Hi guys! I'm stuck in sort of a wierd situation. As a university student, i've been independently doing SEO for small businesses; for the sake of some spending money. I'll openly admit, i'm pretty amateur at it. Usually I settle on contracts based on ten Key-words for which I optimize the website. I'm confronted with a completely different situation now! I've come across a client whose got a website optimized for 2200 key-words. About 1500 of these key-words are google top 50 ranked. The task is to manage the already set-up SEO for this website. Is it a huge challenge for me? I totally realize the power of on-page optimization. By the way, this site is PERFECTLY optimized; according to the client. I don't doubt that; if its Google top 50 ranked for 1500 key words! The question is, will basic links exchange, blogging, forums postings etc. mantain these rankings? And if yes, is it a huge task to ensure that roughly 1500 key-words remain optimized? Or is the already established on-page optimization doing the trick perfectly? Cheers!
If the 50 Keywords that ranks already are highly competitve keywords., then it means that they must have some good quality inbound links., LInk exchange: Be careful on this., Dont exchange links with bad websites., Notice on these things: If the original site already does link exchanges., Starting a link exchange suddenly with Too many sites may create a flag., So start slowly without generating rapid/numerous inbound links., Blogging: This is Really helpful., I would suggest wordpress for this (if you think of having your own blog) Forum Postings., Its useful for getting visitors to your sites., no way will this help in your rankings , That too for a highly competitive Phrase.,
Sounds like you need to do some text-link-ads purchasing, buying links from unknown sources (think DMOZ) and setting up satellite sites to bring in more links to the 'mothership' site. Top 50 isn't top 10, so there is room for improvement. Plus, I hardly find sites that do the nitty-gritty of SEO, like adding title attribute to links, adding alt tags to all images, doing custom meta descriptions and keywords for all pages, etc... Usually though, a site that is older, has a decent amount of backlinks, can just through up a new page with a good Title and good internal anchor text and get the page ranked within a few days, so...there's always that.