A friend of mine asked me the other day: I was wondering something. Once your website is in the top 10 for one or more key phrases, what do you do? I don’t think I’ve ever seen any advice on how to maintain your status in the top 10 once you’re there. That’s an interesting question, and here is my answer: The quick answer is that you need to keep on doing the things you are already doing to maintain your website’s ranking for those keywords. But, you can work on that a little less and start working on adding content to get your site ranking for MORE keywords. The more keywords your site ranks for the better. Consider finding other ways to draw traffic to your site (participating in related forums, posting comments on related blogs, starting a related blog, etc.) You should also consider adding more products, more articles, a blog, and/or adding a related forum, etc. If you add related articles, which may help draw more traffic, you can also utilize those pages to add additional streams of income through Google Adsense or affiliate links on the article pages. I have one site that I have done zero optimization on over the last six months and yet it continues to rank in the top 5 for most of the keywords it is targeting. People continue to link to it, because it’s a really great site. I think that one of the most important things you can do is to make your site link worthy. If you make a great site, people are going to want to link to it, and that makes it so much easier to get traffic. The bottom line is that you need to stay the course and continue doing what you are doing. Make your site into something link worthy, and you will never have to worry about traffic. PS. Another option would be to start another related site and repeat what you did with the last site to get traffic to the new site and monetize it.
if you are good on a topic with a number of keywords, then write more content regularly and broaden the topic with keyword variations to fully cover all aspects of a topic. hundreds or thousands of pages ... all in the top 10 if possible that will substantially increase traffic after a while you may add a forum around that topic as well and an RSS feed and more pictures or gallery to eventually becme an "authority on a topic" and have/maintain a stable place among top 10 on all or most keyword combinations around that topic then you may add some fun pages - just for fun - I have for example my Philippine pages - that I love and publish on the same site as well - again in top serps just keep on doing what you did so far to be successful, enjoy your work and the flow of traffic will steadily increase