The State of Content SERPs: A 250,000 Keyword Analysis

I precocious analyzed 250,000 English-language hunt results, chiefly to reply a circumstantial question: Do sites owned by ample media companies attain much first-place rankings than autarkic webmasters?

And if so, conscionable however ascendant are they?

After weeks of full-time enactment I person the answers I was looking for, and initially they were much astonishing than I imagined.

I accidental this arsenic idiosyncratic who has written extensively astir however media companies person taken over merchandise reappraisal hunt results, the 16 companies down 500 sites Google sends 3Bn+ monthly clicks and adjacent started keeping tabs connected them successful quarterly reports.

These numbers were not what I was expecting.

Here’s the Biggest Data Point I Was Looking For

I respect your clip truthful let’s get consecutive to the point: When a content-focused tract ranked archetypal crossed 186,444 Google hunt results, 86.1% of the clip it was owned by a ample media brand. A “digital goliath”.

Digital goliath is the operation I utilized to picture immoderate of the astir influential brands connected the web, specified arsenic Hearst which are down Car and Driver, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire, Harpers Bazaar and dozens much names you apt recognize.

Note: SERP features similar ‘People Also Ask’ were removed to trim height, but integrated listings were not changed

Independent tract owners attained conscionable 13.9% of first-place rankings, adjacent though much autarkic sites were recovered successful our information than those owned by media companies.

There are a batch of caveats I person to explicate astir that number, specified arsenic wherefore 250,000 hunt results became 186,444, truthful don’t wantonness maine conscionable yet, but that’s a bully enforcement summary.

That Data Point Is Admittedly Not Perfect, But It’s A Great Baseline

My program was simple: I’ll analyse the archetypal 10 integrated listings successful 250,000 hunt results, cheque the sites against our backstage database of those owned by media brands, past categorize the rest.

(As I wrote astir successful Q1 past month, we presently way astir 2,949 sites owned by media companies. I accidental around due to the fact that this fig changes regular — integer goliaths are remarkably active, which is however Detailed Q came to be).

There was conscionable 1 occupation with my archetypal thesis, and that was however galore antithetic websites fertile connected the archetypal leafage of 250,000 hunt results.

Out of a imaginable (but precise unrealistic) 2 and a fractional cardinal antithetic sites – 250,000 hunt results x 10 unsocial websites successful each azygous 1 – we recovered 173,678 domains ranking successful total.

I should enactment that this number includes subdomains (so usatoday.com and reviewed.usatoday.com counts arsenic 2 sites), but they were rare.

I didn’t expect the fig of domains to beryllium higher than the fig of queries since they haven’t been successful anterior reports, but this was acold excessively galore sites for america to categorize.

Spending conscionable 1 infinitesimal moving retired the proprietor for each would instrumentality 118 days.

Realizing this, I decided to alternatively categorize the apical 5,000 domains ranked by however galore hunt results they were contiguous in. This inactive covered a sizeable information of our research, arsenic these 5,000 sites took first-place rankings for 186,444 idiosyncratic queries (or, 74.5% of them).

Another mode to look astatine this is that the apical 2.8% of each ranking domains took ¾ of the #1 rankings.

Around 1,100 sites were already successful our database, leaving america with ~3,900 sites to manually categorize. Some sites took a batch of probe to enactment retired their ownership, which is wherever the literal weeks of enactment travel in.

I’ll uncover immoderate different insights from this information I deliberation you’ll find interesting, but I should archetypal stock what I was looking for.

The 250,000 Keywords We Analyzed

For this research, we chiefly tried to find hunt queries wherever blogs and content-focused sites were much apt to rank.

Sites similar TechRadar, MacRumors, Elle, Gear Patrol, The Verge, Tom’s Guide, IGN and truthful on.

We weren’t trying to analyse the rankings of eCommerce stores oregon SaaS companies, truthful our investigation included words and phrases like:

• Where do
• How should
• Who is
• Review
• How much
• The best
• When is
• Recommended
• Where was

More specifically, we took hundreds of contented sites successful dozens of antithetic niches – some autarkic and owned by media companies – and looked astatine their top-ranking keywords successful Ahrefs.

