How to Get on Page 1 of Google with a Blog
I find bloggers generally fall into one of two camps as follows:
- They have a pretty blog all set up but are too frightened to go after blogging in a big way and therefore think blogging doesn’t work
- They are blogging like fiends but haven’t got a proper strategy to make sure they get the most out of their blogging activity.
I’m still amazed at the number of business owners who haven’t taken the leap to set up their own wordpress blog yet.
It’s not that difficult, really! You can do it here in less than 30 minutes or have someone do it for you:
WordPress Blog Set Up
If you have a blogger blog or some other type of blog and it’s bringing you first page ranking on Google for your niche keywords, leads and sales etc then happy days, keep going with it. You may still want to consider getting your own WordPress blog because you OWN a self hosted wordpress blog and guess who owns a Google blog?
Yes well done. You get an A* because Google own it.
Google own nearly everything online it seems so I highly recommend that you take ownership and control of whatever you can as far as your ‘online real estate’ goes.
There have been multiple Google slaps in the past few years so although Google are unlikely to slap their own blogs they are very likely to change their rules and regulations about what you can do on your blog WITHOUT consulting you!
Ok so the other MAJOR benefit of a WordPress blog is that you can easily get listed on the first page of Google for your niche keywords.
It’s phenomenal how this happens and sometimes I can get on the first page within a day or two or sometimes even hours.
If you follow my stuff you know I’m not a hype queen and if anything I always underplay the power of the strategies I use because I know that results are not typical and depend on YOU implementing.
But if you do some keyword research and identify your niche keywords, begin including these keywords in your posts regularly you will start to come up for them.
So here are some top tips for getting on Google Page 1 FAST:
Choose some ‘long tail keywords’ because they are easier to rank for and they also bring you very targeted readers who then sign up to hear more from you because they see immediately that you offer what they want.
An example of a long tail keyword would be ‘building confidence,’ rather than just ‘confidence.’
Don’t choose keywords which show they have ‘high competition’ because you’ll struggle to rank for those and you want quick results so you can be encouraged to continue.
Create your marketing strategy so that you are always mentioning the same keywords in your posts. This is easy to do if you have identified your niche.
You can go after some other keywords once you’ve had success with your main keywords but focus on your main 2-5 keywords first as your blog strategy so that you can dominate them and not spread yourself too thin.
Choose your niche wisely and then stick with it so that you can stay around long enough to reap the benefits of being listed for your keywords.
Okay so this is how I and many others have ranked on page 1 of Google for many search terms over the past few years. This makes a massive difference to standing out online and becoming known in your industry.
People can’t find you if you’re not on page 1 so why not go for it whilst you build a blog, brand yourself and create a long term asset for your business?
Oh and did I forget to tell you that this strategy is free?
So here’s a quick link to the free keyword tool I use: Google Keyword Tool
And here’s the set up blogging page which takes you right through how to set up your wordpress blog, optimise your blog and collect those lovely leads: WordPress Blog Set Up
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