Trying to Get Article Into Serps

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   This doesn't rank in SERPS for the search term "What is a force". How can I make it do so? Its title is "What Is a Force? Mass, Velocity, Acceleration and Adding Vectors"
   
   https://owlcation.com/stem/Understandin … celeration
   
   
   Edit: Maybe it does. The appearance of results pages seems to differ on desktop depending on what's searched for. Sometimes there's a featured snippet, other times there's none. There may be a thumbnail to the right of all results, but they leave those out as well. This particular search term puts a sort of Wikipedia definition panel snippet in the right sidebar and there's a photo from my guide in that, along with other photos. Unfortunately that keeps it out of the normal text results and the guide only gets five views per day.

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      Misbah786posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      When I Google "what is force?" your article does not appear on the first five pages, but when I search for "understanding Force," as it is in your URL, it appears on the third page, first slot. I believe the most recent Google update has affected things. It's terrible to see Google sites and other blogs appear before Owlcation!
      
      
      
      

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      tsmogposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I searched "What is force" on Firefox using Google and the article appears on page #1 in the 38th position. See link below, which I hope shows for you the same thing with me. I dun'no . . .
      
      https://www.google.com/search?client=fi … force#ip=1
      
      Note: There were some sites like dictionaries ahead of your article and most were education sites ahead of it.

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         eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Just checked that. It turns up for "what is force", but not "what is a force".

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            tsmogposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            Oops! I did it again and see that it does make a difference. Note . . . it seems there  is a change as there is not page numbers. It asks if you want to see more. I clicked see more I think 3 or 4 times before I saw it. Link following, while again unsure if it will be identical to what I saw in the SERP.
            
            https://www.google.com/search?client=fi … force#ip=1

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               eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               Yes I see it now in 106th place. I have Google set to display 100 results per page.

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   Beth Eaglescliffeposted 2 years ago

   It also depends on which country you are in when you make the search. I'm in UK and I've just searched for What is a Force? on both Google and Bing. Your article is nowhere to be seen.
   
   The top few pages are full of high authority sites such as the BBC, Encyclopedia Britannica, and Dorling Kindersley. The other sites that rank for your search term are all ad-free or minimal ads. Owlcation and its intrusive ads can't compete with that.

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      eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, I checked the SERPS for the US and then changed the results to my current region. Do you see this picture in the right sidebar if you're viewing on desktop? I'm thinking they may have included it there and it's a sort of snippet, so it's excluded from the SERP list proper (just like what happens with regular SERPS. They changed the system a few years ago so you don't get a featured snippet and also an entry in the list of results). I guess they only want authoritative sites, and anyone that tries to produce an improved version will find it hard to increasing hard to compete. Which is why we need expert "peer" reviewer type people to give the seal of approval for articles. But of course that costs money. Maybe we could get our own reviewers if Hubpages added the facility? The other problem is any change to the website code seems to be monumentally difficult. Maybe changes have to be outsourced to the template designer rather than being done in house and that's why its difficult.
      
      

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         DrMark1961posted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Because of those intrusive ads she mentions, I do not think peer reviewed articles are going to do any better here. Even if you paid for all of your articles to be reviewed by someone else, and Google recognized it, there are still plenty of lower quality articles being published that are going to cause your article to rank poorly.

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         Shesabutterflyposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         I am in the US. I see your article on the top of page 5 for "what is force". I do not see anything when I search "what is a force". That image appears in the sidebar for both search terms for me.
         
         It would be unfortunate if they were not showing your article in link form, because of the picture. It appears that it goes to Google images and then someone would have to click again to get to Owlcation and your article. I wonder how many people would actually do that?
         
         I did notice in Google's description it shows "We can think of a force of a force as a push or pull." Could that potentially be affecting your rank as well?

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            eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            Possibly, but I think they pull out a sample of text randomly from articles. Anytime I look on the results page they use different text. If an article appears in a featured snippet, it isn't shown also in the list of links. I guess something similar could be happening with this. Something else just struck me, I know years ago, Google mentioned something about doing OCR on text overlayed on images, so they could identify what they represented. So maybe it's reading the text on that image?

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