How To Get Top 10 Rankings on Google

How To Get Top 10 Rankings on Google

High rankings rarely happen by chance. Even the most skilled and knowledgeable marketers struggle with getting the top-ranking spot. So, how can a regular business owner hope to achieve this feat? While there’s no way to absolutely guarantee high rankings, this post will look at some strategies anyone can use to seriously increase their chances of claiming that #1 spot.

Choose the right keywords

The keyword strategy that you use, however, is important. There are a few things to note when choosing the keywords you want to target:

– Choose your keywords based on your domain authority. If you want immediate visibility in the SERPs but you have a domain authority of 16, you’re going to want to look for the lowest competition keywords you can. Take your pick out of the low comp keywords and look for those that have the highest search potential out of the lot, and start there. You can still create content and pages for higher competition keywords and it can be shared elsewhere, but remember that you might end up on page 6 of the results.
– Keep search intent in mind. As in the story above, if you want results, your content has to match the search intent behind the keyword. Someone searching for “social media agency” likely isn’t going to want “10 tips to decide if starting a social media agency is for you!” They want to find someone to hire. If your content doesn’t line up with the estimated search intent, it won’t matter how well you rank.
– Use diverse keywords. Shake things up. Go for both long-tail and short-tail keywords. This will help you extend your reach and it will make it easier to target users in all stages of the buying process and funnel, which is important for marketers to accomplish.

As you develop your keyword strategy, you’ll want to do a fair amount of research. Tools like Google’s Keyword Planner are a great way to identify relevant keywords with good search volume. It can be a complicated puzzle, but it’s one you’ll need to solve to make the most of your keyword strategy.

Optimize Your Site

If you’re looking for a direct way to improve your odds of ranking well on the Google SERP, you may want to look into cleaning up the back end of your website.

The first place to start is your site speed. These days, we all expect instantaneous gratification. We want our food to be ready fast, groceries (and pretty much everything else) delivered to our door, packages to arrive in two days (or less)…and web pages to load in less than a second.

Optimize each piece of content for your keywords.

Once you’ve “gone niche” and have chosen some easier keywords, it’s time to use those keywords in strategic places on your page. While you certainly don’t want to overuse your keywords, it is important to use them in a variety of ways within your content. Most importantly, focus on using them in your:

– URL: For instance, instead of www.yoursite.com/sh8xks6.htm, use www.yoursite.com/your-keywords-here.
– Title tag.
– Headings: H1, H2, etc.
– Alt image tag and image captions, where appropriate.
– Throughout your content.

Keep in mind that Google (and your readers) favor comprehensive content that does a great job of covering the topic at hand. So, while it’s important to use your keywords somewhere in your content, that’s no substitute for writing longer, more in-depth content that really does justice to the topic.

Update Your Content Regularly

You’ve probably noticed that we feel pretty strongly about content. Search engines do, too. Regularly updated content is viewed as one of the best indicators of a site’s relevancy, so be sure to keep it fresh. Audit your content on a set schedule (semesterly for example) and make updates as needed.

If you want to get top rankings in Google, you absolutely must be adding new content to your site regularly. But don’t just add content for content’s sake; add useful, high-quality content that actually provides value to your customers and prospects.

This content will help you boost your rankings in two primary ways. First, more content means more keywords, and therefore more opportunities for Google to return your site in the search results. Second, the more content you have, the more links you generally accumulate. Plus, having lots of content is great for getting visitors to stay on your site longer. Win-win!

Get More Quality Backlinks

As mentioned above, backlinks are a key part of how Google determines the value of your content. The idea here is very simple: when a website or webpage provides valuable content, other websites will naturally want to link to that content.

The only problem is, most people don’t dig very far to find good content. They usually look at the first few search results on a page, identify a good source and link to it.

As a result, content that ranks well tends to get more backlinks. Content that doesn’t rank well tends to fall further and further into obscurity.

So how do you get around this problem?

