How Can I Rank Back Up?

Hi everyone,

I've had a site for 2 years which is a .com and a few months down the line someone with the same name comes with .org and goes to the top of Google with my site name.

How can I go back to the top?

We are a active forum with 50-70 active members.

 

Reverse engineer their backlinks. If they're getting them from free resources (blog comments, directory links, etc), then get the same links as them. Hypothetically, if you have the same links yet your site is older and likely has better on-site engagement, you're going to regain the top spot.

If they're using a high powered tactic like PBNs or high PR/PA/DA posting, then you're probably out of luck unless you want to match them with the same.

Other things to look at will be your on-site SEO optimization. Make sure you're not over-optimized.

 

You can generate backlink from offpage seo technique like blog posting, article submission, guest blogging, bookmarking etc..It is very effective to create backlinks.

 

May be your website is slapped by google penalty. You need to hire a SEO expert who will remove your Bad links.

 

you can get to top by doing proper SEO, good onpage optimisation and some nice backilnks made to site

 

We use Xenforo which has built in SEO

I think so :/ currently I have over 400 back links and they only have 20. How would i find out the bad links?

 

I think your forum is hit by the Google, tell me are you closely moderating the forum ? Why I am saying this is because some people in forum use to drop their link in an unacceptable way and it look spammy from the eyes of Search Engine. I think your forum is lacking strict moderation. I can let you know more if you have shared your site link, have a look on it and do check your google webmaster tool for any manual action messages.

 

I've removed the homepage link from the profiles long time.

 

Hi,
Make stronger your On page remove unwanted or bad backlinks and improve your quality content and focus on your off page activities.

 

check them manually, think what is from low-pr and wrong niche. dispose of them if possible. check out for those press-release sites links. they do suck in Google's eyes. But I'd concentrate not on deleting the existing ones, but building high pr new ones

 

Where can I find good links?

 

You can try hiring the guys if you have spare money and don't have time, but what I'd do is googling around to find major bloggers (with PageRank not less than 4) in your niche, contact them and propose them good articles mentioning you. check out for media (pr 5-7) that can write about your site and give a dofollow link. stuff the link title and text with proper keywords. It'd be cool if you get at least 1-2 really high PR links, that'll last for years, no matter how much that would cost

One more thing -- check your competitors backlinks, choose the best of them, think how they had got them. Is it possible for you to get the links at same instances? Again, head only for your niche's high PR once.