{"id":7480,"date":"2022-10-18T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seobuddy.com\/blog\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:55:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:55:50","slug":"my-seo-journey-topicranker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seobuddy.com\/blog\/my-seo-journey-topicranker\/","title":{"rendered":"My SEO Journey [Pro Edition]: Dmitry Dragilev from topicranker.com \u2013 Finding weaknesses in search results to discover easy-to-rank keywords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My SEO Journey [PRO Edition] is a series where professionals in the SEO Industry, Digital Marketing, or Web Design share their honest SEO Journey filled with failure, success, and most importantly, proven results.<\/em>\u00a0Episode #100 features Dmitry Dragilev from TopicRanker<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everyone is looking for content with substance. The days of posting an article just to accumulate posts on a new blog, or stuff some links into a piece are no longer well tolerated. As a content producer, I know that people can\u2019t possibly read everything related to a topic, they don\u2019t have that kind of time. The best articles are the ones with information people can actually use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me back things up a bit. Hi. I\u2019m Dmitry Dragilev. I\u2019m an entrepreneur, consultant, relaxed CrossFitter, late-to-the-party pianist, and all-around family guy pushing boundaries around what constitutes balancing work and life. With an emphasis on life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started providing marketing guidance to clients who wanted to learn how to implement growth strategies through my aptly named consultancy, Criminally Prolific<\/a>. You might have seen this case study of how I used PR to grow a startup from 0 to 40M pageviews per month and got acquired by Google<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took the know how from this experience decided to take the plunge and become a full-fledged Saas entrepreneur – I launched JustReachOut<\/a> to help businesses automate their outreach practices, enabling thousands of early stage startups and small businesses to replicate the daunting process of running a modern public relations shop in-house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere along the way I bought and scaled SmallBiz.tools<\/a> – a blog for business tool reviews – from 0 to 30K visitors per months, Now, after years of recognizing the pitfalls and patterns inherent in the process of developing content that makes the SEO world swoon and the fellow high ranking competition fade into the background, I built and launched my latest Saas Topic Ranker <\/a>– a tool which recommends keywords you should target on your blog based on weaknesses and problems in search results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, how is it that people manage to land on exactly the most relevant content? Search engines. Most often the one that rhymes with kugel. I love kugel. SEO was once an afterthought for many business owners but now it\u2019s the singular marketing activity that provides the greatest value. If you have a website and rely on people learning about your products or services for growth, SEO is the last thing you want to leave on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been focused on building Topic Ranker in a way that\u2019s surprised me. I\u2019m having the most fun experimenting with what I think will be a hot topic and seeing how my judgment compares to the algorithm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To demonstrate how TopicRanker works I recently ran an experiment where I ranked #1 for \u201cwhich keywords are best to target\u201d<\/a> – 320\/mo search volume on my brand new domain – topicranker.com in two weeks without any links!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The secret sauce was that I picked a keyword which had a specific weakness in the search result, here are the weaknesses TopicRanker reported on as it suggested I\u00a0 go after this keyword:<\/p>\n\n\n\n