# How To Do SEO On a Tiny Website that Doesn’t Have Any Visitors or Money \| Ep\. \#223

**URL:** https://www.singlegrain.com/episodes/marketing-school/how-to-do-seo-on-a-tiny-website-that-doesnt-have-any-visitors-or-money-ep-223/  
**Published:** 2017-03-11  
**Updated:** 2017-12-06  
**Author:** Selena Templeton  
**Summary:** In Episode \#223, Eric and Neil discuss how to do an SEO to a tiny website that doesn’t have any visitors or money\. When starting with very little, it can\.\.\.  

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In Episode #223, Eric and Neil discuss how to do an SEO to a tiny website that doesn’t have any visitors or money. When starting with very little, it can a daunting task to draw people to your website. Tune in to find out that there is hope—there are small, tangible actions you can take to increase your traffic.

### Time Stamped Show Notes:

- 00:27 – Today’s topic: _How To Do SEO On a Tiny Website That Doesn’t Have Any Visitors or Money_
- 00:45 – As a tiny website, you can’t compete with the big ones, so pick a niche 
    - 00:57 – Choose a niche that is not too broad
- 01:30 – Start with content 
    - 01:40 – Focus on content and start building relationships with people
    - 02:13 – Make your content in-depth
- 02:30 – Apple and Google started small
- 03:00 – Take things slow and easy
- 03:17 – Don’t focus on the number of pages, but quality
- 03:32 – When you have a detailed article, reach out with people in a similar niche 
    - 03:36 – Go to [Ahrefs](https://growtheverywhere.com/ahrefs) and put in your website’s URL—it will tell you about your competition
- 04:20 – Growth Everywhere’s affiliate [link](https://growtheverywhere.com/ahrefs) with Ahrefs
- 04:30 – Use [BuzzSumo](http://buzzsumo.com/) and [Pitchbox](http://pitchbox.com/) for link outreach 
    - 04:53 – Use [BuzzStream](http://www.buzzstream.com/) for link outreach
- 05:04 – Think of [Wikipedia](https://www.wikipedia.org/) as inspiration
- 05:40 – Go to Single Grain to find the 1 million backlink studies they performed on [ AirBnb](https://www.singlegrain.com/blog-posts/link-building/analysis-of-1-million-backlinks-airbnb-part-2/) and [ Udemy](https://www.singlegrain.com/blog-posts/link-building/analysis-of-1-million-backlinks-udemy-part-110/)
- 05:58 – That’s it for today’s episode!

### 3 Key Points:

1. Start small – don’t think about conquering the world.
2. Pick a niche where you know you will do well.
3. Create well-detailed content and do a link outreach – this will increase your visitors significantly.

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