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Steven Rich, MBA
Steven Rich, MBA 28 April 2016

It Took Just 5 Days for Google to Rank My Last Blog Post in Its Top 10 as #2

My last Blog Post was ranked in Google Top 10 at #2 yesterday after only been published for 5 days. This article explains how I did it. It also offers suggestions to website and blog owners how they might be able to do the same.

It just took 5 days for Google to Rank My Last Blog Post in its Top 10 as #2

I published my Blog Post on April 21, 2016 and by April 26th; Google not only put it into its Top 10, but also ranked it as #2.

The original Blog Post for a U.S. Real Estate School is here: 

Tips for Effective Open House Advertising

The Keyword Phrase now Ranked by Google as #2 is: Effective Open House Advertising" which is higher ranked than similar posts and articles from U.S. News, Realtor Magazine, Chicago Money Magazine, Investopedia, Redfin, Zillow, and Realtor.com.   According to Google, over 4 million blogs and websites use that keyword phrase.   

If this were a ghostwritten blog, it will never get into Google Top 10.   Because the author is “Steven Rich, MBA”, Google ranked it higher.  That’s because “Steven Rich, MBA” is so well branded online that Googling it will show 10 pages of results.   How many individuals have 10 pages in Google about them?   I don’t know, but having that many Google pages means that Google recognizes the individual as an authority.

Content is King as I learned years ago which was reinforced when I took an Online Marketing course last year.  Good content makes the post or web page relevant to the searched keywords, which gets visitors via search engines.  Relevant good content leads to recognition as an authority or an expert on the keyword phrase.  Once a blog or website or an individual author becomes an “authority” or an “expert” in the eyes of Google and other search engines the search rankings become higher. 

Commercial for profit websites and blogs are at a disadvantage when competing against universally recognized experts or authorities.  While authoring for Wikipedia, the editors emphasized to me that the online encyclopedia would not cite commercial websites as sources in their footnotes.  That’s because commercial websites focus on selling their products or services and seeking profits instead of educating its visitors.

Most authority’s websites are governments (.gov), educational institutions (.edu), and respected organizations (.org) like the American Heart Association.  In addition, online dictionaries and encyclopedias (Wikipedia) are also good authorities.  Of the online profit making websites, only the publicly recognized news media gets acceptance from Google and the other search engines for being newsworthy, neutral, and reliable such as CNN, the BBC, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, etc.  

Google and the other search engines recognize this and give all of them higher rankings than commercial websites most of the time.

Trust is the main element that good content that is relevant to a keyword search written by an accepted expert or authority on the subject creates.  The most trusted websites and blogs will get the higher search engine rankings. 

So, what can a commercial website or blog do in order to get higher Google Search Rankings? 

Unless a rare post or an article becomes “viral” with help of social media and seen by a million or more readers noticed by Google immediately, here are some practical tips.

Maintain a consistent online presence as older sites get higher rankings than new ones.  Unless the website or blog already have high search engine rankings, they should avoid ghostwriters and hire known and respected experts and authorities as authors who can achieve instant higher rankings based on their good online reputations.

To conclude, good content written by an author whom Google recognizes as an expert or an authority on the subject that is relevant to the keyword search, making the web page or blog post “trusted” can be a fast track to achieving Google Top 10.  I did it in 5 days, so can you.

Steven Rich, MBA

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