What is Skyscraper technique?

Answered across 5 episodes of The Best SEO Podcast

The short answer

A content strategy, associated with Brian Dean of Backlinko, where multiple older blog posts are combined into one long, comprehensive piece of content.

How experts on the show define it

A content strategy, associated with Brian Dean of Backlinko, where multiple older blog posts are combined into one long, comprehensive piece of content.

From 10 Content Marketing Skills You Need to Master by Julia McCoy PART 2 #475

A link building strategy coined by Brian Dean where you create content superior to what already ranks, then reach out to sites linking to the original to earn links to your improved version.

From 21 Actionable SEO Techniques That Work GREAT in 2019 by Brian Dean Part 3 #467

A content strategy of creating a more comprehensive, higher-value piece of content than existing top-ranking pages in order to earn backlinks and outrank competitors.

From 21 Actionable SEO Techniques That Work GREAT in 2019 #464

Finding popular but outdated studies or content, recreating them with updated data, and then earning the backlinks that previously pointed to the older version.

From Why You Should Be Using Linkable Assets by Joshua Hardwick Part 2 #421

A content strategy by Brian Dean of Backlinko used to generate ideas for strong lead magnets to attract suspects into a campaign.

From 6 Steps to a Successful Persona Driven Cross Platform Multi Channel Marketing Drip Campaign that Works in 2018 Part 2 #430

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