Let's assume that I have a website and I want to rank #1 for keyword "XY". I submit to article directories, directories, make link exchanges, find some partners, but still no #1. Link directories, partners, link exchanges and article directories provided me the anchor text I wanted "XY". Now what can I do ?
If you are competing against sites which do double the work you do, then they will do better. The only thing to do is to work harder than them. Note: assuming all other factors are equal.
ah ic, well in that case its hard to say we kind of need to know what it is to get you ranking their! Pm me if you like
Its not the number of links but the quality of the links.......you might do the above and have more links than your competition but if they have better quality links then they will be ranked higher.....plus they are many other factors such as whether you have a penalty, on page seo, originality of content, domain age.....literally hundreds of factors go into ranking
You need to be patient and work hard for it. Remember that you're not the only SEO who wants their site to be on top of search engine.
Sign up for a Google sitemap account and check your site's status from there. It provides lots of useful info
What competition is for that phrase ? Just wait it took me like 8 month to get in top10 for a 40 milion results keyphrase It's olso about time