The SEO ranking factor you MUST master to rank in Google

If you want to rank in Google today, there's a new SEO ranking factor to pay attention to.
And if you optimize for this factor you can find yourself with higher rankings.
And if you ignore it?
Well let’s just say you’re missing out on A TON of high-quality traffic.
So check out the video to learn more about this increasingly-important SEO ranking factor.
Here's some other cool stuff you'll learn in today's video:
- The simple process you can use to get higher Google rankings...without backlinks (yes, really)
- How the "APP Formula" makes users (and Google) love your content
- The simple trick I use to increase the perceived value of my content by at least 2x.
If you're looking to get more actionable SEO videos like this one, make sure to subscribe to my KZbin channel right here: www.youtube.com...

[@ronenyahaloms8554]

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[@peterthompson3574]

fHey Ron, Mind sharing some tips with us on how your getting these rankings?

[@ronenyahaloms8554]

I'm having first place ranking on first page of google. But its okay, you don't have to believe me. I'm not trying to sell anything.and I dont need your money. The most important thing is the great checks I get every month.

[@ronenyahaloms8554]

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[@SpeedyHungarian]

You made me sit through a 10 minute long video about APP formulas and shit, while the only reason I clicked on your video was that ranking factor. Damn, you're good.

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[@veganirvana3900]

Your subtle bucket brigades throughout the video kept me watching until the end haha "Here's where things got really interesting," "What's going on here?" "But check this out" "How do I know?" Love it when people actually incorporate what they are teaching! Thanks for the video!

[@ahmadmustafa7206]

The SEO ranking factor you MUST master in 2019 .... And this video was uploaded 2016 All I'm saying this video is time traveler, great stuff man

[@DannyVeiga]

I think you're the only person that I soon as I see "Brian Dean" popup as an email that came, I immediately click and read! Thanks man!!

[@dimitarmargaritov]

+Danny Veiga Him and Neil Patel!

[@BrianDean]

+Dimitar Margaritov :)

[@BabsHaybell]

+Danny Veiga Exactly... I was like "Oh, an email from Brian, It's gotta be important". Really good to meet people like me here, Haha!

[@Goodlifeteastore]

Me too.

[@saihtainlinn]

Me too.

[@professionaldrivingconsult4010]

Every time I see you, Brian, I smile - hugely! Your enthusiasm overwhelms your hutzpah. And your help (and bloody hard work) is invaluable as well as infectious. Thanks mate.

[@JosephSalinas123]

You know Brian, the tips in this video are a great way for me (or anyone) to jumpstart content writing for a brand new website, which is what I am doing over the next month. If I use these tips right off the bat with any NEW content that I write, it actually makes the writing process a lot easier (and way more fun!) so It's clear to me that your experience being a copywriter plays a lot into the way you teach SEO techniques.

[@NateOBrien]

Just wanted to say thanks for another great video! I’ve been watching your video’s for quite some time now and I have really learned a lot! Keep making awesome videos! Thanks, Nate

[@orioneli5721]

Enjoyed your informative video Brian, thanks, and for your action item at the end...yes I possibly will adopt the Bucket Brigade and the APP formula first - I can see how they can be integrated into my posts easily! Great stuff! Thanks.

[@CodeWithChris]

Hey Brian, STW student here. I think bucket brigade and the app formula are both super powerful. I loved the bloopers at the end because it shows how much work goes into your video presentations! You're always so eloquent in them that I thought it came natural but guess what, you're just like us! :) Makes you more relatable.

[@BrianDean]

+CodeWithChris Hey Chris. Agreed: those two strategies can make a big difference in your dwell time. HA! Far from natural. Trust me :)

[@yougotthis5825]

Love this! Thank you so much! I'm going to use the APP in my LiveStreams as well!!!

[@revitellect3129]

This is amazing content! Bucket brigades look very effective. Thank you!

[@ausumguitarcovers7853]

The more you make people understand, the more they depend on you! Your stuff is crazy amazing!

