🚀 Google Ranking: High INK Score Equals 4x Likely to Rank

INK is designed around achieving the highest INK Score possible for your target keyword(s). Your INK Score indicates how relevant your content is to what your audience is searching. What’s more, it lets you know how well you can expect your content to perform against your stiffest competitors.

Conclusions: What Did The Data Study Show?

• 🚀 There is a clear relationship between a high INK Score and a high Google ranking position.
• 🚀 Google ranks content based on relevancy. INK knows what relevant content looks like and how to get there. Therefore, using INK helps create relevant content more likely to rank.
• ✔️ Content that achieves an INK Score of 80% is relevant. 
• 🚀 Content that achieves an INK Score of 91% is 2x more likely to rank in the top 10 of Google compared to the average relevant, top 100 articles. 
• 🚀 Content that achieves an INK Score of 94% is 3x more likely to rank in the top 10 of Google compared to the average relevant, top 100 articles. 
• 🚀 Content that achieves an INK Score above 97% is at least 4x more likely to rank in the top 10 of Google compared to the average relevant, top 100 articles.

Understanding how well SEO tools work is a difficult task. Writers and content creators have a lot of options to help make sure their content is as visible as possible to target audiences. So, how can you tell which tools actually help you rank? 

And how do you know INK helps you rank?

We conducted an extensive data study to test how effectively INK helps content rank. Specifically, we tested how an article’s INK Score relates to its ranking position. 

In short, we set out to answer this question: Does a higher INK Score indicate a higher Google ranking position? 

The answer is: yes.

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What These Results Mean For You

1. Why Should I Trust the INK Score When it Comes to SEO?

Your INK Score is weighted against the content already ranking competitively in Google results. Our data study proved that the higher the INK Score, the higher the chance of ranking in the top 10 Google results.

We know that the top 10 Google search results reflect the most relevant content for a given search intent. INK Scores are, in part, a clear measure of how relevant your content is. 

Of course, dozens of factors determine how high content ranks in search engine results. These include how high a site’s domain authority is, how competitive the target keyword is, how fast the site is, and many more. 

However, one of the main factors is how relevant your content is to what people are searching.

For this reason, how high your INK Score is can be the difference between good and excellent content.

2. What INK Score Should I Aim For?

Minimum INK Score: 80%

• This score means your content is relevant to the keyword(s) and topics you are targeting. 
• We would consider this a B grade. It’s above average, but there’s room for improvement.

Great INK Score: 91 – 96%

• This range means your content is about 2-3x more likely to rank in the top 10 Google results compared to the average relevant, top 100 articles. 
• This would be like getting an A- grade. You’re better than most, but you still have some work to do in order to be at the top of the class.

Excellent INK Score: 97 – 99%

• Once you achieve an INK Score of 97%, your content is at least 4x more likely to rank in the top 10 Google results compared to the average relevant, top 100 articles. 
• This shows that the closer you are to 100%, the stronger your chances of ranking competitively are.
• This would be like getting an A grade. But the closer you are to 100%, the more likely you are to be at the top of the class.

Ideal INK Score: 100%

• This is the maximum INK Score.
• Once you achieve a 100% INK Score, your content is almost 4.5x more likely to rank in the top 10 Google results compared to the average relevant, top 100 articles. 
• This score gives you the strongest chance of ranking competitively in Google results.
• This would be like getting a perfect A+ grade. Being at the top of the class is very likely.

3. When Can I Stop Optimizing my Content in INK?

Achieving an INK Score of 97% or higher means your content is highly relevant to your target keyword(s) and is 4x more likely to rank in the top 10 of Google results. Therefore, 97% is an ideal target.

To go back to our school example (and what some of our teachers would say when we got a 97% but wanted a higher grade), “an A is an A is an A.”

We always recommend working to achieve a score as close to 100% as possible. INK Scores closer to 100% are more than four times more likely to rank in the top 10 Google ranking positions. Ultimately, you’ll have to strike the ideal balance between your time, effort, and ranking potential. 

That said, pushing yourself to achieve a score of 100% only helps put your content in the best position to dominate search results. And gives you the peace of mind that your content is as optimized as possible.

Data Study: The Details

We tested how well INK works for SEO by comparing INK Scores with Google rank positions. 

Get the full Data Study here. 

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