hey what's going on welcome to the Doug
show and in this episode I talked to
Kyle roof Kyle if you haven't heard of
him is a pretty badass SEO and we have
that in common of course because I enjoy
SEO myself but he also likes drink
alcohol which I enjoy beer he shares his
favorite drink and then after a few
minutes we realized that we need to talk
about SEO and stuff that other people
care about maybe we should have saved
that for the tail end of the interview
but either way it was a good way to kick
off our friendship and I think Kyle is
doing some very interesting things you
see Kyle has two very interesting
projects at least two that I'm super
interested in so one is around running
SEO experiments and he's been doing it
for several years he goes into the
methodology and explains how he like
test a theory and gets actual data so
that it's pretty much like unarguable
like his conclusions are amazing so the
way he runs tests super cool if nothing
else if you get nothing else out of the
interview that alone will give you new
insight on how you can test things and
just how you can understand how
algorithms work in a general sense so we
talk about that and then the other
project is page optimizer pro or pop
which is a analysis tool for content and
it helps you nail your on-page SEO
around keyword density LSI keywords and
other details like that so this was a
very fun interview I didn't realize Kyle
and Eric we're gonna have so much to
talk about and I'm looking forward to
like working with them in the future and
just hearing about his projects so
without further ado let's hear from Kyle
right now hey what's going on it's Doug
Huntington here and I'm sitting with
Kyle roof how are you today I'm great
thanks Doug it's a pleasure to have you
on we were just chatting beforehand and
of course we have some SEO you know
obsessiveness that's common but
apparently we also enjoy alcohol so what
is
a drink of choice my poison along with
Janis Joplin is a Southern Comfort and
I'll usually drink
SoCo and diet is a go-to but it's a hard
thing because a lot of places don't have
it so I have to ask you have SoCo and
then they do those hem and haw and they
don't have it then I go for a captain
morgans or a Sailor Jerry's that kind of
a thing okay okay yeah I enjoy I'm
mostly a beer person but I you know like
many other people that enjoy alcohol its
whatever is in front of me and like
maybe the weather you know if it's a
sunny day by the pool like I may not
want to have whiskey like maybe that's a
even Coors Light you know I'm in the
Boulder Colorado area so you know
there's a lot of beer around here and
course lights just you know air Coors is
just down the street and golden so
that's the perfect recovery drink you
know it's like people want to go for
like Bloody Mary's give me a Coors Light
like 11:00 a.m. yeah I mean a couple
those will get you're right yeah I mean
when you got a hydrate
like that is what you need to do is
basically water its water with a little
okay but um are you like one of those
guys that gets into like IPAs or this
level of bitterness or that is that your
your focus yeah I got really into that
so I did some home brewing and like
really dove in headfirst I wish I
literally that actually seems fine now
that I'm saying it out loud but yeah I
got into home brewing and all sorts of
beers really love Belgian beers and
became a beer judge and blah blah blah
so I took that to the extreme as well so
the only fancy be right thing I get into
to travel to Europe a lot but in Germany
and Bavaria they've got a hell's
h-e-l-l-o yes and I think that is the
pinnacle of beard um it isn't a very
good hell's yes I enjoy those too
you know I like all sorts of beer so
even like I actually have some in the
refrigerator so a couple helis from
local around here so I know people are
here for SEO so I will transition
quickly to so aside from you know
Southern Comfort and some other you know
darker liquors can you give your can you
give an introduction so pee
well can get to know you a little bit
here sure my name is Kyla roof the name
of the agency that I co-founded is
high-voltage SEO now we do local to
national international did everything
else in between I I'm at the office in
Phoenix Arizona we also have an office
in Berlin we have an office in Melbourne
we have about 16 clients excuse me 16
employees about 70 clients I am the lead
tester for s ia which is a testing group
where I oversee and publish single
mostly single variable tests on Google's
algorithm and then I'm also the math and
co-creator of page optimizer pro which
is an on-page evaluation tool cool and I
just started using page optimizer pro
recently pretty slick and you know we'll
talk about that probably a little bit
more I may have some questions for you
all right
but how did you get into SEO as I was
doing a research I saw that you have a
diverse background and even a law degree
so can you tell me how you found your
way into this area it was a finding the
same path that everybody takes that a to
be right I started as a trial attorney
and I did divorce custody and support
and criminal defense and I actually
hated it so I I decided to take a year
off and I moved to South Korea which i
think is what most people do when they
want to take a year off and that one
year off turned into five and while
there I opened a business in Korea and
