New Website - 20+ Google Page One Rankings (Everything Revealed)

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Okay, I have a tendency to talk/write a lot, so this could take some time.

You may be better off getting a cup of coffee, or your favourite drink, a meal, and a sleeping bag before settling in to read.

Firstly, I want to show you how to use Jaaxy properly to check for rankings - plus a massive shout-out to Diane (DianeScorpio) who painstakingly replies to many posts and threads explaining the correct way to do this.

There’s nothing wrong with making a mistake you understand, as we’re all here to learn from one another.

So, it’s nice to have someone so patient who explains things to you.

I know for a fact my technical knowledge is abysmal and I constantly make errors in this area, but slowly-but-surely I’m getting better, as I’m learning from you guys.

Then I’d like to go through Google Search Console to show you how many different keywords certain articles can actually rank for, as well as the impressions they create (and what this means), and the number of clicks received.

I’ll also go on to explain why I’m still not completely happy with my rankings, which is based on “viewer intent”.

The New Website

Now some of you may not consider the website I’m currently working on as “new”, so allow me to explain.

I purchased the domain on 27th April 2020 and created the website and added an "About Me" page and a "Privacy Policy" page.

The website then just sat there doing nothing.

I created and published my first article over a month later on 31st May 2020.

I have actually used this same process for about 3 other websites.

Whether it works or not, who knows, but basically by the time I get round to working on the website it will already be “aged” in some way.

Then I did nothing with this website for another 3.5 months.

In the latter part of August, I published another 7 articles, but with no particular urgency, just adding them as-and-when.

This website then became my main focus from 2nd September 2020 and will be for the foreseeable future.

At the time of writing, the website now has nearly 60 articles and my aim is to hit the 100 mark by the end of the year.

I have stuck to a very simple formula with this site and I won’t stray from this anytime soon.

I write articles.

I request comments, I reply to these comments in great detail (often between 500-800 words).

I comment on authority blogs in my niche, occasionally I email the owners to let them know I have linked to one of their articles within my content (you never know, they may link back or share my content with their millions of social media followers).

And I submit to 6 social media sites via Sassy Social Share (but I don’t spend any time marketing on social media).

That’s it - basically all I am doing is writing in one form or another.

I have thrown about 10 days of Facebook ads at a few reviews just to test the water, and I will return to this once I have my autoresponder and email series setup (by 30th November).

However, everything I will explain today is about FREE, organic traffic.

I have also outsourced page speed to someone (I told you I was bad with technology).

This cost approximately $50, the work was completed within just a few hours, and all my pages and posts now have a minimum page speed of 98 for both desktop and mobile, although the majority show 100 on each.

Within a couple of weeks of doing this many of my articles started shooting up the rankings, and continue to do so.

I consider this $50 money well-spent and I still chat regularly with the guy who completed the work, and he has checked over my site a couple of times since without any additional charge.

So, in reality my website is just over 6 months old, although it had very little content until I started to focus on it 2 months ago.

Therefore, all the work I have put into the site has only really been over the past 2 months (64 days to be precise).

How to Use Jaaxy to Check For Rankings

Admittedly, I don’t really use Jaaxy for SiteRank, in fact, until today I think I’ve only ever used it twice.

There’s nothing wrong with checking your rankings, but I view indexing, ranking, etc. a little differently.

It’s lovely to know that you are moving in the right direction by receiving indexing emails, and irrespective of experience, we all feel somewhat joyous when we are informed that an article has been indexed.

You could say the same for ranking as well.

However, to me the main concern is am I getting TRAFFIC, and is this traffic converting.

Let’s not lie, we can provide all the fantastic and helpful content we want, we can have one million indexing emails, and 500 Google, Bing and Yahoo NUMBER ONE rankings, but at the end of the day we are creating a business.

So, in its most crudest form:

“SHOW ME THE MONEY!”

If you’re not receiving any traffic, you’re not going to make any sales, and it won’t be long before frustration creeps in.

Okay, when it comes to Jaaxy and checking rankings the only details you input are the keyword you have targeted and your domain name.

That’s it.

Do not input the article title in its entirety or the article url.

You want to know if you are ranking for the actual keyword your article is focused on.

