Test Study: Can You Rank WITHOUT Backlinks today?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

feel free to ask anything, I read all comments!!

[@ricksnap9236]

So true. I also noticed that with proper planning of articles one can still rank keywords with the average competition, above high authority websites.

[@JohnpaulOnwueme]

I'm already testing this strategy, I have written about 40 articles and it has started getting little traffic. I did not build any backlinks and I already got one affiliate sale from the new website. It really works.

[@brittanywinston9227]

Backlinks will certainly help - but I have a 6 month old site - many KW on page one and some at position one and snippet - no backlinking -- its definitely possible

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thank you for sharing that @brittany! It's always great to hear what people think, too few people are sharing information about this - or even testing it, I think :)

[@pasigauriloff4225]

Great content! I was desperate and thought that I should create expensive backlinks like guest posts etc until I found your channel..now I can calm down and build up my sites without worrying..Thanks!

[@itskerryfrancis]

I have a blog been struggling to get traffic for 2 years. The great news is that I use a lot of long tail keywords and getting ranked in less than a month but they are ranking at position 40. Can you help me tank higher? I’m in the personal financial niche

[@Jake-vd8os]

Wow real eye-opener 👀 I’m gonna test out this strategy soon. I’m a new subscriber to your channel, I’ve been loving the content you have been producing thanks. 🙏

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Great!

[@SurajRainasuju]

First of all I have subscribed to your channel because your videos are super helpful! I have started a new website with its first article published on 1st May and till now I have published around 25 articles. I see around 4 to 7 organic views per day! When can I expect a spike in organic traffic! How many months do you recommend as per your experience. I plan to publish 1 article a day atleast for 1st 3 months. Thanks in advance 😊

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Watch this one :D kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5qTdKaGp9iagcU

[@SurajRainasuju]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek I have seen it but one thing that I noticed is that after you reach your 1st 5000 organic page views next couple of months your traffic and nearly doubled. So, is the algorithm that once your website starts to gain traffic, it slowly starts increasing month by month!

[@musclehustle007]

@@SurajRainasuju suraj how's the traffic now and what's the niche

[@SurajRainasuju]

@@musclehustle007 Website is 5 months old with 200 posts published. Niche is education and history. Present traffic 1000 page views per month mostly organic from US and other countries.

[@musclehustle007]

@@SurajRainasuju good bro how much adsensse earning per month right now

[@jasonduckworth]

I've ranked a website with no links too. Its definitely possible. Just don't choose a hard niche.

[@jaykim4677]

I'm watching your video from the first one. Thanks for sharing great videos. Question here. After you posted 100 articles in 4 months and then you didn't do anything about that website and just leave them it right?

[@basho9306]

Thanks, you're wonderful. But did you write the articles yourself or you hired someone to write them for you? Or did you use any AI tool for that? I already made tests on this and it worked for me on Google ads but never tried it out with SEO. I was targeting low traffic keywords on Google ads and was getting so cheap clicks when I start with low bid. I was scaling horizontally by getting thousands of small traffic keywords and I put them all on automation so everything was autopilot and the ROI was 7x. SEO is great but I really hate writing articles, I don't like this. So how can I manage this task? I would appreciate your inputs and thanks so much for your lovely content, you gained my follow :) Keep it up please, I love to test like you and tested many things before on Facebook ads and Google ads, it's the time for SEO to go:)

[@joomlakonsulenten9043]

Hi Morten, how are you? We spoke for some years ago about link building, so it was with great interest I watch this video. Btw! I like your new channel and the stuff you are sharing. Very much appreciated. Thanks for that. I don't know if it's off topic, but do you have any experience in what difference the design of a website has on the conversion rate/clicks? I know there is an ongoing discussion among the SEO pros and web designers. Most SEO people I have talked with say that the design isn't that important, because if the content is relevant for the user, then the design har less influence on if the user clicks on links or not. And the designers I have talked with, of course, have the opposite opinion. I have to tell you that none of them has back their statements up with any data to prove it. What do you think? :)

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I spend a lot of time on both. I split test my product comparisons and call-to-actions and I've managed one time to get a total lift of 60% - but only after doing around 10 tests where I REALLY mixed things up. Make sure not to test minor things like colors on buttons and stuff like that. Test the copy text first, and then try to add more call to actions etc. I will do a video on it!!

