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Penguin new ranking method - it worked for me

by zaco
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I have been trying to rank my website for more than 4 months, after the penguin update I gained some rankings but I stayed at page 2 for the main page and my inner pages didn't rank that well, 2 or 3 only ranked at page 1 and the rest were 40+ so I decided to work on my site and try a new method.

I went to https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/ and tried to see my site speed, I got around 27 points out of a 100, I went to my webmaster tools and looked at my site and Google was showing that my site was faster than 85% of the sites on the web so that kept me wondering! how come my site is faster on the WB tool but on their tool its so low, I decided to fix the issues they reported and I went up to 64 ( I still have to fix more but I don't know how to do it since my HTML/CSS/Javascript) knowledge is 0.

After 3 days my homepage went to page 1 in the top 5! I thought it was a fluke, I checked my stats and I started seeing traffic coming from long tail keywords and it comes to the inner pages, all my inner pages are on page 1 or page 2 max!

I didn't do alot of backlinking, I do like one or two links a week using comments..try it and see if that helps, it worked for me so it might work for you
#method #penguin #ranking #worked
  • Profile picture of the author awarum
    I just ran the test and got overall PageSpeed Score of 89 (out of 100). Maybe it's one of the factors that play a role but it obviously didn't help in my case.
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    • Profile picture of the author zaco
      Originally Posted by awarum View Post

      I just ran the test and got overall PageSpeed Score of 89 (out of 100). Maybe it's one of the factors that play a role but it obviously didn't help in my case.

      Try to fix the errors u get and it might help, I think they notice that u r trying to make the site faster which will make the user experience better so they give you points
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  • Profile picture of the author awarum
    I ran the test on the site that is ranking no 1 for the keyword and they got an overall PageSpeed Score of 62 (out of 100).

    I already have a score of 89. Like i said yes it might play a role but there are tons of other factors at play here.
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  • Profile picture of the author aniksari
    There are tons of other factors rather than just page speed. What's your link building method? How about the competition?
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  • Profile picture of the author TheProgrammer
    The page Internet Marketing Leaks got an overall PageSpeed Score of 81 (out of 100).
    does it really affect on serps? i think link building does more affect rather than this.
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    • Profile picture of the author zaco
      Originally Posted by TheProgrammer View Post

      does it really affect on serps? i think link building does more affect rather than this.

      I am not saying linking wont have an impact, but this also might be a factor so it helps.. linking is the main factor but they have more than 200 factors..
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  • Profile picture of the author zaco
    The competition is medium, I outranked sites that has been there for more than a year as I wanted to do this niche long time ago, ofcourse there are more factors but this might be one of them, I usually did backlinks to the main page but not alot, my links re coming from comments and I would say 90% of them are coming from comments.. but alot of the pages that are ranking do not have a single backlink
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    While it is good to improve your page speed, it's still a very small piece of the ranking factor compared to backlinks.
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