we needed a website and I had done some
website building in college just kind of
for fun and kind of got back into it and
it took a while because those site that
we built for the company was kind of
complex and took me a while to kind of
assemble a team and I realized oh hey I
could actually just our general
contracting websites because I've got
the solid team I brought my brother
involved into the company and then we
realized you know you got all these guys
in India hope we just moved to India and
open a company they're looking like
watch them and we'll get more work done
and the prices will be better or costs
be lower because we're not paying
freelancers so he did that and then the
real short version is we got raided by
the police my brother got thrown in jail
they shut down our company and in India
and so my brother who does web design of
development said okay I can take these
four clients and service them because we
lost our employees right they didn't
want
they don't want to they didn't need to
be involved in that scene with the
police right so we're just hemorrhaging
clients he said I can take these four
and we had just started doing SEO and I
had invested my last penny into this
company and I realized that I needed to
learn SEO right then and there to
service those SEO clients so I could pay
the rent next month and and that's
literally what I did like right then and
there I was like I need to figure out
this SEO thing and and did it it was
like a make or break situation crazy so
what like what year was that when you
went to South Korea I went to South
Korea in 2008 and then started doing the
this kind of work on the side if you
will
2010 or so and then the India debacle
was 2012 or 2013 okay Wow so that's
really not that long ago in terms of SEO
or in terms of a career yeah it's not
that not that long ago at all but when
you have to learn SEO immediately it
really accelerates your your path then
that's what got me into testing I
realized you know when like hey is this
a ranking factor and you get three
answers that say yes and three they say
no and three very learned answers that
say maybe and I was like well I think I
need to figure this out on my own and
and that's what I did through kind of
refining the testing process of setting
up test environments to see if something
is or is not a ranking factor or
something here is not true anything I've
Rana do well as well as you know you get
a recipe of 50 things and you're like do
I really have to do all 50 you know what
really in here is is making things
happen and so it was really just an
economy of time trying to cut through
when you do or don't have to do and then
that's what that's really an accelerated
me into being I guess an SEO expert and
that and that's really just being able
to kind of cut through that annoys
through through testing models and stuff
like that okay
into your knowledge like was there
anyone else or is there or do you have
competitors like doing tests like this
in any sort of public fashion at all
obviously it's very expensive and
difficult to do there are a few other
people that are doing it um when I
started though I didn't know that and
the testing that I put together was an
independent thought
since then I've had people to want to
yell at me and say like I didn't invent
science and I understand that you know I
I didn't invent SEO testing like I don't
want to make that claim but the the
method that I put together I
independently put together I didn't know
anybody else's just I haven't seen
anybody else's test I have since seen
some and and there are several guys
they're doing a great job with it but
there they are few and far between
because it's not easy to do and it's not
easy to conceptualize that's kind of the
bigger problem is that when you're
looking at Google's algorithm and it's
so vast how do you how do you actually
run a single variable test or how can
you actually put your finger on this is
what that thing is and so that's kind of
a log a lot part of the process of kind
of being able to think about things the
right way I'm putting it together in the
right framework cool and it's funny
because I often complain about this you
know people will ask you know how long
does it take for I will ask you a lot of
these questions in a rapid-fire section
here in a second but like people will
ask about certain pieces like will this
link help or how long does it take for
this link to do anything that sort of
thing and a lot of times I'm like you
know what it's so hard for us just in a
real-world scenario because there's like
so many variables involved and many of
them are external anyway and you can't
even control them so can you talk about
the approach that you take and I imagine
with your you know logical mind in your
law degree like you were able to come at
it at a different angle than you know
the general sort of SEO person that has
found their way into it so can you just
talk about your approach sure the most
simple way to look at it would be you
you optimize for a word that doesn't
exist then you've created an environment
that only you control you know nobody
else is in there so you're immediately
eliminating all those extra variables
and then in the most simple setup you'll
create five pages on the same domain
that are exactly the same and you'll
index them all and then on the number-3
