Is possible to rank on top #1 with 0 backlink?

[Mango322]

One of my competitor rank on #1 spot for so many keywords with 0 backlinks and 0 referring domains.
How could they do that? The screenshot is an example.

 

[Zshan]

Maybe, the keyword is easy to rank with no competition or your competitor site is an authority in your targeted niche. Or even the guy is using hidden pbn.

 

[John-S]

You need a body of content on your site so that you can build your overall authority on the topic and within the niche. So you see, while data says most websites ranking in Google have at least one backlink, this proves that you can actually rank for low and medium-volume keywords without any backlinks at all.

 

[Mr Positive]

How do you know he’s not using secret pbns you can always try but I recommend backlinks to be safe

 

[Content Power]

It’s possible, but only for low competition keywords. Keywords with any kind of competition will need backlinks to rank.

In the example you give, it’s either a very easy keyword, or the page has backlinks that are hidden by the major SEO tools. This will almost certainly be PBNs.

Another situation could be that the page has lots of internal links from powerful pages on the domain. But as the DR is only 4 this seems unlikely.

 

[fb3003]

your tool is misleading you

 

[Mango322]

Maybe, the keyword is easy to rank with no competition or your competitor site is an authority in your targeted niche. Or even the guy is using hidden pbn.

It's not an authority site.
Maybe they use hidden pbn. Thay can rank on the top 5 for some really high competitive keywords

 

[Ranking Expert]

May be domain is EMD or hidden there is hidden pbn.

 

[Mango322]

It’s possible, but only for low competition keywords. Keywords with any kind of competition will need backlinks to rank.

In the example you give, it’s either a very easy keyword, or the page has backlinks that are hidden by the major SEO tools. This will almost certainly be PBNs.

Another situation could be that the page has lots of internal links from powerful pages on the domain. But as the DR is only 4 this seems unlikely.

That must be PBNs. It's not an easy keyword. BTW it's not a US site

 

[MJ]

You can try running advanced queries to check if something comes up

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[Thunder Digitals]

Yes, if the competition is 0 and you have good quality content google will always rank your website.

 

[TopEye]

I don't think its even possible though they had high quality relevant articles back link power will be needed to boost some traffic, getting natural traffic alone for low competitive keywords can not get them in top position.

 

[Mango322]

Yes, if the competition is 0 and you have good quality content google will always rank your website.
Yes, if the competition is 0 and you have good quality content google will always rank your website.

But it’s a medium to high competitive keyword, the search volume is around 3000

 

[Dark Sky]

Hidden PBN's, better topical authority, better content, redirecting sitebacklinks to article. Many reasons.

 

[SEO knights]

Maybe they post a high quality contents, and do white hat SEO.

 

[backlinknest]

most possibly they are using redirecting on hidden PBN's.

 

[Ventra]

Yes you can get to the first page with no backlinks depend on your niche,if saturated or not.
I will advise to keep updated on backlinks to rank your website quick bc site with no backlinks luckly get rank.

 

[GeeLark AI]

One of my competitor rank on #1 spot for so many keywords with 0 backlinks and 0 referring domains.
How could they do that? The screenshot is an example.

Hidden PBNs for sure.

 

[Giorgio Lauria]

It's not possible. However, if you have a website with high quality links you can rank a page only with internal links. But for the metrics that's not the case

 

[whothefisalex]

here's what i don't understand..

Ahrefs say that DR is scored according to your backlink profile Vs the rest of the web. If you have 0 backlink profile how do you score 4?