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SEO is my main issue as well. I write good content, share with the right folks, write guest posts (that got featured of 4 different big websites), yet my traffic is tanking!

It was growing steadily, but after I switched to https, it started consistently falling, every day.

Google, I try to keep my website healthy and have good content, why are you testing my patience?

Is link building still the #1 strategy to boost your page rank? OR has the game changed?

Can anyone point to a good SEO guide? (Would be willing to pay $$$)

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In general, I have found this blog to be very useful https://medium.com/@KeywordsHeaven and their main site https://www.keywordsheaven.com/.

They seem to publish new articles/guides every week or so and have addressed link building in the past which, according to their case study, appears to not be the most important thing, although it is important.

> Can anyone point to a good SEO guide? (Would be willing to pay $$$)

I wrote a concise and actionable guide for on-page SEO here:

https://www.checkbot.io/guide/seo/

I also wrote a Chrome extension that will check the suggested SEO guidelines for you automatically, checking multiple pages at a time:

https://www.checkbot.io

When you moved to HTTPs, and the site tanked, then most likely it's due to a bad HTTP/HTTPs migration. I see that all the time, and there's a lot more involved to migrating to HTTPs then you'd think.

The biggest problem I see is that sites are migrated to HTTPs but they fail to set up the redirects properly or they forget to updated all the internal links on the site so they point to HTTPs.

I did set up the 301 redirect for main page. Every existing link was also updated to HTTPS.

If you navigate directly to the http url for an article, it does NOT redirect, but if you goto http://www.mysite.com, it redirects to https://www.mysite.com

I also see that when I Google my site's content, the links in google are https://, which means Google now knows that my website is running https.

What may I be missing here?

> If you navigate directly to the http url for an article, it does NOT redirect

That would be your problem. As far as Google is concerned you are operating two different sites. Redirect all your old http URLs to the HTTPS versions of the same content. But it might be too late if that old http content is considered “gone” from Google’s index.

Here's a good guide: https://clearbit.com/books/data-driven-marketing/b2b-seo-con...

https://backlinko.com/seo-this-year

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