We extracted lone those that received 500-5,000 monthly searches successful the US, were astatine slightest 3 words successful magnitude (making them much apt to beryllium an informational search) and removed arsenic galore marque names arsenic imaginable (Amazon, The Verge, Walmart, etc) that mightiness skew results.

To filter the database adjacent further, we ran them against a database of words we didn’t privation to cheque (many of which hinted astatine big & amerciable content) and removed each duplicates.

This filtering took our archetypal ~400,000 keywords down to 326,218.

Because I wanted a “cleaner” fig to tally this archetypal investigation connected (slightly ironic since it ended up being chopped down), we decided to cheque 250,000 of them for this study.

The Top 20 Domains Overall

To fertile websites, we came up with a straightforward points system. We assigned 10 points if a tract ranked archetypal connected a hunt result. For 2nd place, we gave 9 points; for 3rd place, 8 points… down to receiving 1 constituent for ranking 10th.

This means you could beryllium contiguous successful much hunt results than different marque but fertile little than them wide if astir of your rankings are further down hunt results. This lone happened a fewer times amongst the apical 100 sites, wherever Forbes for illustration ranked successful 200 much hunt results than Healthline, but Healthline scored much points due to the fact that they attained 2,000 much top-3 results.

Keep successful caput that not each hunt effect has 10 integrated listings connected the archetypal page. Also, if a featured snippet was present, we counted that arsenic the archetypal integrated result.

The apical 20 domains wide were:

1. Byrdie – 38,700 full points
2. Reddit – 42,520 full points
3. Good Housekeeping – 43,043 full points
4. IMDB – 44,081 full points
5. ESPN – 44,310 full points
6. Nerdwallet – 45,132 full points
7. Indeed – 46,076 full points
8. Walmart – 46,685 full points
9. WebMD – 48,796 full points
10. MedicalNewsToday – 49,538 full points
11. People – 53,688 full points
12. Facebook – 53,832 full points
13. The New York Times – 53,966 full points
14. Instagram – 54,343 full points
15. Forbes – 82,001 full points
16. Healthline – 94,307 full points
17. Pinterest – 97,820 full points
18. Amazon – 149,652 full points
19. Wikipedia.org – 198,029 full points
20. YouTube – 276,829 full points

I don’t deliberation determination are immoderate large surprises here, but possibly Byrdie making it into the apical 20 overall. They were intimately followed by Wikihow, Cnet, Target, TikTok & Cosmopolitan.

I should adhd that if we didn’t number subdomains separately, Fandom would beryllium successful these apical 20 results overall.

The Top 20 Content-First Sites successful 250,000 Search Results

Looking conscionable astatine sites we categorized arsenic content-first, nary substance their owner, the apical 20 were:

1. Men’s Health (Hearst)
2. Sportskeeda (Nazara Technologies)
3. Marketwatch (News Corp)
4. Yahoo Finance (Yahoo)
5. CNN (Warner Bros Discovery)
6. CNBC (NBCUniversal)
7. Business Insider (Axel Springer)
8. Investopedia (Dotdash Meredith)
9. Cosmopolitan (Hearst)
10. Cnet (Red Ventures)
11. Byrdie (Dotdash Meredith)
12. Good Housekeeping (Hearst)
13. ESPN (The Walt Disney Company / Hearst)
14. Nerdwallet (Nerdwallet)
15. WebMD (Internet Brands)
16. Medical News Today (Red Ventures)
17. People (Dotdash Meredith)
18. The New York Times (The New York Times Company)
19. Forbes.com (Integrated Whale Media)
20. Healthline.com (Red Ventures)

As you tin see, astatine slightest by our definitions, nary of the content-first sites with the astir points are owned by an autarkic webmaster.

There whitethorn beryllium a mates of sites radical question here, truthful I wanted to beryllium unfastened astir them. Some mightiness presumption Nerdwallet arsenic autarkic since it was started by an idiosyncratic and not antecedently portion of immoderate publishing conglomerate.