page you'll change one thing now we're
down to one single variable people asked
like what about duplicate content well
if there is a duplicate content penalty
it's now applied to all five the same
anything
it was maybe there's a penalty on that
domain it's now been applied to all five
pages the same the only obviously you
need a unique URL so what I'll do is
I'll put the keyword as close to the
dot-com as I can and then a random
letter strings so - letter letter letter
- letter literally and that gives you a
unique URL but otherwise the the pages
are gonna be identical and then from
there if you change one thing you've got
it down to one variable so if you want
to say is the h1 or ranking factor so
you would put in one h1 on say number
three you containing the target keyword
and as you'll see it go up and you know
that's a positive factor you'll then
want to run that multiple times you want
to get you want to replicate these tests
and if you can do something four times -
five times in a row you're inside of or
just outside of statistical significance
but one big thing to think about is
they're running it in the inverse so
that the first time we put it on the
number three and we saw it go up when
when you run in the inverse you'll put
it on the one two four and five and then
the three should drop because you've run
the test the other way and that's how we
get to real confidence in what we're
doing because you know people talk like
Google could be tricking you or some of
that they can't tricky in the inverse
you know they can't run it you can't run
something and get get a repeatable
result in the positive and then also get
it in the negative and then once you've
got that then you feel pretty strongly
about that yes this is or is not a ring
exactly wow that's like dangerously
simple right like not easy to implement
I imagine but like that's so clear now
why do you have five pages instead of
just two because there is the chance
that if you launch - it could just go
one way or the other you know with by
having a larger set and a lot of the
tests will run now or even larger than
the five you want to be able to see some
movement you know whether that's gonna
be positive or negative movement and
then you don't always the thing too is
you don't always get something that's
gonna shoot all the way to the top or
all the way to the bottom you know there
is a bit of I think score normalization
is actually a good description of what
happens so these things are ranked and
then there's a normalized score and so
you might not get above that normalized
score with whatever factor you're
looking at so you know that you want to
see you want to gauge how much
you can actually get okay interesting
and then for like your standard testing
procedure you mentioned getting to be
able to repeat it so you're applying the
scientific method and it all seems great
right so how often do you try and repeat
it is it that four to five times just so
that you're like alright this seems
pretty legit yeah because if you had a
coin flip you know a coin flip is 50/50
but a repeatable coin flip how many
times can you get heads in a row if you
did four times in a row it's about 6%
are your chances of getting four heads
in a row you know and statistical
significance is at 5% so when you're at
that repeatable thing of four or five
times you're basically inside of a
statistical probability where we feel
good about yeah we're seeing this
because it's unlikely you're gonna get
the same result that many times in a row
but then when you're under than the
universe you have the same result then
we feel very very confident and the and
what we're looking at okay very cool and
I know you probably have some
interesting results where maybe
something counterintuitive happened is
there an any particular one that comes
to mind where you're like oh we were
shocked when we did this test and blah
blah blah well one that's a you know
what's really interesting about it is is
the best results you get are the ones
they aren't expecting and the other
thing too is I don't have a narrative
with my tests I don't I am agnostic to
the result you know it's the result for
the result I think where maybe some
people get in trouble is getting married
to the result because then it fits maybe
a course that they're selling alright
yeah and then you get that confirmation
bias towards those sorts of things but I
think if you can take your pride out of
the situation and just look at what the
result is then you can see a bad result
for the good result that it actually is
cuz it led you to another discovery it's
kind of funny with just running a test
in with some people in our group
somebody that mentor and it was just
putting just a male on the page you know
is this a positive or negative actor and
what's interesting is it keeps demoting
the page so now I know that can't be a
negative factor right so there's
something else going on there and so now
we're in the process
what could that other thing be what is
actually happening on this page you know
is it we're adding some extra code is it
that it's not a real email address is it
so like now well now we're playing with
those things so this is a fluid
situation that's going on at this moment
because we're like that's a really weird
result is it just an anomaly which it
very well could be so now we have to
