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In today’s issue, we’ll share key lessons from an insightful session hosted by Karthik Sridharan is the Co-founder, Flexiple & Remote.tools on Growing traffic 5x in 6 months & revenue to $1mn using SEO.

Learn SEO tactics from Flexiple to grow traffic 5x in 6 months & revenue to $1mn

Everyone wants to rank higher on Google. But it’s arguably more challenging than ever before.

That doesn’t mean it’s impossible, as you can see from the fact that a few of Hellomeet's blog ranks on the first page on Google.

let’s keep Hellomeets SEO aside for another day and focus on How SEO helped flexible drive results consistently.

1. Setting up the basics

• Before starting off the whole SEO exercise, do a quick SEO audit. This is to ensure every page of your website follows SEO best practices.
• Your website UI is important to attract visitors. But don’t do it at the cost of the page speed or the Loading time. Your blog speed/loading time is a crucial metric in ranking too.
• Subdomains hurt SEO. Instead of optimizing a single site, you’ll have the task of optimizing two sites. That includes building each website’s backlink profile which is the most challenging parts of SEO. So, avoid hosting your blog on a subdomain.

It is much harder to rank for keywords without “Domain Authority”

So, in addition to investing in content, do work on increasing your website's "domain authority" (DA).

(Domain Authority (DA) is a search engine ranking score developed by Moz that predicts how likely a website is to rank in search engine result pages (SERPs))

This takes us to the next section.

1. Increasing the website's Domain Authority

• Backlinks still remain the only true way of growing your website's authority. Focus on getting only quality backlinks => backlinks from directory OR spam websites are not only useless but also damaging.