I've been trying to do some studying with my own personal website
while I'm trying to understand what are the most important factors
when one is trying to get high rankings in G.
My website is a WP blog built around my hobby and well over a year
ago I wrote a tutorial -type of article which went to top positions
in G for several long tail keywords related to my hobby and it has
been in position 1 for one specific long tail for a very long time.
Several months actually. With it, I get ok traffic via G every day.
What's interesting here is that I've been studying my competitors
website as well and in SEO-stat-vice they should outrank me with
no problem!
Here's a comparison to ONE of my competitor who is in position 3
(number 2 is Yahoo answers). Below of that there's lot of other
competitors as well with way better SEO-stats than my website and
they should outrank me as well:
My domain AGE: 1 year and a half
My competitor: 9 years
My PR: 1
My competitor PR: 4
Number of pages on my domain indexed within G: below 300
My competitor: around 20,000
External backlinks to this specific blog post of mine: 4
My competitor: 149
Total external backlinks to my domain: below 300
My competitor: around 477,000
Edu or Gov backlinks. Me: 0
My competitor: 0
Is my site in DMOZ directory: NO
My competitor: YES
Is my site in Yahoo directory: NO
My competitor: YES
Keyword in title. Me: YES
My competitor: YES
Keyword in URL. Me: YES
My competitor: YES
Keyword in description. Me: NO
My competitor: NO
Keyword in header tag. Me: YES
My competitor: YES
So, considering domain age, amount of page backlinks, amount
of domain backlinks, DMOZ directory, Yahoo directory my
competitor should outrank me easily (??) but why he's not
outranking me?
Could it be the quality of backlinks? Most of my domain backlinks
are related to my hobby, but the few pagelinks I got to this
blog post, aren't very related.
Or could it just be because of the content? I checked some of my
competitors content and I must say - and I'm not saying this to
brag about it - that my blog post gives a lot more helpful insight
to the searchers of this specific search term than my competitors.
When I wrote my blog post, I didn't think any SEO, keywords, rankings
or things like that. I just wrote it naturally and just tried to keep
it related to the topic.
So, with that said, it seems that good content weights significantly
in terms of good ranking positions ??? Good content that's update frequently can do wonders for your ranking. Every time that I add something new to my site, I see my ranking go up at least a spot or 2. That's several spots every month, just from adding new content.
Plus, good content will help you get those quality one-way backlinks that we are all striving for - which will also boost your ranking.
My guess is that the competitor you've researched doesn't have a bunch of high quality backlinks. That being said, keep up the good work, keep churning out great content, and keep getting those quality backlinks! I agree. Some articles just take off. Somebody important liked and linked to your article. Quote: Originally Posted by nicolebeckett Good content that's update frequently can do wonders for your ranking. Every time that I add something new to my site, I see my ranking go up at least a spot or 2. That's several spots every month, just from adding new content.
Plus, good content will help you get those quality one-way backlinks that we are all striving for - which will also boost your ranking.
My guess is that the competitor you've researched doesn't have a bunch of high quality backlinks. That being said, keep up the good work, keep churning out great content, and keep getting those quality backlinks! Yeap
Only problem is to keep the updates frequent as I'm just too 'picky' on what to write lol Quote: Originally Posted by thebitbotdotcom I agree. Some articles just take off. Somebody important liked and linked to your article. Yep, it seems so Quote: Originally Posted by peteman Only problem is to keep the updates frequent as I'm just too 'picky' on what to write lol Just think about what your target audience would want to see. Is there some new information in your niche that needs to be passed along? Are there certain questions they need answered? If you think about it from their perspective, it can be much easier to come up with topics. Quote: Originally Posted by nicolebeckett Just think about what your target audience would want to see. Is there some new information in your niche that needs to be passed along? Are there certain questions they need answered? If you think about it from their perspective, it can be much easier to come up with topics. Well now that I think of it there's actually tons of questions people need answers in my niche. Quote: Originally Posted by peteman Well now that I think of it there's actually tons of questions people need answers in my niche. It can be tough to "see the forest from the trees" Alot of times, we know so much about our niche that we forget that others aren't as knowledgeable. Something that may seem like common sense to you may be totally new to your audience, or may provide them with that "light bulb" moment where it all comes together.
Good luck!! However you compared very important factors for ranking results but we still don't know all important factors for ranking results in Google. So maybe there are some other factors that caused your website to rank higher than your competitor.
while I'm trying to understand what are the most important factors
when one is trying to get high rankings in G.
