[O.SEO Video #2] How To Rank #1 In Google For ANY Keyword

I guess the answer to this question bothers almost everyone who owns a website.

Well, lately I’ve been talking to Ahrefs customers a lot and what I’ve realized is that the majority of people who signup for Ahrefs each day are not really professional SEOs.

This encouraged me to start shooting quick videos explaining the basic SEO concepts in an easy to follow and comprehensive (hopefully) manner.

And here’s my attempt to answer this burning question:

How To Rank #1 In Google For ANY Keyword

I’m not a professional speaker and I don’t have any experience shooting videos, so please bear with me (and don’t laugh at my accent!).

NOTE: if you’re enjoying my “Oversimplified SEO” series I invite you to subscribe to Ahrefs YouTube channel.

To cut the long story short:

Check who’s ranking #1;
Replicate ALL his links;
Go a step further and get even more links.

What the hell is O.SEO?

After posting this video on Facebook I got quite a bit of feedback.

And quite naturally we’ve come up with a name for this series of videos – Oversimplified SEO:

So I sincerely hope you’ve enjoyed this episode of Oversimplified SEO!

And just to let you know – I’m super responsive to comments! (hint-hint)

http://tweetphiladelphia.com Eric Van Buskirk

Nice job. I think you’re giving too much credit to backlinks. Yes, it might be 50% of the ranking signals, but it’s for dofollow and the other 50% is broken into 100s of signals. You mention a lot about “keywords” but today google looks more at comprehensive coverage on a site. So the bigger question is how much you guys talk about “skyscraper …” vs. how does he? That will matter as much as what Brian did for links…or almost as much. I appreciate your audience is newer SEOs! It’s all very complex for SEO these days!
- http://bloggerjet.com/ Tim Soulo
  
  Hey Eric!
  “Comprehensive coverage on a site”? Not sure it’s a better ranking factor than links
  
  Some people mention “skyscraper technique” more simply because they post more often.. and Brian only has 2-3 posts mentioning it.
  
  But what you said about the actual QUALITY of the links VS the raw number you see in Achrefs is something that actually makes sense! I was going to cover that in one of my next videos!
  
  Thanks for the feedback, mate! If you can drop here a few links about “Comprehensive coverage on a site” SEO theory – I would really appreciate that!
  - http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcnashaat Marc N
    
    Hey Tim, I think what Eric’s referring to is thematic relevancy. I,e sites that are dedicated to a particular topic will typically rank better with less links. So for instance Webmd will rank better for an article on a specific type of cancer than CNN would, even though CNN probably has more links.
    
    In this case I would argue it doesn’t apply since both sites cover SEO topics. Would definitely agree that links are the more important factor here.
    - http://bloggerjet.com/ Tim Soulo
      
      yep! agree with you, Marc! It DOES play it’s role at some point, but quality links still stay the most powerful ranking factor!
Ali Rao

I love ur description 😛
So u mean to say i should
Look for my competitors and try and get his banklinks?

One thing more, what about fiver seo? $5 gigs?
Recently i see lot of positive comments. Should we go for that?

How To Rank #1 In Google For ANY Keyword

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