How to hack your way to the top of Google

Ranking a blog at the top of Google is actually comically easy now.

Despite what everyone tells you.

How do I know this?

Because I do it for a living.

Take this single blog post for example. I wrote it a little over 14 months ago.

In the time since, it’s driven 285,000+ clicks (so far).

I wrote it myself, so yeah, I think it’s pretty good.

But it’s not amazing — I’m an 8/10 SEO writer at best.

To be honest with you, I’m not nearly diligent enough about competitor analysis, keyword density, clustering, or any of that other shit that SEOs preach about.

I choose topics that make sense within a brand’s customer funnel, then I write about them.

This was one of those topics that just made sense.

It didn’t appear in any of the AI clustering tools that have taken over SEO Twitter.

Ahrefs had the target keyword estimated at <100 searches/month.

If that data had been accurate, and I somehow managed a #1 position and a 100% CTR to capture all 100 of those monthly searches…

I would’ve had to have written the blog 2850 months ago.

Or 237 years ago.

The year would have been 1787, when George Washington was still the first president of the United States.

And well before the internet was invented, obviously.

BUT here’s the thing, the data wasn’t accurate.

I noticed that one of the brand’s main competitors had a similar article that was driving thousands of clicks per month.

So I just copied their article and made it 10 - 20% better.

I legitimately copied their headings, added a few of my own, and rearranged a few sections.

Then I filled in the blanks with my own research and language to avoid any plagiarism claims.

I hit publish, and waited about 30 days.

I saw that this post was starting to take off.

So I took the logical next step, I built backlinks to it.

This was going to be the breadwinner — I could feel it.

I bought 4 backlinks and pointed them all directly to this blog post.

The total cost was just under $950.

I haven’t touched the post since, well over a year now.

And I followed a very simple framework:

1) Find a competitor article that’s getting a ton of traffic.

2) Copy it, then make it 10 - 20% better.

3) Wait to see if Google likes it (just look at the Search Console graph).

4) If Google likes it, build a few links directly to it.

5) Watch your traffic graph explode.

This is a surefire process to literally inject thousands of organic visitors into your customer funnel.

It’s one of my favorite SEO blueprints. You can get the rest of them here.

Kai