If he followed your advice then he would seriously be risking getting banned from Google search and rightfully so, there's already enough spam out there. If he built high PR relevant backlinks and carried out better keyword research he'll get there sooner or later. #35 ain't too far of the chasing pack.
It;s a competitive niche GET bacjlinks from web designs web master sites comment on Blogs Post on forums there are like 150 big internet/webmaster forums GIVE IT TIME PS : Forall the amateurs here is a good exemple with PR 6 and not ranking well again PR and rankings are 2 diffrent things
I think your current SERP might be result in the lack of your on page SEO jobs, especially the page contents on your homepage. Thanks,
Focus more on internal linking as well as external linking of the site with the targeted keyword as an anchor text. This can help you to achieve desired ranking in search engines.
Regular post directory submission, social bookmarking, articles submissions, forums posting then improve your site keyword ranking.
Step 1. Stop taking advice from people that you don't know. Step 2. Identify people who make it their business to know what works. Step 3.a. Get to know the people from Step 2. Step 3.b. Look at what they do. Step 3.c. Be less concerned with what they tell you they do. Step 3.d. Be more concerned with what they do and what they create. Step 3.e. Give them a reason to be interested in you and what you do. Step 4. Ask these new friends what works for them. Step 5. Accomplish something above every day. Goto Step 1. Charles_KnNell
be patient, analyze your competitor. Submit article in article directories, do social bookmarking. SEO is a hard work and it takes time to get top.
Work on your On-Page Optimization. It deals with the proper use of title tags, meta tags, alt attributes, heading tags, content, robots.txt and sitemap.
I had the exact same thing for Calgary web design , very competitive keywords. I did things like pay to be business.com, Yahoo.directory,paid someone to do some social bookmarking, directory inputting, had someone write articles. went out and found some niche sites and commented on various website blogs, Hired an Indian seo guy ( YES IT ACTUALLY HELPED) try odesk pm me if you want more ideas PS i went from 3rd pgae to first number 2-4 spot after 2 months of hard work.
couple of more things, your title sucks and needs some work it is too long, Also put an address that is in Minneapolis on footer/header. Google gives higher ranking if it there to local keywords. PM me i have more white hat advice for you.
Have you analyzed your competition? The key phrase "minneapolis web design" has 127,000 competing (optimized) pages with that key phrase in the title. You may also need to do some on-page optimization to improve your keyword rankings. Please contact me if you still need help.
Hi, I will suggest you to publish some good quality content on high pr site ( which allow a do follow link) on a regular basis. Always use your targeted keyword as an anchor text with the link you are giving back to your site. This way you can improve your ranking.
According to me, you need to check Keywords from google tools and adding some highly used words like 'cheap' 'best' and 'top' will be beneficial. goodluck!!!