How to Protect Your SEO Rankings (While Using Google to Help You)

It's one thing to rank really high on Google but it's another thing to actually maintain and keep your rankings. So how do you ensure that when you spend all this time doing SEO and ranking for competitive key terms, like I am here, how do you ensure that you actually maintain and keep your rankings? Today I'm going to teach you how to protect your SEO rankings. RESOURCES & LINKS: ____________________________________________ Ubersuggest: https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/ ____________________________________________ So the first thing I want you to do is actually Google the term "google search console". And once you do that, you'll see some results like this. The second link will be welcome to Google Search Console. For you, it may be the number one link. Click on it. And once you click on it, I want you to add your site to Google Search Console. Now, if you've already added your site to Google Search Console, great, you can skip this step and you can fast forward it in the video. But if you haven't, I'm just going to show you how to do it. I've already added neilpatel. So I'm going to make up a domain name like neilkpatel and click continue. Check verification. And then you verify, or you can verify it later and then once you do that and you're within Google Search Console and you verify your site, it really is that simple. Then you can go and select your property. So I'm going to end up selecting neilpatel.com. And as you can see here, once you select neilpatel.com or your own website, you'll see your traffic over time. It'll show you if there's any issues with things like AMP or if there's issues with breadcrumbs. But I know it's hard and cumbersome to log into Google Search Console each and every single day and you may forget. So I want you to do something really simple. When you sign up, you log in, you add your website. What you'll find is on a monthly basis, you'll get emails from Google Search Console. Here's my April numbers, clicks, impressions,