I failed at SEO. Here's what happened…

[@MattDiggity]

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[@jordanwynn6766]

Hi Matt, how to contact you about adding a casino affiliate program to your top-list and discussing details?

[@waqarali-mi1ph]

Can you tell was that domain emd for keyword you wanted to rank for? if not, how difficult keyword was?

[@gabrielacovay]

A breath of fresh air to see a video like this! Bravo, for being so open and transparent with all of us. The road to success is not always a linear one

[@dougtriplett]

Love this content. There is often more to be learned by failure than success, not that we want failure, but sometimes that is what it takes to learn to fix stuff.

[@bonniehoke-scedrov4906]

Great stuff, Matt! I really appreciate your honesty. It actually improves your credibility because all courses and plans and websites eventually have to meet the real world. That's where the real learning begins, IMO.

[@jessecunninghamv]

Awesome video. It's so good to see the ups and downs, not just the positives of SEO. Thanks for being so transparent!

[@MattDiggity]

My pleasure!

[@FunnyVideoFrenzy]

Awesome video, What i like is that Matt always explains things easier to understand, If you look at Twitter, everybody shows you the graph going up, but rarely when going down and why. SEO for a site is like having a farm. If you don't take care of it or do it wrong, you will not see fruits or have some results but not as expected.

[@michaelpedrotti]

"Don't hinge your success on any one keyword" Learned that the hard way myself 😆

[@shoaibirshadofficial]

Finally someone did it breaking the survivorship bias. Loved the transparency concept. Every SEO should do it so others can learn and never repeat the same mistakes.

[@mariakorniets9539]

Thank you! It’s really refreshing to see someone sharing their failures, because you understand that you’re not the only one😅

[@evert-janvanbarele]

Honesty goes a long way. Very much respect the honest approach AND making a public video about it. Thanks for this!

[@tungao2515]

Damn, I didn't know that even Matt himself had keywords that he couldn't rank for. Thanks for the honesty.

[@andredei8492]

Thanks Matt, this is what I always said to clients. Even the best SEO Agency on Mother Earth will fail somewhen, if not they are lying!

[@motivationpositivity100]

We are human beings and we all make mistakes.

[@topranks6414]

I gave the like to encourage the transparency Matt! Thanks for sharing your (FULL) practices and experiences ✌️

[@horiabodeanu7641]

It is better to be honest and let others learn from your mistakes rather than boasting and creating illusions. Props for that dude!

[@MassStash]

Yup! Turns put failure is how you learn, and seo is inherently learning how be in the edge of a marketing system!

[@MattDiggity]

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[@TheAffiliateSchool]

Excellent advice as always Matt. Love the transparency 👍

[@MattDiggity]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@olukera]

This video is so amazing, a guide for thoughts out the box, thx for the transparency, Matt! ❤

[@MacheteRick]

Thanks your transparency is almost unbelievable, you've help me beyond what I thought was possible by myself.

[@EricAng168]

I truely appreciate the honesty of project progress case study like this. Thanks Matt

[@MattDiggity]

No worries!

[@khollandtalks]

Matt, as usual, keeping it real and educational on a high level...diggin' it! :)

[@MattDiggity]

Always!

[@RichardNash-ip3em]

Appreciate the non-fluff straightforward approach. Was a great review for me. Thank you!

[@MattDiggity]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Who.Said.Photography]

I appreciate your honesty in this video. Plus mention the cost and your budget helped me rethink my approach. 😎👍

[@MafiaBoy206]

Thank you Matt, hope somehow your site takes off. But I had a similar issue with one site and never managed to resolve.

[@MattDiggity]

I hope so too

[@thechrisverhoeven]

Great video Matt. Glad to see everyone does make mistakes. And it's ok, as long as you learn from them.

[@MattDiggity]

Thanks 👍

[@seanlincoln123]

Thanks for another awesome video. It's actually very refreshing to hear about failed projects rather than successful ones all of the time. The 30% rule is interesting and If nothing else has inspired me to get back up and go again.

