You need to click on page one and hit enter and you will be taken back to the top of the results page, but now you will be viewing page one results also. (see arrow below)

Now you have all of the results in front of the keyword on the screen and you want to make sure you are not ranking another post or page or even your whole website anyplace on page one.

The goal to to rank you content on page one, and you must have this information before using the keyword to prevent duplicate and wasted work.

Why?

Let me show you.

After I clicked on the page one on this keyword phrase I could see what my competition consists of that is ranked on page one (this is also the content you want to out rank, which is another reason you want to check it out closely) I found a very interesting result in position one on page one under the paid ads.



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hurricaneR Premium
this was something that was unclear to me. Thanks for creating this to clear it up.
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Shawn Martin Premium
Glad to help!
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BeingaMom Premium
Great info. Thanks.
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Shawn Martin Premium
You bet!
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jvranjes Premium
I have something to add which is a bit relevant. I am a top contributor to a big authority site about mountains (Peakware). My own site is also on mountains (http://mountainsforeverybody.com).
Now, I make a page and it appears on my own site within Google 1-2 top pages. However, it always competes with Peakware, and the irony is that it competes with MY OWN contributions at Peakware (my own text there about the same mountain). What to do, have to live with this. Jovo
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Shawn Martin Premium
You still be good as both articles can rank under other natural keywords and phrases.
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floridajf Premium
Awesome post Shawn, you are always making some very helpful videos. Really enjoy reading the knowledge that you have to offer. This really explained a lot to me. I now realize that when your page is ranked it is for a particular keyword that you fall under. Your site itself is not ranked, but the rather the content and keywords that it possesses are. This really opened my eyes Shawn! Thanks for sharing this wonderful piece of information. And sadly, you did beat Lady May to it :(
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Shawn Martin Premium
Glad to help!
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Lady May Premium
lol you beat me to it, I was about to do a training on this :)
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Shawn Martin Premium
LOL< it just popped into my head while I was doing the above research,
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