{"id":3224,"date":"2017-10-05T15:19:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T04:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tazi.com.au\/blog\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2017-10-05T17:21:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T06:21:38","slug":"how-do-i-make-my-site-appear-first-in-google-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/websites\/how-do-i-make-my-site-appear-first-in-google-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I make my site appear first in Google Search results?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone asks us this question and the answer from Google is: <strong>there is no secret, there are only good practices<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I was searching for some information for my client, and came across this from Google that reminds me that there is no quick and easy answer to getting on the first page (other than paying for Google Ads!).<\/p>\n<p>Here are the best practices for improving your ranking in Google search results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Provide high quality content on your site.<\/strong>\u00a0Google tries to find the best answer for our users\u2019 requests; if you write the best material, you\u2019re in the game. Use the\u00a0Search Analytics report\u00a0to see which queries lead to your pages, and what the click-through rate is for links to your site.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make your site\u00a0mobile friendly.<\/strong>\u00a0Many users search on mobile devices; our search results favor pages that we think answer the user\u2019s request best with the best possible user experience on their platform.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use informative titles and snippets.<\/strong>\u00a0Good, clear titles and accurate meta tag descriptions help us understand the purpose of a page and generate useful snippets in our search results.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/35624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Add structured data<\/strong>\u00a0to enable additional search result features such as stars, event information, or site\u00a0search boxes, which add to the user experience, making your site more valuable to readers.\u00a0Read more about structured data\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/data-highlighter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">use our tools<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make sure that you follow our guidelines<\/strong>\u00a0for good sites and avoid pitfalls that could affect your search ratings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/6258314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/6258314<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone asks us this question and the answer from Google is: there is no secret, there are only good practices. I was searching for some information for my client, and came across this from Google that reminds me that there is no quick and easy answer to getting on the first page (other than paying&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/websites\/how-do-i-make-my-site-appear-first-in-google-search-results\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[97,98],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-websites","tag-google","tag-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}