What SEO is working for you 2018+? Can you rank up new sites today as easy?

What SEO is working for you 2018+? Can you rank up new sites today as easy?

Some people ask me what SEO is. In as little words as possible I tell them it's the process of ranking up a website in Google so that it ranks number 1 or as close as possible to number 1 ranking position as possible.

And when it comes to SEO and ranking a site up using SEO it's still the same today as it has been then. You still have to do SEO on that site to get it ranked up, ranking higher, number 1 or as high as possible.

But obviously SEO and what it means has changed and evolved over the years. And the main pattern and emphasis has always been on quality and relevance. Where quality and relevance is the type of "backlinks" you have.

Basically showing that Google has and always probably will use the backlinks you have in its ranking algorithm. Though we know today that it also looks at on-page SEO as well. But your backlinks and "social signals" are counted as a "ranking factor".

And of course, every site, in any niche, needs its own unique SEO and SMM in order to get that site ranked up in the SERPs. It needs its own good on-page SEO, something that's usually sorted with a lot of great unique content in your niche.

Are SEO Backlinks even needed to rank up a site in the SERPs?

In fact, some people swear down that they rank up sites in the SERPs using nothing but sheer content only. Without even building backlinks. By just focusing on on-page SEO (content) only, they are able to rank up sites in time without even needing to do any off-page SEO or SMM at all.

You can find those guys videos on YouTube was watching it the other day. Search "how to rank sites without backlinks" on YouTube for the videos. This is one of them from some bloggers that rank up websites without ever building any backlinks.

OMG rank up websites without building backlinks!? Then what have I been building backlinks for this whole time right!? Don't get me wrong or take this out of context, while it's still possible to rank up sites without any off-page SEO (backlinks/SMM etc), for those sites that you don't have a lot of content on, such as few page stores, landing pages, etc, you can rank them up using SEO (backlinks/SMM etc). It's just that you can also do it without too it depends which route you want to go!

So there's a lot of benefits to SEO backlinks of course. And as SEO has evolved, the SEO you can do has too which comes in many different ways, formats, shapes and means from simple guest posts to more.

As for me these days I am finding that niche related guest posts are working well as well as signals from high traffic blogs and sites like Reddit, Quora, Yahoo Answers from quality answers which also drives targeted traffic works best but it takes time and you have to do it professionally but they provide some good links with juice and traffic so you can't go wrong! 

What SEO is working for you 2018+?