What methods should I use? The keyword is cartoon games, and the site is http://www.midnightgamer.com How long do you think it would take? Thanks in advance.
It really depends... sometimes getting the rank link (high quality link) can move you up several spots or even pages.
There is no fixed timeframe for moving from page 2 to page 1. Modifications by Google to their rankings happens all the time. As regards the links a PR7 backlink would be good, as you say, to propel into first page of google search results. Try to get more links from blog posts etc.
Yup, i believe Link from PR 7 up can take your Web Page to page 1 Google..And it's depend on competitiveness of your keyword..
It really depends on the market/industry your in. There's a huge correlation between the industry and competitiveness. Just check accommodation versus blue dotted red pens?!
Means it's just something so random and wacko that you'll be laughing if you get one search per month. If you search for "blue dotted red pens" you'll find ZERO results, whereas accommodation has 93,600,000. So if you're really selling blue dotted red pens I don't think any SEO is needed to be ranked the first lol.... accommodation you probably need more than 1000 quality links, but then again that depends on your competition.
This is probably irrelevant to the topic, but I hope I'm able to contribute just a puny bit more. Keyword hunting is really really important. If you spend more time on finding a good keyword to work on you'll probably get to the top of serps ALOT faster. The worst kind of keywords are those with very few searches but highly competitive(top 10 results have lots of quality backlinks). Average keywords are those with reasonable amount of searches and OK competition (anything below 1000 is ok to me, you may have a different threshold). The best kind is of course those with a high search volume and minimal competition, and they are of course really hard to find. My take on this is forget about KEI or KOI, they are really useless... 10 strong competitors are more fearsome than 10million sites who have less than 10 backlinks.
Just to let you know the website in the spot number 10 on page 1(joecartoon.atom.com/games ) has 1176 links and is a PR 5, ouch
Sometimes taking a break may help. Then one day, your page could end up in the top 10. I've seen crap pages with no links ranking tops. And mine with so many links is still on page 2. Google is a mysterious beast.
Uhh yes, games have some verrry tough competition it seems =\ I wish i had all these tips when i began working on this, would save me so much time... =\ Anyways if you make to get to the top let me know how you did it if possible
Just submit your site to all social bookmarking websites and build at least 30 backlinks daily, you will achive your target