Hi Arien,
Please note that ranking on Google depends on so much more than just your on-page optimization. You could have the perfect article and still struggle to break the top 10 in SERPs. Here are some of the factors Google considers when ranking you:
1. Your website’s authority
2. Your content’s quality and how better it is than the other article currently ranking.
3. How competitive the keyword is.
4. How many backlinks you have and if they are better than what the other guys ranking for that keyword have.
5. Your website’s crawlability.
6. Frequency of new content and content updates.
7. So much more that there is a dedicated blog post on it by Brian Dean 🙂
https://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors
I would recommend that you keep at it and work on acquiring more links to break into the top SERPs.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
thanks for your reaction and I am aware of all the ranking factors.
But is this what is worrying me and has to do with Rankmath:
all the links from other (internal) pages (example:https://www.koffiekwaliteit.nl/gewone-koffie-maken-met-espressomachine/) are not registered by rankmath(see print screen)
It shows no incoming links at all. So if RM does not see them, I fear that also Google does not see them!
Can you please find out the reason why these incoming links to shop page are not being registered?
Thanks, Arien
Hi Arien,
I see the internal links showing up fine in the screenshot you shared.
Moreover, just because Rank Math doesn’t see them doesn’t mean Google won’t either. Google checks what actually appears on your pages.
Moreover, internal links matter but you should have authoritative external backlinks to your pages as well in order to rank one the first page for ANY one-word keyword.
The keyword you are targeting is quite competitive in Netherlands with highly authoritative mostly dominating the first page:
https://i.rankmath.com/p3yF2q
Please note that ranking on Google depends on so much more than just your on-page optimization. You could have the perfect article and still struggle to break the top 10 in SERPs. Here are some of the factors Google considers when ranking you:
1. Your website’s authority
2. Your content’s quality and how better it is than the other article currently ranking.
3. How competitive the keyword is.
4. How many backlinks you have and if they are better than what the other guys ranking for that keyword have.
5. Your website’s crawlability.
6. Frequency of new content and content updates.
7. So much more that there is a dedicated blog post on it by Brian Dean 🙂
https://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors
I would recommend that you keep at it and work on acquiring more links to break into the top SERPs.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.