As an example, let’s say my website is:

losebellyfat(dot)com

I have written an article focusing on the keyword “lose belly fat”

My article title is, “Lose Belly Fat Using Partha’s Awesome and Amazing Ab Workout”

My article url is, “losebellyfat(dot)com/lose-belly-fat-using-parthas-awesome-amazing-ab-workout”

Now if I input either the ENTIRE article title or the entire article url into Jaaxy then I SHOULD 100% be ranking on the first page of Google and realistically at number ONE (once the article has been indexed of course).

The reason being is that no-one else on the planet (hopefully) will have written an article with the EXACT same title or the EXACT same article url.

So whenever using Jaaxy, only ever input the keyword you are trying to rank for and your domain name.

This will give you a true reflection of whether you are ranking for that keyword or not.

Here’s an example from one of my articles:

Why Am I Not Happy To Rank in Position One

Well saying I’m not happy is probably a bit harsh, but this is why.

In the example above, I am ranking number one in Google for the keyword “Time Volume Training Review” and after checking at number two in Google for the keyword “Time Volume Training”.

Just in case you’re wondering about my Bing and Yahoo rankings, I completely forgot to set up Bing Webmaster Tools and submit my sitemap and urls until two weeks ago (does that count as being useless with technology again or just useless in general?)

Time Volume Training is a workout program created by Nick Nilsson.

It wouldn’t usually be something that I’d write a product review on, but I actually own the program, and it closely mirrors one of my favourite workout routines.

Here’s a breakdown of what Google Search Console shows me over the last 7 days.

The article has received 66 impressions - this is the number of times that my article has appeared in the search results (whether I was ranked at number 1 or number 100).

Here are some of the queries that people have searched in Google and this is what makes up my impressions.

As you can see the bottom two are pretty much worthless, “volume training program” and “volume training” because they are a different concept.

Therefore, I’m not overly bothered whether I rank for these terms or not.

However, I’m told that my average ranking over the last 7 days for these two queries is position 63 and 91 respectively, i.e. no-one’s ever going to see them (this ranking can obviously improve with time)

The terms that I am ranking well for are okay, but now I want to explain what I meant earlier by “viewer intent”

As you can see in the last 7 days no-one has searched for the term “Time-Volume Training Review”.

If someone searches for this specific term this tells me that they want to read a review of the Time-Volume Training program, potentially to see if it’s worth their while to purchase it.

So, these people are already some way into the purchasing lifecycle, i.e. close to perhaps purchasing the product.

With that said, someone searching for “Time-Volume Training Review” could also just be gathering information about the program, this is a difficult one to call.

If someone was to search the term, “Buy Time-Volume Training” and land on my website, I’m onto a winner, as they are looking to purchase the program, and if my review gives them everything they want to hear, I’m more or less guaranteed a sale.

As you can see the main search terms that people are visiting my review article for are the program name and the creator’s name.

To me this means they are still in the “information gathering” stage of the purchasing lifecycle.

So, they are far less likely to buy the program than someone who has used “review” (potentially) or “buy” in their search term.

All is not lost though - this is where eventually my email series will come into play and I can help people further along the purchasing lifecycle from information gatherers to people who want to buy the product.

Stats From Another Article

Here’s the first ever article I wrote on this website (remember 31st May 2020 and then sat all alone for 3.5 months).


According to Jaaxy the keyword I initially focused on had an AVG of 104 and Traffic of 18.

So realistically if I ranked on page one of Google I could expect approximately 18 visitors a month.

As you can the article has received 26 visitors in the last 7 days and over 2,000 impressions.

The average ranking for all the keyword searches that are receiving impressions is 11.1, although most of these keyword searches (154) my article is actually on the first page of Google.

In the last 7 days alone there have been a total of 179 different keywords searched whereby this article has appeared in the search results (25 of these keywords my article does not appear on page one of Google).

At a guess, if I can push this article up to the number one position in Google my 7-day traffic would likely be in the 250-300 visitors.

Not bad for an article that Jaaxy told me I could expect to receive 18 visitors a month for my focused keyword.

This is the beauty of ranking one article for lots of different keywords.

