The One Thing You Have to Do Before You Start Doing SEO

[00:27] Today’s Topic: The One Thing You Have to Do Before You Start Doing SEO

[00:36] Look up your competitors in Ahrefs or SEMRush.

[00:44] These tools will show you their most popular pages, the terms for which those pages rank, their positions, and total traffic value.

[01:02] This information will help you determine what you should target.

[01:45] Once you find one competitor, you can find others using the above listed tools.

[02:10] When you are looking at information on Ahrefs, you can see the content gap. The content gap is the content that your competitors are covering that you are not.

[02:36] Use the Keyword Difficulty Tool to see how hard it would be to rank for a given topic.

[02:50] BuzzSumo will give you an idea of competitors’ social shares.

[03:10] That’s it for today!

[03:25] Go here to see how many downloads the show is getting. Also rate and review to help us meet our goal of 1 Million downloads per month. Hopefully, we’ll see you at the live event in L.A.!

The One Thing You Have to Do Before You Start Doing SEO | Ep. #865