How to Get Featured on Google

Bloggers hungry to succeed try to figure out how to get featured on Google.

 

But most slug it out without giving much thought to featured snippets.

 

Even fewer consider how to get featured on Google as a top blogger to follow.

 

Without sounding douchey about it, I want to help you think, feel and act properly to reach your blogging dreams.

 

Never take this post as an ego trip.

 

Blogging From Paradise readers goad me to share perspectives from an alleged blogging insider.

 

You ask me to share my thoughts whether it be a “day in the life” type post or some practical guide for how I think, feel and act as a blogger.

 

With that it mind, I wrote this post.

 

Successful Bloggers to Follow

 

I searched the term successful bloggers to follow *a while back* on Google expecting to see my post.

 

For poops and giggles, I clicked on the featured snippets.

 

I saw this from my location:

 

 

Disclaimer; this fleeting result did vanish swiftly. Yet I achieved it by sticking to the basics below. The screen share and my strategies meshed.

 

Do you want to know how to get featured on Google?

 

Follow these tips.

 

A1: Blog Consistently and Patiently

 

Publish long form content for years. Be consistent. Build trust. Be a niche leader.

 

Is this difficult to do? Hell yeah. Is it doable? You bet. Knifing through temporary frustration is how to get the job done.

 

Be so in love with blogging that you will persist for many years before success rears its head. Pay close attention to icons like J.K Rowling who had a billion dollar idea that the world said was worth zero dollars for a long time. She is a billionaire now but the years that she was dead broke and raising a fam on government assistance tested her patience and persistence.

 

1: Understand the Impersonal Google Algorithm

 

Being transparent reveals how Seth, Maria and Perez are worldly famous human beings known by millions.

 

I am not.

 

Yet the impersonal Google algorithm placed me on the list.

 

However complex it seems to be, the algorithm basically judges your blog on helpfulness of targeted content. Other factors come into play. But publishing detailed posts consistently to develop topical authority is the end game.

 

I struggled for a long time because I was attached to the outcome of trying to make people or search engines happy. Gradually shifting my intent toward being happy to help people and letting go of any expectations changed my blogging career.

 

Blog for humans. Optimize like a robot.

 

2: Stick to the Basics Consistently

 

I made things so hard on myself because after working the basics for a bit I:

 

• panicked
• bailed on simple techniques
• deviated into complex, failing strategies
• did not experience increasing success and began to struggle in cycles

 

I wrote this post from Crete, Greece. I thought of this:

 

“Know thyself.”

 

Most bloggers on the featured list know themselves, from their strengths to weaknesses. Struggling bloggers do not know themselves; too many ego blind spots.

 

Follow these highly practical tips to stick to the blogging basics:

 

• publish targeted blog posts that solve reader needs; listen closely to readers to publish content that solves their specific problems
• help bloggers from your niche by reading their posts, commenting genuinely on their blogs, promoting them on your blog and promoting them on social media
• open multiple income streams

 

3: Practical Blogging Tips to Get Featured

 

Now we get into the nitty gritty.

 

I prepped you with theory. I eased into mindset tips.

 

Let’s get into the down and dirty, practical blogging steps to follow to land a featured on Google

 

• publish one long form blog post weekly
• solve pressing problems from your niche
• SEO-optimize posts to drive organic traffic
• make posts easily scannable; use headers, bullet point lists, bold and italics to create contrast
• write your rear end off daily in an offline setting (for practice in a Word document) to gain clarity and confidence as a blogger
• grow your blogger friend network through genuine outreach

 

Surround yourself with successful bloggers. Birds of a blogging feather flock together. Making featured lists requires a blogger to think like bloggers on the list. Pros teach you how to develop posture. Full-time bloggers instill the value of being patient.

 

Learn from the best. Befriend these pros by helping them and asking for no favors in return. Put their blogging advice into action. Eventually you will be popping up on lists besides these pros.

 

Conclusion

 

Being patient is the difference maker. Blog calmly. This is a long, winding trip. Google does not feature impatient bloggers who bail on proven strategies at the drop of a statistic.

 

Think about Google and its impersonal algorithm. Stop trying to make people happy. Start feeling happy to help people solve their specific problems. Have fun with that process.

 

Create and connect simply by investing in professional blogger resources to learn how to do it from pros. Do not deviate from these fundamental strategies. Publish detailed, targeted content regularly. Gain big exposure through a genuine blogger outreach campaign.

 

You can and will succeed.  Blogging can be tough but it is not rocket science. This gig gets easier when you follow pro advice. Stop winging it. Follow proven tips.