Now this article, “How Many Calories Does 100 Burpees Burn?” is an informational article, i.e. there is no selling intent.

However, I have started to write a, “How Many Calories…” series of articles and they all interlink to each other.

The thought process being that I can keep people on my site for longer.

Most of these articles also link to a related product review, but once again, anyone searching the specific terms that lead to these articles are “information gatherers”, so at quite an early stage in the purchasing lifecycle.

Nevertheless, I am creating an ebook, which will contain approximately 30 of these, “How Many Calories…” articles, and will be given away for free to anyone who joins my email list.

This is now my chance to help my email subscribers further along the purchasing lifecycle, from information gatherers to paid customers (this is an on-going process).

Final Thoughts

I just wanted to let you all into my world and to see the thought process that goes into producing content and chasing rankings, traffic, sales, etc.

Just in case you’re wondering, in the 2 months since I’ve really started working on the site I have had a few sales.

I have a number of other product reviews that also rank on Page 1 of Google, as well as a few other articles.

However, the website is still a work in progress.

I’m having a few issues with bounce rate for quite a few articles, which I know isn’t because of page speed, so it must be something else.

I’m trying to look at everything objectively and from a visitor’s point-of-view, but we typically look at our own websites in the same way we look at our own children, with love, affection, and often oblvious to their faults.

Perhaps, it’s my theme, the colours, my featured images, etc.

I’m working on it.

The main thing that I will say is that the process that we are taught here at WA definitely works, it’s just a matter of working hard and putting all the pieces together.

The only thing I would change in terms of the OEC training is the QSR value of the keywords you are writing your articles around.

The training states below 100 - I think this is too high in the early stages of building a website.

I tried this with the first site I built here with little success.

All the other sites I have created since I use a simple formula.

Month one and two my keywords have a QSR of less than 30, and less than 20 if possible.

Month three below 40 QSR.

Month four to six below 50 QSR.

Month six onwards below 100 QSR.

I’m guessing by the one-year stage I’ll be happier with keywords of 150-200 QSR.

That’s me done.

Thank you for reading.

Partha

On a Separate Note

Due to popular demand a sequel will soon be published in “The Adventures of Prince Partha”.

If you know, you know.

If you don’t know, you’d better read this blog post then.

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What a great post Partha - thanks for sharing the process that you have learned here at WA is working for you with the community!

Getting top rankings and loads of traffic all comes down to being helpful, engaging, and relevant to a particular audience (Niche).

Keep going, you're on the right track for sure!

Hi Carson,

Thank you very much for your kind comments.

Without doubt, what we learn here definitely works.

It's just a case of following what we learn, keeping it simple, and trying not to overcomplicate things.

Thanks
Partha

Hello Partha,
this is an amazing post full of insights. Worth reading carefully and slowly :-)
I'm in awe you managed to write 60 articles in such a short time. No wonder you are getting rewarded by google with improved ranking and increasing traffic.
Thanks for sharing,
and much success!
Lenka

Thank you Lenka, very kind of you to say.

Well, as you know, I've always got something to say/write, LOL.

Partha

Looking forward to the sequel, just wanted to get that in before anything else.

I have 'starred' your post, as it's worthy of many more read-throughs and at some point, with your non-denominational blessing, I would like to try out some of your methods.

Interestingly, I was talking about 'false' rankings based on full title searches, earlier today. Finally, you have managed to bust this particular myth, though I suspect some will 'cop a deaf un' and continue in their misguided ways, hey ho.


Haha, the sequel is in the making.

Why thank you Twack, much appreciated.

And you can have any type of blessing you wish for from me - What's mine is yours.

Yes, I think there's a few topics of conversation that pop up with alarming regularity, and the "false rankings" is certainly one.

I think it's a shame, as in truth it could lead to some thinking that the WA system doesn't work.

e.g. "I have 30 articles ranked at no.1, but I've never received any traffic".

I also think "intent" is extremely important, as you could even have 1 million "freebie-seekers" visiting your site on a monthly, who never have any "intention" of purchasing anything.

It's an ongoing learning process I guess, and we're never quite the finished article (no pun intended).

Always appreciate you stopping by Twack.