[@desse56]

Haha, funny how you used several of these techniques in the video itself, I like it! I was worried you would refer to some form of expensive tutorial, but no, you gave us all you promised! Great great job! No better way to gain trust than to demonstrate that the techniques work, than by using them in the video itself! Brilliant!

[@ganjarnugraha259]

Brian always show the best part of seo, simple and easy to understand.

[@txbailbonds4238]

Great. I always knew time on site was important, but I didn't know it had this type of effect in rankings! Thanks for the lesson!

[@es7691]

Thank you so much. I've never seen this information anywhere. You're a good man. Never heard of bucket brigades or APP before this video. Now, I actually understand more about what "great content" means.

[@jamesjordan876]

Love your step by step methods and easy to follow methodology in an area most people find difficult to teach. Definitely excited to try the bucket brigade techniques and APP formula!! As always great stuff Brian!

[@MeuHusky]

I'm learning a lot from your channel, thank you very much.

[@MrHardCash]

The bucket brigades idea..... Genius. I used to use trick-words that are sometimes misleading, and I wasn't feeling good about it. But this is so much better.

[@startupcafedigital1503]

Amazing tips! Keep up the good work, Brian!

[@thetagmarket1058]

Good stuff Brian... We seldom see good, practical and easy-to-implement advice like this. Too many site owners think that search ranking is about satisfying GOOGLE - whereas you correctly emphasise the need to satisfy site VISITORS... Get this right, and Google follows.

[@sarahiskandar9372]

This is so helpful. I did little bit subheading and APP formula for my writings, but i even never imagined about bucket brigades which surely improve reader's curiosity and finally can make them stay longer. Thanks a lot.

[@BrynvanNuissenburg]

Hi Brian, love the fresh approach you take with your vids. Keep 'm coming!

[@SueLaurent5280]

Wow Brian - you always have the best actionable content - and you manage to put it together in a way that's easy to understand and put to work for myself right away. I'm going to try all of your suggestions... bucket brigades...APP...TODAY (I have WordPress open on one monitor and your video on the other, going step-by-step). I'll let you know how it improves my engagement!

[@MariaSherowQHHTHawaii]

Thank you so much for this amazing video. I learned so much and can't wait to implement the bucket brigades.

[@spotlessflooring2407]

Great work. I love how you actually get into the content. So many videos and blogs are just to grab attention and waste lots of time building up to something they don't even talk about. Needless to say, I was distracted by a few of those prior to finding this video. Again great work. And I'll be working on breaking up my content and putting stronger titles in between each segment.

[@MrArtist1971]

Great job Brian. You're a smart man. I've been doing marketing for over 25 years and learned something, thanks!

[@seomcr-seoagencymanchester8191]

Top quality content thanks Brian, long clicks are so important. Great tips: bucket brigades, benefit driven subheadings, agree with problems, promise a better World, preview what's coming up. 👍

[@marcl3928]

Wow. I've learnt so much with this 10 minute video compared to browsing forums that give almost the same information at every post.

[@angeliqueroux5737]

Binge watching your content has my invisible tail wagging excitedly. You make something that I was afraid of tackling, so easy and DOABLE. Thank you, Brian!

[@BrianDean]

You're welcome Angelique

[@realMartinHamilton]

Brian you're one person's email I open right away and read and watch. I learned about you from Bryan Harris of Videofruit and both of you are superb. You're a very sharp and crisp with your delivery. Best of all you've put presentation and tremendous content together. A rare aptitude. Thanks again.

[@BrianDean]

+Martin Hamilton You're welcome, Martin :)

[@nachannachle2706]

Lol, you are the Ultimate salesman. You're lucky the majority of the population is *nothing* like me. I rarely spend time on a page/a video unless I KNOW I will benefit/learn from it. No amount of APP/click-bait can make me stay on a page for more than 5 seconds AFTER I've realised I'm on the wrong path. I have zero time to waste being entertained by marketer's antics online or in real life. :) I landed on this video and STAYED because I'm studying about SEO as part of my Web Development course. But the tricks of this trade are creative in a way that bores me to death: Attracting customers? Pleasing customers? Finding what they want? ? Ugh...I prefer Back-end development ANY DAY.

