No backlinks, but #1 in SERPs

Adding on to what @MrDenz @bluematter and @HeavyMorning have said, I believe other CMS (Wix, Joomla, etc) besides Wordpress are given a slight boost in the rankings sometimes.

Boost, for lack of a better word. I've seen 3 page Joomla sites out ranking WP sites with 100s of articles and nearly perfect on-page SEO.
 
It's indeed country-specific keywords that are used to rank this site.
 
Adding on to what @MrDenz @bluematter and @HeavyMorning have said, I believe other CMS (Wix, Joomla, etc) besides Wordpress are given a slight boost in the rankings sometimes.

Boost, for lack of a better word. I've seen 3 page Joomla sites out ranking WP sites with 100s of articles and nearly perfect on-page SEO.
Google does it often. Whenever one kind of sites reach extinction, they boost them to revive them. It has happened earlier with Tumbler, blogger, wordpress blogs, personal blogs, etc.

The most prominent example is if we search for movie reviews, we're mostly getting wordpress.com blogs, reddit, forums, personal blogs in results which wasn't common earlier.
 
If you choose best keywords it will give you best results for sure and dont forget you should do best onpage SEO for your site. In Korea its quite possible.
 
My experience is you can rank without BLs if there is no competition or the kw you target is not searched a lot. If (like in your case) it's a competitive kw as you say, then they have a hidden network of sites they send backlinks from. There is no way to rank a highly search kw without backlinks, even with perfect onpage seo. That's my personal experience though.
 
The way it's done and ranking for one as an exception to the other potential dozen keywords they could be ranking for too, warrants a case for blocking of link crawlers and PBNs/LinkExchanges.
 
He must be blocking the ahrefs, semrush and other backlink spying tools in .htaccess.
 
You don't need backlinks to reach the #1 spot.

Solid keyword research is key.

In this example, we have a keyword with 18k searches in Korea, and it's relatively easy to rank for.

This appears to be a Wix platform, but even if I'm mistaken, the point stands: you don't need anything special in terms of themes or additional features to achieve the top ranking.

Search for keywords that are easy to rank for, and you'll be surprised by what you can discover.
thanks for the advice
 
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