Because they person shareholders and are a nationalist company, I can’t personally presumption them arsenic an autarkic site. I screen this much successful our supplemental Google Doc, but by autarkic I’m referring to sites similar Mac Rumors, Expert Photography and The Art of Manliness (these are conscionable examples and weren’t needfully portion of our research).

They tin beryllium down aggregate sites and person teams of radical moving for them, but they’re not owned by immoderate titan that has been astir for decades similar NBC, Condé Nast, News Corp and truthful on.

Similarly, defining a contented tract was precise challenging astatine times. Some person aggregate focuses connected their homepage and aren’t the nonstop explanation of a blog which means a study similar this tin ne'er beryllium perfect. 95% of sites were casual to specify and I deliberation anyone would hold with me, portion the remainder could spell either way.

Based connected however we specify autarkic sites, we person to spell to the 75th domain overall, oregon the 49th content-first site, to find our archetypal one.

That tract was MindBodyGreen.com.

From everything I tin tell, it was founded by, and inactive tally by, a hubby and woman team.

I mostly don’t similar to speech astir autarkic sites doing good truthful I won’t screen each the presumption they’re ranking for, but they’ve fixed a testimonial connected the website of an SEO bureau truthful I consciousness it’s good to notation them present successful an SEO context.

Media Companies Dominating Independent Websites successful Google Mostly Has a Logical Explanation (?)

I’ve covered integer goliaths successful aggregate reports truthful expected them to beryllium doing well, but not 86%-of-first-place-rankings well.

At archetypal I thought radical gathering contented sites would find these numbers demotivating but aft checking immoderate much stats, there’s apt an evident explanation.

If we instrumentality those apical 20 content-first sites from media brands and usage Ahrefs to estimation however overmuch contented they’ve produced, the mean came retired to 549,279 pages each.

That’s 8 times much than the apical 20 independently-owned contented sites, which had an mean of 66,540 pages of contented each.

If you nutrient much content, past you tin fertile for much keywords.

There were far more hunt results wherever sites owned by media brands ranked without immoderate autarkic sites alongside them, compared to autarkic sites ranking without immoderate media brands present.

The smallest tract owned by a media goliath was Byrdie with 12,993 pages, whereas the smallest autarkic contented tract successful the apical 20 had conscionable 530 pages.

They person an awesome pages-to-traffic ratio:

You tin get immoderate large postulation from 500 pages connected your site.

That can’t beryllium the lone reason, of course. There are different explanations that apt enactment together.

Many media companies that thrive online started retired publishing newspapers, magazines and TV shows agelong earlier the net existed, meaning they already had a batch of marque worth and designation that autarkic tract owners indispensable physique up from scratch.

The longer you’ve been astir and the much spot radical person successful a marque sanction they recognize, the easier acquiring links tends to be. Most media brands besides aren’t shy astir linking their sites unneurotic oregon launching sites successful caller industries and pointing their full networked assemblage there.

When you’re already financially palmy (in part, acknowledgment to ranking well), you tin put much into design, PR and adept authors and assistance cement your position. Being capable to get your competitors doesn’t wounded either.

I don’t deliberation for a 2nd they get peculiar attraction from Google successful presumption of “Oh, this is simply a Dotdash Meredith website truthful it should fertile well”, but they decidedly assistance propulsion the metrics that look to substance successful their ain favour.

Their sites get immoderate questionable rankings astatine times, similar TIME outsourcing the content connected caller sections of their website and rapidly reaching millions of caller visitors. Still, I deliberation that’s much astir the domain’s authorization than who owns it.

7 Additional Insights From Weeks of Going Through This Data

We’ve covered the main information constituent that I cared about, but there’s inactive much to the story.

I’m Still Surprised How Many “Offline” Brands Own Large Content Sites

For implicit a twelvemonth I’ve been keeping way of household names you wouldn’t typically subordinate with operating blogs connected sites extracurricular of their marque domains.

Entries connected my database see the Runtastic blog, a assets from Adidas covering bodyweight exercises and cheat repast recommendations, and Hair.com, tally by multi-billion-dollar L’Oreal that covers topics similar “the champion conditioners for adust hairsbreadth successful 2023”.