[@phoenixrains2855]

From someone who gets completely overwhelmed with this topic, you explained it SO SIMPLE! You gained my trust immediately. Thanks Brian! Subscribed.

[@LizParker121]

I am on my home page now editing it to use the APP Formula - and I wrote down the bucket brigades. I am going to use both instantly. Thanks

[@gt5marketing164]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I really appreciate you doing this about SEO.

[@rsforyoucleaningservices6628]

Thanks brian, you manage to put it together in a way that's easy to understand and put to work for myself right away. I'm going to try all of your suggestions. Thanks for sharing these great tips!!!

[@rezobachi123]

Please never delete those videos. Thank you so much!

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[@HassanAanbar]

Bro, you're amazing. Thanks for these insights, I've been taking notes like a good student haha!

[@RelLinkWish]

Absolutely fantastic material. Of all the trash and misleading videos on KZbin, it's so refreshing to find genuine and applicable content like what you've just taught me. Thank you! New subscriber :)

[@ViktorIvanov1111]

You are one magician :), Thank you for the valuable content!

[@reinhold-vst9499]

I'm happy I discovered your channel. In 2010 I had a successful youtube channel, ( seo was for websites not for youtube ;-) ) then I popped out for six or seven years, now I want to jump back, but man the rules are changed. I hope implementing your advice will get me back on track. Thanks Brian Dean.

[@dinhbatrang]

Whenever I see your inbox from Brian Dean & Neil Patel, I can't ignore, must click to see right now. Really, Brian Sir ! You always make us excited with your words, one by one ;)

[@tomasskala8115]

Insane, Brian, thank you for everything you do!

[@IvanBayross]

I'm going to apply the APP formula to the Blog posts I create. It really does make tremendous sense. You really delivered huge value to me in this video. It was time well spent. Thanks Brian.

[@roylow142]

BRILLIANT WORK! I am glad you share this treasure, Brian. Thanks a LOT!!!

[@CBIWebServices]

This. Is. Awesome. In fact, in the short time I've been on your list I haven't been disappointed. And I've actually just subscribed to your channel; an extremely rare thing for me to do.

[@BrianDean]

+CBIWebServices NICE!

[@johnesuccess8614]

Brian is a pimp when it comes to killer content on backlinks. Love it and everytime I get an email I open it and LEARN. This is my favorite video though. How to get high? Say What lol

[@mickelvaessen]

Another great video! I use the APP method and bucket brigades on almost all of my pages and it really works! Thanks for sharing these great tips!!!

[@jacekjankowski8811]

Thanks man, your copywriting background have made a golden tip of the year out of your experience for both SEO and copywriting niches

[@MedievalFantasyTV]

I am into IM since 2008, and I must say you are the best IM guru out there... and I've known a lot of them.

[@DaveHermansen]

Good stuff Mr. Dean (as usual)! We are also seeing basic user metrics like CTR from the SERPs and TOS drastically effect rankings.

[@markettradersdaily]

I found your video content about SEO to be the most reliable and accurate in the industry. The Bucket Brigade strategy is very interesting. I am going to start with that one.

[@TravelingPhotographer]

Brian, You asked us to tell you which of these 3 strategies we were going to use first to lengthen the time visitors stay on our site. All 3, of course! In the spirit of quality over quantity and of writing a mile deep on a narrow topic I think it makes sense to employ all three for the maximum effect on improving our reader' stopover. Keep on providing the kickass content! Thanks, Bruce

[@BrianDean]

+Bruce Lovelace Sounds good Bruce :)

[@aizen6496]

You're video is very informative. What a normal person would take an hour to explain, you gave it in just a few minutes. Thank you!!!!

