in this video I'm going to show you how to rank on Google on the first page even
if your site is new if you type in bora-bora sharks into Google right now
and click google search you will see that my website travel croc calm is the
number one result on Google and this website has a very weak domain without
backlinks and I'm still managing to rank on page one I'm going to show you
exactly how I did it and how you can do the same for your content as well if we
analyze the search term in a giraffe's bora-bora sharks you will see that my
website is the featured snippet Travel croc and my domain rank is just two you
can see that over here and with this week domain I'm managing to outrank some
insanely strong websites such as TripAdvisor with a domain rank of 93
smarter travel with the main rank of 80 another Trip Advisor the New Zealand
version of it with domain rank 85 and other websites such as staff dot codon
and zette with domain rank 88 I'm beating all of these websites and I'm
ranking at the number one position and I'm gonna show you exactly how hi
everyone my name is Greg Kononenko on this channel I publish regular videos
where I show you how to get free traffic and how to rank your site on page one of
Google click subscribe just below this video to stay up to date so can your
site really outrank big websites establish websites with a lot of money
and a lot of authority this is one of the most common questions that I get
asked on this channel so I wanted to record this video to show you that it's
absolutely possible for you to rank your site on page one of Google so I've
already given you one example where my website travel Cronk outranks a ton of
other very powerful websites such as TripAdvisor let's look at another
example and that's the keyword Bora Bora facts I've actually just started typing
it in here so you can see that it's a really frequently searched term that's
recognized by Google Bora Bora facts so if I click that you can see that my
website is ranking at the number three position for this keyword Barbara facts
and I actually outrank even Wikipedia for this keyword do you guys also want
to Wikipedia for some of your target
searches if you think this is pretty cool and you'd like to do that then drop
me a comment below and let me know that you'd like to do that as well the first
thing that you need to do if you want to rank on Google first page is to make
sure that you choose the keywords with the right difficulty let's use the
travel niche as an example for this video one of the ways to find great
keywords for a blog in the travel niche is to type in names of different
countries into ATF's and after you bring up the results inside keyword explorer
for that country choose the option on the left having same terms that's going
to bring up all of the keywords in the href database that have got the word
vanuatu in them you can see we've got 16,000 208 keywords and a lot of them
have got pretty high keyword difficulty if your website is brand new or still in
the early stages then you will want to make sure that you choose a maximum
keyword difficulty and apply filter with a maximum value of 5 and then click
apply to see what kind of results it filters now our keywords have been cut
down to 371 however all of the keywords that we've got here are extremely easy
to rank for and many of them are excellent candidates for your blog this
is an example for the travel niche however you can absolutely apply the
same technique to any other niche which have an issue your blog is in after that
you will need to apply your judgment to see which keywords hold high value for
you or lower value for you for example survivor Vanuatu probably is not going
to be suitable for a travel blog time in Vanuatu might not be suitable for a
travel blog however keywords such as champagne Beach Vanuatu Vanuatu volcano
especially fishing in Vanuatu might actually be excellent topics for
articles for a travel blog step number 2 that I normally do in my keyword
research process when I want to rank on page 1 of Google is to look for weak
domains in the top 10 domains on the first page of results the way to do this
would be if we wanted to consider further and analyze this keyword
champagne Beach Vanuatu would be to open this surf options so that we get this
drop down of results and then look detail on page one of search engine
result pages these are all of the results that are currently in Google
coming up on page one and what I'm looking for is this value a R which
stands for a Travis rank and ideally we want to see as many websites here with
high values of a are as possible so and a our rank of for example 17 tells us
that this is a very strong website and probably might be a tiny bit hard for us
to compete with so Wikipedia you can see has got IR of 17 but what we want to see
is websites like this centered or travel that has got an AR rank of 8 million 600
or eight point six million which means that in the overall legal era of
websites on the internet it's towards the bottom so the strongest website is
number one in the weakest is at the very bottom ideally I'd like to see at least
two or three websites that have a rank of over 1 million because that then
tells me that there are other weak websites that are managing to rank on
page one so my website will also have hope of
ranking so for this particular keyword champagne beech Vanuatu we can see that
there are three weak websites that are managing to rank on page one so this is
a massive teak and a really good sign the next thing that I do is I check the
length of content of these competing pages this is a manual job but it does
not take too long so you can open each of these in a new tab and then calculate
the number of words on this page so you can select all of the text like this and
either copy and paste it into Microsoft Word which will give you the word count
