Right now I am sitting in fourth place in the top results; I have 25k characters of text, a wide selection of products, everything detailed perfectly, and a ton of images. There are pros and cons, a product comparison table, callout boxes, and call-to-action buttons. Everything looks slick.
In first place sits *that*. 4k text, 2 images in the entire article, 2 lists in the article, and that’s it. No selection, nothing at all except one image to click on and go to an affiliate link. It doesn’t even have buttons for a person to click.
People used to build stuff like this—I don’t know, maybe 5 years ago that kind of thing was rated. But now… in an era of brutal competition at the top, it brings in 25k traffic per month! A single page.
By my estimates, if I had built it properly on that kind of traffic, it would definitely be making at least $4,000/month. One page. Per month.
And here, it’s just draining potential revenue down the drain. Yet Google faithfully put it in the top position and has been holding it there since July.
All I want to say is—while everyone is discussing neural networks, machine learning, data science, and how smart Google is as a search engine, this creation continues to drive tens of thousands of visits through hidden PBNs, and will keep doing so. And it doesn’t need any high-level concepts for that.
The success formula in Google: a wall of text + strong links = TOP.