11. Reverse Engineer the Results on Page 6

Fun fact: Reverse engineering pages 2-10 will often hook you up with top-notch link opportunities…

…opportunities that you’d miss when you only reverse engineer Google’s first page.

But you’re probably wondering: “Is there really anything good to reverse engineer on page 6?”

The short answer: yes.

The idea that pages 3-10 are littered with low-quality sites is a myth.

In fact, a lot of the results on Google’s inner pages are made up of people that started cool sites…

but eventually gave up when things didn’t work out the way they planned.

Here’s the thing: before they moved on to the next project, they published some awesome resources.

Because these resources tend to be neglected, you can easily improve them and steal their links using The Skyscraper Technique.

For example, I did a quick search for “weight loss tips”.

Sure enough, I found this heavily linked-to resource on the 6th page:

As you can probably see from the screenshot, this site has A LOT of room for improvement.

However, because the author of this page used to care about his site, he was able to land links to his site from authority sites like Livestrong:

Think you could take the content from this old site and make it better?

I know you can