{"id":2002,"date":"2021-05-10T13:49:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seobuddy.com\/blog\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2021-05-10T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:51:09","slug":"my-seo-journey-mohammad-athar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seobuddy.com\/blog\/my-seo-journey-mohammad-athar\/","title":{"rendered":"My SEO Journey: Mohammad Athar from englishsummary.com – Half-million free organic traffic per month leveraging all search engines."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My SEO Journey is a new series where entrepreneurs and Indie makers will share their honest SEO Journey filled with failure and success, and most importantly proven results. Episode #13 features Mohammad Athar from EnglishSummary<\/a> & ExploreKeywords<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mohammad<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hey guys! I\u2019m Mohammad Athar from Darhal Valley, a small village in Jammu and Kashmir, India. I am the founder of englishsummary.com<\/a>, englishnotes.com<\/a>. I began my blogging career back in 2015 when I was a student of English Literature and could not find study material online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Till the outbreak of COVID-19, I was working on Education Niche. However, due to the pandemic, my sites suffered traffic loss. So, I thought about having an alternative. I decided to launch my own keyword research tools website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 16, 2020, I launched explorekeywords.com<\/a> which is now one of the leading keyword research tools websites on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My SEO Journey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As we all know, keyword research is one of the fundamental parts of any growth strategy, it is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the bloggers’ community. I have often talked to new and old bloggers and even saw in groups that people go after \u201cvolume\u201d of keywords. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some others have introduced techniques like KGR and God knows what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, throughout my 6 years of blogging career, I have learned that in order to rank on Google and grow our website, we need to follow some steps which are different from what most companies and SEO Gurus preach.

As a student of English Literature, blogging and WordPress was quite a different field for me. But I was often motivated by sites like SparkNotes <\/a>and GradeSaver<\/a> to begin something online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This motivation helped me to learn the basics of WordPress and Keyword Research in a short period.

Within 3 years, I was able to reach 1.5 Million page views on my website englishsummary.com<\/a>
and launch my own keyword research tools website explorekeywords.com<\/a>.

This exponential growth led me to quit my Ph.D. from AMU which is one of India\u2019s topmost Universities. Today, I have a team of 11 people and most of the work is on automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Content Strategy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The reason behind my success is my experience and techniques which I learned over time and
would like to tell you in this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never Follow SEO Gurus<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I know, most of you won\u2019t agree with me on this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I have seen that most of the bloggers fail because of SEO Gurus. These Gurus start their journey by introducing some big and confusing terms to their users and as they grow, they use their name to sell their products, courses, and affiliate products. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never learned difficult terms like KGR, Skyscraper Technique, Link Farming, CTR, Ninja Techniques, etc… as proposed by SEO Gurus but made all the strategies by myself and learned everything by hit and trial method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding Content Ideas and Noting Down All the Topics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Most of us think that content strategy begins with keyword research and backlinking. However, I believe that keyword research and other SEO factors are secondary. The first step is to make a content strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

e.g. if I am going to write on Keyword Research, I will make a list of <\/p>\n\n\n\n