Need a final push on internal links

Hey, just after a little advice. I have a site that is over 8 years old. We have quite a few internal articles targeting local town keywords for a very competitive niche. They are all sitting around bottom page 1 top page 2 area. What would be the best way to boost these up to the top?

We have been working on these for a few months now and just can't seem to get over the final hurdle. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Harry

not doing local SEO, but I know that citations are good for improving local rankings. Maybe someone knows better...

tazarbm said:

not doing local SEO, but I know that citations are good for improving local rankings. Maybe someone knows better...

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Its not local, the inner pages target local towns but they are all over the UK, citations wouldn't work as I am targeting the natural listings rather than the local pack.

harrymctavish said:

Its not local, the inner pages target local towns but they are all over the UK, citations wouldn't work as I am targeting the natural listings rather than the local pack.

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I could swear that targeting geographical areas means local SEO.... But anyway, a few good links should help then... it might even work with (exact match anchor) internal links...

If this doesn't work it's almost certainly a content / site structure / site authority issue (but then again, you still boost the site's authority with backlinks, so...)

harrymctavish said:

Hey, just after a little advice. I have a site that is over 8 years old. We have quite a few internal articles targeting local town keywords for a very competitive niche. They are all sitting around bottom page 1 top page 2 area. What would be the best way to boost these up to the top?

We have been working on these for a few months now and just can't seem to get over the final hurdle. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Harry

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it doesn't matter if it's local or regular SEO. You should always internal link. You can literally optimize pages with only internal links from 0 search volume pages that you rank for.

3 articles 1200 word articles on 0 search volume keywords that you rank #1,

1 link per 300 words to your other pages you want to rank = 4 links * 3 articles = 12 links.

optimize those links to point to your pages that need a boost. That's 9 topical relevant in body text links that help google understand what your target pages are about.

C'mon, do the basics!

I recommend - quality guest posts would be a better idea along with SEO / Social Media Marketing to boost internal backlinks.