In only FIVE days a brand new parasite SEO partnership went from 0 to having over $1.2 MILLION of monthly traffic according to Ahrefs...

How did this niche site pull it off?

A short 🧵 Currently ranking #1 in the US for huge gambling affiliate keywords like "best online casino", "online slots", "real money casinos", "new online casinos" and even #6 for just "slots" itself!

And all in just 5 days?!

How'd they pull this off?

A history of Parasite SEO 🪱

Printing millionaires from 2006 to 2024...

A short 🧵 There is a debate about the term "Parasite SEO", what it is, where it came from and who invented it.

I've been there since the start, I know the story.

It's confusing because the original idea evolved, was forked by white hats and had grifters trying to claim it themselves...

HOW TO DO SEO FOR FREE 👀

When you're starting out or aiming for real ROI, the best things are free! While this industry does have a lot of expensive tools, courses, and services, there are also amazing ones that cost nothing at all...

A 🧵 #1 - Learning SEO For FREE

The first stage is making sure you actually know what you are doing before you do it! And SEO is an unforgiving game where a potential Google penalty is just one wrong Fiverr order away...

Google Search vs. User Intent 🔎

I'll explain one of THE most important concepts in SEO - Intent, for both the Search/Google/SERP level AND for user intent...

A 🧵 The majority of the SEO industry will say you need to optimize your pages for search / user intent, and describe them as the same thing... They are not.

Search intent is the SERP that Google has created based on what it thinks the users intent is - Not necessarily what it is...

There has been a lot of debate around Topical Authority in the SEO industry this year, with some claiming it doesn't even exist at all! 🤭

I'm going to explain to you what this convoluted topic actually is, the importance of different systems and how you can use it too 🔥

A 🧵 Firstly, if you aren't in SEO, then this will be quite complicated, so I'm going to explain something first to set the stage:

Google search relies on an "algorithm" which is actually multiple, overlapping systems with different (sometimes again overlapping) signals and triggers that effect pages and sometimes, entire domains.

I am going to be talking about different systems, algorithm updates, research and direct ranking factors we know from the algorithm leak that happened earlier this year...

One of the most powerful SEO techniques is being able to manipulate and control a brands autocomplete (some call this autosuggest) in Google 🔎

I'll show you what it is, how it's done, how you can do it too, the tools you'll need and a LOT more! 👀

A 🧵 In yesterdays thread, I covered CTR Manipulation and one of the #1 questions I got in response was can you manipulate the autocomplete suggestions?

The answer is HELL YES!

But first, if you didn't see it already, check out that thread 👇

https://x.com/Charles_SEO/status/1839665713692459103

One of the oldest black hat SEO methods in the book that has seemingly made a massive bounceback out of nowhere this year: CTR Manipulation 🖱️

I'm going to show you what it is, why it's pretty complicated, how to use it, the tools you might need AND more...

A 🧵 Firstly, let me answer the question: What even is CTR Manipulation, and how does it work with SEO?

This technique abuses search engine ranking signals that rely on user engagement data by artificially inflating the click-through rate (CTR) via bots, microworkers or hacking.

E-E-A-T / Trust Signals ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

There is no denying that Google has gotten considerably better at mapping and utilizing entities in the algo.

Understanding how to create this on your site will allow you to rank faster, safer and stronger than ever before!

A 🧵 Firstly, you need to understand how Google's algorithm works to build an understanding of your brand, aka your entity.

It looks at your site, and "trusted sources" (backlinks) to build associations with your brand and eventually, put you in the knowledge graph.

As content signals have been devalued in Google over the last few months, and authority signals have gone through the roof, link building has arguably become more important than ever before...

I've been building links for 15 years 🔗

Here's a 🧵 full of tips & techniques. WARNING: I am a grey hat SEO who only does consulting, and doesn't do any client work.

Whilst there is some level of risk to some of the techniques in this thread, it's minimalized by using common sense when carrying them out and using your initiative for when and how many.

My haters don't like it when I show you how to rank in Google WITHIN 24 HOURS, they don't want me to show you the sites you need to be using or examples of keywords taken over by parasite SEO that I've developed into the most effective technique in the industry.

So, here's a 🧵 Unfortunately, it's a special variety of boomer that proclaims to be black hat and anti-censorship, whilst acting like the karen they are against people actively doing, sharing and maximizing it too much more success than they've had in their much longer lives.

