First Page of Google With 106 Millions Competitors: My First Time. How?!

Though it sounds impossible for a blog like mine… with Pagerank 1 – I did it! I got to the first page of Google competing with 106 millions other pages.

When I first time saw it… I didn’t pay any attention, because this number of competing results didn’t mean anything for me. And the post itself, say, is not that worthy to burst with joy… but the fact, that my blog is shining on the first page of Google, made me crazy just about a week ago. I have finally realized the reasons and the things I have accidentally done, which made this post jump THAT high.

Why and How I Got to the First Page?

The post, that is currently on the 1st page of Google, is about the value of play factor in blogging.

Check the result of Google’s first page for that certain phrase:

Results 1 – 10 of about 106,000,000 for play factor. (0.26 seconds)

Why did Googlebot like this post to let it reach Google’s first page?

Let’s see what I have done there:

1. The word “play” was used 33 times (on the whole page, not just in post);
2. The word “factor” was used only 5 times;
3. The whole keyword phrase “play factor” only once;
4. The word “play” was used 7 times between < strong >< / strong > tags;
5. “Play” was also used as a part of the title of 5 pictures out of 5;
6. I didn’t make any external links using “play factor” keyword phrase or part of it;
7. I was using the video of Stuart Brown, where he speaks about play in general. The video is 30 minutes long and without a real interest to the topic, you would have, probably, turned it off at once;
8. As you can see, the number of retweets is not huge at all.. It means, that there was not much attention;
9. Meta keywords that were used there: “play”, “blogging”, “value”, “stuart brown”;
10. I should also admit that I have been asking too many questions instead of making statements or answers, which usually brings more value;
11. The post itself appeared to be boring for most of you.. at least I thought so, because there were made no comments;
12. Because of the previous reason, I have decided not to submit it to social bookmarking sites etc;
13. I didn’t show it commenting on blogs with CommentLuv as “my recent blog post”;
14. And according to Google tools for webmasters my strongest keywords are “blog”, “google”, “post”, “traffic” – not “play” or “factor” or “blogging” at all;

Find the Answer and Win!

So, which of the above reasons helped my blog to get to the first page of Google? I know it would be too easy to reveal the truth, but I promise to confirm it, if you say it in the comments!

Follow the 14 facts I have named above and read 2 more clues below!

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Here is the clue #1: Watch the video to help you. It mentions the true fact, which I didn’t know before.. though it was so natural and logical.

Video: Dominating First Page of Google

Clue #2: My stats from Google webmaster tools showing traffic that Google sent via “play factor” keyword phrase.

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It turns out, that in order to get to the first page of Google.. you need only this…

What am I talking about? The first one, who answers correctly, gets free banner spot until the end of February.

Waiting for your answers!

Update: The answer is given in the comments.