Hi, I am running a website which sells mario toys from the Super Mario Bros videogame series created by Nintendo. Now, I'm trying to list on the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=mario+toys">first page of the "mario toys" Google keyword</a> but currently, I'm the fourth listing on the organic results on the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=mario+toys#q=mario+toys&hl=en&prmd=ivs&ei=QPidTKW9Hon6sAP4uJzWAQ&start=10&sa=N&fp=fa151da40c6c8a2a>second page</a>. I was wondering if anyone could make some suggestions as to how I should move up, I've been moving up slowly but surely for a long time now, but it appears to have dulled down. Any ideas? My homepage is www.marioplanet.com Thanks!
To understand how to move up you've got to understand the optimization and SEO strength of those above you. How many backlinks do they have to their sites, and what is the PR of those sites linking to them? Also how many uses of the specific keyword anchor text are being used in the links pointing to your competitors, and can you build more links to your site that have that keyword? You can use Yahoo site Explorer which is a great free tool to see what links any site has, then explore some of those sites to see if you can get links there as well. Just work on having a better SEO profile than your competitors... have your page optimized for the term, and get more backlinks from relevant sites who also have a degree of authority on the subject. Eventually you will pass them. It's like the story of two guys in the forest who encounter a bear. One guy gets ready to run away, and his friend says "what are you doing, you can't outrun a bear!?". The friend says, "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun YOU". good luck
Hey, thanks for the advice! For some reason, I haven't thought to look at my competitors, which is such a logical thing to do. I like your point about trying to get links from where my competitors got them. Thank you so much!
You are welcome, very glad I could help! If you really want to do some SEO analysis, there's a cool set of free tools you can download... just do a search on SEO Power Suite. I think it's still free, and they'll give you a tool called SEO SpyGlass which checks out your competitors, and a tool called LinkAssistant that generates lists of sites to explore for link requests. Make sure you only go for sites that have "dofollow" links as opposed to "nofollow". I do SEO Consulting, please PM me if you are interested in getting an estimate for services. thanks!
you are going on wrong way. when you create your link you will be use your website link for hepper link, then search engine crawl that page your link is count as a back link. also you can get got ranking on that keyword.