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Google rankings success

mwd21

Published on April 15, 2014

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Well here's a sight for sore eyes. After 6 months I have a page ranking position 1 on page 1.
I now have 8 keywords on 8 pages/posts ranking on pages 1,2,4,5,7,10,13 and 18.

My main keyword for my site was ranking on pages between 7 to 9 for months I couldn't seem to get it any higher. So I thought I'd try some seo I'd gathered from other members here.
Within a week of doing the following it has risen to page 4.
Firstly I added an xml sitemap, training courtesy of That Helpful Dude.

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/set-up-a-wordpress-website-complete-guide/google-xml-sitemaps-installation-guide

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And then I added meta data to each of my pages and posts as per Tommy's training.

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/rich-snippet-meta-discription

Now I have no real evidence if this had any affect, as I was also adding content on a regular basis, but it does seem somewhat coincidental.

Either way I'm very happy and suggest it's worth a try for your own website.

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