How I Make $800,000/Year SEO Consulting 🔍

At 27 years old, I've been able to become one of the world's top consultants in search, charging over $1k/hr and working with brands from across the Fortune 500 & Inc. 5000 📈

A 🧵 Firstly, I want to stress that this didn't happen overnight...

Despite my young age, I've been doing SEO since I became a teenager and got kicked out of high school to pursue this career at 15.

I worked for 2 digital marketing agencies before going self-employed at 17.

Inspired by @cmwalker I am going to be building a niche website ENTIRELY in ChatGPT.

But I'll need your help!

This is the 🧵 for this project.

The first prompt is in the following tweet 👇 I started by telling ChatGPT it was a specialist consultant that had the abilities of a writer, developer and researcher for my niche website project.

As I want ChatGPT to do the ENTIRE project, I want it to start by choosing the niche for me, then we can move on to domain+CMS.

I Used ChatGPT To Build A SaaS In 15 Minutes 😳

I built a YouTube keyword research tool in ChatGPT using GPT4 mode to come up with:
- Branding
- Coding languages
- Code the algorithm + integrate APIs
- Design & code the HTML user interface
- Integrate Stripe payments

A 🧵 Firstly, you're going to need a ChatGPT Plus account which is only $20/mo

Without the Plus account, you don't get GPT4 mode which is the only way to get good enough results for a project like this.

And yes, this project is scary, cool and probably the future of online business.

The Art of Link Building 🔗

Gone are the days of setting up automated tools to spam the most links.

Building backlinks these days is much more of an art, mixed with some maths.

A 🧵 on how to become an artisan link builder 👇 Firstly, for those that don't know what I'm even going on about - Backlinks are the links you see on websites pointing to another sites page.

Google classes these backlinks as one of the most important ranking factors when determining who goes where in their results.

Almost every site I've looked at where the owner has claimed: "We didn't use any backlinks"

Has either not actually been the case at all, and they actually did use backlinks...

OR

The site would have done SUBSTATIONALLY better with a fairly small link campaign.

A 🧵 This thread is going to be a wall of text and has some quite advanced language inside.

If you're new to SEO, this probably isn't the thread for you but there is PLENTY more in my account - Just check the pinned Tweet in my bio.

Onto the 🧵

Image SEO Be A POWERFUL Technique 📸

BUT, most of the SEO community gets it wrong and is using out-of-date, over-optimizing tactics that harm the quality of their pages.

So, here's a 🧵 When I talk about image SEO I am talking about utilizing the images on your pages to increase the likelihood it'll rank on Google.

I am NOT talking about creating imagery or optimizing the image's load time.

Made just over $10k from Gumroad this month with about 45 minutes of work.

No new product, no new launch, just a handful of emails & some indirect marketing on Twitter/YouTube.

If you have quality products, optimized sales pages & reliable traffic sources it's put on easy mode. If you're looking to increase sales of your digital product right now:
- Simplify your content and the checkout process
- Sell via a reputable platform like Gumroad (You'll get a significantly higher conversion rate because people trust it more than your own site)

I've had a LOT of feedback about my latest video.

Here's a mini 🧵 with my additional points I don't think were originally covered well enough 👇 If you haven't already seen the video I'm talking about, you can go and watch it here first 👇

SEO Internal Linking Masterclass 🔗

I talk about internal linking a LOT on this account, but I haven't really gone into depth on my own thoughts and strategy behind one of the most powerful techniques we have at our disposal.

So, here's this 🧵 Firstly, I have to answer the obvious question to all of those who clicked on this thread not even knowing what internal linking is:

An internal link is simply a link on a page to another page, from within the same domain.

Usually navigation, sidebar & footer links are ignored.

Google gives you hints about your website's authority in the SERP, and it's often a great starting place for sites affected by updates - As Google is telling you exactly what they want more of.

A small 🧵 Example #1 -

Google has successfully pulled a description from the about page for this site, but is telling the site it lacks references to further verify the authenticity of the site's own description.

Getting a brand Wikipedia page would help towards solving this problem.

Real World SEO Analysis - A 🧵

Dive into my research where I share real site success stories, how they got there and sometimes even how they could improve.

This thread is a continuous culmination of my real-time SEO research 👇 Make sure to dive into the individual tweets themselves, as the replies normally spawn more discussion around the sites and there is often gold hiding beneath the surface.

And make sure to like and RT the above tweet if you want to see me sharing more of this style content.