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    • Prime85
      Prime85 last edited by

      Hello,

      I've recently been able to bring my site way up in the rankings for some very competitive keywords.  I've done nothing spammy, and everything has been done with a lot of detail and a focus on only using the best techniques.

      My site is on page 2 for a lot of keywords.  What would be your suggestions for getting over that hump and making it to page 1?  I'm happy with my results (coming from pages 30-50 to page 2 over a couple of months) but I'm not satisfied and won't be until I can be on the top of page 1...

      Any suggestions are welcome... Thanks

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      • PrivatePartners
        PrivatePartners last edited by

        I started a website only two months ago in a medium competitive niche.  I run affiliate websites, I should state that up front.

        I started on page 40, and now I rank page 1 between 2-4 depending on fluctuation of the serps. This is true for several products, single word, two word, and three word + terms.

        I do the regular things I think most folks do, but I will list them;

        • Well researched, grammatically correct, and properly formatted articles
        • Articles are no less than 1k words each - if its not at least 1k words then it can be combined with another shorter topic.
        • Broad scope of information on the site, allowing the opportunities to interlink pages to my money pages.

        Another thing I do that allows me to rank fast and high is the structure I use for my site.  It's rather unique and allows controlled distribution of pagerank.

        So my advice would be more content.  A lot of the time I see a website ranking purely because their website is larger than mine.  The content stinks, but they have more PR flowing.  Add more content!

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