organic rank #1?

what would be the fastest way to organic rank #1 above these 3 sites:

#1 3,581 backlinks PR5
#2 96 backlinks PR1
#3 5,104 backlinks PR5

also im at a loss to why #2 on the organic list is higher that #3?

any help is much appreciated

thanks

#2 may have 96 related links as #3 may have a load of unrelated links

#2 may have 96 links all using that particular keyword #3 may have only 5 links using that keyword but lots for other keywords

Short answer is it wont be fast or easy to take down a PR 5 site from the top especially if its a very old site.

just what i needed to hear thx

The most important factor is relevance of the links for the keyword you're trying to rank for. Examples:

All backlinks have 'golf swing' in the anchor text , and the keyword you're trying to rank for is 'dog food'. In this case, even if you do on-page SEO for 'dog food', it won't help, you'll still rank low for 'dog food'.

On the other hand, if all backlinks have 'dog food' in the anchor text, you'll rank higher based on the authority of the source of these links, i.e. what pages they appear on.

So, in summary: (a) get your anchor text right and of course your URL also, and (b) get a back link from a page that already has high authority for the keyword you're trying to rank for.

Muchas gracias Joe a nice condensed summary of what ive been reading.
appreciated.

now say i am doing some seo for a business partner who does all types of building + maintenance trades:
painting
tiling
cleaning
plumbing
flooring etc
and the company is called "complete maintenance solutions"
To rank high for all trades for example "local plumber" "local cleaner" etc..
as well as the above mentioned do you think creating subdomains for each trade would be the best way to go?
for example for my key word "local plumber" id create "complete plumbing solutions" and assign it to a subdomain "localplumber.completem.......co.uk"

If you're doing SEO for an Offline Business, then I would hit up and drop about $50 on l i n k s. You'll get about 10,000 links to the site, and you can pick which website categories, regions, etc.

It works good but takes a couple days for l i n k s to become live.

Good luck man

dramtulla said:

now say i am doing some seo for a business partner who does all types of building + maintenance trades:
painting
tiling
cleaning
plumbing
flooring etc
and the company is called "complete maintenance solutions"
To rank high for all trades for example "local plumber" "local cleaner" etc..
as well as the above mentioned do you think creating subdomains for each trade would be the best way to go?
for example for my key word "local plumber" id create "complete plumbing solutions" and assign it to a subdomain "localplumber.completem.......co.uk"

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I recommend don't go "too" overboard with the subs on a WH small business, brainstorm and come up with your several most important keywords and use them. Then for your secondry keywords run them as pages on the subs. For example:

tiling.domain.com <- assuming tiling is a top keyword, then..

tiling.domain.com/kitchen
tiling.domain.com/bathroom

And so on like that, running every keyword on a sub starts to look a bit spammy but if you segment it logicially like i mentioned it's far more likely to pass a sniff test should Cutts n Co see it.

Sweetfunny thank you mate i see the sence in that