Trying to rank highly for specific keyword, any advice?

[jacobr217]

I run a boating site and its been live since early February. Most of my traffic comes from direct traffic or google, keyword "trawler blogs". However, I am trying to rank highly for the generic keyword "trawler" or "trawlers" and I've had very little success.  My homepage just got an A from the on-page analysis for keyword trawler.

I've also reached out to several other trawler sites to try to get a link from them, or a reciprocal link. Haven't had much traction. However, our site is listed on a bunch (10-12) trawler related blogs (mostly blogspot) in their blogrolls, although these don't show up in backlinks.

Any advice would be great.

Thank you!

[stevenmusumeche]

You will need to keep link building, 10-12 links from blogspot.com aren't enough to be competitive in your niche.  Check out SEOmoz for lots and lots of articles and blog posts about creative link building techniques.

[jacobr217]

Thanks Steve. Definitely still working on it!