After categorising the ownership of thousands of websites, we came crossed much ample brands that followed suit.

For instance, person you heard of Sanpellegrino oregon Acqua Panna? The names mightiness not leap retired astatine you, but you’ve astir apt seen their drinks connected edifice menus oregon supermarket shelves.

They ain an “online mag for Foodies”, FineDiningLovers.com.

Maybe I’m weird, but I thought that was beauteous interesting.

I person much than a twelve examples similar this from brands you would recognise. If you’re interested, delight fto maine cognize connected Twitter and I’ll happily crook it into a mini report.

Note: When we noticed a household sanction down a site, it was marked arsenic ‘Large Brand’ alternatively than being tracked arsenic a Media Goliath oregon Independent site.

How Many Independent Sites Were Present successful the Top 5,000, 500 and 100 Domains

It would beryllium truthful casual to say, “Of people integer goliaths took much first-place rankings; they astir apt owned much the sites than autarkic webmasters”, but that isn’t what we saw.

Out of the apical 5,000 domains overall, of which 2,537 were classified arsenic “content-focused” (blogs, quality sites, merchandise reappraisal sites, etc.), much than fractional were owned by autarkic webmasters.

1,166 (45.9%) were tagged arsenic owned by media goliaths, and 1,371 (54.1%) were tagged arsenic owned by individuals oregon tiny teams.

Despite having much sites successful the moving to fertile well, autarkic sites took conscionable 13.9% of first-place rankings.

Of the apical 500 domains, 49 were autarkic contented sites, portion 287 were owned by media companies.

Other categories included Social Media (Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, etc.), eCommerce stores (Amazon, Walmart, Target) and Government websites. You tin larn much astir our categorization successful the supplemental Google Doc.

Of the apical 100 websites overall, lone a azygous 1 was an autarkic contented site, portion 69 were owned by media companies.

That autarkic tract was the antecedently covered MindBodyGreen.

Digital Goliaths Still Tend to Prefer Big, Broad Industries, But That’s Not the Only Reason Lots of Niches are Still Up for Grabs

Digital goliaths chiefly run sites covering wide niches with a immense online audience.

Beauty alternatively than concern sanction ideas.

Travel alternatively than turntable reviews.

Sports alternatively than sewing.

Politics alternatively than pickleball.

They screen those topics with articles, but precise seldom dedicate websites to them.

If Google seems to reward niche-specific sites, past autarkic webmasters are much apt to fertile well.

Around 1.7% of queries, oregon 3,226 of them, saw autarkic sites ranking without a media marque besides contiguous successful the aforesaid hunt results.

I accidental around, alternatively than giving an nonstop number, arsenic I came up with the thought for this stat astatine the past infinitesimal and the full-data volition not beryllium acceptable until adjacent week. I would alternatively beryllium honorable present but I volition travel backmost and update it.

Initial numbers amusement topics wherever autarkic sites ranked without media companies successful the premix see the likes of:

• Specific types of photography
• Geography (e.g. accusation connected mountains, lakes, rivers)
• Technology troubleshooting
• Animal resources extracurricular of the evident (e.g. crocodiles alternatively than cats)

I recognize these mightiness not beryllium the astir absorbing topics to cover, but that’s the world of what I saw.

Big, wide niches are genuinely being dominated. Let’s instrumentality gaming for example, wherever I could virtually amusement you 100 sites that media companies are behind.

Here’s immoderate of them:

A tiny preview of a task we’re moving on, but inactive needs improvements

This won’t beryllium a fashionable remark but a batch of the autarkic contented sites ranking good truly amazed me. Many of them truly look “made for SEO”, person small to nary marque property and don’t look to beryllium authored by experts successful their space.

I’m not obsessed with the conception of E-E-A-T, but astir I checked had evident things I would amended if I abruptly became the proprietor of them today.

It was rather communal to spot questionable sites congregate astir the aforesaid industries that honestly look ripe for the taking. I’m funny however galore much of these volition amusement up erstwhile we bash a bigger investigation (a cardinal keywords?) adjacent time.

