Google Page 1 Using 2025 In Title Early In 2026

WOW, That Was FAST!

I have always remembered from an experiment I did my third year here at Wealthy Affiliate, that when you put the previous year in your post title early in the New Year, your post will make it onto Google Page 1.

Two days ago I posted a blog here at WA: Wealthy Affiliate Success Stories 2025 Reviews. I posted this WA Blog on January 2, 2026. Two days later it was ranked on Google Page 1, Position 1, Position 2, Position 3 and Position 7.

As I always do when using Google to see where I am ranked for a specific keyword, I use Google Incognito Mode because it searches with a clean cache and search history. I searched four different titles of my original keyword.

CHECK THIS OUT!

Before I wrote the blog here at WA I did a Jaaxy keyword search for Wealthy Affiliate Success Stories and one of the suggested keywords that had the best results in Traffic & SEO was Wealthy Affiliate Success Stories 2025.

The second best suggested keyword was Wealthy Affiliate Success Stories Reviews. Seeing how I knew that using the date of the previous year in the title as early as possible in the New Year, I combined both suggested keywords.

MY POST TITLE BECAME: Wealthy Affiliate Success Stories 2025 Reviews. Below are the results.

I first searched "Wealthy Affiliate Success Stories" without 2025 and the word Reviews. I was on Page 1 Position 1

Next I searched "Wealthy Affiliate Success Stories 2025" without the word Reviews. I was on Page 1 Position 3

NOTE I also searched "Wealthy Affiliate Success Stories Reviews" without 2025. I was on Page 1 Position 7.

Next I searched "Wealthy Affiliate Success Stories 2025 Reviews" my exact title. I was on Page 1 Position 2.

If you haven't learned by now, and I as well as other members here have been saying, that WA Blogs DO RANK high on Google if you use proper SEO keywords in your post titles. This will give you more views and possibly referrals.

RECAP: If you want to get Google Page 1 rankings for either your WA blogs or your website content, use the previous year in your title and publish this content as early in the New Year as possible. The earlier the better.

I have done this experiment many times on an older website and 80% of the time I was on Google Page 1 search results. - If you have any comments or questions, please leave them below. May your 2026 be profitable!