Well, one of the best ways to increase backlinks to your site is through content marketing. The more high-value content you create, the more likely people are to find it and link to it.

This is part of the reason why blogs are so popular for businesses. It gives them a great platform for publishing content and helps them build an audience that loves their business (and hopefully backlinks to their site).

Another way to use content marketing is to create lead magnets. These are usually high-value pieces of content like case studies or white papers that provide unique insight. Since those resources are specific to your business, when people want to use your data in their own content, they’ll usually link back to it.

Improve Site Usability

Site usability is another important ranking factor, according to the Backlinko report cited earlier. If you’ve managed to get to the top three search engine ranking, it’s likely that you’re already aware of this fact. People visiting your website should be able to have an experience that makes them want to stay.

This means your pages should load quickly and completely. And your visitors should be able to navigate effortlessly across your site. The goal is to make sure they stay for a while instead of just bouncing, because a high bounce rate could pull you down in ranking.

You can always use the Google PageSpeed Insights to keep track of how your site is performing in terms of load speed. In addition to analyzing your page speed, this tool also gives you recommendations on how you can optimize the load speed further.

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You want to get your website to the top of Google’s search results? You can do it—if you understand what it takes to rank. Although Google keeps its official list of ranking factors a secret, the key to getting your business to rank higher on Google is not as mysterious as it may seem

How Do Google Search Rankings Work?

When people want to find information, they type or say words related to what they’re looking for. Those are called keywords, and we’ll look at those in the content optimization section of this guide.

But search engine rankings are not just about keywords; they’re also about the quality of information.

According to Google’s own search quality ratings, when it indexes the main content of each page, it checks factors like:

– The purpose of the page
– Expertise, authority, and trustworthiness – not just from the site and the page content, but expertise from the individual creator of the content too.
– Content quality and amount
– Website info and info about the content creator
– Website reputation and content creator reputation

These go into its ranking algorithm and help to determine SEO ranking.

Based on the rating guidelines above, Google shows searchers the most relevant, high quality results related to what they’re looking for. The most relevant are shown first, with the rest being shown over successive pages.

One of the goals of addressing SEO ranking factors is to let Google know when your pages on your site are relevant to particular search queries, so people will click the links and visit your site.

Let’s be clear, though: there’s never a guarantee of a page one or #1 rank, and with SEO guidelines changing all the time, search engine rankings change with them.

Optimize those page titles

When it comes to Google, as well as other popular search engines, the HTML

Tag is a valuable piece of metadata for your page and should be correctly structured.

The title tag should serve as a concise description of your page’s content – and no two title tags should ever be the same (Google doesn’t like duplication). To write a title tag that will help boost your page’s organic search ranking, you should keep it under 70 characters, with the most relevant or primary keywords near the start. It’s also a good idea to include your brand keyword (the keyword used to search for your company name or a variation on this) if you’re trying to boost your brand authority.

So, how should your title tag be structured? Here’s an example of a good title tag…

The HTML title tag is a valuable piece of metadata for your page and should be correctly structured.

Esquire Mag, looking to rank well for ‘best burgers in London’ (it currently ranks number one in Google’s organic search results), has included the keyword they want to rank for at the beginning of their page’s title tag; it then goes onto describe the page’s content more specifically in an engaging way that uses the words ‘buns’ rather than repeating the term burgers – this serves to widen the net of search terms that they might appear for. Keyword rich, enticing, concise, and natural – the perfect ingredients for a great title tag.

Spruce up your meta descriptions

While your meta description isn’t a direct ranking factor regarding search crawling, it does have an impact and if written well, this small snippet of sales copy encourages people to click through to a webpage, boosting its authority and helping your page to rank better for certain keywords. Also, if you use your target keywords in the description, Google will bold them when your page appears on SERPS, making it more eye-catching to web searchers.