[@justinmatmor3124]

In relation to your 2nd site you said that the site is generating about 500 page views a month. I think you were meant to say 500 page views a day.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Ahh, dang it. Thanks :)

[@website4you]

this video gives me hope. could you explain what kind of hosting you use for your website? how you find no competition search term?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Domain Salesman I use Bluehost up till 100,000 pageviews/ mth and then wpxhosting from there. I’ll dona video soon on research 👍. there Ome info on it also on the review video I did recently of Thomas’ site

[@website4you]

thank you. shared hosting or vps hosting? still confused. and how do you find no competition search term? please let me know

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

@@website4you I'm just using the cheapest plan with bluehost - it's fine up to 100,000 page views per month. Check out this video about topic research: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pH_Qdn2slM-nbdE (I'm also working on a new video about how to find low-competition search terms to write about)

[@matth8205]

I have no links and was thinking of trying to get some links. My website is about 10 months old and only has 30 articles and I get between 2500-3000 views a month is it something I should just forget about then ?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

I'd say there's no need! Spend your time on creating awesome content around underserved topics. Much better use of your time and zero risk!

[@matth8205]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek 🙏😊 thanks very much

[@zeffali352]

Hey morten Im adding more categories to find underserve keywords as you taught us but I'm confuse how many underserve post should I do And can you please plese make a keyword research video for commercial keyword it will be so helpful I cannot describe Your chnl is amazing thnx a lot

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks! I think that will be for the course, but thanks! I might touch on it :D

[@RaisulIslam-dq5un]

Hey Morten, my website is only 2 months and 20 days old, and haven't started posting articles yet. Will it be feasible to rank on the first page for low competition or underserved topics without any backlinks? If yes, how much time will it take to rank as I start posting from now on If no, what should I do now? Kindly reply. You are my last hope.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Totally, that's the whole idea with underserved topics! 3 examples: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5qTdKaGp9iagcU&ab_channel=PassiveIncomeGeek

[@spacethril]

Hi, by the way how you found those keywords which has no competition

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Check my "Keyword Research" video :D

[@eduard8343]

You mentioned in this video that you didn't use any links to build these websites but in another your video you mentioned that you get backlinks from start from helpareporter.com. So I am bit confused on what to do, please explain, thanks

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Oh, true. I should be clearer on that. I don't really use helpareporter.com to build links, I see it more as general marketing - I am just as glad for any mention I can get. But I guess that's confusing. To be clear, I think it's fine to use HARO!

[@beardlong8235]

Do you still do SEO consulting? or whatever is called help with a website?

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Not really. But because I'm putting out a course soon there's a unique option... I'm currently offering 30 min. consulting calls (via Zoom) to a few people within the next couple of months at $299 and I'm including the course in that price (meaning, you'll get the course "for free" as soon as it comes out!). The course itself (without one-on-one consulting) will be priced at $299. It's a one-stop complete course with all you need to know from starting a site to growing it to become a huge site. These consulting calls give me the opportunity to get to know what people struggle with before I finish the course so I can do a better job with the final touches. And I get to help some people out among my subscribers! Would you be interested in a 30 minutes consultation on Zoom at $299 and then get the course when it comes out (included in that price)? In that case, shoot me an email at [e-mail] :D

[@leon6811]

Your Website has great content , But looks too clean! No pics on the front page? Is it ok to have a Clean Front page ?

[@petardz]

Hi, I've got one question. You sad that you published 50 articles, then after a while, you published 50 articles more. So you prepare them and then publish all of them in few days or? Because I don't have a lot of time to write, in 6 months I've written around 25 posts (i know it's not enough), but will my site ever get a chance to rank higher because of non-consistent writing?. Thank you a lot. p.s. you have one of the best content on your youtube videos!! Keep making great vids.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thank you so much, Peter, that means a lot to me. I did not post all 50 in one day, I posted them over the course of a month. I am testing this right now with a site with less articles to see if it takes off. I have had sites with only a handful of articles over several months and my experience is that they do get traffic eventually, but it can take a year or longer...

[@petardz]

@@PassiveIncomeGeek thanks a lot! I thought so ;)

[@Junaidkhan-nd7zx]

Thanks man for giving me hope I thought now a days only backlink works.

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Happy to help. I see a future where backlinks become less and less important!

[@luisdomenechgarcia3786]

Hi, can you tell how you went from 80K visitors pero month to 16K now? What is the reason? Thanks

[@aibochan1764]

You rock man great vid

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Glad to hear it!

[@Testfortest142]

Only 100 articles? Insane

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Not if the topic research is done well ;)

[@abhipatil4844]

definitely an eye opener

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Thanks.

[@ArshRamgarhia]

Waiting for keyword research Video🤗🙏🏻😖

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Arsh Ramgarhia its coming really soon!

[@thedollarbox-masterthemone5625]

SEO is dead! 🥳🥳

[@PassiveIncomeGeek]

Not quite :D it's just changing like it used to 🥳