A Simple Way to Write an Article That Hits Google’s Front Page

I successfully learned and monetized this skill.

If you want to make a living writing, you most likely aim to achieve the following — to be in front of as many readers as possible.

Like other content creators, you come up with topic ideas, do some research, spend hours writing a piece that only experiences a so-called “spike of hope.” You are excited to see the rising views right after the content publication, but in a few days, they are gone. What do most writers do in this way? They start working on a new piece hoping for better luck.

If you believe your content deserves more views, but it does not happen for some reason, perhaps, the following stats will calm you down:

Over 90% of all online content gets no views on Google, according to the Ahrefs study. It’s a painful truth not many content creators know.

As a marketer, I admit creating searchable and insightful content is challenging. I experimented with different content formats and styles for years before I learned how to create content that hits Google’s front page.

In this article, I share my proven process of creating well-performing content for my website that you can easily replicate.

Do this before you start writing.

Believe it or not, search engine bots are your first readers!

The Google bot crawls the web like a spider, looking for new content. Once the Google bot detects your article, it “reads” it (it’s called indexing), and only then your content becomes searchable.

If you want to create content people will discover over again, you’ll have to please search engines too. How to do it? By creating content that both readers and search engines bots can understand.

Keyword research can help you grasp whether people are interested in your topic. At the same time, on-page optimization will help you create articles that will hit Google’s front page.

First things first.

Do keyword research before you start writing to maximize your chances for successful performance. Here is how.

1. Come up with a topic. Any idea will work here.

2. Check your topic’s monthly volume and competition.

As a marketer, I use Ahrefs content writing tool for SEO for research. However, you can try the following alternatives:

• Semrush (10 free searches a month)
• Moz keyword explorer (10 free searches a month)
• Ubersuggest (three free searches a day)
• LSI Graph (free)