Ranked 15th on Google, what should/can I do next?

I'm working on someone's website (not mine but my wife's).

I worked on on-page SEO, and I did some reciprocal links, and I submitted to 10-20 directories. I posted some video's with hyper links to the site in the description. I made some squidoo pages and blog sites which are linked to the site.

So, now It's ranked 15th on Google. Before I did all the above work it was about 80th or so, so I'm definitely seeing the results.

Now, What should I do next?
I am thinking about a couple of things but I see mixed opinions
about them here....

1:buying some links?
Some say it can be penalized if Google finds out.
Is that true? I can't think of any other ways to get links from high PR sites.

2:More directory submissins?
I could do that but many of them ask reciprocal links and I don't want that
unless the derectry is about the related topic....but it's difficult to find a lot of them.At the same time each link from a directory is not strong so I need a lot of them.

And also I hear to submitting a lot of directories in a short period of time can harm the site...

So I'm wondering about this too.

3:blogs, articles, discussion board etc submissions

I know it could work but the site topic is not something I'm familier with. So I can't write articles myself which can become popular. Of course I could ask my wife to write but here I'm thinking about what I can do myself.

4:Video sites?
One more thing I am thinking about is because the site is about dogs, I can just videotape my dogs and just uploade them on a video submitting sites (Which allow to put hyperlinks). But will that work? I'm Wondering if this is considered as spam.

Any ideas are appreciated.
Thanks

 

It sounds like you did a pretty good job on the basics.
Did you make use of h2 and h3 tags? Use Bold/underline on the tags as well as the phrases in the text. Use keyword rich phrases for the Alt tags? Make good use of your robot.txt file? Use nofollow for Contact Us, Privacy pages etc.

If so, the only other things I can think of is to continue adding fresh content. Doesn't have to be much. Page a week or so. Also continue getting backlinks. This seems to be the most important thing Google uses for ranking. You can never have too many of those.

Oh, and I agree with not buying links. Even the Google expert Matt Cutts says that, so if it is good enough for him, its good enough for me.

Good luck.
Zeek

 

You might try Angela Edwards' monthly issue of high PR sites to get backlinks from:
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior...-packet-30-high-page-rank-backlinks-free.html

 

Go for some articles submisson i think it will help you more

thanks

 

It is very difficult for Google to find out that you purchased a text link or not because they don't own every website. Frankly its like this.

You smoke weed with a friend, now you and the friend only know about this. Police doesn't.
Unless and untill your friend tells the police or police simply catches you red handed (smoking weed) you are not going to be in any trouble.

So my opinion would be to go ahead and buy links but with caution, make sure that the website doesn't shows the URLs openly and the text links are not placed near text's such as "Sponsors" and etc.

 

Keep up the same work done untill now and update your site content regularly

 

Keep getting good backlinks. You will surely come to the first page of google.

 

What is your niche & keyword for which ur on 15th rank..? otherwise it's good for you.

 

What keywords are you aiming for? I'm kind of in the same boat. I've been trying to get into top 10 for hip hop videos for the last month, and I'm stuck between 15 and 18 consistently.