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00:05 Xavier Kelly: Hey, guys, it's Xavier Kelly.
In this video, I'm gonna walk you through how to rank your blog, and not just your blog,
but also your blog posts.
This is gonna be part one out of part five.
If I were to put it all together, it will be a very long video so I'm gonna link to
those as well as those come up.
So make sure you stay tuned and learn more.
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00:28 XK: Like always, guys, I'm gonna leave all the links and resources down in the description,
so make sure check those out at the end of the video.
Let's get straight into it.
Number one, get all your accounts set up.
So go sign up for an account for Google Analytics then go sign up for account for Google Search
Console and Bing Webmaster.
Google Search Console used to be Google Webmaster, so just basically it's the same thing.
Go sign up for each one of these accounts.
Everything is completely free.
Google Analytics is more for tracking all your analytics and everything like that.
Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster is more about just getting insights into the
search actually on those individual platforms.
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01:14 XK: Number two.
Use different local business directories such as Bing Places, on Facebook, Google Places,
and Yelp, and other places like this.
I did a video about this not too long ago, so I'm gonna link to that in the description
so you can check that out.
It goes way more in depth into which actual platforms you should use and just how to rank
your local business as well, so I'm gonna to link that.
Make sure you check that out at the end of the video.
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01:47 XK: Number three.
Create an XML sitemap and then use this...
Basically, you wanna upload this to Bing Webmasters and your Google Search Console.
This right here gives basically the whole map of only your site, so all your pages so
Google be and Bing be able to index everything.
So make sure you do that if you wanna index all your pages on your site.
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02:16 XK: Number four.
Create a rollback text file.
And in this file is basically just, you wanna go through, and create this and just make
sure that you allow that search engines to index your page and come on there.
'Cause most search engines follow these rules, so make sure put that on there.
It's a good way of doing interviews, and Word Press, if you install a Yoast plug-in, it
comes with that, and Word Press, from my understanding, comes with that as well.
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02:48 XK: Five.
Create social media accounts for your website entities, or your blog just so you can be
able to rank those and get those links pointing back to your actual website to push you up
in the search engine and just to give you more page authority as well.
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03:14 XK: Number six.
Go through Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster, and see what errors they're having
or just anything along the lines of that and these are the things that can actually limit
you from actually showing up in the search results and being highly ranked if Google
can't index your website properly.
This will go through and give you the different 500 errors and 404 errors that Google has
got when indexing your sites and Bing.
So make sure you go check this out and then fix any issues that they have on there on
your site to help you rank better.
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03:52 XK: Number seven.
Make a list of keywords that you wanna rank for.
So basically, you have your overarching theme, you want it for that keyword.
That could be your fat hit keyword to rank for.
So if it's, "Dog health tips," that will be your top keyword.
And then all your other blog posts and every other page in your site should be more long
keyword focused and be like, "Dog health tips for this right here."
"How to solve this health problem.
Health tips for this problem."
And just going over in more in depth and that's actually pushing up and help allowing you
to rank higher for the actual main keyword you wanna rank for.
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04:35 XK: Number eight.
Use SEMrush or any other keyword finding tool that you like, and just use them to basically
go through it and just, I'm going to say, spy on your competition, just to see what
keywords they're ranking for right now, and if you find keywords that are very relevant
to what you're doing and good keywords, then replicate that and to actually rank for those
keywords as well.
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05:03 XK: Thank you guys for watching this video.
I hope you enjoyed this video.
This video helping you figure out how to rank your blog post and then your actual blog.
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I'm Xavier Kelly, again, thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next one.
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