{"id":3691,"date":"2015-08-04T13:38:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T13:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2022-02-03T21:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:24:47","slug":"rank-your-posts-on-googles-1st-page-with-these-5-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.improvemysearchranking.com\/rank-your-posts-on-googles-1st-page-with-these-5-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Rank Your Posts on Google\u2019s 1st Page With These 5 Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every website owner wants to get on to Google\u2019s 1st<\/sup> page. However, believe me, it\u2019s not that simple!<\/p>\n

The World Wide Web is saturated with content.<\/p>\n

Over 2 million blog posts are published every single day.<\/p>\n

The competition is getting tougher, and the search engines are getting smarter and harder to manipulate. You need a well-planned and thorough search engine and content marketing strategy to break into Google\u2019s top 10 search results.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we do know a few sure-fire tactics that can significantly boost your search engine optimisation process. In this post, we are going to list 5 tactics that will help you rank your blog posts on Google\u2019s top pages.<\/p>\n

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1. Bigger is Better<\/h2>\n

Please answer this question.<\/p>\n

If you are searching for \u201cemail marketing tips\u201d and you come across the following two articles, which one are you most likely to click?<\/p>\n

“3 Email Marketing Best Practice Tips”<\/p>\n

“The 20 Best Email Marketing Tips of All Time”<\/p>\n

99% people who are genuinely looking for email marketing tips will click on \u201cThe 30 Best Email Marketing Tips of All Time\u201d post, because it\u2019s more detailed, in-depth, and comprehensive. Search engines also think and evaluate content like that.<\/p>\n

They like to present their users with the most up-to-date, informative, and comprehensive content upfront. So the trick is to not to write those 100-200 word blog posts anymore. Instead, create comprehensive guides and articles that give a lot of value and information to its target audience.<\/p>\n

SerpIQ recently concluded a research to find out that search engines actually prefer longer blog posts. And the average length of each of the pages ranked on Google\u2019s 1st page is at least 2,000 words.<\/p>\n

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Moreover, some bloggers are now creating even more detailed blog posts with 4000 – 5000 words.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that lengthy and in-depth posts do significantly better in the search engines. Aim for that and you will have a much better chance of reaching that milestone.<\/p>\n

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2. Be Smarter \u2014 Use Long-Tail Keywords<\/h2>\n

As I\u2019ve mentioned earlier, search engines are now smarter and harder to manipulate. To complement that, more and more blog posts are getting published every day.<\/p>\n

Now, try to understand that there is only way to reach on Google\u2019s 1st<\/sup> page. Your content will have to better than the rest of the web pages published in your niche. That\u2019s a tough task, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Thankfully, there is another way by which you can receive more organic traffic, i.e., by target keywords that your competitors aren\u2019t. This gives you an added advantage of facing less competition while targeting the same market and audience.<\/p>\n

The solution lies in using long-tail keywords.<\/p>\n

Long-tail keywords give you two distinct benefits:<\/p>\n