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UsedRadiosDevelopers commented Apr 19, 2017

As Google Search Engine is always changing I wanted to provide a guide on how to understand or make since of your google search results when you Googling "how to rank on google 2017" so you can make more since of it when you google "how to rank on google 2018" next year or the next (and by you I mean we, because I learned a little here too in this breakdown).

So lets start with this screenshot of my Google Search Results I took Mid-April 2017 "how to rank on google 2017"

screen shot 2017-04-19 at 11 17 38 am

I think it's a fun case study to actually search "how to rank on google 2017" and see the rusults that can put their money where their mouth is. After putting it a table this is what we got.

Rank Website Alexa USA Rank Alexa Global Rank Website Creation Date
1 firstpagesage.com 186,088 794,027 2009-06-16
2 www.forbes.com 96 256 1993-06-17
3 www.wix.com 318 385 1995-05-12
4 www.searchenginejournal.com 8,912 11,768 2003-06-11
5 www.receptional.com - 616,030 1999-01-19
6 blog.interakt.co 70,482 400,365 2013-08-30
7 mytasker.com - 187,734 2011-10-21
8 www.awesomedynamic.com 322,307 843,288 2009-12-22
9 seoforgrowth.com 410,242 727,767 2015-10-08
10 www.matthewbarby.com 148,411 149,799 2012-12-01

Here I looked up each domains Alexa Rating and the date the website was created using their ICANN Whois record (that's essentially the phone book for the american internet).

Now lets start breaking down these results to maybe identify some outliner. Lets start by scratching off some of the websites acquired when the internet was still young. The reason behind this older websites have more concrete presence in search engines and we are looking for what makes sites that have been created within the past 10 or less years.

We see 4 Domain were +/- 2 years in the Dot-com bubble era (between 1995-2001). Leaving us with

Rank Website Alexa USA Rank Alexa Global Rank Website Creation Date
1 firstpagesage.com 186,088 794,027 2009-06-16
6 blog.interakt.co 70,482 400,365 2013-08-30
7 mytasker.com - 187,734 2011-10-21
8 www.awesomedynamic.com 322,307 843,288 2009-12-22
9 seoforgrowth.com 410,242 727,767 2015-10-08
10 www.matthewbarby.com 148,411 149,799 2012-12-01

"according to Moz's 2015 Search Engine Ranking Factors report, inbound links are the single most important element for achieving high rankings."

Ranking on Google in 2017

I'd like to start with this quote

"Never take advice from someone who isn't where you want to be" -Will Smith

Ok, Willy Smith prolly didn't say that, I'm not actually aware of it's origin but great advice, none the less.
I've s

One of the more thought provoking reads I've
After about an hour of me trying to find my favorite post on the internet about SEO if from a guys post For 11 years, I have been ranking ecommerce stores on Google. Some from nothing to $8,200,000+. Here is the EXACT process on how to start an Ecommerce store with ZERO experience and get it profitable with Google traffic. on Reddit's /r/Entrepreneur take a look


https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/4kv335/seo_what_to_focus_on_and_why_it_shouldnt_be_one/

You: It doesn't really make since for my site to have a website, do I still need it?
Google: Yes!
You: But why?
Google: Backlinks, Backlinks, Backlinks.

What are backlinks?

Backlinks direct links to your website. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website. Backlinks are important for SEO because some search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a search query.

Backlinks & Page Rank

Backlinks are a pretty big part of how Google indexes a sites seniority or page rank.
How much though? No one really knows because Googles search engine is always changing and it's not open source but does enough to make a noticeable difference (even Google says so).

Think of Google's Search engine like it's a party for the cool kids and Google's search results are is a registry of everyone invited with the "coolest kids" first. Just like a cool kid's party if "www.some-unknown-site.com" say's yo check "your-site.com" Google it's dank!" Google will says "No it's not. Cuz U ain't dank.", but if Facebook says.....

it's not going to mean much Your get more "street cred" if a popular Think of this like a Googles Search engine as a Football Team. Players get more popular the more points they score

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twitter.com/Used2WayRadios - @Used2WayRadios

Facebook - Go Now

Statusbrew - Go Now

This service is a robot for social media. You get one free account and I linked it to the twitter account I created [@Used2WayRadios](https://twitter.com/Used2WayRadios).

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