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15 SEO Tricks To Rank Higher (Beat Your Competitors)

SEO TIPS: If you create content for your website or blog, you most likely wonder: How do I get my blog to rank higher on Google?

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Then you are in the right place. In this article, I will be revealing the 15 SEO tricks you need to rank higher than your competitors on Google and other big search engines like Bing and Yahoo.

I have been following exactly the same SEO tips. As a result, my blog posts rank high on Google and outperform many competitors.

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Look at this: 10x Content Writing SEO Tips for Lazy Writers!

15 SEO Tricks To Rank On Google Front Page

1. Focus On OnPage SEO:

OnPage is a highly recommended SEO trick. Work towards a perfect on-page SEO. This will astronomically boost your ranking on search results.

Some OnPage SEO strategy you should focus on are:

  • Nice title and meta description.
  • Use of H1, H2 and H3 tags in your post.
  • Use of image Alt attribute.
  • Link Anchors.
  • No-follow tags.
  • Keyword in title.
  • Keyword in url.
  • Short url.
  • Keyword in first paragraph.
  • Keywords in H1, H2 and H3 tags.
  • Internal and external linking.

2. Publish long content:

On average, long content is considered to start from the number of 1200 words.

while creating length content remember that content is key, You can create an article of 300 words as long as it is of benefit and positive impact.

Publishing longer content is beneficial in terms of SEO. Firstly, long content usually gathers more backlinks. Secondly, long-form content short blog posts in terms of shareability.

A ranking factors study by SEMrush confirmed that long content tends to rank higher:

seo study by semrush
SEMrush

3. Find Out What Your Competitors Are Doing:

It is true that there is no effect without a cause. For your competitor to suddenly rank higher than you, it means that they have upgraded their SEO tricks. Find out what really changed in their algorithm.

When you find out what they are doing, do it 10x better. This will give you a result that is 10x better than what they are getting and thank me later 😉.

4. Work On Your Design:

All you need is a very simple and neat design. This will boost your user experience. When your visitors discover that they are more comfortable in your competitor’s website, you know what that means right?

Also, Google loves websites/blogs with very simple and responsive design.

Just look at Speedyminds, pretty simple huh?

5. Don’t stuff keywords:

Before Google Panda 4.0 and HummingBird update, stuffing keywords used to boost ranking. Now, it has become an SEO myth. As a matter of fact, very high keyword density can make Google and other search engines to blacklist your site.

6. Build Social Connection:

Social connection has become a major ranking signal. Build social share and social count buttons. This will not only increase your ranking, but it will also improve your visitors’ engagement rate.

7. Increase page loading speed:

Fact:

53% of mobile website visitors will leave if a webpage doesn’t load within three seconds.

In addition, page loading speed is an important ranking factor for Google.

All in all, you want to make sure your page loading speed is as high as possible. A good way to start is to analyze your page speed with Google’s PageSpeed Insights ↱.

8. Optimize images:

Google does not just look for images. It looks for images with alt text. That’s why it’s important to add relevant keywords to your image name and meta description.

Optimize your blog images with this image optimization plugins. If you are a WordPress user.

9. Technical SEO:

Once in a while, check out for technical issues in your site. Check and fix broken links. Optimize your database. Scan for malware and other technical SEO issues.

10. Refresh your content:

Updating your content and enriching it with up-to-date facts now and then is extremely beneficial SEO-wise.

Why?

Google loves fresh content.

11. Make Your Content Readable:

Readability is a very important factor in blogging and SEO. Make sure your content can be read by your visitors and Robots.

One way to achieve this is by breaking down your content into short paragraphs and using very simple language. Avoid using very long sentences, Remember you are not writing a novel.

12. Come up with a catchy title:

Spice up your titles with emotional adjectives. Also, numbers in headings drive a lot of attention E.g

Irresistible headlines will increase your click-through rate and ultimately increase your website traffic.

13. Monitor Your Competitors Content:

Monitor the type of content your competitor continually create and create a better one.

I do this often.

14. Don’t forget OFF-PAGE SEO!

Mentions of your content on other blogs can significantly improve your search engine rankings. 

I decided to treat this on its own. Take a look at this article: Off-Page SEO:Ultimate Guide To Getting Quality Backlinks.

15. Check Their Domain Age:

Are your competitor’s domain age and authority more than yours? It still doesn’t stop you. You can still compete very well.

Do you have any other SEO tricks? Share it with us here using the comment box and don’t forget to share this amazing article!

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Originally posted 2021-08-02 12:45:25.

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