Welcome to the blog millionaire, where we break down the essential strategies of today's most successful bloggers

to take your blog to the next level with top-notch content, monumental traffic growth, and multiple revenue streams to go beyond your wildest goals.

So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host whose blog gets more than one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey.

My name's Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 228 of the blog millionaire.

The kryptonite for a large number of bloggers is link building.

Many either do not invest the time needed to succeed or end up using tactics that don't work.

Some experts say the only way a blogger can achieve success without link building is by consistently writing posts on low

competition keywords. What many bloggers don't know is that writing blog posts on low competition

keywords is one of the most effective ways to build backlinks. A study by HRFs looked at 10,000

non-branded keywords and found that position one in Google

receives a median of 24 do-follow backlinks every year.

Bloggers and reporters are on a tight deadline and they tend to grab their supporting information

from the URL ranking at the top of organic search. You can build

a passive backlink funnel by writing 80% of your post on low competition phrases that deliver number

one rankings. In this new series, I will teach you actionable tactics for building backlinks,

both passively and actively.

Now let's get into the first link building growth hack.

And that hack is writing pillar post on the most searched industry statistics in your niche.

When a journalist or blogger writes a post, they need a stat or two to

back up their writing. Before they hit publish, they go to Google to find a stat they can use. By writing

stats blog post, I have received backlinks from major magazines and news sites like Forbes,

The Guardian, Inc., entrepreneur, fast company,

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