Do You Need Backlinks To Rank In Google? [ANSWERED]

Here’s 7 ways to rank on the first page of Google without backlinks.

1. Find Low Competition Keywords

By writing content for low competition keywords, you inherently have a better chance of ranking on the first page of Google. 

This is done by finding long-tail keywords (multiple words) and writing articles centered around the topic and answering related questions.

2. High Quality Content (Long-Form Content) 

When I say long-form content, I mean a minimum of 1,000 words give or take.

The more words you have on the page the better the chance you have of Google seeing something it believes should rank you higher for a specific keyword. 

You can write shorter articles, but you’ll want to make sure you’re targeting lower competition keywords when doing so.

3. Relevant Content

You need relevant content. 

How do you do this? 

By knowing the keyword you’re focusing on and tailoring your post specifically to what you believe is the user’s search intent. 

Take a look at the top sites already ranking for that keyword to get a better idea of what Google believes is the search intent.

4. Re-Publish Content

The cool part about blog posts is that you can easily republish the content on other blogging platforms. 

A few examples are Medium and Blogger. 

This helps to get your content more reach and you can link back to your main blog as well.

5. Social Media Promotion

Just about everyone is on social media these days on a regular basis. 

Whether it’s Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest there’s many different avenues of re-purposing your content to a wider audience.

6. Build An Email List

Your email list is one of the few things that you truly own as a business. 

It’s critical that you take the time to setup optin forms and popups on your blog to capture user info. 

Then you just need to integrate with an autoresponder to push people back to your site for more as you produce new content! 

Here’s what I use: Thrive Leads and ActiveCampaign.

7. Setup Push Notifications

You know that little notifications popup that appears when you visit certain sites. 

Well, they’re taking advantage of push notifications and for good reason. 

In a similar manner to your email list, you’ll be growing a following and subscriber base for your blog.

Now, all you need to do is send out a notification and get traffic right away. 

I personally use PushEngage for push notifications.

What’s The Best Way To Get Backlinks To A New Website Or Blog?

Now it’s time for my favorite method to obtain backlinks from high domain authority sites with hardly any work.  

It’s called the HARO method which stands for Help A Reporter Out.

Here’s how you can get started with HARO to obtain backlinks for a brand new website:

1. Create an account for HARO
2. Choose the category you want to receive requests for from reporters (should be a category that fits your niche)
3. Sit back and wait for daily emails with a list of topics/blog articles that reporters have requested quotes/interviews for and then simply reply to the ones that look interesting
4. If you wrote a good response, you’ll likely receive a dofollow backlink (not all give you backlinks but a majority do and will notify you after writing the post)

It’s a pretty sweet way to get backlinks that’s much more passive than writing an entire guest post.