Service and Software Providers Acquired More #1 Rankings Than Independent Site Owners

I deliberated whether to screen this due to the fact that I don’t privation radical to travel to the incorrect conclusions and our categorization should beryllium much granular successful the future.

Websites whose homepage was chiefly focused connected offering a service, instrumentality oregon downloadable bundle attained much number-one rankings than content-focused sites owned by autarkic webmasters.

For example, let’s accidental you ain a landscaping concern successful Colorado. Your homepage is each astir your squad and the services you offer, and you person dedicated pages connected each tiny municipality your concern operates in.

Additionally, you person a blog that covers location-agnostic advice, specified arsenic the champion seeds for lawns that volition past each seasons. Lots of service-fronted websites ranked good successful this analysis.

Services didn’t ever impact carnal labour, specified arsenic those offering consultants to speech astir your intelligence health, improving your diversion show oregon what’s successful store for you this period based connected your prima sign.

As different example, instrumentality oregon software-focused websites with contented areas besides ranked well, specified arsenic those fronted by a Pomodoro timer, a Word to PDF converter oregon fashionable anti-virus software.

These kinds of tools tin prime up a ton of links.

The web-based Pomodoro timer I usage the most, which happens to person immoderate unthinkable backlinks, was acquired by Toptal past twelvemonth and redirected to their site. If Toptal conscionable wanted the exertion I’m definite they could person replicated it wrong a day.

You tin spot the acquisition connection crossed the apical of the page

I’m not saying Toptal are doing thing shady present – it picked up a batch of hunt postulation connected its own, is adjacent capable to their niche and is simply a commonplace maneuver these days – but alternatively reiterating that tools tin beryllium implicit nexus magnets.

Niche-specific tools and software, particularly those that person picked up a batch of links from authoritative websites, tin unsurprisingly fertile for further contented they spot past their homepage. I saw a batch of it happening.

With that said, please don’t presumption this arsenic maine saying your blog oregon product-review tract should beryllium fronted by bundle oregon a service. For each 1 doing good determination are astir apt 10 that cipher uses oregon notices.

I ne'er considered this would beryllium truthful salient erstwhile I started, truthful for the adjacent mentation of this study we’ll specify tools oregon services into overmuch much circumstantial categories alternatively than grouping antithetic types together.

Governments Are Involved successful More Sites Than You Might Expect

Sites we associated with authorities agencies achieved 3,257 first-place rankings successful our study.

There are immoderate evident examples, similar the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) ranking good for health-related queries, but immoderate you mightiness not deliberation about.

For example, arsenic acold arsenic I tin tell, the website VisitLasVegas.com is supported by Nevada Council successful the United States. They really tally a fig of websites specified arsenic VisitBoulder and VisitMesquite.

Their Las Vegas tract ranks for immoderate large presumption I cognize question bloggers would emotion to amusement up for:

VisitLasVegas.com (left) with keyword information shown via Ahrefs (right)

Note: I’m lone showing an illustration of the keywords they fertile for due to the fact that I judge this is simply a authorities organised / funded website. I don’t stock details of autarkic sites, and volition region this if I’m wrong.

You already cognize governments tally campaigns to beforehand tourism, but they besides get progressive successful different areas you mightiness not deliberation astir excessively much.

If it tin assistance a country’s citizens successful immoderate mode (boost tourism, person intelligence wellness advice, get accusation connected furthering education) past don’t beryllium amazed to spot governments progressive successful sites that screen these topics.

Media Brands & Independently-Owned Sites Are Just As Reliant connected Search Traffic

That is, if Similarweb numbers are to beryllium believed.

I had a mentation that independently-owned sites would beryllium much reliant connected hunt postulation than media brands arsenic the second typically has much funds for paid selling and much involvement successful increasing their Instagram audience, Facebook pursuing and YouTube subscribers.

I took the apical 100 sites arsenic portion of media companies and apical 100 autarkic sites and ran them each done Similarweb to get estimates connected however overmuch of their assemblage is made up of hunt traffic.

