the client's site.

Here's one of many featured snippets achieved👇
Because of ☝️ the client has landed links from @Refinery29 and @RateCity NATURALLY.

That's right. Because the content ranked no outreach was required for these DR89 and DR71 *follow* links.

You can see for yourself in @ahrefs. I ain't lying.
In conclusion, the content you publish is one of the very few levers you can pull in SEO. So before you poor 💰💵🫰 into 🔗, ask yourself the following:

"Is the content the best it can be?"

> If yes, be honest with yourself👀
>> If no, focus on content.
Thanks for reading! I hope you found this insightful and inspiring to publish 🏆 content for your audience.

For more, give me a follow @danielkcheung and see how else I can inspire you👇

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Oct 23, 2022
How do you monitor branded vs non-branded traffic?

Semrush provides information this but it's a $99/m subscription.

Learn how to build your own branded vs non-branded visualisation using GSC + Looker Studio in 6 easy steps. ImageImage
If you don't already have GSC connected as a data source, click on "Add data" then type "search console" to find the connection.

You will then be prompted to select a GSC property.

For this exercise, you'll want to use Site Impressions and "web" data.

Click "Add". ImageImage
You're going to customise some regex soon.

Don't worry, it'll be easy.

Get a list of all your branded keywords from GSC.

In this example, the branded keywords and their variations will be:

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The first six episodes of #DreadingSundays have been recorded, edited and scheduled.

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We'll be discussing salaries, raises, promotions etc.

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@DreadingSundays Eg, I ask @tomcritchlow (author the SEO MBA) what you can do if you've not been successful in your recent job applications.
Eg, I ask Mercy Janaki (Group Head of SEO, @Webenza) how you can document your work successes so that you can ask for a raise/promotion.

Spoiler: use @SlackHQ if your org uses it.
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Jun 19, 2022
Old mate @KorayGubur dropped a knowledge-filled video on keyword difficulty, quality threshold and how you can use this understanding to help your pages rank on Google search.

Don't have 35 mins to watch it?
Here are the cliff notes 👇
@KorayGubur Indexing ≠ ranking

A search engine may index your content but it may decide NOT to serve it to its users.

That is, you can get your technical SEO right but not have your content rank in the SERPs.
@KorayGubur Nothing is static

Rankings are ALWAYS changing and a search engine is constantly working out where your webpage should be ranked.

With each crawl new quality scores are created.

And remember, competitors that invest in SEO are rarely static.
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How to do "white-hat" link building even @JohnMu can get behind.

SPOILER 🚨: it's not as easy as buying content with a 🔗 insert and this is what makes it so effective.

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@JohnMu FWIW, white-hat link building is a made-up term.
It means nothing.

One person's white hat is another person's grey/black.

In this context, #whitehat #linkbuilding = not paying for a placement or 'admin fee'.

Now we got that out of the way let's dive in.
@JohnMu This method gets called a few things:
• statistic pieces
• research reports
• "content marketing" 😏

💡 It involves collecting YOUR OWN data.

💡 It differs from the common approach of regurgitating the SAME data sources.

💡 This differentiation is HOW you will EARN links.
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"I have nooooo idea what to do with all this @screamingfrog information" - @danielkcheung, circa 2018-2020

If you want to learn to do some #technicalseo with one of the best crawling tools out there, here is a 🧵for you.
.@screamingfrog is a crawler that you download and install onto a local or virtual machine. It allows you to crawl almost any website.

I use it as part of my technical seo audit and their customer service is 🔥

However, the initial learning curve is steep.
If you've looked at a finished @screamingfrog crawl and felt overwhelmed - you're NOT alone.

I, and many others, were in your EXACT shoes.

It's ok
You've got this💪🏽

⏩ Here a 9 tips to make your life with Screaming Frog easier, more enjoyable, and F-U-N👇
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This is a FAQpage rich result as displayed on the SERPs.

In this 🧵I'm going to show you how you can do it yourself.
For those who already know how to get FAQpage rich result using FAQPage markup, skip straight to the inserting🔗into your JSON-LD part - I've got a blog post on it👇
danielkcheung.com.au/links-in-faq-s…
First, what is a FAQpage rich result?

"A Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) page contains a list of questions and answers pertaining to a particular topic. Properly marked up FAQ pages may be eligible to have a rich result on Search" - Google documentation👇
developers.google.com/search/docs/ad…
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