Top 5 SEO Strategies – Boost Your Rankings In 2018
Looking for the top 5 SEO strategies to boost your rankings with the search engines? Want to get your articles on page 1 of Google? Then these SEO strategies will get you there fast. I will explain what you need to do to SEO your articles to be listed on page one of the major search engines, namely Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
First and foremost your content is critical. Without good quality content, all the SEO strategies in the world will not help you. You must produce good quality, keyword rich content or the search engines will not rank your website very high, even if you implement these SEO strategies. I am assuming that you already know what SEO is but if you want a more definitive explanation of what SEO is, just follow this link.
The top 5 SEO strategies to boost your ranking in 2018 are;
Google Search Console
Google Search Console, formerly know as Google Webmaster Tools is a powerhouse of information about how your website is doing on the web. You can check who is clicking what on your website and how it is doing with regard to position and ranking.
Inside there is a feature called Fetch As Google. When you have published a new article on your site you can go here and ask Google to take a look at your post and to crawl and index it. This will then speed up the process of Google ranking your post in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Page).
It is like tapping Google on the shoulder and saying “Hey, Google, take a look at my new post now please” if you will. If you don’t do this then Google may take a day or even a week before the bot will crawl your website and find your new article which means that during that time your article will not show up in the SERPs.
This is a very powerful SEO strategy that you can implement to help speed up your ranking in the Google.
Bing Webmaster Tools
Well, there is not more to say here except that Bing Webmaster Tools is exactly the same as Google Search Console and performs the same functions and has the same features. The interface is different of course but they are pretty the same in functionality. You can request Bing to crawl your new post with the Fetch As Bingbot feature and speed up your ranking within the Bing SERPs.
Note that Yahoo owns Bing so you get to have your site crawled for both the Bing and the Yahoo Search Engines which a double bonus if you will. So use these tools to boost your rankings for your websites.
List Based Content
List based content is a great way to get ranked in the search engines. This is content just like this article where I have “listed” the Top 5 SEO strategies to boost your ranking. Content that lists items, products or services are favored by the people who are generally looking for the Top 5 of … or Top 10 of… or Best 5 … for example.
Articles with titles like this are a favorite of people searching for the best of something and by meeting the needs of the people and solving their problem by helping them get what they want goes a long way in getting better ranking with the search engines. Search engines today want your content to be informative and helpful to people, not just a site that is trying to sell you everything under the sun.
I am not saying that you should write all of your articles as list based content but have a few of them on your website and they will rank for you.
Internal Links
Internal links are very powerful and every post should have one. Google is particularly fond of internal links as it shows that your site content is relevant to your website and it just some spammy site trying to sell to people without actually helping them.
These are links that you create in a post that will link to another page on your website that is relevant to the content you are writing. These links will raise your ranking a lot in the search engines and should not be ignored.
Leveraging Comments
Comments are another important feature to have on your website. By receiving and replying to comments regularly, shows the search engines that your site is active and alive and well on the Internet.
At the same time Comments are like having extra content in your post and because you are getting new comments all the time this will lead the search engines to see it as content that is being updated regularly which helps boost your rankings even more.
So always reply to your comments as this is an indication to the search engines that there is someone actively working the website and this looks really good to them and they will boost your rankings accordingly.
Some additional things …
There are a couple of things that you can do as well that I believe help boost your rankings and that is to post your articles on Google+ as well. Now I am not sure if Google’s algorithm includes Google+ but it is still Google and I just feel that it cannot hurt so I do it for all of my posts.
A word on Keywords. Keywords are the words people use to search on Google and Bing to find particular topics and subjects. They are absolutely critical for ranking in the SERPs. So make sure that you are diligent with your keyword research before writing an article.
Final Thoughts
Well, these are the strategies I use to get ranked in the SERPs and to get my website out there on the Internet so that people can find me and read my articles.
This top 5 SEO strategies, if done correctly, will help boost your rankings to new heights and you will soon see your own website on page one of the search engines.
For more information on SEO see my SEO and Keyword Tool article.
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If you have any questions or just want to leave a comment, please feel free to do so below and I will be happy to respond to you. Thanks.
March 8, 2018 @ 1:53 am
Hi Carl. I needed to know more about SEO, and here it is, your article. I’ve added Bing after I read your article. My question here is what’s the difference between fetch a google and fetch and render? and when I request indexing, do I chose one URL or multiple? What’s the difference?. I was happy to learn that internal links help with SEO and I do have internal links in some of my articles already. I will create list based contents to boost my articles ranking. Thank you for the very informative article. It’s very helpful 🙂
March 9, 2018 @ 12:32 pm
Hi Mona. Fetch will just give you an output of the code and the HTML while render will output a visual representation of what the Googlebot sees. So you really only need to do the fetch unless you want to see the visual representation. As far as indexing goes I will request indexing for each new post I publish and also if I do any major changes to a post. Internal links are very important as it helps the Googlebot to navigate your site easier and Google really likes that and will rank you higher because if it. I am glad you found this article useful and stop by again anytime.