or you can use an extension such as word counter and this one has told me that
there are a hundred and four words on here
so then I will copy and paste this URL into a brand new notepad document and
I'll put down hundred and four and I will repeat this with each of the
results so then I will open up my favorite escapes and do the same thing
this article on my favorite escapes calm is a little bit longer so when I count
these words it's got 1576 I'll add that into the
not bad and in just a couple of minutes you can end up with a list that's
looking like this so this is telling us that most of the pages that are
currently ranking on page one actually have very short content so the longest
one is my favorite escapes they've got 1576 words however all other articles
are extremely short and also when we look at the Wikipedia that's ranking
number one they basically have got no information on champagne Beach in
Vanuatu they've only just got 71 words so this means that nobody has actually
written a proper guide on champagne Beach in Vanuatu so far and this keyword
is getting 1,100 searches per month which is pretty crazy no one's taken
advantage of this opportunity now why is this important
here is why Google loves long-form content Google loves content that is
in-depth authoritative content that is the exact reason why this super-weak
website my favorite escapes com they've written a decent guide on
champagne Beach Vanuatu and look at the websites that they are out ranking
they're out ranked in Vanuatu travel which is a very strong website domain
during 57 they are out ranking daily posts they're out ranking expedia.com
and they're out ranking flight network only because if we look at the word
count we can see that they've they're the only website that has actually
written a proper long-form content so rankings on page one of Google they
don't depend on the a our age rafts rank or on D our domain rank of a website
that is a part of the consideration however one of the main things that
Google wants is they want to show super high quality in-depth content and that
is the exact reason why my favorite escapes com are there at position number
five out ranking all of these massive websites that is also the reason why I
outrank all other websites for such keyword terms as bora-bora facts where
I'm out ranking Wikipedia I'm out ranking travel team and various other
sites because I have written a proper long
from article with a lot of media and it's an in-depth content whereas the
Wikipedia article which by the way I'm out ranking I'm ranked above Wikipedia
for bora-bora facts they actually have very little content if you look at it
there is not a lot of information here my article is longer it's more in-depth
and this is why Google prefer to show my content instead of Wikipedia's content
so the takeaway here for you is to make sure that you don't just focus on domain
rank but look at the lengths of the underlying content the next thing that
you'll want to look at if you want to rank on the first page of Google is the
intent of the search let's say you are analyzing the keyword combination by
genes and you've brought up all of the terms that include that combination and
you might come across something like where to buy bell-bottom jeans by the
way I have no idea what the bell-bottom jeans are but anyway it might seem like
a good keyword because it's got a decent search volume it also seems to have a
buyer intent which you might think is a good thing and it's got a keyword
difficult of just for and when we look at the first page of results for this
keyword we can see that every single result that comes up is actually a shop
or a store where people can actually buy those jeans those bell-bottom jeans
there are no blogs on page one at all and that is because Google knows that
the person who is entering that into Google they actually want to buy jeans
they're not looking for blog or information on bell-bottom jeans they're
not looking for references for where they can go and buy them they're
actually looking for a store that sells them and so if you write a blog post
with where to buy bell-bottom jeans and put links to all the different places
you never go into ranked on page one simply because there are no other blogs
that are ranking there and that is a sign that Google does not want blogs
they want to show shops on page one so pay attention to that and make sure that
when you're analyzing your keyword you have any situations similar to what you
can see here where some of the results are actually blogs such as this my
favorite escape calm which is a blog with information
with about the topic of the search if there are already one two or three blogs
on page one that have got information types similar to what you're going to
write your article about that is a good sign that's what you want that means
that you will have a very good chance of getting there onto page one as well the
last step of what it takes to rank on Google first page is to make sure that
your content is the best content out of all of the pages that you can see on
page one so far that usually means at least 2,000 words that usually means
that you need to insert some high-quality images on a lot of my posts
I also embed YouTube videos Google likes reach media content
so make sure that you insert several attractive images also you can embed
other people's videos from YouTube just grab the embed code from YouTube and
insert them into your blog post that will allow people to watch those youtube
videos while they're staying on your blog that will in turn increase user
engagement metrics the time that the user spends on the page and Google
tracks all that and they will know that people stay on your page for a long time
they enjoy your content and therefore you will increase your chances to go up
the Google rankings this is what I do personally to rank on Google first page
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