1st Page Ranking On Google
My first articles on first page of Google! So excited!
Dear friends, I need to share the following happening with the community.
Here is my little story about it:
Two days ago, on 18th of August, I created and published my two new posts!
Here they are:
- https://getmarketingtoday.com/why-i-like-my-wealthy-affiliat..
- https://getmarketingtoday.com/closed-online-marketing-sellin...
I need to amphasize that the both posts were pretty long. The first one was written with 2242 words with 6 images and 1 Wealthy Affiliate banner in it (all images properly optimized for the SE).
The post nr. 2 was written with 3009 words and with 8 images.For the SEO purposes, I am using Yoast program!
What happened after the publishing was awesome and also very surprising to me!
Sudenly, both posts were indexed within one and two days! That was already very surprising for me, because I didn't expect such quick indexing. It is a prove that it can happen also in a so quick time. What I did after the publishing of each of the posts, is just three things:
- Created and published posts on my site as ususal through my WordPress editor
- Entered URLs in Fetch as Google option within Search Console
- Updated the Sitemap of my site within Search Console as well
So, as already mentioned above, the first article, after the publishing, was indexed already on 19th of August, and the second one on 20th of August! Is that not great?
But, it doesn't end here!
Namely, after receiving the message from the Wealthy Affiliate system, for each of the article individually, that the article was indexed and that I should check the SiteRank in Jaaxy, I did it so!
And the biggest surprise happened:
According to Jaaxy, and as support gave me the info that the Jaaxy results are always accurate, my articles were positioned on the position 1 and 2 on the first page on Google! I was, populary said, "out of my mind!"
Furthermore, two of my articles with the keyword closed-online-marketing-selling-cycle were placed on 1st and 2nd position in Yahoo and one of them on the first position of Bing!
Take a look at the some of the proves below!
So, what message I want to deliver with this blog-post?
It is possible to achieve high rank in Google. And many of you know that! My site was created on January 27. 2018. today we have 21.08.18. So, aproximately after 7months, for the first time my articles were positioned so high in Google.
Maybe I was just lucky, maybe these choosen keyowrds were so special, maybe the whole creation, including the right keywords, the amount of the words in it, the unique content, the number of images in relation to the length of the article, maybe the usenees of Search Console, maybe the right SEO ... maybe all of this influenced such an outcome!
I realll don't know, but what I know is that I didi all described above and what I have learned so far here at Wealthy Affiliate, what makes me really happy about it!
I have learned the system and still learning more. It is a great think and a feeling when such things happen, even If I don't get a single sale out of this traffic coming in, what, I know, sounds very wierd! But, I also know, that the excitement and joy of it surpasses the economical part.
Although, it would be great to acheive substantial financial results from that part as well, logically, right?
So, with all this in mind, i am going to conitnue to write and enjoy writing and to use the tools and system WA is offdering. Let surprise myself where it goes from here!
I hope I was not too excited about it, but such outcome makes one feel well. For somebody is such outcome a daily routine and a normal thing, but for me i tis great step forward because I think that my site is getting more aproval from Google and building up certain authority.
After finishing all my training here, and creating more articles, I ned to focus more on conversions, because all the great rank results have no sense if conversion doesn't take place, right?
If you like the blog post, please, leave a comment below, and if you need to ask anything related to this topic, or about anything else related to what we all do here, and I can help, I would be more than happy to do that!
Best regards!
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Hey are there any tutorials that can break down the part where you said you, "Entered URLs in Fetch as Google option within Search Console" I need to learn how to do that, and nothing in the training here went over such a subject.
Also, congrats! This is really awesome. Can I ask, how many articles total do you have on your site now that its 7 months old? I began my site in October of last year, I only posted like once a week though, so right now I have about 38 posts I think? I believe when I have about 50 google will start to take me seriously. What do you think? Do you have a lot of comments on your posts also? Do you use social media as well?
Hi Sophia!
First of all thanks a lot for your comments. I came back now and need to answer all the comments.
before answering your questions, I want to emphasize that I am relying on Jaaxy and Wealthy Affiliate when checking my page rank, according to Wealthy Affiliate messaging system and the Jaaxy SiteRank option.
If sometimes the results shown in Jaaxy and in SE are not the same, it is not what I am bordering, because, sometimes they will be accurate and sometimes maybe not.
This is not what is in my hands to decide about! The best indicator would be the traffic amount.
Let me start with your questions and to answer them.
1. Question: related to Search Console and Fetch as Google option
Here is how you do it:
> Log into your Search Console (You need a Google account for that. If You have a Gmail account that is fine as well. just type in the browser Search Console and log in when asked.
> when in Search Console, click on your web entity
> if you didn't add yet your web entity to Search Console, do it now, by clicking the button: add an entity
> after clicking on your URL (after adding it to SearchConsole-it is your entity) the menu on the left-hand side will drop down
> click on indexing
> click on Fetch as Google
> Add the URL you want to add
> do it for PC and for mobile device
> click on the button: Fetch
> finally, after adding the URLs, on the right-hand side of the page, request indexing:
If You need alternative resources about Google for asking questions, besides Wealthy Affiliate, You can also ask on Google Webmaster Forum about the topic,!
besides, I will create a video tutorial about it and send it to you!