Carl
February 22, 2018 @ 9:30 pm
Very helpful article… I’m glad I read because I forgot all about Bing SEO, while Google is the number one search engine Bing is important and reading this article made me set-up my Bing Webmaster account for my website. I personally will start focusing on improving my rankings on all Search engines, not just Google. In your experience what’s been better for you in terms of search engine ranking?
February 23, 2018 @ 3:20 pm
Hi Aaron and thanks for stopping by. Glad I was able to help you out with some useful information. As far a ranking in the search engines, I have found that it is easier to rank for Bing and Yahoo than Google at the moment. But Google will generate more traffic generally for your site. I do get traffic from Bing and Yahoo as well but not as much as from Google. That has been my experience with the search engines at the moment. Things may change as they update their ranking algorithms though. Hope that helps you out some. Feel free to ask any other questions you may have too, I will be happy to respond to them for you.
Carl
January 27, 2018 @ 10:17 pm
I’ve never heard of bing webs master tools until now. Would you suggest it over the google one?
January 29, 2018 @ 1:45 pm
Hi William. Well, most people will search the Internet with Google. I think it is like 60% or more people use Google and then the rest use Bing, Yahoo and the other search engines out there. Bing/Yahoo are the second biggest search engine being used so I would definitely get ranked with them as well. They have like 30% of the market share. It will generate that much more revenue for u. Good luck and I wish u success in your online business.
Carl
January 27, 2018 @ 7:27 pm
What a great post brother. I like your idea on internal linking. So many skip this step and wonder why the big G doesn’t like their website. Internal linking is one of the EASIEST SEO ranking signals because it requires little-to-no energy to implement but yet it’s so powerful. Thanks for sharing.
January 29, 2018 @ 1:40 pm
Hi Brandon and thanks for stopping by. Thank you for your kind words, I appreciate it. I could not agree more with you, internal links are really easy to set up and have a big impact on your rankings. I wish u great success and luck for the future.
Carl
January 27, 2018 @ 7:24 pm
Hi Carl,
great article! Some really good tips here, I really like the tip about writing list based content, not tried that as yet. Think I’ll give it a crack on my next post.
As for the internal linking, I can vouch for that. A little while back I was having a bit of a rank slump. I reached out and a fellow blogger told me to add internal links on my site. Couple of weeks later, many of my rankings for targeted keywords jumped up a few positions.
Great post Carl, thanks!
January 29, 2018 @ 1:38 pm
Hello Anthony. Thanks and I agree that SEO strategies can be very powerful in boosting your rank. If you do these 5 things you will definitely increase your ranking within the SERPs. Along with great quality content, keywords and your SEO strategies you will do well with promoting your business online. I wish u luck and great success on your journey.
Carl
January 27, 2018 @ 6:25 pm
I actually never considered writing a list based content but I should definitely give it a shot. I actually get %3 click-through rate and I hope that it can improve a bit. I will try this for 2 of my pages.
January 27, 2018 @ 7:09 pm
Hi Furkan and thanks for reading my article. List posts are very powerful and rank very well in the SERPs for sure. I wish u success with your website.
Carl
January 27, 2018 @ 6:01 pm
The 5 strategies you have given are solid tips on hop we can boost our ranking in the search engines. I had no idea that List Based Content could help to boost my ranking. I thank you for that one.
Do you think it is easier to get rank in Bing than on Google?
Your post is helpful I am going to read your article on SEO And Keyword Tool.
Thanks for the post.
January 27, 2018 @ 7:08 pm
Hi Luna and thanks for stopping by. Yes, list posts are great for getting ranked in the SERPs. I think that Bing’s algorithm is a little more friendlier than Google. I have ranked on page 1 of both of them but I tend to rank more articles on page 1 of bing than Google. I wish you well and hope you stop by again as there will new stuff to see.
Carl
January 27, 2018 @ 5:53 pm
Hi,
I’ve seen the power of list based posts myself-I’m even addicted to Listverse lol.
When I first started blogging way back when, one of my posts was a list based post which I did get the most interaction from. Back then, I had no idea about list posts, SEO or anything like that. I was blogging for fun.
Do you find that sharing on Google+ increases your readership, or does it seem to increase your followers on the G+ platform?
TTFN
Frank
January 27, 2018 @ 7:05 pm
Hi Frank and thanks for stopping by. Yes, list posts are very powerful. As far as Google+ goes it increases my readership some and I think it helps with ranking though I cannot prove that. I just figure that it is still Google so it cannot be bad, lol. I wish u great success in your journey.
Carl