Get Awesome Google Rankings with Simple Blog Formatting Hacks
The Blogging Millionaire
Brandon Gaille - CEO of The Blogging Millionaire Media Network
4.8 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2016
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Here are 10 simple hacks that will dramatically improve how your blog performs in one of the top three factors of the Google algorithm.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the blog millionaire, where we break down the essential strategies of today's most successful bloggers to take your blog to the next level with top-notch content, monumental traffic growth, and multiple revenue streams to go beyond your wildest goals. |
| 0:17.1 | So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host whose blog gets more than one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey. |
| 0:31.1 | This is Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 22 of The Blog Millionaire. |
| 0:36.3 | Today we're going to be talking about 10 ways to increase the |
| 0:39.6 | average time on page with formatting hacks. When it comes to getting a first page on Google, |
| 0:46.0 | the average time that someone spins on your post is one of the three biggest factors. |
| 0:51.7 | Google's ranking algorithm keeps track of the time each searcher spins on your |
| 0:56.3 | post before they click the back button to return to Google. The average time on page is simply the |
| 1:02.5 | average amount of time that visitors spend on different pages and post on your website. You want your |
| 1:09.1 | average time on page to be as high as possible. |
| 1:12.1 | One of the obvious ways to accomplish this is by writing longer blog post. |
| 1:17.6 | This is why the average word count of all the top 10 ranked pages on Google are articles |
| 1:22.6 | with 2,000 to 3,000 words. |
| 1:25.6 | With all things equal, long articles will have a higher average time on page |
| 1:31.1 | than short articles. Since most of us know this already, let's talk about the other things that are |
| 1:36.8 | usually equal. When you look at your average blog post, there are only about 2% of visitors |
| 1:43.7 | that stay on the post for more than two |
| 1:45.9 | minutes. The vast majority of new visitors will back out of a blog post within the first |
| 1:51.8 | 5 to 20 seconds. This is not because these bloggers are bad writers. It's due to the fact that their |
| 1:58.6 | post is not formatted to pull readers into their post. |
| 2:03.2 | After studying over 40 million page views and testing every possible variation, I was able to identify 10 formatting hacks that consistently increase the average time on page for all of my blog post. |
| 2:15.4 | The first one is limit your paragraphs to seven |
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