[@dashosh91]

Thanks for sharing, it's always great too see good & bad cases.

[@patbender_]

Best SEO content as always 😎💯

[@MattDiggity]

🙌

[@DeborahRobinson-ry7vg]

Is it customary to fix each request separately when promoting, changing the order of words in it? The task is relevant for three-word and longer queries, when a change in the order of words in a query leads to a loss of a position in the TOP-10, what is the best way to be here? How to choose the main wording of the request?

[@thenissarahamed]

Awesome video, thanks for sharing case studies like these.

[@JeffOxford]

Probably my favorite Matt Diggity video so far.

[@midhunvm5101]

Huge respect for sharing your failures too.

[@Sir.Black.]

Yep, as much value as any of the other win videos! Thanks for sharing...

[@ericcaldwell8200]

UGH!! I'm in the same boat with my current website in my local market with easy KD keywords and have spent thousands with outside firms trying to figure this out. Here's the catch.. We provide SEO services and all our customer's websites rank high and are producing calls. I consistently hear from my customers that they keep getting ripped off by SEO companies until we took on these projects. Funny thing is I can't even get my own website to re-rank for all the keywords we used to dominate with but, my local competitor is with thin content.

[@dilshadakramm]

That's hilarious and pissing off at the same time. Do count me in if you want to outsource some of your SEO things. Thanks

[@Bambamni]

Great content Matty, great energy and clear passion for SEO!

[@MattDiggity]

Appreciate it!

[@samanthadigital]

Matt your videos are always the best! I learn so much! Thank you

[@MattDiggity]

My pleasure!

[@rinusspijkerman2113]

Love your content. Thnx for sharing your knowledge!

[@MattDiggity]

I appreciate that!

[@janetbr3024]

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting

[@MattDiggity]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@DFragment-electronic-music]

Hey Matt, if you leave the website in question on autopilot, won't the monthly earnings decline as the competitors are moving on with work? Is it not feasible to find a stop-loss point and flip it to cut down the total loss?

[@MattDiggity]

Yes. It will fall off eventually.

[@davidalankaminski]

Killer content, very encouraging actually!

[@dyrectory_com]

Thanks for video! 👏

[@thedanielbudai]

So right.

[@arronstone8517]

Wow! man that was extremely insightful thanks

[@MattDiggity]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@hennessywilks7674]

Another great video thanks

[@Escape_the_9_to_5]

Man, really great content!

[@MattDiggity]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Bruceylancer]

Hi Matt and everyone else! Great vid as always! I am now wondering about a website being "cursed" in the SEO sense, maybe for a specific keyword, maybe for more. I have a similar feeling about my own project. It's not an affiliate marketing website, but a SaaS, so not just some website with articles, but a whole tech product (the development of which took a lot of money and time obviously), so I can't just drop it and move on to another one. I've tried to change the domain (with a 301 redirect from the old one), but with no luck (traffic dropped even lower). What can one do in this situation?

[@ruchivora5200]

Thanks for the video Matt! Quick question about power cluster: If there's 1 main article that has hundreds of supporting articles, how would you link to all of them from the main article? That would be a lot of links for a single article.

[@dilshadakramm]

Hey ruchivora, Actually that's not what you should be involved in. Your target should be to link back to that main article from all those supporting articles to rank it higher. Just pass out an internal link to most relevant and natural anchored articles from that main article. Thanks,

[@LeoWells-tp9df]

Great video!

[@dailypassivejourney]

Hey Matt, amazing content once again. You talked about citation links. Please how many of these links are recommended for a new website? 50, 100, or more. Thank you.

[@thegentlemantherapy]

Okay! Enemy is here 🙌

[@bilzsarz]

After going through all this stuff, do you still think that there would have been something that you could have done to take it to the first page?

[@MattDiggity]

I would have done it.

