Hi Friends, I'm desperately trying to improve my sites ranking for the keyword phrase "Minneapolis Web Design" My site is stuck around #35. I have lots of backlinks, old domain, good PageRank, etc. Ideas?? Thanks in advance!
Try making articles for your site and submit them to article directories. This will help in getting your site indexed faster. SEO is hard work and it takes time. Hard work will pay off and be patient.
Yah, yah, yah. Hard work. Be patient. Articles. Bookmarking. blah blah blah. Here's a wild and crazy idea, how about putting "Minneapolis Web Design" ON YOUR PAGE!?!? gees!
Forget about it, I checked and it's way too competative, your only chance is to do a xrumer blast, I would say 750k (about $75 at blackhatworld) Otherwise PPC is an alternative
SEO is a long time and continues process.. just keep on optimizing your site.. rank 35 is not bad for a very competitive kw..
Currently you're ranking 35 for that keyword means,there's a good chance of coming on first page of google.Just analyze your competitors SEO techniques & back links & then follow them.Instead of creating number of back links,stressed on back linking form reputed & relevant sites.
Pay Yahoo Directory, Best of the Web and Business.com for links to your site, this links will help you to jump some spots. Of course they're not cheap but work very well, just check the pagerank and authority of this sites.
Well i think everyone here wants to increase their ranking. Ranking never comes for new site which gets closed after 3 months.
Social bookmarking, social media networking, article submission, rssfeed submission etc there are some process to increases your site in serp.
you are pretty good .. your pick a very competitive term.. can you get your local media to promote your site?? any publicity from your local newspaper will be a big plus for location specific SEO...
get loads of relevant(same niche or something close to yours) high pr backlinks. and oh yes , with the anchor of your keyword , and that is it! succes.
omg , good pagerak???? you got pagerank 6 , that is hell more than good. AND YOU ARE IN DMOZ TOO ! omg you lucky
The problem here is that there is a lot of competition for that term and all of the top 10 sites have thousands of backlinks. (check them in http://backlinkwatch.com or http://www.nichewatch.com) I would suggest a xrumer blast 750k or higher. That way you could overtake the competition. Otherwise it would take a ton of manual backlinks to even get in the game. blackhatworld has some good deals or you could search here too.
Wow! A 1997 domain name. That's huge. And your PR is nice too. 1) I see no YouTube videos related to your search term on page 1 . Make a nice little video about your company and put it up. Use your keywords in the title and description and tags. Also... put your URL xxxxxxxxx in the top portion of the description as well. Google is starting to give two spots on page one for YouTube videos. There are a few videos on YouTube but I don't think the makers of them know how to get them ranked. 2) Just doing some keyword analysis I think you would be well served using the word designer instead of or in addition to design. Using the Google keyword tool it shows a significant amount of searches for that. I also see you rank for 160 organic search terms. Few have the word Minneapolis. Maybe add Minneapolis Web Designer to some of your other PR4 and PR5 pages in the title and body and link back to the home page from within those pages. 3) Your PPC campaign that you started back in Nov is full of coldfusion related keywords. Maybe try adding Minneapolis Web Designer / design to your campaign since you're paying about 100.00 / day anyway. 4) Ditto on the Yahoo directory. You have 0 YD links now. BOTW won't hurt either 5)mankatowebdesign and creativearc are your top competitors for "minneapolis web designer". Manakato has just about as many organic keywords as you do but they are thinking outside the box and using phrases like. church web design cafe web design website design in minnesota and so on... The point is they have "web design" on A LOT of their internal pages linking back to their homepage. Creative arc has very few organic search terms but they too have Minneapolis and design on a lot of their internal pages linking back to their homepage. It's easy for Google to tell what these sites are about based on the theme of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and design. 6) You have a lot of links coming from asil.org with "Minneapolis Web Design" so you're on the right track. Just need to wash, rinse, and repeat on other sites. Let us know how it goes.