SEO for New Websites (A Case Study)

When you're doing SEO for new websites, things can get very stressful. There's a lot to do and you never know wheres the correct place to start.

In this video i'm going to walk you guys through a brand new case study with one of my personal websites and how I did 2 days of work in the first 30 days and how that has led to a constant stream of traffic that has allowed us to get free feedback from users for us to improve our product.

I'll be talking about 3 main things I did in the first 30 days and then at the end of this video i'll be talking about what i would do to 10x the growth of this website.

It's important to note that the initial traffic this website has gotten isn't our full effort of getting traffic, we worked on this website for 2 days and it has now grown to bring in consistent traffic on a month-to-month basis. This work we did was a proof of concept more than anything.

So let's talk about the 3 main things you need to do to make sure you're correctly doing SEO for new websites.

1. Understand the SEO space

This is broken down into two separate parts. #1. Make sure that you understand that main keyword that you will eventually want to rank for. What is that impossible keyword that you would dream to come up #1 for? Well thats what your homepage should eventually rank for and thats what we need to optimize our homepage for. #2 We need to find our content strategy. Is it going to be through our blog? through template landing pages? I recommend you checkout your competitors to see what they've done, because thats exactly what we did for this case study.

2. Foundational Backlinks

Backlinks are an extremely important part of any SEO strategy, and it is no different for new websites. Where do you get your first backlinks is a really valid question I get asked often and it is very difficult to answer it, since (unfortunately) it depends. For this case study we decided to launch on product hunt since we saw a lot of our competitors doing the same thing and it worked quite well. We got some really high quality backlinks - more on that in the video.

3. Internal links

Once we saw that we had solid backlinks coming in to the homepage we knew we needed to build a little section on the homepage that would point that authority over to those landing pages that we were building with all of that ranking potential.

How would I 10X the SEO of this new website?

1. Continue expanding on the template pages. They're clearly working, we just need to double down on them.

2. Continue getting backlinks - I mention a few ways of doing so in the video.

3. Start up a blog, probably about marketing tips since that would be a good audience to pitch this product to.

Let me know what you guys think of this case study i'd love to hear what your thoughts are.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:40 My new Website
1:05 Current SEO Performance
2:00 3 Key SEO things for new websites
2:10 Understand your main keyword
2:53 Check your competitor SEO
5:44 Foundational Backlinks
7:44 Internal Linking
8:26 How I would 10X the SEO for this new website
10:28 Check out this crazy Case Study


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[Cybersecurityawareness-SEO]

Magnificent video great
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[JaumeRos]

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SEO for new websites can be tough 🥲 - what did you think of this case study? - Let me know!

Also how should I give away these stickers? Twitter? Youtube Survey? <3 you guys

[RogerOBrien-nxue]

Everything is clear. Brief and clear. No water. Thank you)

[KickItWithNoel]

I'm curious, what AHREFS plan are you using? And what do you recommend for a small business for Electrical Contracting Services?

Thanks!

[inDefEE]

Thanks for this video. I’m just starting out right now with a landing page for an idea I have and trying to collect emails of interested visitors. Would you recommend adding additional pages to the landing page or just keeping it simple at one?

[LucianoDevoto]

does help that AI is a hot topic hehe. good job

[porushpuri]

Super valuable content. Thanks for creating this Jaume.

[GrowWithWill]

Internal linking sure does help a lot in redirecting the user traffic to stay inside the site. By the way, congrats on the Ahrefs sponsorship!

[kraljevicmarko]

Hi Jaume!

I have problem with indexing my new posts. No article has been indexed on my website for more than 20 days. Every time I upload an article to GSC, I ask for manual page indexing, but none of them are indexed anyway. It just says "Discovered – currently not indexed" and somewhere even "URL is unknown to Google". In my opinion, it is not normal that one article is not indexed for 15 days. Otherwise, from the end of June until today, about 10 articles have been added. Do you perhaps know what the problem is, if there is a problem at all. Can I contact you somewhere to send you my page and see if I'm making mistakes in SEO optimization or something like that? Thanks in advance

[guillemrossalvador]

Looking forward to using the product! Looks super promising 🚀

[samsamo]

Thanks Jaume. One question: If the (SERP Overlap Score) and (Relevance Score
) are over 50, do I have to merge both keywords on one page or can I, but don't have to? For some keywords + city I see different results, sometimes no "Relevance Score" at all and for some cities 40 to 50! So I thought for all cities to make separate pages, is that a good decision?

[s.-]

Hey so I love your videos, but I'm having issues with my newest store. All the e-com SEO vids are often about stores with a huge catalogue. What is your strategy if the store only has 4 products in the same category?

BTW I know this video isn't e-com related but just wondering.

[shahriarqasemi]

but if those related websites were not interested in collaborating with us how can we have a back link from them ?

[wuCarrie-uxfs]

great content! I wanna get the same hairstyles as yours. is it wool curly?

[meganbrain]

Rytr did a launch on appsumo that probably helped them.