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Unraveling the mysterious black box that is Google… #seotips #seohacks #searchengineoptimization #digitalmarketing
This thing is a mysterious black box. I'm going to unravel it. Go to Google Search Console.
This is Google's own tool for submitting your website to Google's index. If you haven't submitted your site to it, do it next. Go to search results, toggle on average position.
Look for keywords between positions 6 and 11. These are ranking either the bottom of Google's first page or the top of its second. Click a keyword that looks interesting.
See the page that is ranking for it. All you have to do to improve your ranking for this keyword is add a few extra sentences to your page about it. I did this recently and went from position 10 to position 1 for a keyword.
I hadn't been using the exact keyword, so I just added it to the page's introduction. That was enough to go to position 1. SEO does not have to be hard, but for so many people.
In Google Search Console, keywords ranking around positions 6–11 may be improved by identifying the ranking page and adding a few relevant sentences or exact keyword usage.
Use GSC to find near-page-one queries, update the ranking page with useful query-specific context, and measure ranking movement before scaling.
This source is connected to Search Console / content optimization experiment.
This thing is a mysterious black box. I'm going to unravel it. Go to Google Search Console. This is Google's own tool for submitting your website to Google's index. If you haven't submitted your site to it, do it next. Go to search results, toggle on average position. Look for keywords between positions 6 and 11...