Hii...I had heard lots of times one problem with SEO Guys like they are optimized clients websites and in house SEO Projects they are doing hard work in Organic SEO at least 6 month .......for 5-6 targeted keywords but at the end of the day they cant get top 10 ranking .. they had done all seo work dir,bookmark,blog,forum,press release,articles,q/a, blogs commenting,SMO, etc, comes under organic SEO.....SERP ranking coming in 2nd and 3rd page so my question is to all of you how to get ranked in 1st page...from SEO which i had written.......
it's all about link building, no matter how you get it, to get better rank you need better quantity and quality of links to your site btw, people who succeed won't be sharing about their method, because after it's shared then it will be outdated soon as many people using it and submitting to directory is useless, and SMO( it's social media optimization right ? if i am not wrong ) is only useful for getting traffic not for getting better rank on SERP
sometimes you just cant rank for some keywords as the top 10 hold their position strong , try some longtail with lower competiion
Links back to your site and to your site inner pages go a long way to helping your site in the SERP. That and not trying to rank for a keyword. Use a keyword phrase. One that real people search for.
Get a copy of marketing samurai and identify words that are possible to get rank with. I have sites with unbelievable content and old ones with so-so content. Since the old ones are 13 years old, they out rank all of my new stuff. It takes quality link building to make a difference.
its all about content... what I read is all about content and links the relevant the better with good PR but you can disregard the PR or optional.