Media companies averaged 67.6% of their postulation from integrated search, and autarkic sites averaged 67.2% of their postulation from integrated search.

Literally a .4% difference.

Our illustration size is excessively tiny to accidental my mentation has been busted (and Similarweb isn’t perfect), but it surely points that way.

77 of the Top 100 Independent Sites Have Multiple Authors Writing Their Recent Posts

Out of the apical 100 autarkic sites overall, 7 of them either had nary writer accusation whatsoever oregon simply referenced the writer of each azygous nonfiction arsenic ‘Team’ oregon similar.

Just 15 of the apical 100 autarkic sites had a azygous writer contiguous crossed their site. They whitethorn person accepted impermanent authors sporadically, but the immense bulk of contented connected the sites had a azygous writer assigned to them.

I honestly thought this fig would beryllium higher.

As the header states, 77 of the apical sites intelligibly had aggregate radical writer their latest articles linked to from their homepage.

Multiple authors posting connected MacRumors (not needfully portion of our study) connected the aforesaid day.

Keep successful caput determination is immoderate bias present towards however we ranked sites. Those with aggregate authors are much apt to nutrient much contented and frankincense amusement up for much keywords, but I inactive thought this was interesting.

I Spent Weeks of Full-Time Work connected This For Another Big Reason (And I Plan for You to Benefit From This, Too)

As idiosyncratic with sites, clients and students reliant connected SEO, I privation to cognize exactly what interaction AI and Google updates person connected businesses that marque millions each period acknowledgment to ranking successful Google.

I’ve been documenting the companies dominating Google for 7 years now, but erstwhile ChatGPT launched astatine the extremity of 2022 and caller hunt experiences successful Google and Bing were hinted at, I decided to instrumentality my tracking a batch much seriously.

Thanks to the enactment progressive successful this report, I recovered 2 twelve caller companies to support an oculus connected – a fewer of which are publically listed, meaning they uncover their finances and often remark connected however their sites are performing.

(I already way implicit 200, truthful to find adjacent much was a truly bully surprise).

Not each web owners are those I specify arsenic integer goliaths. One bully illustration I came crossed are Quillit, who ain immoderate awesome domains including Seasons.com and Suggest.com.

Most companies I way are media brands down contented sites, but I’m besides funny successful digital-first companies connected the banal marketplace down SaaS companies and eCommerce stores.

I usage this database to way what they bash with existing sites. What niches they get into next. The acquisitions they’re making. Whether their gross is growing. Whether Google is sending them much postulation than ever, oregon they’re having to trust connected different postulation sources to support their reach.

For the archetypal clip I started documenting their updates in a quarterly report, trying to beryllium respectful successful the process, and based connected the absorption radical are uncovering a batch of worth successful them.

(These numbers are for the past 9 months erstwhile I started utilizing cookie-less analytics. Q1 is lone a period old, truthful I expect it volition drawback up.)

I’m already moving connected Q2, which I tin confidently accidental volition person adjacent much insights. As per Q1, it volition beryllium 100% escaped and I program to support them that way.

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Lastly, we person precedence that this 250,000 hunt effect investigation volition get overmuch better.

250,000 hunt results sounds similar a lot, but successful world I should beryllium checking much similar a cardinal (and adjacent that, admittedly, is small) and categorizing astatine slightest 10,000 domains. Especially to unrecorded up to my ‘State of Content SERPs’ headline.

I program to re-run the numbers each halfway Google algorithm update astatine a minimum to spot if determination are noticeable patterns astir what changed and who Google rewards more.

There’s precedence present astatine Detailed that we tin commencement with thing somewhat absorbing and marque it overmuch better.

Our nonfiction analyzing who ranks crossed 10,000 affiliate-populated hunt results started arsenic a study wherever we lone tracked 1,000, past we improved it from there.

There are galore ways to instrumentality this research, but I request a starting constituent to spot what radical deliberation of it and get feedback to marque this much utile for everyone.

I sincerely admit you reading, and I anticipation you recovered this valuable.

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