Cannot Increase Ranking For a Keyword Phrase

[ReviveMedia]

I've been working on the keyword phrase, "Niceville Assisted Living" for the website: http://nicevilleassistedliving.com and my increase in rankings has pretty much stalled.

When I first started working on this website, a lot of the content was duplicated (which we took care of by plugging in unique content), there were locations listed on the homepage that were throwing my rankings off, I've created blog posts each week (we've even tried posting one post every day for a week), added the Facebook feed to the homepage, corrected errors in the theme, and I'm trying to get a resources page built. I know content is a very, very large part of SEO.. but it seems like the content I am plugging in isn't helping.

There aren't any errors in Webmaster Tools and my keyword density is fairly close to the website ranking #1. I think my biggest problem is backlinks. Other websites have quite a few whereas the website I'm working on doesn't have any (I'm working on that, but the number I have doesn't compare to the websites ranking in the top three). I'm stumped as to what to do next.

Does anyone have suggestions to improve the ranking for this keyword phrase?

[Asjad]

Hi,

I have checked your backlinks Profile and Ahref is not giving any data about it. So I think its too early to get worried about the Rankings.

Here are the steps you should focus and Hopefully your Website will be ranking for desired keyword.

1- Build Social shares and Likes.

2- Build authority backlinks BUT Without your money anchor text (Penguin free).

3- Go to related niche forums and get an idea about what problems people have and write content around it

Keep these steps for a month and you will start to see improvements.

[ReviveMedia]

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[ReviveMedia]

Thank you for your suggestions.

About how long does it take for Ahref to have information on a website? This website has been a project for about six months and I've been working out all of the kinks to make sure the website is unique.

1 - They have a Facebook that is pretty active and there's a lot of interaction. I'm going to work on driving some of that traffic to their website and hope that helps. (My goal is to also target Google+.)

2 - I'm working on getting backlinks (non-paid) as well, although the number of links I will have doesn't compare to the competitors.