New blog ranking for keywords within 3 days? Is this normal?

9 years ago

It happens much more today than it did in the past. Keep up the good work, and remember that there's no such thing as a permanent ranking. (That's why you have to keep working at it). What you rank for now could drastically change in the following 15 minutes!

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Sirr

9 years ago

Originally Posted by nmwf

It happens much more today than it did in the past. Keep up the good work, and remember that there's no such thing as a permanent ranking. (That's why you have to keep working at it). What you rank for now could drastically change in the following 15 minutes!

Oh wow. I wasn't aware Google move so quickly these days.

One thing that worries me at the moment is what's the state of "backlinks" today? I am really not comfortable with the whole mass gaining backlinks or paid guest posting (unless I am the one guest posting on a topic I know and enjoy). I'm concerned positions can be lost to competitors who practice grey/blackhat marketing.

Can a site retain it's position with good content alone? The content I write is written with the intent that people will share the content as my site gets more visitors, so I hope to gain those natural backlinks. I also hope Google use analytics factors such as low bounce rates, page loading time etc as I excel in maximising the best numbers possible in those areas.

But at the moment, all I have to give the world is content, and hope my readers share and enjoy.

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nmwf

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Sirr

Oh wow. I wasn't aware Google move so quickly these days.

One thing that worries me at the moment is what's the state of "backlinks" today? I am really not comfortable with the whole mass gaining backlinks or paid guest posting (unless I am the one guest posting on a topic I know and enjoy).

Can a site retain it's position with good content alone? The content I write is written with the intent that people will share the content as my site gets more visitors, so I hope to gain those natural backlinks.

But at the moment, all I have to give the world is content, and hope my readers share and enjoy.

Backlinks, when not abused, can play a critical role in SEO. So you made the right decision not to amass them in bulk. In fact, your entire strategy looks safe and sound. Aside from writing good content, looks like the only thing you have to do (via content marketing) is make sure your writing relevant and newsworthy to your readers. Thaaaat's what will encourage the sharing.

You're doing great so far!

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sober

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Sirr

Can a site retain it's position with good content alone? The content I write is written with the intent that people will share the content as my site gets more visitors, so I hope to gain those natural backlinks. I also hope Google use analytics factors such as low bounce rates, page loading time etc as I excel in maximising the best numbers possible in those areas.

But at the moment, all I have to give the world is content, and hope my readers share and enjoy.

Just my experience but I have a site that has been ranking # 1 for some keywords for the last two years and I have never purposefully made a backlink to it. Its pure content and it ranks well for me. It made $8000 last month.

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Sirr

9 years ago

Thanks for the response, it's much appreciated. Apologies for editing my post whilst you responded.

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rwinter

9 years ago

You might already be aware of this, but Google search results can change based on your search/browser history, especially if you're using Google Chrome. I always search in an incognito window to (hopefully) get more accurate results. But one thing I've noticed is that new pages I put up can show up on the first pages of Google search after just a few days or even less if I'm not in an incognito window and I've been on my blog a lot. But when I go incognito, I can't find those pages at all. Something to consider.

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Sirr

9 years ago

Originally Posted by rwinter

You might already be aware of this, but Google search results can change based on your search/browser history, especially if you're using Google Chrome. I always search in an incognito window to (hopefully) get more accurate results. But one thing I've noticed is that new pages I put up can show up on the first pages of Google search after just a few days or even less if I'm not in an incognito window and I've been on my blog a lot. But when I go incognito, I can't find those pages at all. Something to consider.

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I did check in Incognito and they're at the same position. I'll check on a few proxies and see what it reveals in other parts of the world.

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nmwf 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Sirr

Thanks I did check in Incognito and they're at the same position. I'll check on a few proxies and see what it reveals in other parts of the world.

That's the best approach. Incognito mode isn't as incognito as you might think. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907818
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Curtis2011

9 years ago

There are only a few possible causes:

1. Google is tailoring search results to your personal account/browser cookies. A personalized experience will show websites you visit frequently ranking highly for you only but not for everyone else. This is a "fake" Google ranking that only you see, not other people. To avoid personalized results, try using Chrome's incognito mode. I believe this avoids personalized results to some extent.

2. If your pages really are ranking that fast for your search terms on a brand new blog, this means that those terms are probably extremely uncompetitive from an SEO standpoint. Other sites are not doing good SEO for those terms if you can beat them that fast.

3. Last possibility is a stretch. If you registered a new domain that previously hosted a website in the past, and it has links pointing to the domain name from websites that linked to the old website at your domain, this would allow a new website created on that same domain to rank highly by using the power of those old links.

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jessikaload

9 years ago

This was a great achievement.If you can select correct keywords and write comprehensive articles that can be happened again and again...

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nettiapina

9 years ago

Seems that nobody mentioned this yet, but you may be enjoying a short "honeymoon" period for your new piece of content. Google seems to often boost new articles for something like a day or two. Don't be too disappointed if the articles fall.

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bryan2015

9 years ago

Yes sometimes it can be possible.Well done and good luck for future.

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Mike Carter

9 years ago

Firstly, Congrats on your initial success, As nettiapina said, don't take this as your long term success, Try to keep up the good work and concentrate on doing SEO, which will help you to stay on top on the long run and bring in more sales.

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ashutoshkumar11

9 years ago

Everyday you post a new blog it needs to get crawled by Google. Unless and until Google crawls it, it won't get any ranking easily. Even if your blog doesn't contain unique content and not as informative as well then also it will not be crawled by Google at any point of time.

So, prior posting your blog regularly be sure that your post is of top quality and the readers of it are getting some quality info from it then only your keywords will get ranked quickly but it takes some time as it depends on Google will it will crawl it.