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This is the easiest way to rank on the first page of Google. Go to Google Search Console, click performance, then search results.

Turn on average position, scroll till you get between 11 and 20. These are the keywords you're on the second page for.

Then find the ones with the most impressions. These are all the high volume keywords you're almost winning for.

Click on one of them to see what you are else ranking. Compare that page to whoever ranks No.

1 and add anything you're missing, like original data, stories or frequently asked questions. You might be able to win for a keyword you didn't even know you were ranking for.

If you want to help rank it higher, comment SEO.

Another legacy niche blog gets killed by Google. So heartbreaking to see one of the all time great blogs in the website category taken out back old, yellowed by Google.

Who is it? WP beginner.

If you ever made a WordPress website, you probably probably came across WP Beginner. It looks obvious why this happened.

It's also something that you can avoid. In Google's defense, it's mostly them listing their own plugins No.

1 on every blog post. Searchers have gotten tired of this type of content.

This leads to poor user signals that Google notices. In May 2021, WB Beginner was at its peak 2.6 million clicks a month from Google.

Since then, it's gone down down down, down, down. Now it's at 32,000 clicks a month from Google.

Something else you shouldn't do. The first 2,000 words of all their posts are usually what is WordPress?

Why should you blog in WordPress? How to do blog in WordPress?

Then the answer. So after 2,000 words, you scrolling sifting, you'd finally get your answer.

This is another trend that used to be really popular in SEO super fluffy blog posts...

up more pages. This orange line is their SEO traffic.

The yellow line is their published pages. And they didn't really change their content.

It was just more of the type of stuff that searchers didn't like. The results were clear.

If you put yourself No. 1 in listicles, do it transparently.

Do it with an article that comes off as well researched. Don't make your No.

1 spot longer than all the other spots in the list. Don't have super fluffy blog posts.

Give the answer right away. Put TLDRs at the top of your pages.

If your SEO isn't working, hold off on publishing more pages. Re evaluate if you want to learn a form of SEO that gives long term success with Google that doesn't use 4,000 word blog posts.

It uses short conversion based SEO landing pages that specifically targets getting paying customers, users, warm leads calling you up. This is what I show at compactkeywords.

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Watch this. Go to Google Search Console and Performance Search results.

Click the Average Position box to turn it on. Scroll down, click position and scroll until you get between 11 and 20.

These are the keywords you're ranking on the second page for. Find the ones with the most impressions.

These are high volume keywords you're almost winning for. Click on one of them.

Then click pages to see what URL's ranking. Copy that URL, paste it into ChatGPT.

Say here's my page. Give me 5 ways to make this more comprehensive for this keyword and paste your keyword and ChatGPT will give you sections you're missing.

Add those and some internal links pointing to this page and you may be able to win for a keyword you didn't even think of. Do it and comment s.

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If you want our help ranking higher.

You want to learn how to absolutely tank the traffic for your blog? Pay attention to what this company did.

They put up 2,815 templated posts in 16 months. For starters, Google has an entire scaled content abuse policy calling out using generative AI tools, which this company was using.

A lot of these pages looked like this. This is what's called a self promotional listicle.

You have a list of the best products, you place yourself number one. Every single one of their listicles put themselves at No.

1. The top section about themselves is always four to seven times longer than their competitors.

Even though this is supposed to be an informational article, they used a ton of call to actions promoting themselves on each page. They just repeated the same template for everything.

When someone searches ChatGPT alternatives, they want a curated list of genuine alternatives with honest assessments. This company optimized each page for their conversion funnel, not for the searchers questions.

Then they did this at scale. This is the result.

Their blog traffic fell off a cliff...