How to validate and reproduce content?

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Do your research about the pages that rank on the first page.
Find which one of them is on the first page because of traffic and not due to backlinks.
Because backlinks can be brought for money but traffic cannot.
Traffic is attracted to the quality content and the traffic is the hallmark of it.
So traffic is a winner here.
And you can choose to recreate that content because you can score high on it.

Note: To find out the traffic and backlinks to these pages you should use analytics software like SEMRush, ahrefs, and/or Google Analytics.