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You create content, you publish it to your website, and then what? Do you wait and hope that it ranks, or do you set-up proper tracking on your target search terms to see where you are ranking in the major search engines.
In this training, I am going to show you how you can efficiently and properly track all of your rankings in Google and other search engines.
The topics covered within this walk-through are:
- The importance of understanding where you are ranked
- How to find your rankings in Google (the old school way)
- Tracking your rankings using Jaaxy SiteRank
- Adding automation to your tracking
- How to assess and analyze ranking fluctuations
Understand your rankings in critical and important to your overall website and SEO success. If you can understand where and why you are ranking well, or not well, you can make the appropriate changes to improve your rankings.
If you have any questions about any aspect of website rankings, tracking rankings, or Jaaxy SiteRank, please leave them below and I will be more than happy to help you out.
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AK007
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This is a great tutorial and I really enjoyed it, and I've learned a lot, but there is still something I don't quite understand yet.
I've got a few articles, or blogs, that used to rank on the 1st page of Google, for several months, and then all of the sudden they "vanished" from the first 1-10 pages on Google. These particular blog articles still exist on my website, and the contents haven't changed but their rankings fluctuate dramatically on a weekly, and sometimes, daily basis on Google. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I'd like my blog articles to rank high on Google and to remain stable on the 1st page.
And one additional question: would Kyle and Carson recommend "fetch as Google" to improve rankings?
/Alex
I've got a few articles, or blogs, that used to rank on the 1st page of Google, for several months, and then all of the sudden they "vanished" from the first 1-10 pages on Google. These particular blog articles still exist on my website, and the contents haven't changed but their rankings fluctuate dramatically on a weekly, and sometimes, daily basis on Google. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I'd like my blog articles to rank high on Google and to remain stable on the 1st page.
And one additional question: would Kyle and Carson recommend "fetch as Google" to improve rankings?
/Alex
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onmyownterms
Premium
Every day there is new competition on the Internet. Google regularly tweaks its algorithms and refines LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing). If you are in a hotly contested niche, you will find your rankings moving all over the place as new content is created in your niche. Google is a fickle mistress. You're not doing anything wrong, you've just got to win 'her' back.
Fetch as Google only shows you how Google crawls your page, it does not impact SEO unless you see errors that need to be fixed.
All of us would like to have articles to rank high and to remain stable on the first page, it's just ain' gonna happen without work.
Fetch as Google only shows you how Google crawls your page, it does not impact SEO unless you see errors that need to be fixed.
All of us would like to have articles to rank high and to remain stable on the first page, it's just ain' gonna happen without work.
AK007
Premium
Thank you for your response, I appreciate it, but I'm not sure that I've become much wiser ;-)
I've never heard before of Latent Semantic Indexing. What sort of work needs to be done to improve Google rankings if a certain blog article is already completed?
I've never heard before of Latent Semantic Indexing. What sort of work needs to be done to improve Google rankings if a certain blog article is already completed?
onmyownterms
Premium
Nothing, that's why Kyle tells us to write naturally. Look, if we 'knew' for certain what Google was looking for, the entire Internet would be full of boring content as everyone followed some magic formula to rank #1.
Guess what? Not everyone can be #1. There are no 'participation trophies' for web content. Google is constantly refining what they consider to be 'good content' and new content is also entering the market each day.
Think of it this way, let's say you're a 'C' student in English, and you have a blog. It's one of the only blogs that is even that good, because everyone else in your niche is either a 'D' or an 'F' student.
Then a new kid comes to town, and he's a 'B' student - his stuff is immediately going to take precedence over yours and you didn't do anything at all. Now, it's up to you to figure out how to get a better grade or he's always going to be a step ahead of you. He'll have issues himself if an 'A' student shows up, etc.
Hope this analogy helped explain things a bit more.
Guess what? Not everyone can be #1. There are no 'participation trophies' for web content. Google is constantly refining what they consider to be 'good content' and new content is also entering the market each day.
Think of it this way, let's say you're a 'C' student in English, and you have a blog. It's one of the only blogs that is even that good, because everyone else in your niche is either a 'D' or an 'F' student.
Then a new kid comes to town, and he's a 'B' student - his stuff is immediately going to take precedence over yours and you didn't do anything at all. Now, it's up to you to figure out how to get a better grade or he's always going to be a step ahead of you. He'll have issues himself if an 'A' student shows up, etc.
Hope this analogy helped explain things a bit more.
viyee
Premium
My understanding is that Jaaxy shows rankings in Google, Bing, and Yahoo only.
But I know video title (keywords) can also rank in Google Search Engine page 1.
But I know video title (keywords) can also rank in Google Search Engine page 1.
SquidooSlfMstr
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siamjerry
Premium
Thanks Kyle, I immediately checked some 30 posts and found out that a good number of them were ranked on page 1, some in number one spot. It appeared that the ones with a number in the title rank pretty fast or faster than others. Seeing this ranking finally made me feel that I am on the right track!
Kyle
Premium Plus
Yes, those are manual scans. The Pro & Enterprise versions include the more advanced automation (which require a ton of processing power).
Kyle
Premium Plus
Brilliant, and yes, this will happen as you build out your website and happen lots. This should give you confidence and motivation that you can "trust" the process here. The first step is getting ranked, that will lead to traffic and then at that point you will be focusing in more and more detail as to your conversions.