Blog page ranked in a matter of hours, now what to continue climbing ?
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Hello,
I just published a blog page a few days ago and it currently ranks on 3 rd page for the keyword "loire valley bike tours". Something I haven't managed to do for years with my page that talks about tours in the loire valley.
My guess is that I have better content on it.
Now my question is : will it continue climbing (if so at what rate) or will it stay there unless I improve my content and get links to it or will google calculate its PR and have it slowly climb over time...without changing anything.
Thank you,
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I see thank you for your reply.
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I agree with you. By "answer query" i meant that people would not go back to ask google the same exact thing, but move on to something else (even if related). Keep building your site up, not necessarily for this link, and you'll increase rankings. It sometimes fluctuates a bit until G sets a fix-ish position for a page. You might see it jump to page 1 in a couple of weeks. We've started working hard a month ago and we keep seeing jumps of 5-10 positions for 5-10 kwds every other week tops.
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I agree and disagree with you. I know a lot of people on the web talk about answering queries but according to one google patent only certain type of queries can answer queries not every google search has to answer a query...
In some cases it is hard and you can see that in the related searches.
Type "content marketing" sure there are lots of questions people have in related searches and many other tools you can use.
However type "Alsace bike tours" and tell me what queries people have and questions they want answered... There are none in related searched and I couldn't find any in any of tool that exist out there... It means that in this case good content is all good needs.
The other problem is if you rank on 3 page for example you are never going to get 1 click so unless google bumps your 1 so that you get a few clicks to see the results... I don't see how google can track how i would solve a query... By the way when there are just 10 queries a month on that keywords even if you are bumped 1 st once a while you got to get lucky to get clicks
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The question is much more intricate than you think. It all depends on how your search traffic does. If those that do come from Google do really well and you solve their query, you'll go up. Otherwise you won't.
This can also be influenced by new links, referrals, mentions, etc. Of course.
The more your post gets mentioned the better it can do. It may also be a result of it being mentioned somewhere good that you're able to rank well.
Cheers
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