[@powerbee]

Brain your a genius, I have watched quite a few of your KZbin Video's now, I have implemented a number of these on my website, at one point I thought that I could not increase my SEO rankings but to my astonishment, your advice has REALLY worked, I cant thank you enough, I will now go through all my blogs and use these techniques to improve my SEO ranking factors... nice one and thanks Brian

[@BrianDean]

+PowerBee NICE! You can do it

[@ProfileboosterAustralia]

Excellent video again Mr Dean. Removing the massive sentences and paragraph blocks is an issue so many sites have. Your APP formula is pretty powerful too. Great vid.

[@luckyvideo1526]

Feel that all the influence factors finally are user experience, all we should do is to improve user experience. Thank you for your sharing, I will do that right now.

[@chrismcphee4098]

I am trying it all. I am about 45 days in...I just started blogging, and I am learning so much. Thanks for the insight Brian.

[@HeathifyMyLife]

Christopher McPhee How is your vlog doing? I am about to launch mine. ..many questions still

[@MrHydrent]

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for sharing this. Looking forward to the next video.

[@srinivasMekalamca]

Every word is a gem itself, Brian.

[@deyanali2617]

1st i got angry with so little views for this excellent video. but then i got relaxed: JUST LOOK AT THE STUNNING ENGAGEMENTS with such a low view. FASCINATION

[@LocalSeoSniper]

Brian I love the information you provide as it is so practical and useful. Keep up the great videos.

[@healthshareu5908]

Brian Dean, I am so thankful for all of the videos you make! You offer an engaging presentation everytime, awesome actionable content, and valuable information that is so hard to come by! Thanks so much for these videos and please keep them coming!

[@buildersedge888]

Hey Brian. Great job on this tutorial. I like how you broke it down into steps (bucket brigade, subheaders, and APP formula). I need to study it a bit more but this was very helpful. Thanks man.

[@zionian888]

This has some really good info - dovetails nicely with RankBrain - thanks again Brian!

[@WilliamAlexanderAlpineWebMedia]

This is really great information and one of Brian's best videos. This one's going to the top of my A list for sure. Thanks Brian!

[@BrianDean]

+William Alexander You're welcome, William :)

[@andrexavier77]

I really enjoyed your video! Thank you for the info. Cheers!

[@LaurenSelinskyrealtor]

I think the info immediately and not telling us all JUST about you was actually the best and then as you continued and ended we know who you are! Bloopers and all. Thank you. Refreshing SEO tips. Lauren Selinsky

[@hfrnd-hu2kz]

Dear god finally, Some one thats actually education and leaving their plug at the end... some folks forget that the quality of the content translates to loyalty ergo higher rate interaction through social mediums. At the current state of google crawl and index algorithm places higher priority to social interaction...! .... anyways, Subscribed!

[@Daavisonfire]

Another good example why everyone should learn copywriting.

[@KlyBell]

I'm just coming across your videos and website. You certainly have a knack for keeping people engaged. Well done.

[@seoburtonontrent5543]

Like always, Brian Dean makes yet another brilliant video on SEO. Keep up the great work!

[@tal7913]

Brian Dean you are the reason I sign up for youtube and subscribe. Your information is so valuable tricks and tips like that can only be learned in years. And you are sharing with us in minutes. Thanks

[@streamingairheads5618]

I'm going to use ALL these strategies to help build my blog traffic. Thanks Backlinko!

[@TechStart7]

Thanks brian, you are a gold mine for SEO experts :)

[@daniellemolenaar]

Thank you for this Brian, I actually use the Bucket principle (I myself call it 'Hooking' - hmmm, that might be great to use in a blog header, eh?). Loved the APP, will implement immediately. Cheers!

