How to do this Growth Hack and what can it do for you?
You will learn how to deploy a free site in a few minutes with Netifly by targeting your target keywords for send them back to your most strategic pages.
Expected results of this Growth Hack
- Type of marketing tactic: creating backlinks for your SEO
- Expected result: Increase in the number of backlinks with a website benefiting from the authority of Netifly.
Why do this Growth Hack?
Are you struggling with backlinks? You don't have the time or the budget to carry out Netlinking campaigns?
This Growth Hack is made for you.
In fact, by analyzing the backlinks of several US and French sites, I realized that some were taking advantage of the authority of almost “empty” sites that nevertheless arrive on the first page of Google's results. So I started from scratch on the realization of this hack to understand how to set it up, here is the result for you.
With the help of this Growth Hack, you will be able to create support for your SEO strategy by creating numerous pages. targeting your key pages to targeted keywords.
How do you do this Growth Hack?
Without going into detail, the code of your web page will be stored on GitHub and then deployed on the Web using Netifly.
1) Open an account on GitHub
The first step is therefore to go to GitHub in order to prepare the space that will host the code for our web page.
- To open an account on Github : Click on”Sign up“
- Enter your email address
Let yourself be guided on creating your account, which will take a few seconds to do even if you have never used it.
Once done, we will focus on Netlify, the tool that will allow us to deploy this code on the web for free.
2) Open an account on Netlifly
As mentioned earlier, the interest of this growth hack will be to use the source code of a web page on Github and to deploy on a free web space using Netlif.
This same web space has a high domain authority, that of Netlify. Since we have control of the code, it is thus possible for us to have free rein to use any type of link that points to our website. In our case of Dofollow backlinks !
- To open an account on Netlify, go to the home page : Click”Get Started for Free“
- Follow the procedure,
- We are going to choose the registration and the connection with the GitHub account you just created:
- Enter your GitHub password to complete registration
3) Creating a website in Netlify
Once connected, you arrive on the Netlify interface, it is now time to create our website.
- To do this, you will click on the button”Add a New Site“
At this stage you have several choices available to start your project:
- In order to quickly do this hack, we will start with an available model
- Click on”Start from a template“
Now choose the template you want to use:
- In this example, I'm going to use the simplest template, i.e. the first element called “”Next.js Starter“
- Name the name of the repository where your files will be stored (Repository Name)
Leave the visibility of your repository in public or not, it doesn't really matter much (Repository visibility).
In my case I am going to do it so that you can see, copy and be inspired by my source code.
- Now press the” buttonDeploy site“
- Once deployed, you will be able to access the next page, which gives you access to the address of your website and the code of your website on GitHub.
Let's take a look at how our current website looks like:
As you can see this site is currently empty or very minimalistic.
We are going to use this web page which has a high authority score to create (backlinks or “backlinks”) to our website
4) Modifying the website code in Github
At this stage, we will modify the code of our website in Github to create our backlinks
- Click on Github in the Netlify interface as seen earlier in 3)
- Arrived on Github, click pages as below to access the file
- Then Open the file Index.js
In this step you will modify the code of this site to make it look like something and especially to insert your magnificent backlinks.
You will edit the file by clicking on the icon as in the image below:
Ok but what to put in the file?
First, here is an example of my file created for this Growth Hack that you can watch AND copy for inspiration: GitHub website code
Here is the result of the web page created from this code.
You can find this very basic website at the following address: Web site address
5) Create my website template and publish it
Many of you are going to tell me that you have never written a line of computer code and that from then on you will be stuck.
Don't worry I have the solution for you!
Have you already written a Word document? It's no more complicated than that!
We are going to use a growth hack that consists of writing the text in “Word” format and exporting the code in “HTML” format in a fraction of seconds.
- Go to the site: https://html-cleaner.com/
- Write your text just like you would in any word processor.
PS: It is also possible directly in Google Doc, to export your HTML code but I did not voluntarily do it because the rendering is more complicated than in the example. If you still want to do it, you will have to use the same tool (HTML cleaner) to “clean” it of all unnecessary things before using it.
- Get the HTML code for your production on the right side of the screen that you just have to copy.
NOTE: Be sure to use keywords that correspond to the titles of your target pages in these backlinks. Example: the keywords”Growth Hacks“from my Netlify page link to the page”Growth Hacks“from my website
Use the code copied inside the tags <main>and</main> as in the example below:
Now it's time to publish your website.
- To perform this action, it's very simple, all you have to do is press the button”Commit changes“
NOTE: If you want to change your code regularly or if you want to work together on it, I advise you to add information during the commit to better follow its evolution and easily understand your changes even when you go back to it months later
Deployment to Netlify is done automatically but you can always perform a few control actions to see if everything went well:
- Check on GitHub that the commit went well (Latest commit XXXXX now)
- In Netlify, you will find the “Published” indication as below
5) Access your website
In Netlify, click on “Preview deploy” to access the address of your website which contains nice backlinks to your website!
NOTE: If you want to create several websites like this one, be careful not to always create the same content to avoid search engine penalties on these same sites.
It may also be interesting to create several different sites on the same theme and create backlinks between these websites.
