Foreword by a Reader
I met Fernando at a point where I was ready to give up on SEO.
I'd been running my ecommerce site for two years. I'd written hundreds of product descriptions, optimized every meta tag I could find, built dozens of backlinks through guest posts and outreach. And my organic traffic had plateaued. Flat. No growth for six months.
I was doing everything "right." And it wasn't working.
Then I stumbled onto Fernando's work through a talk he gave at a local SEO meetup. He was talking about internal linking, and something clicked. He wasn't telling people to build more links or write more content. He was telling them to look at what they already had.
I went home that night and audited my site's internal links. It took three hours. What I found made me sick.
I had pages with no internal links at all. Pages that had been sitting there for eighteen months, completely invisible to Googlebot. My best products were buried five clicks deep behind endless category filters. The link equity from my highest-authority pages was being wasted on legal pages and contact forms.
I spent the next month fixing it. I didn't build a single new backlink. I didn't write a single new piece of content. I just reorganized the links I already had.
Within sixty days, my organic traffic was up 47%. My top product pages had moved from page three to page one. I was getting traffic from pages that had been invisible.
This is what this book can do for you.
David Chen
Founder, GreenLeaf Organics