How to Rank in the Top of Google, Win Traffic, Prospects & Buyers (Bonus: Free Checklist)
Ranking in the top of Google is the dream of every brand with a blog and every SEO expert. Why do we care so much? Because reaching the top of Google is like winning a gold medal in the Content Olympics. ? With a few perks thrown in. More traffic? Yours. More clicks in the SERP? Yours. More qualified leads coming in? Yep, that too. How do we know this will happen? Well, 70.6% of all traffic on the web originates from a Google search (Backlinko and Sparktoro). What’s more, 71% of B2B buyers are reading blogs during their buying journeys — at least 3-5. Positions #1, 2, or 3 on a given search engine results page (SERP), on average, get over 54% of the clicks from that page’s overall traffic. Considering the average click-through rate for paid search is 1.91% across all industries… well… (Tell me again why you’re bothering with paid search?) Knowing how to get to the top of Google (for free, without paying a cent for ads) doesn’t qualify as information that’s simply “nice to have.” Instead, in this dog-eat-dog world of content shock and bro marketing and dying ads… In an internet era where more than 70% of all human traffic online now originates from a search engine… It’s essential. Ready to learn how to improve your Google search results, AND repeat that success over and over? This is what it takes. ⬇️ Bonus: Download your free ebook checklist we created on today’s topic. How to Increase Your Google Rankings: Table of Contents How to Rank in the Top of Google: Content is Key 1. Quality Over Quantity in Content Really Matters 2. Content Consistency Wins the Day 3. Content Doesn’t Rank in the Top of Google Without Relevancy and Usefulness How to Rank in the Top of Google: 3 More Important Factors 1. Quick Site Speed and Page Load Times (Under 3 Seconds) 2. Good Internal Linking Practices 3. Excellent Usability Wrapping Up: How to Rank in the Top of Google Every Time [bctt tweet=”We dream of ranking top 1 in Google — but how is that possible? @JuliaEMcCoy shares how you can get your content to the top of Google with real case studies + a bonus FREEBIE checklist ?” username=”ExpWriters”] How to Rank in the Top of Google: Content is Key Content is one of the key factors that drive search rankings. In a nutshell, it’s about quality, consistency, and relevancy. 1. Quality Over Quantity Really Matters Want to know how to rank higher on Google? Prioritize content of the highest caliber. From the direction Google itself has given about what quality content looks like, we know: Quality content is relevant to what the target reader is searching. It’s the answer they’re looking for when they type in a question or keyword phrase. Quality content is easy to read and easy to understand for the target audience. (That doesn’t mean the content is simple. It means it’s well-written, well-formatted, and well-researched. It means the content is written to the level of whatever audience it’s meant for.) Quality content serves a purpose. It teaches, informs, entertains, or guides the reader. So, if you have a ton of blogs that don’t quite hit the mark for this level of quality, you’re not going to rank as well as a competitor with fewer blogs who absolutely NAILS this definition of quality with every single post. Need great content? We can help. See our pricing. To further demonstrate how & why quality matters, let’s dive into a case study. Case Study: Content Hacker Content Hacker is my new site, launched on June 28, 2019 – less than two months from writing this ebook/blog post. The site is basically a newborn baby, but… we already have a top 10 spot in the rankings. Three months later, right before I published this piece of content, I checked again. As of early September, we’re ranking for a total of 2,500 keywords, bringing in 345+ organic visitors. This amount goes up weekly. Just four weeks ago, we were at 85 keywords present! How did we do it? By focusing on content quality > quantity. We only have 11 blogs and 14 pages total published on the site. However, the average word count for all of our blogs is 4,500. Our longest blog clocks in at 5,000 words. [bctt tweet=”.@JuliaEMcCoy grew @content_hackers from nothing to more than 2,500+ keyword rankings in Google in less than three months. ? How? She focused on content quality, not quantity, with just 11 5,000w mega-blog guides.” username=”ExpWriters”] Before creation, I spent days on ideation. I picked out focus keywords like ergonomic home office, remote freelance writing jobs, and wrote mega-blog outline complete with synonymous keywords. Guess what we’re starting to rank for in Google, with this brand new site? Each one of our mega-blogs are starting to rank for their focus keywords in Google. Content works, guys. But you have to do it right. Each of our mega, 5,000-word blog guides are deeply researched, thoroughly outlined, takes days (or even weeks!) to write, and includes plenty of supporting images, facts, graphs, GIFs – you name it. It’s no coincidence that the keywords we’re winning are within those ultra-long-form guides. Our steady growth on Content Hacker is mainly thanks to quality content. Just look at that solid, upward-trending line from our SEMrush trackings for proof: 2. Consistency Wins the Day Here’s the thing: You can’t just depend on one factor to buoy your content to the top of Google because the search engine doesn’t look at one factor – it looks at many. That’s why consistency, along with quality, is so important when it comes to content. You can’t publish an exceptional blog once and let the rest slide. Let me say it louder, for the people in the back: Every. Single. Content. Piece. Must. Be. Exceptional. Think of it this way: Each content piece is like a building block. They stack on top of each other, one by one, to create … Read more