Hey all,
Let?s investigate the site already ranking #1.
Step 1: Go to Google.com and type in ?Dog Training? (without the quotes). Click on the first organic listing that shows up.
Step 2: What sort of site is it? It?s a blog, right? (Good news for us in this example)
Step 3: Go to Yahoo! Site Explorer. (Just Google it) Paste the domain name of the number one ranking site into the bar and hit ?Explore URL?.
Guess what? We can now see every link pointing to the site. It has, at this time of writing, 1,851 back links.
What does this mean? It simply means we have to beat that number with either more links or higher quality links.