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Hi i'm interested in finding writers who have author rank (Like Circles and Followers. ).

What is the easiest way to find these writers online, is there any tools out there which can automate this finding process?

Cheers,

Mark

Quick question, would you define backlinking - as just external links or would you also say its also internal links within a site.

So are internal links, be also considered backlinks?

Mark

If you actually look at the traffic graph from semrush the declines haven't been recent, they have both been in decline since the start of the year. What reasons besides the fact that their backlink profile may be over optimized with exact match anchors, is there for this decline?

The sites have great content, good social media signals (kriskris has over 16,000 followers!) I'm just surprised quality sites like these are getting absolutely slammed.

Hi i've been looking at the affects of googles algorithmic updates over the last couple years and the impact on sites/competitors i have been monitoring in the space.

Two sites which surprised me, in having a dramatic decline in search traffic were:

kriskris.com (over 200k visitors to around 10k)

only-cookware.com (from 40k visitors at its peak to only around 1000k)

(semrush traffic data attached)

Both sites have great quality content and social signals.

The only thing i can think of is a over-optimization of anchor text, and types of links.

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Hi quick question, lets say you find writers in your niche and get them to do a guest post for your site and they have also built up alot of author rank (active google+ account, tones of social media followers).

From my understanding you cannot leverage their author rank for your site since their google+ profile needs to be connected to your site?

Unless it connected, you will not get any author rank benefit?

Cheers,

Mark

Im currently working with a new client and their goal is to create the absolute best content in their industry.

I've seen alot of articles on WHY to create the best content but not a lot on HOW to create the best content.

Can anyone recommend a article they recall which talked more about the HOW. I'm looking for a process on how to create awesome content, how to go about it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

From what i've read so far, if you do hire a writer/employee and have the articles posted under their name, but then they decide to leave the company, they take the author rank with them?

So how can brand, deal with this potential issue?

Hi i'm building a new site and want to start building up author rank right from the start.

If you are building author rank for a brand, do you think its fine to use the brand as the actual author of the content, instead of a actual person?

Or using a stage name rather then a persons actual name, and have your writers write under that particular stage name?

Would love to hear peoples opinions.

Cheers,

Mark

Hey in the process of building a new site in the fitness niche - targeting keywords such as:

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| how to get a flat stomach |
| how to get rid of belly fat fast |
| how to get rid of belly fat for women |
| how to get rid of love handles fast |
| how to get skinny |
| how to have more energy |
| how to loose weight fast |
| how to lose love handles |
| how to lose love handles fast |
| how to lose lower belly fat |

All these keywords get decent search volume.

My question, alot of the content for these keywords would be similar for example - "how to get a flat stomach", "how to lose love handles" and "how to get skinny" would pretty much have similar content.

I could build a single page for all these keywords but i loose all the ranking benefits from doing on-page optimization such as creating a page for each of these keywords and optimizing it for each of these keywords (e.g. putting the keyword in the URL and Title)

But if i build individual pages, to me it doesn't look natural optimizing multiple pages for the keyword terms, plus i loose the benefits of building a single page (e.g. less costly, not as much outreach activity required, etc)

You could argue however that if you create individual pages for each of these keywords you are addressing the query directly as theres a slight difference between "how to lose love handles and how to get a flat stomach. But i guess thats up to google to decide.

So how would you approach this?

Cheers,

Chris

Hey currently building a new page on a clients site in the weight loss niche. The keywords he wants to rank for are the following:

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| [fat burning foods] | 49500 |
| [foods that burn fat] | 22200 |
| [fat burning foods for women] | 2900 |
| [belly fat burning foods] | 2900 |
| [best fat burning foods] | 1900 |
| [fat burning foods for men] | 1900 |
| [list of fat burning foods] | 720 |

His site is new, but he has excellent content production capabilities.

My question is, in terms of optimizing the page (the title and url) for these keywords would you focus on the highest volume keyword.

In this case the highest volume keyword is "fat burning foods" however is the most competitive and dominated by high domain authority sites (50+ vs. clients site which is around 30). Thus its highly unlikely he will rank for that keyword for quite a while.

But for the keyword term "best fat burning foods" the competition is alot less in terms of DA and other factors but volume is smaller with 1900 hits a month.

So would you optimize the page (the title and url) for "best fat burning food" or would you optimize thinking about the long-term and eventually ranking the keyword "fat burning foods".

My thinking would be to optimize the page for "fat burning foods". And that the benefits of optimizing (url and title) for "best fat burning foods" isn't ideal for the long-run.

Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Mark