How to Do SEO for Small Businesses with Less than $1000 a Month | Ep. #313

<p>In Episode #313, Eric and Neil discuss how to do SEO for small businesses with less than $1000 a month. Tune in to learn how you can still do SEO effectively—even with a small budget—and why you shouldn’t believe everything that Google tells you.</p> <h3>Time Stamped Show Notes:</h3> <ul> <li>00:27 – Today’s topic: <em>How to Do SEO for Small Businesses With Less Than $1000 a Month</em></li> <li>00:35 – You can’t focus on everything</li> <li>00:40 – Try to have your site on <a href= "https://wordpress.com/">WordPress</a> so you can have <a href= "https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/">Yoast</a> and not worry too much about on-page SEO</li> <li>00:48 – Neil sticks to content creation and building links around the content</li> <li>00:55 – Neil uses <a href= "http://growtheverywhere.com/ahrefs">Ahrefs</a> <ul> <li>01:01 – Put in your competitor’s URL and click on the top pages that will show you the pages your competitor gets the most traffic</li> <li>01:29 – Look at that page and try to create a better version on your website</li> <li>01:38 – Find the people that are linked out to the page and reach out to them</li> <li>02:00 – Reaching out works, but it’s a long-term play</li> <li>02:08 – Keep it simple</li> </ul> </li> <li>02:34 – “Don’t believe everything that Google says”</li> <li>02:58 – When you only have $1000 a month, you can’t go really fast</li> <li>03:10 – You can also use <a href= "http://buzzsumo.com/">BuzzSumo</a> which is similar to Ahrefs</li> <li>03:26 – You can find a journalist who can write content at <a href="https://justreachout.io/">JustReachOut</a> which is a PR tool</li> <li>03:48 – For link outreach, you can use <a href= "http://pitchbox.com/">Pitchbox</a> and <a href= "https://mixmax.com/">MixMax</a></li> <li>04:03 – You have to make sure that you stay consistent with your SEO</li> <li>04:22 – Consistency will give people the impression that you’re starting to build your flywheel</li> <li>04:33 – <a href="https://www.scripted.com/">Scripted</a> allows you to buy content at scale</li