Thank you
Partha

Thank you and likewise, mi casa es su casa.
My pleasure. I agree about the continual learning, there's always something to go back to and alter, to keep up with the latest snippets of new information. I think I've started again at least three times.

You've given me a lot to think about Partha. I'm glad I had my coffee!

Thank you for your explanation of only typing your keywords in to Jaaxy to get a true reflection of ranking, I wasn't sure about that and the QSR info. I'm going to try using keywords with a very low QSR.

Have a great day!

Lisa

You're welcome Lisa.

As I mentioned to Cassi below, I tend to find that sometimes (not all the time though) QSR often correlates to actual Google ranking, especially with newer websites, e.g. QSR of 77, and you rank at around position 77.

As I say, this isn't always the case, but I tend to find that most keywords with a QSR below 30 (or as low as possible) tend to rank much better.

Just to blow this theory out of the water slightly - "Time-Volume Training" has a QSR of 101, but I'm ranking at position no.2 in Google for that and no. 1 with the word "review" added.

The other article I've mentioned above has a QSR of 22 and for that actual keyword I'm ranking at position 6.

So, it's still a mystery to me, but the lower the QSR the better as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks
Partha

When you find your low QSR... do you then see how many results come up in Google for your keywords?

I found a very low QSR of 17 but there were 1 million results in a Google search for my keywords and I'm afraid I will never rank. I don't really understand how the QSR can be so low but I get that many results?

Hi Lisa,

Okay, let me see if I can break this down to how I do things.

QSR is Quoted Search Results, so basically if you were to search in Google with your keyword phrase in quotation marks.

So for example if your keyword phrase is How to Make Money Online Blogging to see the Quoted Search Result in Google you would type in "How To Make Money Online Blogging" (in quotation marks).

This would tell how many website articles there are for that Exact keyword phrase with the words in that Exact order.

Without the quotation marks you are simply getting results of website articles that use some or all of the words in your keyword phrase, but they could be in any order, e.g. Blogging to Make Money Online.

So, in effect with a QSR of 17 you only have seventeen other websites who are using that Exact keyword phrase in that Exact order.

So, you have a good chance of ranking by writing an article around that keyword.

What you can do is check your keyword phrase in quotation marks and read some of the other articles and see what improvements you can make to ehat they have written, thus potentially allowing you to rank higher than them.

With that said, many people will actually tell you that QSR doesn't matter, but simply how "strong" the competition is on page one of Google for a particular keyword.

For example, if you choose a keyword to write an article around it, and page one of Google has articles from sites such as, Healthline, MayoClinic, HarvardMedicalSchool, Moz, Backlinko, NeilPatel, Entrepreneur, (depending on your niche), etc. it will be quite hard to rank.

Not impossible, but fairly difficult all the same.

These websites are considered authorities and Google typically ranks them high in the results for just about any keyword they target.

However, that doesn't always mean that the article is any good, just because it's an authority site.

Some people will also check page one of Google for a particular keyword and find lots of social media sites or Question and Answer sites, e.g. Facebook, Pinterest, Reddit, Quora, etc. and then automatically target these keywords in an article.

Now although these are "authority websites" they don't target one particular niche, which means a niche website (like the ones we are taught to build here at WA) have a great chance of ranking above these other sites.

However, if you have a keyword with QSR of 17 and it makes grammatical sense then you have a good chance of ranking, irrespective of all of the above.

The general rule that I follow with using the keyword is:

- Keyword in the title

- Keyword almost always in the first sentence. I achieve this by telling my reader what my article is about, e.g. Welcome to my article about how to make money blogging or Today I'd like to talk to you about how to make money blogging.

- Just below my introduction I will have a H2 title with just the keyword phrase.

- One of my H3 titles will also include the keyword I am targeting

- In my conclusion I will have the keyword again, e.g. Thank you for reading my article about how to make money blogging.

For the rest of the article I write completely naturally.

Now some people may say that I have used the keyword too many times and this may be considered "keyword stuffing", but it really depends on the rest of the article and indeed the length.

I tend to write articles that are on average 2,500-3,000 words, so this amount of usage of my keyword is fine.

If you typically write articles of 1,000 words then it may be better to just have the keyword in your title and the first paragraph, and then just write naturally for the remainder of the article.

