THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU DO SEO

10 SEO Experiments

1. Backlinko’s Skyscraper Technique

Brian Dean of Backlinko…

Found a top-notch content piece (the skyscraper)

Bested it with his own content piece(an even taller skyscraper)

Pitched his post to the right people(those linking to the skyscraper)

The Result?…

a 110% surge in search traffic!

Find out how he did it at http://webmeup.com/blog/seo-experiments.html

2. Dejan SEO’s outgoing links test

Dan Petrovic of Dejan SEOcreated 2 similar sites, and…

Pointed 0 links to site A

Pointed 1 PR-7 link to site Bfrom a page with tons of outgoing links

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The Result?…

site B catapulted from #70 to #3 on Google

in just weeks!Learn more about this experiment at

http://webmeup.com/blog/seo-experiments.html

3. Matthew Woodward's Zero SEO experiment

Matthew Woodward said he’d promote his blog with 0 links and…

Helpful video tutorials

Postings at niche blogs & forums

Realized promo opportunities from Google Alerts

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The Result?…

MatthewWoodward.co.uk now has 9,608 backlinks!

Find out more about how he did it at http://webmeup.com/blog/seo-experiments.html

4. Bill Sebald’s test on internal link power

Bill Sebald of Greenlane SEO got busy playing with internal links…

First, he pointed a link from his second-best page to his Homepage ->

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The site jumped from #11 to #10

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As tweak #2…

He pointed a blog-wide link to his second-best page ->

http://webmeup.com/blog/seo-experiments.html

The site shoot up to #9

on Google!http://webmeup.com/blog/seo-experiments.html

5. Bill Hartzer’s title length experiment

Bill Hartzer of BillHartzer.Com…

Made up a fictitious title tag with

non-existent words that

was 95 characters long and 448 pixels wide

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Google displayed the title tag

entirely!http://webmeup.com/blog/seo-experiments.html

6. Cyrus Shepard disavowing links to his site

After Google Penguin 1.0, Cyrus Shepard of Moz…

Used Links Disavow Tool

to disavow all 35,000 links

to his site (cyrusshepard.com)

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After Penguin 2.0,traffic to the sitecrippled by half!

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Did removing the disavow file help?

…No, site traffic didn’t

recover post-Penguin 2.1…

Read more about this experiment at http://webmeup.com/blog/seo-experiments.html

7. Dan Petrovic hijacks Rand Fishkin's blog

With Rand Fishkin’s consent, Dan Petrovic of Dejan SEO…

Outranked Rand’s own blog in the search results!

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The conclusion?…

Hijacking is possible if :

The copycat page has higher PR There’s no canonical tag set The original page has fewer +1 signals The original page has no Google Authorship

Read more at http://webmeup.com/blog/seo-experiments.html

8. Eric Enge plays with Facebook signals for SEO

Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting…

Blasted his 6 pages with 800+ Facebook Likes

(some real, some from Fiverr)

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The webpages did not even get

indexed in Google !http://webmeup.com/blog/seo-experiments.html

9. Jason Noel’s case-sensitive search test

Jason Noel of Maven Websites noticed that…

“curt gowdy state park”returned 15,300 Google results

but “Curt Gowdy State Park”returned 41, 400 Google results

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Is Google search case senSitiVe?

…Could be…

Find out at http://webmeup.com/blog/seo-experiments.html

10. Neil Patel’s TechCrunch job

Neil Patel & his team were called in to help TechCrunch with SEO & social. They…

Reduced on-site duplicate content

Created a proper XML sitemap

Keyword-optimized title tags & alt texts

Interlinked CruchBase &TechCrunch.com

Worked with social media influencers

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and…

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Search traffic to TechCrunch doubled…

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and overall traffic grew by 30%!

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Read about all

10 SEO experiments in detail at...

http://webmeup.com/blog/seo-experiments.html