SEO Mistakes: Why 91% of Content Gets No Organic Traffic

We studied ~1 billion pages of content and found two common SEO mistakes holding 91% of pages from ranking on Google.

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In addition, we found that 4.5% of pages get less than 10 search visitors each month.

While the stats may seem alarming, our data points to two common SEO mistakes to avoid to be in the top 5% of web pages across the entire internet!

The first SEO mistake we discovered is that pages with no traffic do not have any or many quality backlinks.

In fact, we found that 55.24% of pages have zero referring domains pointing at them. And 29.79% of pages have backlinks from less than three websites.

Some marketers believe that link building is useless. However we found a clear positive correlation between the number of referring domains pointing at a page and its organic search traffic.

And the same goes for the total number of keywords a page ranks for.

Bottomline: if you want to get organic traffic to your pages, then you need to build links as it is foundational and an SEO best practice.

This tutorial covers a couple link building strategies to get backlinks to existing content.

If you’re relatively new to link building, then we strongly recommended you watch the tutorials in this playlist to sharpen your skills.

The second SEO mistake that we saw in pages with no search traffic is that they are not targeting a topic with enough search traffic potential.

Even if you have all the links in the world, but you're not targeting a meaningful keyword with search traffic potential, then you may not be able to reap the passive SEO traffic that’s possible with Google.

This is one of the biggest mistakes that you'll see news sites doing.

For example, we found that nearly 30,000 pages had over 200 unique websites linking to them, but had no monthly search traffic whatsoever.

This was most commonly found in two scenarios.

The first were pages that went overboard with black hat SEO techniques. And the second type were news websites.

Since news articles are often focused on “click-worthy” headlines, it can be challenging to ground them behind meaningful keywords. Also, journalists are trained to write, but not necessarily for SEO copywriting.

If you happen to have pages with a lot of links, but are not gaining search traffic, you'll learn a couple ways to use these pages to increase your organic traffic.

Timestamps:

1:01 Mistake #1. Pages don’t have enough quality backlinks
1:58 “Steal” links from the top-ranking pages for your target keyword
2:39 Use guest blogging to get links to pages that need the boost
3:57 Mistake #2. Pages are targeting topics with low traffic potential
5:27 Match your content with the searcher’s intent

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[toptechskills]

The quality of the editing on this video is insane! Love the on-page lightboxes and animated transitions to the split screen titles. Editing aside, the content was really useful too, thanks.

[veracitywindowanddoor]

The quality of information on this video is fantastic, I learned a few things thanks!

[jamesscott]

95%!!! That’s phenomenal. Thanks for the video Sam 👍🏻 🚀

[keepingitrealafter]

Don’t even know what backlinks yet. This is an advanced video. Will return after I have more experience. Just a newbie now. 😊

[edwinpedram]

Love Ahrefs videos especially Sam's videos. very easy to digest and always actionable. Thanks guys

[AnilArya]

Sam, what should the news sites do? PLease suggest me a way?

[RonyMattar]

Thank you for the valuable info you're sharing with us!

[mannasong]

Hey there let alone to be my site rank on 3rd of pages even, after console my blog post when I chek my site rank, find noabouts of mine site don't know where that link disappeared ....

[jasonmichalek]

I'm using keyword explorer and found a "head term" that I would like to target. It would be long tail for my new site. It ranks for about 30 other keywords or so. Where can i find a good guide how to write the content so it can also rank for the other terms. I obviously don't want to keyword stuff my article with all the terms. This is where I'm getting hung up. If i was to pay someone to write my article. Would I just give them the keywords i'm wanting to target? Any suggestions would be very helpful.

[JULALAINE]

Clear content. You look like an adian and you speak english so well! Thanks for teaching us how to rank in google/youtube and why we don't!

[muhammadumerfarooq]

Great Video always... I agree with your links Recently I build 4 to 5 links and my organic keywords + traffic boost up within 1 month.

[meteorgears]

Nice sharing, have been looking forward to new videos that can learn more about seo. Always gain new knowledge after watching your videos, thank you! Is building PBN backlinks legit, if yes, is there any videos we can refer to learn on this techniques?

[praneethkumar]

Seo mistakes.
1. Backlinks.
2. Guest post.
3. Search intent.
4. Existing content.

[Abidly]

Ohh i am explaining this topic all the time. People looking for SEO service and expecting SERP to boost over day or two, with very few backlinks. Some of them buying even so bad backlinks which killing their SERP more then they even think

[Seamstressed]

Jeez... never heard of back links before lol. I have some work to do. Thanks!

[janistech]

Please make a video on live demo of making backlinks

[pbsmarket]

Another great video! Building a strong backlink profile is so important. Thanks for pointing out that through internal linking you can pass along link juice. This is definitely something that I need to look into to see if I am taking advantage of this strategy on my blogs.

[musictorelaxandunwind]

No back link either or links to connect, what should i do to connect other links

[ALIALI-eubk]

Simple than that guys, good content and be authentic..

[GerryNicodemus]

Interesting info, thanks for sharing.