rerun it see if we get the same anomaly
and then start to hypothesize about
where things may or may not have gone
wrong or if you will right and then we
can then then we make some real
discoveries about what's going on at the
algorithm interesting yeah you probably
run across this too Kyle where someone
does one thing once and then they assume
that that is the way it is a hundred
percent of the time and they go around
maybe in facebook groups for example and
just like keep spreading around these
sort of rumors so yeah it's very just to
put a pin in it like everyone just an
end of one isn't very useful you have to
be able to repeat it other people should
be able to repeat it and I love the
rigorous fashion that you guys are
testing and like I guess learning right
I mean it's the only way and like you
said you're you're agnostic to the
results like it's just this is what
happened when we did X and the results
speak for themselves
yeah you don't need to get angry of me
for the result you know just get angry
at the result but then we can discuss it
too and the other thing is being able to
show the testing method this is how this
was tested so maybe there's a flaw in
the method and there are a lot of sharp
people that can then review this and say
hey did you think consider this or what
do you think of that and often I'll be
like hey I did not think of that that's
a great idea and then let's let's run it
back through actually what I often say
to people's like can you run this and
then let's look at your results and they
they that's as far as they go yeah
because it's it's not it's it's
difficult to set up it's time-consuming
it's frustrating at times and all you
will just don't want to do it so how are
you at a test run like what's the
typical time frame well so like you're
looking at like an on page sort of thing
what's funny is you can get results
within minutes you know when you reindex
the pages are used to resubmit them to
say the search console you can often see
it especially for stronger signals stuff
within 10 15 20 minutes which is
remarkable usually though if we're
looking
we're like hey we're not getting any
move in here you you want to look at it
this is real life anyway about maybe two
cache dates which is usually maybe five
to seven days when cache is working
properly
so maybe 14 days with imp we don't get
movement then we might move on in and on
page sense but like you're talking about
with off page with links the real
frustrating thing is even in these small
environments it can take weeks upon
weeks to three weeks six eight weeks
I've seen those in test environments
where it just takes that long for a link
to pass any kind of juice even within
such a small controlled area so link
links take forever gotcha and that's
been my observation over time as well
where it used to be you know even 2013
when it sounds like you were getting
into like SEO deep is that is that right
2013 yeah okay yeah it would be a
full-time gig yeah right and it was like
two or three days and you could see like
what links helped you can adjust anchor
text and it was like pretty powerful to
have that knowledge now it's my hunch
and you can confirm or you know disagree
like Google throttled it back so we
don't know what we're doing with all
these variables we don't know what
helped rankings or hurt rankings so we
can't exploit things as well as
marketers so is that kind of you should
also think that things just got bigger
you know there's more to crawl since
then exponentially more and it just
might take more time it is another
possibility yeah you know so like there
are times where I think when there's
like the the folia stuff that Google
brings into play and but I think a lot
of it is is serendipity for them just
like oh we didn't realize that that
would happen because it would take so
long but that's great you know it's a
built-in thing because it just it takes
that long to process those URLs yeah
where they hit in the queue and then
that turns into this much time now and
now it looks like they turn to gauge
when really it was just us things got
bigger you know so far sigh I never I
never thought of that but yeah that
would be a great way a great side
benefit there so you mentioned like 2 to
3 weeks and some up to 6 to 8 weeks for
a link to show its impact
even in these very controlled
environments for bogus words that don't
even exist and stuff like that so is
that kind of like the max range that
you've seen or could it extend out like
six months or something well it could
the prom Leon into is that these pages
are susceptible to updates and then when
an update happens because they are
identical you can actually see them
shift and so you are susceptible to
those changes in a broad core update
which is actually way to see if a core
update has actually happened because you
can see your unused test pages move
which is actually kind of fun so like
you run into those obstacles where if
you let it sit that long it is possible
that it just what you saw isn't actually
the link to anything or whatever you
were playing to anything it was just an
update that happened which then gets
into the real frustrating thing when
you're doing links you want to replicate
them you know and it's something that
takes four weeks that's a long time to
get something replicated again
especially like on test two like you
