What Should You Do If Your Search Rankings Just Won’t Go Up?
It happens all the time.
You try and try. You pour time and money into it, and you barely see any results.
I’m not talking about slot machines. I’m talking about search rankings.
Sometimes, they refuse to budge. You might be on top of your SEO, but your rankings just don’t go up.
I run into this problem constantly. Many of my clients are mystified because they can’t figure out what they’re doing wrong.
I know first hand how discouraging it is to spend countless hours on white hat techniques only to see little to no results.
That’s the nature of the beast that is SEO.
Sometimes you do everything right, and it works like it should. Other times you do everything right, but nothing happens.
But here’s the good news.
If your rankings are stuck, there are things you can do to help them move up in the SERPs. It’s absolutely possible.
Today, I’m going to show you exactly what to do to get your rankings up.
I’m not promising this will be easy, but if you put the work in, you will see results.
So if you’ve been worried about your low rankings, I’m here to tell you that you don’t need to be.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at my favorite techniques for improving ranking.
Analyze your current SEO strategy
You wouldn’t believe how often this happens to me.
I’ll be talking with a client and they’ll tell me about a big SEO problem they’re having.
I’ll go over their SEO strategy only to find gaping holes in it.
This is super common because SEO covers a lot of ground. Everything from content creation to robots.txt files makes up the SEO universe.
So it’s easy to understand why this happens, but it’s also a breeze to fix.
I recommend writing down everything about your current SEO strategy. Then cross-reference it with a guide like Quick Sprout’s Advanced Guide to SEO.
If you see any missing pieces, start by adding those in.
Another good technique is to go through this 8-step SEO strategy from Moz:
Make sure your strategy has all of these components.
If your strategy looks good, then it’s time to pull out the big guns.
Here are some of my best little-known SEO tips to help you push your rankings up even when they’re going nowhere.
Plus, if you do all of these, you’ll be contributing to the overall SEO of your site, and that’s always a good thing.
15+ Years | Digital Brand Management Professed
7 年Great mantra! Wonder what world we would live in if everyone took this to their daily lives and businesses.
Ambidextrous Marketing Communications
7 年SEO copywriting is hard. Knowing the technicals is even harder...and it's very easy to get lost in the weeds.
Freelance Growth Hacker, Digital Marketer and Writer at Freelance
7 年Google is taking too long to update SEO efforts. It is not the check list what a SEOer has to do now and it is happening in a way to wait until you get the attention from Google. I work on 4 Indian sites currently. there is a large volume of content creation and backlinks generation carried out constantly. Pity is that Google is taking above 5 months to validate my backlinks and taking another 2 months to allot my SEO efforts and link juice. It is definitely not worth looking for SERP rankings and it is better to look for user engagement in the whole SEO process.
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7 年Neil you should join BAMF on FB. The best growth hackers in the industry.