Ranking a website in the Marijuana niche in 3 months?  What?!

Yep – if i was reading this i think it’d be BS too.  It isn’t though.  The domain is an Exact Match Domain, the target location is Thailand.  There’s a lot of speculation in the SEO community around Google’s sandbox, for those of you who are not familiar – The sandbox is a 6 month-ish (it can be longer or shorter to climb out), within this period your new website will struggle to rank organically without significant PR, Social Media or Referral traffic.

This site was a test to see what we could do with our services

In the SEO game, the Marijuana niche is one of the toughest to perform in.  Here’s what we did –

• Apply a niche relevant domain 301 redirect
• 5x DR 40+ niche relevant sites (sites that are not oversold in terms of outbound links)
• Pillow/foundation backlinks
  • This is very helpful with managing your anchor text %
• Information based content – pulled from People Also Ask & other informational based queries
• Apply some Wikipedia link building from relevant pages
• Create a Youtube channel with a simple explainer video, which then had Youtube SEO applied to it.  Referral traffic is an excellent signal to send to Google for new websites
• Reddit marketing – front page achieved for 3x relevant subreddits, referral traffic
• Quora marketing – this was verrrry effective