[@teohristov]

Gold info as always! What is the average investment that you consider as reasonable for starting an affiliate website from scratch including the costs for an expired domain with a decent DR (around 20) for a website with a planned 150-250 articles? I'm aiming for $5k-$8k revenue/month. My rough calculation is: $2000 for a domain + 150x$30 per article which makes 6.5K. Is that something I can do? Thanks Matt, really appreciate your content!

[@MattDiggity]

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[@teohristov]

@@MattDiggity Thanks!

[@jamesscott1711]

The Three Kings. I like that.

[@jaunalapa]

Just to get it clear, the only limiting factor to expand this site to other niches was highly specific domain name? I'm not a pro, but why not get a better domain and do proper 301s or would that be too risky to loose it all?

[@MattDiggity]

It became an ROI question. We have other projects that do way better, so time allocation became involved as well.

[@KevinCiantar]

Can't win them all Matt 🙂 Thanks for sharing. As usual great content.

[@MattDiggity]

Thanks for watching

[@masamangtao6417]

Great video

[@baxter987]

3:26 I keep seeing people cite Meta descriptions as a SEO factor and yet every time I see it discussed, it's said it is not an SEO factor. What is the deal with it really? Should I give all my pages a meta description or not? Keep hearing conflicting takes on it

[@MattDiggity]

It’s used for Ctr but isn’t a direct ranking factor.

[@GeorgeWilliams-lf8tx]

Can a large amount of information traffic to the site have a positive effect on the promotion of the site in the search for commercial queries?

[@MattDiggity]

Never tested it.

[@waqarali-mi1ph]

Hello Seos It would be usefull if you answer below What you guys think about EMDS? Do You have any experince with it? would you recommend it?

[@affiliateprofithero]

Did it make any difference firing more and more Good backlinks at it?

[@MattDiggity]

All keywords went up except that one. So yes?

[@louis-philippesavard742]

Awesome, so entertaining and educational.

[@MattDiggity]

Thank you 🤗

[@ThomasJonesSEO]

Hi Matt, thanks for sharing. Was the domain an EMD?

[@MattDiggity]

PMD

[@ThomasJonesSEO]

@@MattDiggity I have a theory that Google adjusted the EMD algo in the December/Jan updates as a lot of PMDs and EMDs dropped. Did you notice anything regarding this in your analysis?

[@YesitisDex]

You should collaborate with Authority Hackers❤

[@johngibson7693]

Where's the link to the Master class?

[@MattDiggity]

Pinned comment.

[@manuellopez5080]

But is this really a failure? Dont you think you could have reached the first page and even the first position had you decided to persevere and keep investing more?

[@DigitalSamTV]

Can't believe it didn't rank with all that money on links and content. Damn

[@MattDiggity]

🤷‍♂️

[@anfal12562]

I love your videos keep it up

[@martonpinter4795]

Hi Matt! Can't find the free SEO masterclass which you mention at the end of the video. Where can I find it? Thank you! :)

[@MattDiggity]

Hi Marton! You can join my SEO training here: affiliatelab.im/free-webinar/

[@martonpinter4795]

@@MattDiggity Thank you!

[@MDHabib-eo3mn]

How much money you loss in your entire seo carrier? How many project are failed in your entire seo carrier?

[@saifalaminkhan7913]

Conclusion: Make sure there are several revenue generating pages.

[@VenturaIT]

I have a 139% success rate.

[@edwinpedram]

I don't see any search volume for Best Course For Blank! I think that was your first mistake 🤭

[@MattDiggity]

lol

[@ohugotorres]

like

[@AbroadInThailand]

First comment! 👏👏👏

[@WritersCorporg]

Hi. I'm a content writer and I would love to work for you as a content writer. Give me a test, and I'll do it for free. Love your videos, and I've been following you for years now.

[@jpollar]

This times infinity. I feel like I've been doing nothing but failing for decades at SEO...I obviously love pain.