Stuck in 3rd place ... what else could I do?

[marig]

Been doing SEO for one of my companies store fronts in Miami ranking for Miami Web Design but I've been ranking for the 3rd spot on the 1st page for over a year now and I've only been ranked first for a short period time (like a good month and a half).

Any suggestions or tips to help increase our chances of taking 2nd or 1st spot. I may be missing something that I'm not doing.

[ronnyg28]

Have you done any work on page speed?

[marig]

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[PTC4SEO]

Have you analyzed the ranking factors for the 2 pages that are outranking you? What does your domain equity look like vs those sites? Link profiles?

The easy answer is to build more links from sites that have great domain equity and that are of high relevance to you subject matter. Web design/development KWs are typically highly competitive even in a local market. Do you have some internal linking opportunities to look at? Do you have any links coming in with the term in the anchor text?

[ronnyg28]

You could still:

For Page Speed

Cache Static Content

Serve Content (Images etc..) from CDN

Other Factors:

Place Breadcrumbs on Site

Set up a Facebook "Fan" page and get some social signals pointing towards the site.

You have 7 links in the footer pointing to another page, all with different keywords, you should remove them or at least just have one link there and if you place breadcrumbs on the website, the "Web Design" page will be linking back to the homepage

Also, as Dan said, build some more links. Hope this helps

[marig]

really appreciate it guys thanks I've taken all this into account , really shed some light on what i need to be fixing.