Write compelling meta descriptions

The <meta name= description content= > HTML tag is meant to be a concise explanation of a web page’s content. Google displays your meta description beneath the page title in their organic results. While meta descriptions aren’t as important as page titles in your Google ranking, they do play a big role in getting clicks from users. People read descriptions as a preview of your page and use it to determine if your content is worth visiting. You should keep your meta descriptions to under 150 characters since Google won’t display text beyond that. You should also include target keywords in your text, since any words matching a user’s search query will be displayed in bold.

Creaating quality content

We’re sure you’ve heard this one before, but content is still the king of the SEO world this year. User experience is Google’s big priority; creating quality content that is easy for the user to find and understand is key.

There’s a lot that goes into creating quality content, but the basic idea is that Google will recognize and reward content that helps users find the information they were looking for. Think of it as a farm—would you rather have a hundred tomatoes that are semi-ripe and hard as a rock, or would it be better to have a dozen vine-ripened, cherry red tomatoes? When it comes to content on your website, the pages should be the juiciest tomatoes ever.

Quality content means not falling for the most common SEO mistakes, such as keyword stuffing, scraping content, or writing thin content that has little or no value to users. Google’s overall priority is user experience, so if your content doesn’t deliver on this, it won’t rank well.

Decrease average page load speed

Of course the first way to improve Google ranking in SERPs is to decrease your average page load speed! We have said this many times, but we can’t stress enough how important this is. Google loves fast websites. If there are similar sites with comparable DA, content length, backlinks, etc. Google is most likely going to pick the fastest one to show first in SERPs. At one point Google event went as far as testing red labels in SERPs labeled “Slow” for the websites it deemed not fast enough.

Increase time on site (dwell time)

This is one of those factors that has never been confirmed by Google but you can assume that it exists to some extent, and that is “time on site.” Bing’s previous head of Webmaster Tools, Duane Forrester, wrote a blog post and referenced a term that some SEO’s call “Dwell time.” Dwell time is basically an algorithm of bounce rate and time-on-site metrics. It measures how long it takes someone to return to SERPs after clicking on a result. Peter Meyers, a marketing scientist at Moz, recalled that at one point Google tested a feature where if you clicked a listing, and then quickly came back to SERPs, you would get an option to block it.

Decrease bounce rate

The third factor and way you can improve your Google ranking in SERPs is to decrease the bounce rate on your site. It is important to note that bounce rate is not the same as time on site (dwell time) as we just previously discussed. Bounce rate is the percentage of visitors that leave your site after only viewing one page. Google defines bounce rate as the percentage of single-page sessions (i.e. sessions in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting with the page).

Authoritative backlinks

Along with content, backlinks are the bread and butter of SEO. When your website is associated to a trustworthy site via a backlink, it also makes your site look more trustworthy to search engines. Google keeps score of what sites have quality backlinks through PageRank.

PageRank is essentially your “link score.” One of the algorithms that skyrocketed Google to fame, it evaluates both the quality and the number of links to your site, giving it an authority score of 0 to 10. You can’t afford to have spammy, low-quality links in 2020!

Social shares and signals such as Facebook “likes” and shares, tweets, Pinterest pins, etc. most likely influence your Google rankings. Besides just promoting your company, social media has a positive impact on your company’s SEO efforts. When a person finds something they love on social media, they may share that link with others. This increase in inbound links to your site can both improve your credibility and tell Google your content is popular, which can boost your company’s social profiles to the top of branded searches.

Social Signals

When people share your content on social networks, that’s another sign that it’s valuable. Cognitive SEO‘s study of 23 million shares found a definitive link between social shares and search engine ranking.

Google’s official word is that social shares are not a direct ranking factor. Links from Twitter or Facebook aren’t counted the same as links from other authoritative websites.

Still, there’s no denying that the highest ranking pages in Google search results usually have a lot of shares – probably because the more your content is shared, the more people will see it and decide to link to it. That means that getting more social shares does help your search engine rankings, if only indirectly.

Not only do you need to have a social media presence yourself, but you need to make it easy to share your content and amplify those social signals.

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