really like oh my god I've a let's date
then there went eight weeks of wire yeah
not test you you guys have going like
concurrently well I try to I published
ten a month right now that's gonna
change shortly but to do that you have
figure like two to three per one that it
it actually makes it publish worthy it's
kind of where a so let's say and then
the stuff that I published is within a
group as well so there's they're people
that help me they're running their own
tests which is actually great because
you redo your run out of ideas you know
they're the things that I care about and
those are the things that I test and
then I just don't have the ideas cuz
there are things I don't care about
they're like oh I never thought of them
so there's a group that that we work on
these tests together and so I I would
say minimum twenty to thirty tests are
running at any time okay
wow wow wow that's crazy just knowing
the effort that it takes me man time and
all that stuff so very interesting now
like all good internet marketers I
imagine maybe you bumped into some
penalties at some point do you have any
good
Google penalty stories well sure the the
most famous one is when the site that I
built in lorem ipsum and was ranking and
then it got published in a search engine
journal and it was D index six hours
later pure spam but what was the the
next part of that though is that that
night when I woke up the next morning
between like 115 and 127 a.m. I think
was like 22 of my test sites redeemed X
and these sites weren't linking to that
to that competition site they were all
on their own and it was just purely
punitive so what I did was actually the
reconsideration requests on the site
they got shut down so the first one I
wrote back and I was like hey this site
is not optimized for any keywords that
anybody else is optimizing for or
bidding on in Adwords it cannot be spam
because it's not filling up any space
they did somebody else once and they
denied that so then I took the whole
site down and just left the 2012
template up and reconsidered and they
denied that and then I put up one page
it was just a paragraph that said this
is my personal site this is clearly
unique contents as I'm writing this one
paragraph right now just
stream-of-consciousness
you know this can't be anywhere else on
the Internet and I did that and they
denied it as well so then I realized
that was just punitive at that point
they were they were specifically taking
down my sites for I guess punishment for
showing how the algorithm arcs into the
other side so like were they in the same
because like I had a penalty and it was
a similar thing where one one site I was
doing something wrong and then
everything else in my you know I had
them all on the same search console area
which I know that's an easy way to link
them up so in that case were they in the
same like analytics zone or something
like that so they there were some
crosses here and there but I mean they
were all on different IPS they all had
one of five different hosts that I use
some had domain privacy some didn't some
had GA some didn't some were in the same
search console but most weren't
because most have their own Gmail so
they were all pretty spread out and they
really with HAMP looks at a couple
linked to each other just for some test
purposes but otherwise they were
separated so I don't really know I think
it was probably the registrar level
because they all were registered in the
same spot and I know that Google clearly
has access to that information sure and
I think they could just look at all my
domains and said of this let's knock out
these 20 that's my best guess
oh man that's a there's a bummer yeah
yeah that's a cool story just in general
Google the spam team they read search
engine journal I guess oh yeah
they also I always have a good time
thinking that there's some schlub in
Mountain View and his job for two days
with me as he's just typing away trying
to figure out my stuff that's pretty
funny and do you just carry like
imagining that like do you have any if
you if you can't answer this okay do you
know anyone like in Google or anything
like that you know no I don't know
anyone so I think they know me they know
of you so as far as like like other gray
hat activities and stuff like that are
there certain things that are actually I
don't know dude you any gray house stuff
or can you mention that or like what's
your approach like whatever works and
what's effective or well I don't really
know what what is black or white or gray
I guess that kind of depends on what you
think it is
sure like earlier with like the person
that himself not you but the editorial
at you you know it's more of a personal
choice on which one I do but you know I
still think on page does most of the
heavy lifting and that's where my focus
is going to be and building good
internal link structure on your own site
and I don't think unless you're cloaking
stuff I don't really think there's a way
to do black on page I mean if you're
presenting the words these are the words
and you're allowed to link between pages
in your own sites so that's the majority
of what I do and that that gets me I
think a long way you know in our agency
we do have a full time
builder we are looking for PR
opportunities if you like the word PR
you don't like that word then guest