[@zerozendesign]

@ Brian - Beautiful video. I normally don't listen to what people have to say, especially SEO "experts" but you know what - your content is no bullshit. It isn't about writing posts with thousands of words or even creating tons of new content all the time. Google simply wants to see that what you have created content for is indeed relevant. I've noticed that once you start ranking for a keyword, Google starts ranking you for similar keywords to see how relevant you are to similar keywords. For example - affordable web design is similar to cheap web design. Google wants to see if people search for cheap web design have the same mindset as a consumer as those who searched affordable web design. My site ZeroZen Design ranks for 133 keywords on the first page of Google. I have a theory that if I create a video for each page that is basically a "visual summary" than my rankings for other keywords will improve. For all of those out there who are simply lost with SEO - follow this information and implement it. For an added bonus, create a quick engaging video that covers the exact same content except head that video with - "Don't like reading? Just press play!" I can guarantee you will see amazing result. Stellar job Brian - Just found you but I'll be watching your other videos. Thumbs up!

[@thebutlerbunch7249]

Thanks Brian!!! Love your content man! One of my faves!

[@sarahmuyumba7250]

Hi Brian. Great information. I love the bucket brigade method since it keeps readers interested in what next you have to say

[@19jave32]

Man, you're good. Honestly a better speaker than the other SEO guy. haha

[@michellecollins2712]

Yeah he sounds more bright!!

[@MikeSmith183]

I am Sooooo Glad I found U, I will not get any sleep tonight!!! HAPPY TRAILS!!!

[@jamesthompson1279]

Excellent video. In some respects you reiterate what I learned in Journalism 101 many decades ago. It's easy to forget these things and get caught up in overwriting.

[@KnowingTracy]

I will try those two methods! I cant wait :) Also I loved the bloopers at the end :)

[@mmike855]

This video was published in 2016, and still relevant!

[@ivanalzuro]

this is just well thought out content... been binge watching your channel... dude... thank you... I'm finally comprehending ranking.

[@jasonwritz]

Thanks for the information Brian! I really like the benefit-driven subheaders.

[@BrianDean]

+Jason Writz You're welcome, Jason

[@sarahheath6766]

I like your short and to-the-point presentation. Very clear.

[@ibrahamassi3725]

Will definitely use the APP when publishing my next blog post and will certainly sprinkle bucket brigades when I think appropriate. Great advice!

[@ayeshahatalkar536]

your video is like finding a diamond in a hay stack ! looking forward to the newsletters.

[@jasonstallworth]

Brian, somewhat non-relays question but I notice you post long content. I have a 30 day guitar series on KZbin and I want to post a blog, which will basically structured like this: 1 - Short write up about the lesson 2 - Embedded video 3 - The Guitar tabs followed by a few tips I’ll do this for each video but this will be a super looooong blog post (for 30 videos). Do you recommend this long of a post? Or should I have like tabs to where you can see one section (1 vid with content) and you can click a ‘next’ button? Hopefully this makes sense!

[@TilokChakma]

I think this is SEO revolution..Thanks for your Great and helpful Video ...

[@mohammedsadiqurrahman374]

Your videos are amazing. Short, crispy & to the point. Loved all. Keep it up @Brian Dean

[@suhdonim4432]

Brian, you are TRULY the man! There's so much value in this video, I have to watch it twice!! Seriously, this is high quality content (as always) that I can use to build my brand properly. I appreciate that you consistently give your subscribers sound methods & techniques that can positively affect our SEO campaign(s). Before I found out about Backlinko, I had given up on doing my own SEO. What I read was confusing, spammy, or outdated -- OR the infamous "great content will rank on its own." Thank you for teaching results-based SEO.

[@BrianDean]

+Suh Do Nim (FreeStateMents) You're welcome, Suh

[@tuckerclagett8153]

If you need SEO tips and you are NOT reading and listening to Brian Dean and Backlinko, you are screwing up. I am just a small businessman and I am very, very appreciative for the dynamite content he puts out there for free.

[@ISCAH-Gift-Store]

Love it! Just tweaked 2 of my blogs for Bucket Brigades and APP. Can't wait to watch and see what happens

[@chinavasionwholesalegadget1652]

Hi Brian, I think I will try the Bucket Brigade first in my blog. Thanks for your sharing!

[@sankumar43]

So much value every time, it's insane

[@da_lime]

It was not about SEO. But you have mentioned good points about content writing.