I hope this all makes sense, and if not, please just ask, and I'll do my best to explain.

Partha

Thank you for taking your time to explain all this Partha! Very kind of you.

I understand why the difference in the search results now based on your explanation.

The quotation marks made all the difference. My keywords came back with 2K results and I was on the first page, 4th position as opposed to 6.5 million results without them. That was for an article I wrote 3 months ago with a QSR of 41 because I haven't written the one with the 17 QSR yet.

One last question... When I search Google with the keywords in quotation marks would you consider that a true reflection of ranking?

Thanks for the info about checking who ranks ahead of me and using more keywords depending on the length of the article, it's all very helpful.

Lisa

Hi Lisa,

No, unfortunately using quotation marks only gives you an indication of all the websites that are ranking for that exact keyword.

We only ever use quotation marks for research purposes.

If you think about it, no-one normal (I know we're normal too, LOL, I just mean potential visitors and customers to our sites) ever actually searches for anything online using quotation marks.

Unfortunately, we as online marketers are the only people who ever search for anything in quotation marks.

As I say, it allows us to see who else is targeting that specific keyword, see what their content is like, so we have an idea of what Google already likes, and how we can improve upon it.

However, this unfortunately means that your true competition is indeed the keyword Without quotation marks.

It is for this reason that a lot of people ignore QSR, as your "real competition" is the first 10 results on page one of Google. Can you produce better content than them? Will you eventually rank amongst them?

With that said, I think QSR is a good starting point for the first year of any website.

It typically takes an article a good 8-9 months to "settle" into it's "final resting place" in Google (and other search engines).

So, your article with QSR of 41 which is in position 4 with quotation marks tells me that your on-page SEO for that exact keyword is better than 1,996 other websites.

However, to get an Idea of "true ranking" get rid of the quotation marks and check again or use Google search console by doing a "Last 7 Days" search, then checking the "PAGES" option, choose the URL of the article, and then check what keyword phrases people are using to find that page, then click on "AVG POSITION" and that will give you an indication of where you are ranking.

However, remember your 41 QSR keyword article still has a good 5-6 months to "settle" in its final position. So, you can still help it rank higher, by linking to it internally from your other posts, sharing it externally (social media, forums or groups that you are a member of, etc.)

Hope that helps.

Partha

Yes, ok that makes perfect sense.

This is really good, really useful Partha. Thanks for the details about the search results and SearchConsole, I'm so glad I understand it! lol. I am going to use it.

Thank you once again for your time and help!

Partha, This is a GREAT post and you really should consider putting it into a tutorial.

Very Informative!

I like the "How Many Calories . . ." series.
Having used that strategy, I can assure you that it works.
It helps you to become an authority and if done well, you can pretty much dominate Goggle's 1st page for your keywords.

QSR . . . we think alike.
I was not getting much success with QSR 100 as recommended when I started my websites.
I shifted to 25 and under and BOOM! things shot off.

So good, as always, to get inside your head. 😁

Thank you.
Cassi

Thank you as always Cassi.

Yes, I've done the article series thing previously and it works really well, but never for such a huge niche as Health & Fitness.

So, I'm looking at about anywhere from 30-50 articles in this series, all internally linking, and then obviously making them into an ebook.

Just based on the few I've already written, I can see as the website ages this could be HUGE.

Yep, completely agree with the QSR thing.

Funnily enough. being slightly analytical, I actually noticed for a very, very new website you almost seem to rank at more-or-less the exact QSR.

e.g. your QSR is 87, you rank on page 9 of Google, your QSR is 28, you rank on the 3rd page of Google, etc.

Then through both on-page and off-page SEO you can push the articles higher in the search engines.

This isn't always the case, but I definitely noticed it when a site was under 3 months old.

Lovely to hear from you Cassi.

Partha

You have these tips and actions that are really huge movers, Partha.

I am currently completing my 1st e-book (not the ones I am paid to do for my Clients) and . . . drumroll . . . my Guest Post inviter has offered to publish it.
The promotion will be done in conjunction with their million-member database.

This is such a timely opportunity.

It is REALLY good to be in your space.
Cassi

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