Yeah I think more articles will be good, hopefully get site 2 unsandboxed aswell.
They are the exact keyword searches.
i.e my number 1 site is ... and the exact keywords are capitol federal savings
(dont mind disclosing this site as its number 2 yet poo)
Global monthly searches are
site 1:5400
site 2:110000
site 3:10000
us alone
5400
74000
8100
One more thing.. add some tracking system or use google analytics to track all your traffic
It's not unreasonable that the bank site isn't making you anything. Why would it? It's a terrible site (by which I mean that 1. it doesn't look like a site worth staying on and 2. it doesn't provide anything that the official site doesn't provide more effectively).
If you have the number 2 spot, it'll be very visible to anybody who is using Google to get to their bank site... so make it into something that people are more likely to click on. I don't know what that would be... maybe some bad press if you can dig any up, or something like '3 secrets to get more money back from capitol savings' or some-such.
Have you considered bombing the capfed site with a lot of spammy backlinks to porn blogs?
Here is a BHW case study for this strategy:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...competitor-100k-porn-links-result-inside.html