Our main competitor is http://www.hookah-shisha.com. As you'll see from their site it's not well optimized nor do they have an abundance of IBL. Both of our two main keywords are "hookah" and "shisha". If you Google those two keywords you'll see that they come up #1 for both. These #1 rankings have remained every day for over two years and have not moved a single spot. Also note the extra links below their result: Hookah Pipes - Discounted Items!! Hookah Coals - Shisha Tobacco More results from www.hookah-shisha.com » What are these extra links and how do they achieve them? I've never seen such extra links and it almost appears they are purchased. So my questions are as follows; how are they achieving #1 ranking for over two years without ever moving and how are they achieving the extra links below their results?
The domain is over 4 years old and has DMOZ and Yahoo! listings. The first two pages of linkdomain: listings from Yahoo! look rather themed. All of their IBLs have perfect keywords in them because of their domain name. You didn't say which site is yours so it is hard to compare. The extra listings below indicate an 'authority' site as viewed by Google. It is free to get those listings but I'm not sure anyone can tell you how to trigger them. They are *not* manually added as I have had a semi-adult site get those extra #1 listings.
in addition the below said the domain has the 2 keywords in the domain name an additional plus point for them first dome first serfve
Well hard work has no substitute if you have heard... Just keep building link popularity by reciprocals, articles, press releases ... you would have to do few things extra to have an upper hand over your competetior who is there for quite some time...in the end you would be there at the top...surely Take care Manish
there is a lot to be said for having a long standing site with a given term. it is hard to knock it off, even if your links are more in number.
Well I know this thing that when google sees me everywhere in the articles, press, people talking about me then it would take me...even if I dont rank #1 for that specific keyword but others i may...so keep on doing the job you know... Manish
it also does not help your case any, when you post their links around for them!! Especially on high PR sites like DP. lol