How to beat this competitor on Google ?

[stephane]

Hi,

I would like to take the first place for a keyword in Google and the #1 website right now has the following profile:

Page rank: 3

24.300 pages indexed

3 backlinks

exact domain (keyword.com)

More about the keyword:

broad search (keyword): 470,000 results in Google
expression search ("keyword"): 25,500 results in Google
allinurl:26,400 results in Google
allintitle:298 results in Google
allinanchor:440,000 results in Google

keyword.ORG and keyword.NET are available

Any idea how I can do this assuming the competitor does not update his website much ?

Thx for helping,

Stephane

[Liam Hamer]

If that site only has 3 backlinks, then simply build lots of backlinks to your site. Make sure your on page SEO is good, and you regularly update it with good content. I'm surprised a site with 24,300 pages(if I understood you correctly) indexed only has 3 backlinks though.

[diyakapoor]

Main thing is on page optimization of website. So, to index more number of pages, it is important to have a good on page optimization of website. Second to beat your competitor you need to make high quality back links from theme based PR sites.

[JOleng]

Are You sure there are only 3 backlinks? Remember that many backlink checking tools have stopped using yahoo site explorer to get their data, so it would be good to double check it.

But if it's true and the keyword is not a brand name, You should check Nr.2 site in google for this keyword and see how much does it take to get to that spot. if ranked 2 site has huge amount of quality backlinks and still isn't ranking higher than site with 3 backlinks, there might be a problem for You too.

[Gdetonator]

Originally Posted by JOleng

Are You sure there are only 3 backlinks? Remember that many backlink checking tools have stopped using yahoo site explorer to get their data, so it would be good to double check it.

But if it's true and the keyword is not a brand name, You should check Nr.2 site in google for this keyword and see how much does it take to get to that spot. if ranked 2 site has huge amount of quality backlinks and still isn't ranking higher than site with 3 backlinks, there might be a problem for You too.

Hells yea, I totally agree with you. Once I see sites like this, I normally check on the site at #2 to see how the SEO is, if it's almost perfect and still sitting at #2 instead of #1 then I might as well, second guess competing for that keyword.

[stephane]

Thing I forgot to add is the competitor website is mainly a forum and I've to make a forum too because of the niche market!

About backlinks, I used "link:my-competitor-website.com" to get it

Also, it's not an english website otherwise I bet there would be maybe more competition.

Also the #1 is #2, #3 and #4 and it's not a brand name too and their domain name was registered on 24 March 2008

[guzpra]

Originally Posted by stephane

Thing I forgot to add is the competitor website is mainly a forum and I've to make a forum too because of the niche market!

About backlinks, I used "link:my-competitor-website.com" to get it

Also, it's not an english website otherwise I bet there would be maybe more competition.

Also the #1 is #2, #3 and #4 and it's not a brand name too and their domain name was registered on 24 March 2008

if you use "link:my-competitor-website.com", you only get backlinks data from google only (i assume you use google to check) while that site maybe has TONS of backlinks from yahoo or other search engine data.

it's better to use SEO tools such as SEO spyglass!

[stephane]

Originally Posted by guzpra

if you use "link:my-competitor-website.com", you only get backlinks data from google only (i assume you use google to check) while that site maybe has TONS of backlinks from yahoo or other search engine data.

it's better to use SEO tools such as SEO spyglass!

But I would like to rank on Google not on the other search engines

[stephane]

Originally Posted by stellaandreapark

How about, analyzing your competitor... see on what sites your competitor is linked to, then try linking to those sites.

Thx good idea I will try!

[jenymartin]

do onpage seo,and try to increase your backlinks through offpage activities

[xnice]

You need use Yahoo Explorer to check your back links. Your data about competitor's back links may not correct. I recommend you to check again this data before do the next step. And you may need time to beat them, it can not be done on one day or one week. You may have long term plan if you dont want give up .

[guzpra]

Originally Posted by stephane

But I would like to rank on Google not on the other search engines

I Guess the backlinks data on yahoo dont mean you only rank in yahoo