What were people searching for in 2018? Which are the keywords with the highest search volumes in USA, United Kingdom, Germany or Spain?

If you find a Keyword Golden Ratio phrase and you publish a piece of content targeting the keyword, your article should rank in the top 50 within a few days – sometimes hours. If your site has a decent authority and isn’t brand new, then you can rank in the top 15.

And when it comes to link building, you have only two options:

1. create great content and wait for people to link to it
   (insisting a little can help)
2. create great content and take action

Guest posting falls into the second category. It’s a process that’s pretty cheap, helps you build relationships and can land you great links. No wonder that 2 out of 3 bloggers write guest posts.

That being said, guest posting is not easy. Especially finding new guest post opportunities.

In this article, I’ll share the best techniques to find blogs and websites to guest post on.

Let’s get started!

Guest posts were not created equal

Before diving into the process, let’s take a look at three important factors that influence the strength of the backlinks in general and guest posts links in particular.

1. The importance of relevance

Sure, the number of backlinks you receive is an important ranking factor.

But quantity isn’t the only parameter here. To identify spammers, Google also takes into account the relevance of the link.

The relevance can be broken down into two dimensions:

• Domain relevance: is the website you received a backlink from in the same niche/industry as yours? This is what Majestic’s topical trust flow may help you to evaluate.
• Page relevance: does the content of the page where my link was placed has anything to do with my own website and linked page?

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For most people, it is impossible to keep track of all the changes, but one should have a basic overview of what’s going on with his website in order to succeed in the competitive world of the internet.

Let’s take a look at the 9 most important SEO metrics every website owner should track to measure the SEO success.

1. Organic traffic

Organic traffic refers to all the visitors that come to your website or blog from the search engines. It does not include the paid PPC ads.

We may say that higher organic traffic is the ultimate goal of the search engine optimization, so it is good to regularly track the progress in order to know whether your SEO efforts are successful or not.

To find the overall organic traffic that comes to your web, you need to go to your Google Analytics account and navigate to Acquisition > All traffic > Channels > Organic Search.

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Tip: Are you new to Google Analytics? Head over to our basics of Google Analytics in the SEOpedia.

If you want to check the performance and popularity of your landing pages, the best way is to analyze the organic traffic coming to the individual landing pages. Just go to Behaviour > Site Content > Landing Pages and select the Organic traffic segment.