We haven been creating great content on our website from a year. We got some of our post featured on different websites. We have 100+ post on our website, we create content on latest, rare and unique stuffs in our niche. We are getting 300-400 views per day. On some days when our post got featured in some of the website we received about 1500-2000 views for 3-4 days. I have seen many website with less quality content ranking better than us with better content. Some of them copied our content and ranked above us. We are focusing on providing people with great content, content which help people genuinely and making it as easy and detailed as we can. We also improved our website speed and user experience. After so much of hard work and dedication we are not getting ranked better. We are following webmaster guild lines. We are focusing on earning links rather than creating them and make them look natural(as Matt says). Can you guys help me with any tips to improve our rank in search result. Does link building work in 2015? Should I start building link? And if yes, then where? What other working methods are there to improve rank rather just creating quality content.
Content marketing is a slow process and will take time to show desired results Yes, link building is still working in 2015. Try to add some content on other relevant websites.
You can't expect to rank in a short period of time. If the niche is competitive (and especially the keyword), you can wait weeks (and even months) to get a good ranking!
It is a matter of time actually, my site was stuck in page 5 of SERP for almost a year before it climbed up to the first page after a few updates last quarter of 2014. All I did that time was content marketing, no blog commenting, directory submission, social bookmarking anything that has nothing to do with my site. Meaning, I focused on my audience and the most relevant niches.
You just can't expect results in just a few months. You can post here a link to your website maybe. So we can see how you are handling your content.
I think you have to work on your On page SEO. Update your sites Mata tags, Description ETC I also post your site on different well reputation social media and blogs with informative content. Make quality back links for you sites. It will help you to improve your site ranking.
Similarly. Kindly provide the URL to your website to analyze what you might have been doing wrong or lack of! See the code on your page.
Are you using the right keyword on those content you have on your website? We would love to know other details other than what we've read above. I am no expert but I am sure a lot of people here are able to help you if you've only posted your website's link.
No doubt link building is one of the best method to get high rank but here is few things which is take in mind like.. takes link only from high authority websites, Internal linking, use LSI words, use keywords in starting of title & heading tag.
Please provide the url of the website so i can check it out ! It's a lot of reasons for rankings not going up. Sometimes might be some obvious thing we missing. Sometimes the competitors might use black hat techniques to rank faster, but that won't keep them on top for too long