Providing the definitive answer to a search query is the definition of success in search.
In addition to landing on page 1 of the DuckDuckGo SERPs, you can also take advantage of their “Instant Answers” feature. Here’s what it looks like in practice:
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How do you get your brand and website featured in an Instant Answer?
DuckDuckGo pulls answers from Wikipedia, Crunchbase, GitHub, wikiHow, and the Free Dictionary, meaning that creating content on these platforms will help you attract more rankings.
You can find more information about the Instant Answer API here (unfortunately, you can no longer contribute directly to this feature from a development perspective).
4) Set a Realistic Resource Allocation
To win at SEO, you need to continue to invest time and resources into it.
While DuckDuckGo is growing rapidly, it is still far behind Google and Bing/Yahoo . So as rich people database a general rule, you should not spend more than 5-10% of your total SEO efforts on DuckDuckGo.
There are, of course, some cases where it might make sense for you to invest more heavily in the search engine, such as if privacy is inherent in your company's values or in your product itself (e.g., a privacy protection product).
For most businesses, DuckDuckGo is an important platform to explore for SEO, but should still be a secondary priority compared to Google.