2. question: the number of my articles on my site
I have 5 pages
43 posts
245 approved comments
These means I have 48 pieces of content created within 7 months, what makes almost 7 per month on average!
jay from Wealthy Affiliate told me that the number of approx. 50 posts is already a serious number of them, while some other people told me the number of 100.
Jay is an experienced marketer, so I think the 50 is also a good number of posts!
I will see the difference when I reach 100.
The point is that sometimes the quantity is not always important, but the quality is. Articles of high-value for the readers are most evaluated by Google because Google is also guessing the meaning of articles.
So, my advice is to focus more on quality instead of on quantity. Combine both and you are on the right track!
I am posting the articles irregularly, Sometimes more, sometimes less. Google is asking for approx. 6-10 monthly, so I am missing a few, which I will add soon.
3. question: the number of comments on my posts?
Answered above!
4. question: using of social media?
I am using so far only Google+. I don't have time at the moment for other social media, thus it has no sense to start with it. I am attending to do it in the near future.
Feel free to ask for any help you may need. I would be glad to help if I can!
Wow thank you for breaking it down how to use Google Search Console. You know this entire time I didn't utilize it or was even aware of it until now. I currently have 39 posts, about 400 + comments approved, and most of my articles are like 0 to 4 competition, and more than 30 avg searches.... so.... not ranked at #1 anywhere yet. I am wondering if it was because I didn't use the search console? Well I did now! Thank you!
It depends! Using Search Console and Fetch as Google option will help you to get indexed faster and eventually to rank better.
I have not more comments, because I didn't request them regularly.
In any case, start using SC. It can only help!
Best regards!
That's great news, Igor! Congratulations!
With hard work, persistence and simply applying what we learn here within this awesome platform, we get the results that we deserve!
Keep up the good work and never give up! :)
Thanks a lot, Reyhana!
The learning curve never ends. The online world is developing exponentially.
It is nice to know to have a referent point.
Best regards!
Keep up the good work Igor!You are light years ahead of me.In looking at the comments of the others about your rankings; all of the comments are a reflection of the love and care of the WA community.Each one thought enough of you to offer you sound direction of how to improve your site.They have no economic connection to you but they epitomize the spirit that permeates the WA community.I am proud to be a part of it! In giving you answers to help you;we ,who read them ,are also educated on how we can get better.
Hi John!
First of all, I want to say a big thanks to you for your encouraging and kind words.next, a big congratulation to you for your activity. It is great to see that people your age are so active.
Many people your age, and almost mine as well, still don't know how to use this technology. It tells us that anyone can use it and learn how to work with it.
You see, my story is this one:
When I went to primary school and high school such technology and the internet didn't exist. At the universities as well.
All I learned about is through myself and attending various courses. I like to take and check various courses, especially about online marketing and "online stuff" in general.
This is also a reason why I joined WA and I engage here.
At this moment, my primary goal is to learn as much as possible about these topics and to build up a site.
I did a nice progress so far and my attention is to continue. I am here at the right place and I hope again that I am going to stay for a long time.
Although you never know what life brings with it, I have at least a reference point I can always come back to.
By learning myself and teaching others what to do, even if sometimes doing some mistakes, what is a natural course of learning and teaching, because, no one teacher knows everything as well, I can only improve my skills and knowledge.
I hope you agree with that as well.
Thanks for reading my reply!
Best regards!
Yes thanks for your encouragement also.I agree with you and can relate to you.Biologically I am 70 years old but mentally I am in my early twenties as to my desire to success with this business. After all;there is no restrictions placed on age.The only restriction one has is placed on ourself.WA has no age or intelligence bias! Thank you again Igor!
I agree 100%. I wish you many more years within Wealthy Affiliate and best wishes in all you do!
Keep it up!
Best regards!
Congrats on your ranking and you set a good example that everything is possible in WA. I believe determination and persistence is the key to success in achieving your goal. This will be an added inspiration for me.
Cheers,
Agnes
Hi Agnes!
This is just one example of mine. We could discuss long the topic. Don't use it as a guide. It is just my experience from a couple of last days. Anyway, if the traffic is big or not, or the keywords rare or not, for now, I am really satisfied with the outcome of the article itself and the positioning.
For online success in terms of visitors and conversions, the traffic is a most important part, when we speak about the generic one, of course.
It takes time, skills, knowledge and patience to achieve all of that! generic way of getting traffic and conversions is the most difficult and the longest way of achievement. But, I believe it is worth!
Thanks a lot for your kind comment:
Best regards!
Hi Igor, please check the ranking without hyphens. The result is very different when you do so. This is how people search in Google and this is the only correct way.
I checked also incognito in Google, so do the same. Sorry to disappoint you.
I am relying on Jaaxy! I checked that by myself and got different results also. So, many factors can influence the ranking and how it shows within SERPS.
I would not be disappointed if the results look different. I know it is hard to rank well in a generic way.
I received a comment from the person who came across my article on the internet, so it means someone could find it. It gives hope.
But, I am sure I have still a lot to learn. I hope I will master it and be able to achieve similar results in the future.
Thanks for your reply.
Best regards!
Jaaxy gives you back the result which is based on what you put in. So just do not use dashes. As always, the only completely reliable way is searching incognito in Google, without quotes. Best luck.
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Congrats Igor !!
Thanks, Ann!
I appreciate it!
Best regards!