Case Study, Project 1

(“Skyscraper Technique 2.0”)

(In 7 days!)

This same approach helped my brand new post hit the #1 spot in Google… within weeks:

Google SERP – Mobile SEO – Number 1 spot

And today’s SEO case study I’m going to show you exactly how I did it, step-by-step.

My Content Was a Smash Hit… Then It Flopped

On July 26th, 2016 I published this post:

Backlinko – SEO checklist 2016

My post got a huge spike in traffic in its first week:

SEO Checklist – Traffic spike in first week

Lots of shares:

SEO checklist – Social shares

And people quickly started linking to it:

SEO checklist – Backlink

Sure enough, my page cracked the top 10 for my target keyword (“SEO checklist”) a few weeks later.

SEO Checklist – Cracking the top 10

All good right?

Well… not really.

You see, my posts usually get more traffic from SEO over time.

Not my SEO checklist page.

In fact: organic search traffic to that page decreased as time went on.

SEO Checklist – Traffic drop over time

It got so bad that my post averaged only 4-5 visitors per day.

SEO Checklist – Low daily visitors