posts looking for opportunities to get
client names out there and on the web
and stuff like that and so depending on
where you think that it's the scales is
where we are okay cool yeah I mean I run
across people who they're like well if
you're doing guest post even if they're
like legit like good great sites they're
like well if you're doing it for the
link you know if that's your intention
internally but like exactly you're
trying to do but what if I just want to
get the name of my company out and they
wank
right yeah so it's it's definitely you
know what if I convinced myself that
that's what I really want
yeah I just want to do some promotion so
okay that's cool too to get out of the
way and four on page so I am very
interested in the internal link building
sort of principles that you adopt there
was a stretch where I was like maybe
these silos are really important and
what it took away from it is the
intentional linking is really good but
maybe not necessarily the you know page
parent-child structure maybe that's not
so important but maybe it's just the
internal linking so what what's your
approach in what can you share yeah sure
so I don't do physical silence as you
just described a parent/child because it
is a physical silo I will do a virtual
silo and in that sense you know the URL
structure doesn't really matter it's the
links they're putting in the body so
I'll have my target page and then I'm
gonna pick out pages on the site that
are relevant to that and intentionally
link from those supporting pages or post
and it doesn't matter what they are -
your target page and then they're only
gonna link to each other in the body as
well that's also a very intentional
choice that you're supporting for one
silo these are my supporting pages they
all link to each other and they link to
this target page but they don't link
anywhere else and so I'm making a very
conscious choice that these things are
related to that and what I'll often do
within those supporting pages are post
as we're looking at
questions from like people also ask
answer the public niche forums because
if somebody's put that question out
there it's it's it's information they
want about your thing
and so you can answer that question
often you can win those terms just by
putting them in the h1 and the meta
title as the question you know an
example that I give you know if you're
selling we have a New Zealand Ski
Package thing that we used to do you
know what's the weather like in New
Zealand in August you know that's that's
so that's the kind of question that
people are asking and then we can write
a post about it and it's just good
information and then people actually
like to link to it because you're just
providing good information but now what
they don't know is that that's part of
my silo so it's linking to my target
page and slinking to my other supporting
pages and the whole silo juices itself
up through that type of Irish you know
if you want do an infographic you want
to do a YouTube whatever those all get
embedded into your silo as you're
supporting content so when people then
link to it or they get a source
attributed its sourcing into your silo
and they don't have to worry about
getting links directly to your target
page because if you're trying to get
links to a target page where you're
selling a product or a service nobody's
gonna want to link to that now why would
they but they will link to an
infographic that has great information
that will link to what is the weather
like you know though they will link to
information on prices or normal things
for whatever your niches and that's all
the information they can go into your
site on okay so that's that's how I put
perfect there's great information mine
was more haphazard so it's it's good to
know that approach now for like a
cluster of content we'll call it that
the term you use is that that's just
fine we go on supporting pages or post
but it is it relevant things to your
target to your target page okay it's not
like but not using that keyword again
and again though so like whatever your
target keyword is that that's on your
main page that's what you've optimized
that page for these are the questions
that people would ask are round to that
okay so it's like the same audience
would be interested in all of those that
sort of idea okay that's right and then
the internal links that you're doing
between those say supporting pages or
posts just could look like will be a
next or previous you know to the user
because this is more information they
might be interested in perfect and is
there sort of a minimum
number of those supporting articles that
you would go for I assume there's no
maximum if you want at times but we
always like to look at in terms of
groupings of three to three to five you
know if you're doing projects on a
monthly basis you know that's a that's a
number that's manageable okay often so
something in there so we'll try to do in
kind of those little groupings as we're
building out a campaign for a client
okay and then as far as other internal
links going to those supporting pages or
even the page which you're trying to
rank how do you approach like those
links so for the silos I'm trying to be
very intentional like you know these
supporting pages are only linking to
this target page within the body the
menu in the footer that's that's fine
