I am ranking well for a good amount of keywords, but the big ones I just can't get to #1.. i am on page one but #1 - #5 are taken by 10 + year old dinosaurs with poor back links and PR. How can i over take them?
Which website? You just need to continue getting good backlinks with article submissions and creating blogs. You will get there eventually.
Well the domain age does matter it has been found that search engines do give advantages to old domains but also how do you know that all the links to the other sites are not quality have done some research or something......because a link might look bad to you but not to Google.