Great advice Partha - I hadn't even tried to reach Page 1. I was just using the WA review as an internal link from helpful/informational posts. It didn't seem possible to get to Page 1 - but now it is!

Cheers, Alisa

Now, thàt type of tricks was missing at the WA community,cheeky hahahahahaha! 

And, googled that keyword as well here from Belgium, and indeed those two were always in front, nobody ever mentioned this on WA, which I thought was weird.

Lizzy

(Dare I ask this question...) Does it have to be a positive review? I wish I had more time in my life... LOL.

Just a quick note Partha: claps on Medium are similar to likes in principle, but one person can leave as many claps as they wish. It's very possible that the 307 claps you're referring to were done by only 5 people or even fewer.

I started writing on Medium a few months ago, and I found that one person leaving 50 claps on an article is quite typical, although there are those who play "hard to get" and only leave one clap. 

You don't even have to click multiple times — just press and hold, and the clap counter goes up!

So the question here is, how does Google perceive Medium claps in terms of engagement? I don't know, but it wouldn't make sense to treat 1 clap as 1 like.

@andy Hahahahahah!!

Fake it!!

LOL!!!

There are two types of people online... Those who always do everything by the book and those who make lots of money, Hahahahahahha!!

Just kidding!

Basically, ANYONE who has access to a Wealthy Affiliate affiliate link and an active WA account, can write a review on Medium or Linkedin (Medium is quite hot on AI content, they don't like it), and then if 30-40 of us on this forum "like" and "comment", they will rank really well for that review.

At a guess, anyone ranking in the top 5 for the keyword is probably getting a few hundred visitors per month (from a variety of keywords), so there's easily 5-10 monthly sales there, and that's WITHOUT collecting email addresses (opportunity for more sales if you want to put in the time and effort to create a newsletter, can be a 10-steps to succeed with WA or something similar).

But, as I've said, many times now, CURRENTLY parasiting on these sites is working, so take advantage of it.

I am going to write something up about this, but here's a clue to what Google is currently like:

I deleted around 75 product reviews from a website that got hit in 2022 HCU.

Yesterday, as a test, I found one of those reviews in my Google Docs, copy and pasted it to Medium, found some images in my Media Library from a few years ago that were related to the product, and published.

Woke up this morning, and the review that Google deemed "unhelpful" on MY DOMAIN is currently ranking in position 8 (within 12 hours of publication) on Medium's domain, it received 14 visitors from Google yesterday (no sales yet)...

So, I'm off to add the other 74 reviews to Medium now, hahahahahah!!

Kinda proves what I've been saying for months now about Google favouring authority currently over anything else.

SO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT

@yusuf I still haven't fully worked out the Medium algorithm in relation to Google rankings yet.

BUT

I'm doing lots of testing currently, so once I've worked it out I'll share it with everyone.

In truth, Google says that "social signals" don't really matter for SEO, but as always with Google, they say one thing, and the results prove the opposite.

However, I even do "social signals" (social signals are likes, shares, upvotes, claps, comments, etc.) for website owners as service, and it's always proven to make a slight difference in terms of SEO to a website.

And now, that all these social media platforms and web 2.0 platforms are actually ranking in Google, they seem to rank well based on "social signals"

As an example, (I'm sure she won't mind me saying), I'm doing some work on Reddit for Lizzy.

Now, Reddit SEO to rank in Google is ALL ABOUT UPVOTES.

Basically, the comment with the most upvotes is listed at the top, and Reddit posts with lots of upvotes tend to rank for a variety of keywords.

Anyway, yesterday I created a post for Lizzy on Reddit and I didn't do anything "dodgy", all legal and above board, LOL, and the post got around 180+ upvotes just yesterday.

Now, backlinks from Reddit are typically NO FOLLOW (they help, but they don't pass on any real "link juice")

HOWEVER

Having checked the source code on Lizzy's Reddit post the backlink I have created is now DO FOLLOW (I know that Reddit backlinks convert from no follow to do follow after a certain amount of upvotes/likes, but no-one knows how many).

So essentially, even if Lizzy doesn't get any traffic from Reddit, say 100 DO FOLLOW backlinks from a DA93 website will eventually have a huge impact on her Google rankings (say in about 3-6 months).

I have a feeling (I'm not sure yet) that Medium, and their claps system, MAY work in the same way.

Let me do my tests and I'll let you know,

But, for now, the best thing most people can do is to check their keywords in Google individually.

If you see Medium or Linkedin ranking for a keyword, immediately get your content on there.

And for now, while we have under 100 members here on the forum, and we ALL know each other, I have no problems with people listing urls here, and then about 20-30 of us go and clap, like, upvote, etc.

In the same way WA "fakes comments", we can "fake social signals" here too between all of us.