that's normal website stuff but those
intentional links the only time I would
really link to another say supporting
post or page would be you know what
that's actually now turned into a
top-level page it's turned into its own
primary that might not have been what we
were building out initially but no man
that really that actually turns out to
be getting a lot of traffic so then we
have to might build a silo for it you
know and then it gets its own supporting
pages and internal linking of some of
them got it okay super interesting
um and then I assume was this one of the
tests that you like executed or did you
develop it and then just saw that it
worked like pretty readily and you're
like right this this was one of the
things where you're like hey this seems
to be working let's see if we can refine
it in the test environment and so
refining internal link methods you know
for for what we're trying to accomplish
and that that's that's kind of them
woods come out to the the silos that we
use in our agency all right and then as
far as and I'm not sure if you would
know this right off the top of your head
but like if like I guess how how how
much less effective would it be if you
have some other links like going out to
other posts and you don't silo it so
well
well there's link you know leakage you
know so like if you have a particular
page and it's linking to five things
that you are diluting that the the link
that the juice did it could be passing
so that's what we're trying to do is
we're trying to say hey this is relevant
content so when Google comes in
rolls and he gets into the silo where
it's going is just into relevancy you
know so if I'm linking out you know the
example that I used to teach is like
from our name page about how to make
tacos you know I might have hardshell
tacos and soft shell tacos but then as
soon as I start talking about enchiladas
like that's a whole lot of thing you
know hund it shouldn't be on that page
and that'd be the same thing too for
your supporting articles and where
you're linking out you know you should
be linking to stuff about how to make
tacos not how to then roll it enchilada
or something like that you know I mean
like so you you like cluster so the link
you just should make sense in your site
which whichever way they're going and
you can almost create silos and you can
repurpose content that already exists on
their site into these silos so you don't
have to necessarily make brand new
content it's just being conscious about
how you're linking to to relevant things
within your own site gotcha gotcha that
makes total sense I definitely need to
clean up a few things cuz I have some I
would say haphazard at best like the
links just going out all over the place
so if and I'm not sure if there's a good
way to answer this question but like if
someone doesn't really have much of an
internal link structure I will often
just tell them hey just link everywhere
like it's probably gonna help things
since you have nothing in place but and
just take a shotgun approach yeah like
just yeah you might get lucky
yeah but like what's sort of an impact
like could someone expect if they like
focus and they maybe they do have
existing content they just didn't link
it together and they have supporting
content and they didn't do any
intentional linking what kind of impact
can someone expect well in the when we
started doing this we had a client 2015
2014 they were in one of those niches
where they're there's like 10 clicks and
if we can get a hold of one of those
clicks that could be millions of dollars
and they had like 4 years of blog
content it was just fantastic I mean
just these beautifully written pieces
just really really well done but they
like most people just had and sitting in
the blog you know doing nothing so they
had 10 let's call them 10 like target
pages you know for the different
categories of things their services that
they sold so we just went through and
repurpose
the existing things okay these 5 gonna
link to that page and these 7 are going
to that one of these two over here
because it just made sense there that's
what they were writing about but we took
them from you know page 5 plus to page 1
and 2 for all their target pages in a
matter of weeks just by redoing those
internal links they then fired us
because we didn't do anything
well you got us to page 1 but you didn't
do anything like what are you talking
about we we put this whole thing
together yeah but yeah what was great
too is their site had you know whatever
metric you liked their da MPAs were ones
or zeros or TF CS or zeros I don't think
we're using a truss at the time but you
know like all their metrics are nothing
this was just the internal link juice
passage between between their site and
and putting just relevant little silos
together ok interesting that's amazing
yeah I really need to get on it so four
months this is like a mini little
consulting thing for me because I can
just ask questions about myself supplier
way well Rick you didn't know that Kyle
so wait does it seem to be recorded like
I imagine like most things that seem
overwhelming you just have to take a
bite-sized piece and you know eat the
elephant or whatever so let's say I have
like 200 blog posts and it's kind of not
categorized well and I need to go
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