Matt Diggity Reviews Gear Hungry [Affiliate SEO Audit]
A nose-dive! In this SEO audit, you’ll find out how Gear Hungry went from one of the most popular affiliate websites to almost “non-existent” and why Google’s December 2020 Core Update could be to blame…
Check my Google’s December 2020 Core Update video here:
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Here’s my analysis…
00:00 Introduction
01:11 Social Activities
04:24 Indexed Pages
07:08 Traffic Change VS % of Pages Graph
08:17 Sanity Check: Annihilated Sites
09:11 The impact of content categorizations
**Gear Hungry’s Ahrefs Results Analysis**
11:43 Site Explorer
13:23 Site Audit
16:12 Referring Domains
**On-site SEO**
19:13 Single Page
23:40 Surfer SEO: Surfer Audit Analysis
29:21 Multi-Page
30:37 Internal Backlinks via Ahrefs
33:51 “About Us” Page Review
35:52 Summary
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Always like your review video.
Awesome factors mentions.
Thanks. 🙂
Based on your review Matt . What is the ratio of affiliate content to its information topic post wise .
Good to see you Matt. Great breakdown.
Amazon affiliation sucks now. I used to do very well years ago with Amazon. Now I do shit with Amazon.
Good video, boss!
Just wondering and a quick questions – In case I have the same issue where 80% of my articles are affiliate articles. If I wound like to add a blog to create general articles and link to money pieces, how would you categorize blog articles if they would probably be the same category/similar article as affiliate articles?
The new owners of the site must be blue in the face with such a huge traffic drop
great staff
Nice one Diggity. The same issues you highlight are what got my site tanked in 2018 medic update. Worked on them and recovered nicely. Especially the publishing of informational content exclusively.
Hi Matt, Really eye opening review. Can you please answer one my confusions, please?
It is easy to get links in Info content through outreach or PR for affiliate site but what about the review (affiliate) contents? What should be the best strategy to get links in affiliate contents as many of the competitors getting Backlinks in affiliate/review contents to be on top of search result.
Tops!
Thanks boss
Matt we just love this type of videos ❤️
OK, I can see why there site tanked. Thin content for many articles. They deserve to be penalized. Had they actually taken the time to write well researched content, perhaps this may have not happened.
I compared best-emergency-survival-kits from Gear Hungry to Wirecutter…
200-300 words to Wirecutter which had 10,500 words..
Thank you for the in depth review Matt….Make it a great day
@matt you hit the nail on the head. This site needs a few tweaks, and a lot more RDs and inner pages with links.
Check competition and they're huge sites with 20k plus RDs overall, with the ranking pages also having 5 to 100 RDs.
My take fix what you said and more links to inner pages. Check out comp for an idea on how many, which pages etc.
Good luck
The content pages are thin affiliate. Each "review" of the product is 2 paragraphs. That's not enough info to make a buying decision. It's designed purely to make people click the link and offers no value otherwise
Hey Matt, great video, would you consider "shop related products" sections with affiliate links on the bottom of normal pages to be an issue as well, or is that only for normal affiliate links?
This is actually a great analysis. Thanks Matt
Great breakdown boss!
Super helpful to see what kind of things you pay attention to when auditing a site🤙
Great video. I'm curious about toxic links or negative SEO.
Massive drop but the reason is obvious and its nothing to do with backlinks – it's purely down to the content not meeting Google's own published guidelines – ie there is NO content on this site that is not already on the Amazon page. No value = no listing.
For a student of Affiliate Marketing and working on 2 websites, your content was really helpful… Thanks again
Great video, Matt, thanks a lot for doing these.
Regarding orphan pages — I checked a few of them, and they in fact aren't orphaned. They're just on some of the paginated category pages.
What gives?
Good findings Matt!
I wonder why didn't you talk about the external link anchor text? Since it plays major role!