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Rank Your Medium Article on Google Overnight

This is going to be a short but hopefully very useful blog. Did you know that aside from having its inbuilt audience - Medium also has a huge domain.

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Rank Your Medium Article on Google Overnight

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  1. Did you know that aside from having its own inbuilt audience – Medium also has huge domain authority –

  2. And therefore ranks incredibly well on Google! Look HOW MANY keywords Medium ranks for according to SEMRush: 52.8 million keywords currently rank in Google according to SEMRush – which probably means over 65 million if we were to get access to Medium’s Google SearchConsole. But if you take this one step further – you’ll see that Medium has 420,000 keywordsintop1-3positionsonGoogleJUSTintheUnitedStates.

  3. So now that we’ve got here – the next step would be to identify a keyword that is connectedtoyourbusiness: InthisinstanceI’lltaketheexampleofaclientwhohasaCBDbusiness:

  4. This demonstrates there are 13 articles that rank top 3 on Google for the ‘CBD’ keyword – that would theoretically drive 608 visits based upon the search volumes staying the same.

  5. An actual Google search demonstrates this result for ‘CBD dosage’ (1,600 searches permonthintheUK)tobeaccurate–withamediumarticlecomingin3rd. Thenit’sacaseofexaminingtheactualMediumpostitself:

  6. This one is a 19-minute read which means to do better than this one we’ll need to makeitmoreextensive–whichmeanswritingamonsterblogat1900words. Furthermore,ifyouanalysethistitle’sbacklinkprofile:

  7. You’llseethatit’sgotatotalof32backlinksand14ofthemwhicharedo-follow.You’llseethatit’sgotatotalof32backlinksand14ofthemwhicharedo-follow. And looking at the article itself I can see it has a link to the ‘money website’ of Alphagreen:

  8. And then the authors themselves are from the same company and have a clear Mediumstrategyinplace:

  9. They have taken the pain to build a whole publication themselves to drive traffic fromMediumtotheirbrand. Quitecleverreally. When you combine that with reading a blog like this which walks through how to rank your Medium article on Google and talksabout:

  10. Therearesomefundamentalsherethatareimportant. You do need to produce amazing content to ensure that it ranks above the currently existingcontent–andthenyouneedtothrowsomelinks+socialsignalsbehindit. TheCBDOilisquiteachallengingonetocompeteagainstbecauseofalloftheworkthat’s goneintoputtingittogetheraswellasitactuallyhavingit’sownlinkprofile. However, there will be many many more blogs that are under optimised for which there willbemoreopportunities. Furthermore, you can build some simple web 2.0 links to your post to help bolster it’s backlinkprofile.Pleasevisithowtorankmediumpostingoogletoknowmoreinfo.

  11. IquicklytookalookataDIFFERENTkeyword–‘entrepreneurship’IquicklytookalookataDIFFERENTkeyword–‘entrepreneurship’ Iimmediatelyfound9articlesthatarerankingtop3ofGoogleandtookaquicklookat them:

  12. I then took a quick look at UK searches to determine if it really is number 2 (in regardstothe1stsearch):

  13. Asyoucanseeitis. And then when you go ahead and take a lookatthearticleitself:

  14. You’llnoticeit’sa3-minutereadwithnoimagesandcandefinitelybe‘betterwritten’.You’llnoticeit’sa3-minutereadwithnoimagesandcandefinitelybe‘betterwritten’. Furthermore when looking at it’s backlink profile you’ll see that it’s got 2 ‘do-follow’ links and we could probably rewrite the article and reach out to the authors to replace the old contentwithours:

  15. Some final thoughts – make sure you add alt-text to your images so Google can read them and do all of the things outlined in the screenshot above–anddriveyourselftoMediumsuccess.

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