@andy this makes me giggle, because I don't have time either, but I was actually thinking a while back, to just create a quick website,with one "affiliate course review", one landing page, one review about WA. I really would have an IN-depth review,and I would probably even create a new youtube channel with a video on it LOL.

What I would do is, place that on one of my very old, unrelated Twiiter account of about 3000 followers,where even Kyle follows me back (I followed him and he probably followed me back cause I have 3000 members). (emptied the tweets years ago with al the tweets I had on it) . And then just also make google ads to it. I would laugh if he ever would see it LOL! But yeah, that time!

in the meantime, I asked to add those Name Servers TWICE since yesterday, I got the same answer twice:

"

@partha 

"

As an example, (I'm sure she won't mind me saying), I'm doing some work on Reddit for Lizzy.

Now, Reddit SEO to rank in Google is ALL ABOUT UPVOTES.

Basically, the comment with the most upvotes is listed at the top, and Reddit posts with lots of upvotes tend to rank for a variety of keywords.

Anyway, yesterday I created a post for Lizzy on Reddit and I didn't do anything "dodgy", all legal and above board, LOL, and the post got around 180+ upvotes just yesterday."

For sure I don't mind, gladly! Haven't been this excited to see what is changing in years on WA hahahaha!

I noticed those upvotes, wow! (were those "natural" still or already the 'other method'?)

thanks again for doing this! So busy at the moment with changing things on my youtube, interest and FB and such, filling in agendas, etc, couldn't do Reddit as well!

Much appreciated!

Lizzy

@ohnoo_not_her All NATURAL Lizzy!!!

I've still got "skills" WITHOUT resorting to blackhat, hahahahahaha!!!

I've actually been very "normal" on your Reddit account, but this is why I say to get true value from Reddit (without being dodgy, LOL), you need to do it consistently for 3-6 months.

HOWEVER

I'm still not sure of the number, but after checking the source code (remember I taught you right-click and then choose "inspect" for images and right-click and choose "view source code" for text) on the link I placed INSIDE the images, the one with 180+ upvotes has now turned into a DO FOLLOW BACKLINK.

I've always known this, but no-one knows the exact number of upvotes required (let's guess at around 100 upvotes).

But, as Reddit is DA93 (and as it's now the 5th/6th biggest website in the world, you can expect this to increase to DA97 - DA99 very soon), getting DO FOLLOW backlinks will be fantastic for your GOOGLE rankings.

It's not as "strong" if they all come from one source, e.g. Reddit, but one thing I can guarantee, 100 DA97/98/99 DO FOLLOW backlinks will significantly increase YOUR OWN DA (takes at least 3 months), which eventually will see you ranking higher in Google.

So, this can be positive for you in TWO WAYS...

Eventually, when we've got a few hundred posts/comments up and started your own subreddit, you'll get regular traffic, and also as your DA increases from DO FOLLOW backlinks your Google rankings will also improve.

For your subreddit I'm going to rewrite your product reviews and include affiliate links (to begin with this is where I might need some "dodgy" stuff, LOL, just to get some upvotes and views on your subreddit BUT everything else I have done completely "naturally"), so once we get these ranking you should even start earning commission from your Reddit articles too.

@partha sounds fantastic and very hopefull! I try to also answer some other peoples questions now on reddit, installed the app on my phone,before I go to bed now, I try to refrain from inserting links to my blog though, as to not overdo it and become suspicious, I hope that's ok!

Lizzy

@partha So, you need a review like this one? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-2024-wealthy-affiliate-review-personal-success-andy-calvin-k8ere/

@andy link doesn't work for me!!!

But, you can look at the two Linkedin articles ranking on page one for WEALTHY AFFILIATE REVIEW and simply be the "same" or "better" than them.

Once published, and you have the correct link, put the link here, and we'll get people to "react" and "comment", which should boost you higher in the SERPs

@ohnoo_not_her The "Dollhouse" subreddit is better for links if you want to leave them in your comments

BUT

Don't be obvious in any way about your link...

Even something like, "I've written about this here" <----- NO, don't do this.

The link should be placed as anchor text, but WITHOUT drawing attention to it in any way.

If you want, you just return comments as and when you like, and I'll do all the linking.

As we've only really been "active" for about 10 days now, it still takes a bit more time, and more consistency for you to be more obvious with linking.

Once I can set your subreddit, you will have enough post and comment "karma" that you can "get away" with a lot more.

This is the reason that most people say "Reddit is crap", or "All my links get deleted", or "I got banned from Reddit", or "Everyone was rude to me at Reddit"...

You have to "slowly" build up your reputation within various subreddits FIRST, then you can promote... as I say, always give Reddit 3-6 months to see real results!

@partha Ack - let me see what the issue is. Maybe because it's a new account or something. Give me a few. Lol. I was hoping to make money by dinner time, 🤣 🤣 🤣