acidol2
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Check what your competition is doing and do the same!
Always that.
Also, you said business listings OP, so I'll assume its a Local Website.
Try and get as many good citations as you can.
Check what your competition is doing and do the same!
Check what your competition is doing and do the same!
I would suggest you start here.
You need more 2.0s to each KW, and some tier two to power them up. It seems you just do not have enough power for each KW.
Always that.
Also, you said business listings OP, so I'll assume its a Local Website.
Try and get as many good citations as you can.
Check the competition of your keyword mate
Check what your competition is doing and do the same!
There is nothing new to link building, get yourself links from reputed sites and platforms not easy to abuse.
+1
oftentimes this would be the single best way to rank.. check the backlink profiles of people who rank above you and try to replicate all links they have
For both organic serp and AdWords, higher keyword rank can be achieved with keyword research tools.Build natural link for your website then you can get ranking. A Keyword Research Suite can improve your keyword rankings by giving you more power over your keywords.
Also make sure the content you do post on your site has a logical structure to it that guides visitors and helps them accomplish some kind of goal. Search is very focused on user intent nowadays.
Hi OP,
Here are a couple new techniques I've been using during the last 3 months in order to offset the latest algo changes. I'm separating these changes on on-page and off-page
ON-PAGE
work on your content, think of the user that will read the page. Two big factors now are CTR and bounce rate. So make the content engaging. One of the tricks I've used is separate your content in three stages. lets say the final article is 1000 words, then first post 500, then after is indexed, a month later expand it to 750 and later to 1k.
Focus each page to try and rank for two keywords max, a primary and a secondary. Longtail will reach the content, but dont optimize for more than two keywords per page.
if you're ranking in top 10 for your keyword. Its time to start optimizing the title tag and description to maximize CTR. Here is the patent And this article explains more
an easy trick for this is check out what people are using as descriptions and titles on Adwords for those keywords. They're paying money per click, so they are quite optimized to entice the user. Use this as inspiration.
https as a trust signal: if you're trying to rank for a competitive keyword and given that you're on the white hat forum. Move your site to https (with an up to date certificate) , I've done this throughout many properties and after an initial dip, it has helped in rankings.
mobile first: create either a responsive design or a mobile version for your pages. After the mobile update, this has been the difference between stagnation and improvements.
Off-Page
linkbuilding is still king. Wanna rank for good keywords? Check out what links are helping your competitors and get them. Nothing like combing through Majestic and ahrefs and finding the links that are making them rank.
exact matches: easy with these, check your ratios and link acquisition rate. Keep it steady and grow it. A rule of thumb I have is to analyze the top 10 in your niche and see what kind of ratio they have.
PBNs: they work wonders to rank, get dropped domains, make sure to get unique ips and go to the wayback machine to see what were the money pages. Use majestic to find the old links and make sure to either 301 them to your new pages or the homepage. Disallow everything but google bot in the robots.txt, don't want your competitors snooping around.
Keep posting quality content.
- Post original content of high quality.
- Work on getting natural backlinks.
- Don't spam.
That's enough for start. It's not new, but its proven to work.
I would try and get more social shares and make sure your content is quality dude. 3 months in you should have at least 25-50 posts/pages each totaling 750-1000+ words and natural rankings for both main and LSi phrases in all search engines.
Have you submitted your site and made sure your pages are being indexed?
Mobile friendly needs to be a factor for you and fast!
Are you using alt tags in your images that relate to your keyword?
Does your website have a feed you can submit?
How often do you post new content?
Have you built some high quality parasites?
There are so many simple things that are easy to pass up when doing it whitehat style. Just don't get discouraged and start looking for an easy fix like a link blast or other spammy stuff.
By the way,how many keywords are you monitoring?
Is traffic coming to your site at all?
I would try and get more social shares and make sure your content is quality dude. 3 months in you should have at least 25-50 posts/pages each totaling 750-1000+ words and natural rankings for both main and LSi phrases in all search engines.
Have you submitted your site and made sure your pages are being indexed?
Mobile friendly needs to be a factor for you and fast!
Are you using alt tags in your images that relate to your keyword?
Does your website have a feed you can submit?
How often do you post new content?
Have you built some high quality parasites?
There are so many simple things that are easy to pass up when doing it whitehat style. Just don't get discouraged and start looking for an easy fix like a link blast or other spammy stuff.
By the way,how many keywords are you monitoring?
Is traffic coming to your site at all?
From your data, seems to me that you have selected very competitive keywords, if after 3 months of seo you are only able to rank 3 keywords in top 50. I think it's time for a new keyword research session, and this time focus more on long tail keywords, to ensure that you can rank for them faster, even if their search volume is not that high.
Are you building links to multiple pages or the homepage alone? You need to use exact match anchors too around 5% of the time.