I've been stuck at #4 to #6 for my not so competitive keyword, about 250,000 results. My site is DYING. I did and do: facebook, twitter, blog comments, blog roll, forum profiles, forum sig posts, forum link exchanges, footer ads, youtube, a couple yahoo answers, plug boards, you name it. If there's something I am missing by all means, please..
Why is your site dying? You should still get traffic from being in those positions. What are your daily visitor numbers? What is your bounce rate? What pages are they entering and leaving by? Perhaps its your site that is rubbish, not your rank.
Before we moved, we were getting over a thousand guest hits a day. Now it's more like 150. Our site hasn't changed except we moved to our new domain and lost our #1 google spot. The old site was deleted without our say. I say it hasn't changed, what I mean is, it's still adding new content like it always did. It's business as usual just no almost no traffic. They mostly enter from the main page, though if I tweet a different page I'll see a momentary surge of about 20 or so hits, then they go and nobody has signed up.
How about the number of dofollow links on your site? i think you have to focuse using this style on link for certain page only... limit your dofollow links on page this may help
How about the number of dofollow links on your site? i think you have to focuse using this style on link for certain page only... limit your dofollow links on page this may help
Last I ran a check on backlink watch it picked up a little over 700 of em. I have many more in reality, but seems they have yet to be tracked. youtube, facebook, hubpages, twitter--these are all nofollow and I do have those as well. I would think this is a good mix? I mean, nofollow is good to have a natural mix {though the above drive human traffic which is the main reason I have them going} but the "link juice" wouldn't that come from dofollow links?
You have your answer already. Please looking the way you built links. Most of them are temporarily type and not a quality based. Facebook - Useless anyway. You should post link to gain traffics than seo purpose Twitter - Same as Facebook Blog comments - This kind of link will never stable. They could be either removed or attached with "nofollow" attribute later. You cannot rely with them anyway. Blog Roll - What kind of blogroll did you get? Are they a blog network with hundred blogs hosted under the same class IP? How much their relevancy compare to your website? How many outbound links each blog has? Forum profiles - Did you ever contributed to the forums you have profile with? This is useless unless you have had contributed some useful and a real participation with them. Forum Signature - It can help but you cannot rely with them solely. It help not much as you may expected. Forum Link Exchange - Be selective or bad-neighborhood issues will come at your door step. Otherwise this kind of links won't give you much value as you may expected. Footer Ads - Same as Blogroll Youtube - Same as Facebook, more useless anyway. Yahoo Answer - Same as Facebook Plug boards - What does this mean? I would recommend another way to get links Article submission - Select only a fews and submit unique article to each of them with your link in author bio. ie. Ezinearticles.com / Goarticles.com / Buzzle.com / Articledashboard.com Get your website listed in some major old established web directory - Most of them may not have high PR but will give you much value than expected. ie. Joeant / Goguide / BOTW / Skaffe
Yes--I contribute heavily on the forums I have profiles on--such as this one. I post daily or almost daily, in fact I often make a schedule of it, though not hard to keep drifting back to this place Blogroll--Three of these, possibly adding a fourth soon--all relevant. Though some more than others. Plug boards--places where you stick your link or ad up onto an automatic submitter that then appears on the page. I tried article submission on that Hubpages that so many people were touting--it's nofollow. No thanks, I already have enough of them as you folks can see. Major old established web directory...I'll take a look at those 4 you showed me, thanks for the site names. I've had SO much trouble finding ANY directories that aren't reciprocal. I have no more room for reciprocal links, I already got 50 of them on my site and refuse to go higher. If it requires me to link back I won't even look at it. {The forum links I'm in exchanges with currently are all good neighbourhood sites.} And I did all this link bulding on the advice I've seen by so many people on here and other marketing sites. Google likes variety, Google likes Twitter tweets, Google likes youtube, Google likes "natural" links. Those three article sites--they dofollow? ...Holy crap, Goguide is asking me to pay them $70 to list my site on a PR0 page! I'm not made of money here and if I was I'd want my dollars' worth. BOTW is even worse. Same deal with the PR, they ask way more money AND no refunds even if they don't choose to list you. Skaffe looks hopeful. It's a little late to continue on though, so I will finish up checking all your suggested sites tomorrow and let you know the outcome!