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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How to Rank #1 in Google | Ep. #349

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #349, Eric and Neil discuss how to rank #1 in Google. Tune in to learn how you can work your way up to the TOP of the Google search results and why being consistent and thorough with your content can skyrocket your ranking. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: How to Rank #1 in Google 00:40 – The two main factors that affect ranking are your content and links 00:51 – Building backlinks becomes difficult over time 01:09 – Neil was at the SMX Conference and everyone was talking about links 01:20 – Neil found out over the years that Google values content more than they do links 01:27 – You want to get to Top 10 in the search result for any keyword you want to rank for 01:35 – You can use the Keyword Density Tool by SEObook 01:40 – Make sure your content is VERY thorough to get more search traffic in the long run 02:00 – Wikipedia is always the top search result for “Abraham Lincoln” 02:05 – The content is consistently growing 02:24 – Guest posting can also help your ranking and ROI 02:53 – Eric has a team that tracks their links using Pitchbox 03:23 – You can get a higher domain authority when you base your content on your keywords 03:37 – Ranking takes time 04:15 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Content and links are the main factors that account for your search ranking; but, at the end of the day, you should focus more on content. Be THOROUGH when you write your content—this will get you to the Top. Be patient and just continue to add value; your ranking will increase over time. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from

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entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

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marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school with

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your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:18.6

All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.

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to improve your low time. Welcome to another episode of Marketing School.

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I'm Eric Sue.

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And I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to talk about how to rank number one in Google.

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This is, I think this is something that everybody wants and I think I'm going to go back to the two main factors first before we go into more details but two main factors when it comes to ranking one content two links everybody forgets about or not everybody a lot of

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people forget about number two so Neil what are your thoughts around this

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because I think you just did a video on this right number? Number two is hard over time.

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You know, you'll build up your back links.

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You can try things like emailing out people

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who link to your competitors using A-Trafs.

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You know what the funny thing is,

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is speaking about links my experience you know there was a conference that just recently

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