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

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Mango322

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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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Zshan said:
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.
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It's not an authority site.
Maybe they use hidden pbn. Thay can rank on the top 5 for some really high competitive keywords
 
Content Power said:
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.
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That must be PBNs. It's not an easy keyword. BTW it's not a US site
 
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.
 
mmubeen8 said:
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.
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But it’s a medium to high competitive keyword, the search volume is around 3000
 
Hidden PBN's, better topical authority, better content, redirecting sitebacklinks to article. Many reasons.
 
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.
 
Mango322 said:
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.
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Hidden PBNs for sure.
 
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
 
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?
 
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