i'm in top 40 in yahoo for big keywords

but i can't seem to get into top 10 to actually get traffic. Do i need more link exchanges with anchor text for the keywords?

 

Try some blackhat SEO. J.K. But the spammy sites still show up well. I have seen lots of doorway pages doing well in Yahoo.

 

Try some blackhat.

 

For your website new product reviews would be a great addition to the site. First of all it would add unique content which a site in your competitive niche definitely needs, but mostly it would get tons traffic from other technology or gadget related sites (i.e. slashdot)

 

If you are thinking of following the blackhat route I just found this thread at namepros which may be of use...
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=134325

Now before I get abused I don't condone it, I don't know the guy selling it and I have never tried it so I can't really do much more than point you in his direction.

If you do try it out, im sure there would be many people here at least 'interested' in the results. Hell, you get resell rights so you could even sell it cheaper here and make your money back!

 

You know what's worse??? We have a site that is #11 for a huge single word. I just wish it could go to #10 and be on the first page.

 

i'm not into the blackhat type of seo, eventually i'll get caught. I just want to generate some traffic and it seems like i'm so close, yet too far to get any

 

I don't know why the colour of your hat's going to do anything...that advice just seems a bit silly to me.

I always wear odd socks that never fails.

 

The slurp seems to like black more than white. You could create a second site and get a URL with the keywords your targeting in it. Yahoo seems to love those.

 

Yahoo seems to be big for on page optimization. Good title, h1 and h2 tags, and keyword density. Anchor backlinks help as well.

 

has anyone tried that blog spammer I posted earlier? I am tempted to try it out on a play site, just to see what happens. Has anyone had good/bad experiences with this kind of thing? I am not a black hat so to speak so I don't know much about it

 

I only read it briefly. Do you know what it actually does. If it simply creates a tonne of comment spam from a load of other "relevant" blogs then it's a pretty crap idea.

I think a lot of blogs now have the rel="nofollow" attribute set on links in comments - so for a large part would render the links useless. Plus if you've got a blogspot blog, you could lose the blog if someone reports you for comment spam.

 

AS far as Yahoo and Keyword Density... I have been noticing that the top ranked sites have very few instances of the keywords in the body content. Most only have keywords in the Title Tag, Meta Description and Header Tags.

 

One of my sites is #1 on yahoo for a very competitive keyword. I didn't spend any extra afford for that specific keyword, and it brings around 100 uniques/day. I guess it's not that hard to be #1 on yahoo with a competitive keyword.

 

onestop, what is your KW density like for that term that your ranked #1 for?