6 Reasons Why Your Site Will NEVER Rank (STOP Doing This) | Neil Patel's SEO Tips

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According to Ahrefs, 91% of content gets zero traffic from Google. That means less than 1 out of every 10 web pages get any traffic at all. If your site is among the 9% that gets their traffic, that's awesome and good for you. But, if you're part of the 91% that doesn't, it's probably because of one of these six reasons I'm about to talk about in this video. Today I'm going to break down the six reasons why your site will never rank, and I want you to stop doing this.

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Reason number one, your web page doesn't have any backlinks. This has been revealed through several studies, but one study by Ahrefs shows the linear correlation between backlinks and search traffic.

Authority Hacker ran a similar study and they found that backlinks are still the most strongly correlated factor for SEO success. What this correlation means is the more backlinks you get, the better your chances of getting organic search traffic are. Though, you don't necessarily need to be proactive about doing outreach to get backlinks.

If you're writing amazing content or building amazing tools, or creating an amazing product or service, or even getting press, you'll naturally generate backlinks. And what you'll find is, as your site, in general, generates more backlinks, all your pages, including your blog content, will start getting more search traffic and ranking higher.

The second reason you're not getting any love from Google is you're not leveraging search snippets.

According to Authority Hacker, search snippets can be present in as much as 75% of the top spots in the search for high-volume keywords. That's huge. Among those, featured snippets account for 20% of all results. If you're not leveraging things like FAQ schema markup, you're missing out on a ton of traffic.

The third reason, the page isn't targeting a topic with enough search traffic potential.

Ahrefs found that even when you have over 200 referring domains to any given web page if you're not targeting keywords with enough search traffic potential you're still not going to get any traffic. You may get some, but it's going to be very little.

In other words, if no users are searching for a topic that you're talking about on that page, how are you going to get any search traffic? So, what I want you to do is do keyword research.

Use tools like Ubersuggest. Put in a keyword, it'll tell you if that keyword's easy to rank for, getting a lot of search traffic, and all the other related terms out there that also get a ton of volume that you should be targeting.

The fourth reason? You're not leveraging meta tags, H1 tags, and title tags to insert your target keywords. A study that I mentioned from Authority Hacker shows a strong correlation between keywords in the H1 and title tags and ranking.

Just think about it, this makes sense, right? When you're doing a search for a term and that term is in the listing, you're much more likely to click versus when you do a search for a term and that keyword or term isn't in any of the listings. Now, that title tag that you're putting on your website, that's what Google's pulling from.

So, when you're doing a search on Google and you see that title, that's your title tag in essence that they're pulling from.

The fifth reason? You don't have HTTPS enabled. It used to be where HTTPS was optional, but it's not anymore. If you want to rank now, you need to use HTTPS. It's pretty much a standard these days when it comes to SEO.

The sixth reason? You're getting a bad score on Google's Lighthouse audit. While this may not guarantee you good rankings, over 90% of the web pages on page one of Google have high average scores on Google's Lighthouse audit.

And, if you want an easy way of trying to figure out your score, you can go to Ubersuggest, put in your URL, and then click on the site audit report.

The site audit report also breaks down your page speed, and it pulls it from Google Lighthouse. So that way, in one place you can get your page speed information and figure out where you need to improve.

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Amazing speed of explaining. Best style bro

kunikjindal
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I saw your first video accidently. I hate your videos on the very first day. But I can't remember the reason. Then algorithm show me more & more ur videos. Now I'm addicted! Great content Neil

ScrubInstitute
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The answers are sitting on this very page...in depth relevant information presented in a clear and thorough way. Make content which people want to link to.

johndough
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Fantastic SEO advice in this video!
👊👊
This inspires to make even MORE videos on my channel!!
How long you guys been following his channel?
😍

AlexZubarevAlexZ
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I signed up for Angels and Entrepreneurs. Let's get this money!

multimeter
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Neil,
Which plugin do you use for search snippets? or you do it manually putting codes?

cm
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Hi Neil, awesome guidelines for SEO to rank in SERP... Actually I'm not able to find the video-tutorial for Schema Markup in the description, would you please help??!

kumarabhinav
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Hey Neil when is the best time to link build? After publishing all your content or do u try to promote right after you publish a single post?

realhercules
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Hi Neil, Another informative video. I have a question about article writing. one of SEO experts in my country told me that we should give a unique value to the article instead of writing the article according to keywords. he said further If we write a similar article that is already available on the internet he doesn't see any reason that particular article to be ranked. So he asked me to be creative and write a unique article, Then use keywords accordingly. Keywords are always secondary, That's all he said to me,
I am confused, How do you describe it, I appreciate your advice on this matter. Thanks

ajithkumara
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Hi Neil, I took your advice and used Ubersuggest for the SEO audit. This is a great tool. I have one new question. It identified my "contact-us" page as having an unfriendly SEO title. It appears to suggest removing the "-" (dash). If I modify the page name to just "contact", will I need to adjust all the areas (Social Media, and Local Business Listings) to "contact" from "contact-us"? I don't want to create any dead links. Thanks for your suggestions, Delfino

aldinetree
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Fantastic no to-do list, 😍
BTW, my website's pages get indexed on SERP, but then suddenly
they get invisible the next day, even from the webmaster also. And this happens every day (Index/Nonindex)...
what's the reason?

ashaytamrakar
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Hi neil. I have hosting that allows unlimited sites. However, if I sold a site, can I transfer it to the buyer's host, without it losing any rankings (which is what attracted the buyer in the first place) ?

innerstrength
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nice n logical explanation!! what should one do to outrank high DA website ? i mean other than getting quality backlinks, will adding more (fresh )content and optimising seo (on-page) do it?

ArpitSingh-gwgh
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I love what you always talk about backlinks. And also I found that targeting audience is the best out of my SEO research.

SirChogyal
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Bro you are great... You are rich from the heart... Thanks for valuable content and specially for your ubersuggest tool ... Love you bro

mousumjyoti
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Hey Neil! If I add a link to someone else Youtube channel on my blog post then does that reduce loading speed my website? It would be of great help if you will reply.

learnerashish
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Hi Neil. How long does it take for a new website to update on ubersuggest? Ubersuggest tells me I get 1 organic visitor per month, but this is outdated. My new website only launches at the beginning of January.

MuleyxHD
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Hello Neil. I have a problem with backlinks. I know that our business should have about 10-15 backlinks but when I analyse the page, it says 0.

I have set backlinks to the page on our YouTube, Instagram and Facebook pages, then there are ones on Kayak, TripAdvisor and Trivago and three in the municipality websites and on couple travel blogs. All these are in the right form and lead to the page but for example Ubersuggest says 0 backlinks.

Is there a way to fix this?

sirtbambson
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Hey Neil I just watched out someothers so called experts saying that now backlinks don't matter but since I am following you so I want to know what is truth do they or not please tell

sunitashukla
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Isn't H1 similar to title tag? Should we use H1 and title tags both together? Or starts from H2 after the title?

mehdi