My website is a WP blog built around my hobby and well over a year
ago I wrote a tutorial -type of article which went to top positions
in G for several long tail keywords related to my hobby and it has
been in position 1 for one specific long tail for a very long time.
Several months actually. With it, I get ok traffic via G every day.
What's interesting here is that I've been studying my competitors
website as well and in SEO-stat-vice they should outrank me with
no problem!
Here's a comparison to ONE of my competitor who is in position 3
(number 2 is Yahoo answers). Below of that there's lot of other
competitors as well with way better SEO-stats than my website and
they should outrank me as well:
My domain AGE: 1 year and a half
My competitor: 9 years
My PR: 1
My competitor PR: 4
Number of pages on my domain indexed within G: below 300
My competitor: around 20,000
External backlinks to this specific blog post of mine: 4
My competitor: 149
Total external backlinks to my domain: below 300
My competitor: around 477,000
Edu or Gov backlinks. Me: 0
My competitor: 0
Is my site in DMOZ directory: NO
My competitor: YES
Is my site in Yahoo directory: NO
My competitor: YES
Keyword in title. Me: YES
My competitor: YES
Keyword in URL. Me: YES
My competitor: YES
Keyword in description. Me: NO
My competitor: NO
Keyword in header tag. Me: YES
My competitor: YES
So, considering domain age, amount of page backlinks, amount
of domain backlinks, DMOZ directory, Yahoo directory my
competitor should outrank me easily (??) but why he's not
outranking me?
Could it be the quality of backlinks? Most of my domain backlinks
are related to my hobby, but the few pagelinks I got to this
blog post, aren't very related.
Or could it just be because of the content? I checked some of my
competitors content and I must say - and I'm not saying this to
brag about it - that my blog post gives a lot more helpful insight
to the searchers of this specific search term than my competitors.
When I wrote my blog post, I didn't think any SEO, keywords, rankings
or things like that. I just wrote it naturally and just tried to keep
it related to the topic.
So, with that said, it seems that good content weights significantly
in terms of good ranking positions ??? Good content that's update frequently can do wonders for your ranking. Every time that I add something new to my site, I see my ranking go up at least a spot or 2. That's several spots every month, just from adding new content.
Plus, good content will help you get those quality one-way backlinks that we are all striving for - which will also boost your ranking.
My guess is that the competitor you've researched doesn't have a bunch of high quality backlinks. That being said, keep up the good work, keep churning out great content, and keep getting those quality backlinks! I agree. Some articles just take off. Somebody important liked and linked to your article. Quote: Originally Posted by nicolebeckett Good content that's update frequently can do wonders for your ranking. Every time that I add something new to my site, I see my ranking go up at least a spot or 2. That's several spots every month, just from adding new content.
Plus, good content will help you get those quality one-way backlinks that we are all striving for - which will also boost your ranking.
My guess is that the competitor you've researched doesn't have a bunch of high quality backlinks. That being said, keep up the good work, keep churning out great content, and keep getting those quality backlinks! Yeap
Only problem is to keep the updates frequent as I'm just too 'picky' on what to write lol Quote: Originally Posted by thebitbotdotcom I agree. Some articles just take off. Somebody important liked and linked to your article. Yep, it seems so Quote: Originally Posted by peteman Only problem is to keep the updates frequent as I'm just too 'picky' on what to write lol Just think about what your target audience would want to see. Is there some new information in your niche that needs to be passed along? Are there certain questions they need answered? If you think about it from their perspective, it can be much easier to come up with topics. Quote: Originally Posted by nicolebeckett Just think about what your target audience would want to see. Is there some new information in your niche that needs to be passed along? Are there certain questions they need answered? If you think about it from their perspective, it can be much easier to come up with topics. Well now that I think of it there's actually tons of questions people need answers in my niche. Quote: Originally Posted by peteman Well now that I think of it there's actually tons of questions people need answers in my niche. It can be tough to "see the forest from the trees" Alot of times, we know so much about our niche that we forget that others aren't as knowledgeable. Something that may seem like common sense to you may be totally new to your audience, or may provide them with that "light bulb" moment where it all comes together.
Good luck!! However you compared very important factors for ranking results but we still don't know all important factors for ranking results in Google. So maybe there are some other factors that caused your website to rank higher than your competitor.