We've hit a brick wall at #7 - any ideas?

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Hey all,

I'm helping a friend push to #1 in his niche.

So far so good, after about 6 months of solid SEO we've made it to #7 but have hit a brick wall.

Most of our backlinks come from 2 feeder blogs, keyword rich articles, directories, forum posts and blog posts. We've done a lot of social bookmarking but only a few seem to be indexing.

The PR of our backlinks are mostly 0 and 1 with only 1 PR5 backlink.

No matter how hard we push we seem to have hit a brick wall.

Any ideas about how we can push past this?

Regards,

H
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Grant
    Continue updating with new content, make sure your CSS is clean and loads fast, and continue to build links.
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    • Profile picture of the author highbrid
      Great suggestions, I never even thought to look at the CSS.

      As for content on a sales site - how would you update this? chuck a blog behind it with spun articles or something?
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      • Profile picture of the author Jacob Martus
        Originally Posted by highbrid View Post

        Great suggestions, I never even thought to look at the CSS.

        As for content on a sales site - how would you update this? chuck a blog behind it with spun articles or something?
        Keep doing what you've been doing. More of the same will get you what you want. The closer you get to #1, the more effort and consistency it will take. Articles can never hurt you in my opinion. Make sure they are good. If you submit high quality articles everyday, your chances for syndication go up a lot. The more off your content is out there, the more likely it is to be picked up by others and put on their site.

        Just keep on doing what you're doing! Also, you can bookmark your backlinks to give them a little bit more oomph.
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  • Profile picture of the author JoshBrown
    Start buying your links from a link broker.
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  • Profile picture of the author stackman
    Time will improve your PR but you need to get backlinks from RELATED sites that have higher PR than your site. That's the only way to pull your site up. Even then, you can't expect to pull your PR higher than the highest PR site that links to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author highbrid
    Good call on the videos, i have neglected this side of things even though knowing better i'll take a look at traffic geyser.

    We have analyzed our competition's backlinks and, other than wiki, the sites above ours aren't doing much better in terms of quality or quantity. The standout difference is that they have much deeper (albeit unrelated) content on their sites, i.e. blog archives.

    Stacklink - when you say related sites, would you be talking about those that are ranking higher for the same search term? I doubt any of these guys will give up a link to me, or have I missed the point?
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  • Profile picture of the author JoshBrown
    @Highbrid: If they're showing blog posts, then your competitor is most likely buying links (e.g. link posts). Makes a massive difference.

    Best,
    Josh
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    • Profile picture of the author highbrid
      Originally Posted by JoshBrown View Post

      @Highbrid: If they're showing blog posts, then your competitor is most likely buying links (e.g. link posts). Makes a massive difference.

      Best,
      Josh
      Interesting, I'll look at this a bit closer. Google has said that they don't like paid links, but I understand that its pretty hard to differentiate in practice.
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  • Profile picture of the author aweseome2
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    • Profile picture of the author highbrid
      Will look into the link exchanges, thanks. Also yeah I agree, whilst it is a sales site I think i need to figure out a way to add more content, perhaps with a blog build in behind the sales page... anyone doing this?
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      • Profile picture of the author Jacob Martus
        Originally Posted by highbrid View Post

        Will look into the link exchanges, thanks. Also yeah I agree, whilst it is a sales site I think i need to figure out a way to add more content, perhaps with a blog build in behind the sales page... anyone doing this?
        It is always good idea to add some content. Not only will it help you gain some more internal links, but it may also help you catch some long tail traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author debra
    Broaden your market reach. Your doing all the right things just place your presense in broader range of platforms. Social Media is a good one like what has already been suggested.

    As far as link building...Do you make use of your RSS feeds and submit them? You can select at random keyphrases within your copy and anchor link it back to your site. When someone else scraped your feed and places the content within their site. You gain a link back to your site from within the body of that page. That's almost as good as customized and unique guest blogging.
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    • Profile picture of the author highbrid
      Originally Posted by debra View Post

      As far as link building...Do you make use of your RSS feeds and submit them? You can select at random keyphrases within your copy and anchor link it back to your site. When someone else scraped your feed and places the content within their site. You gain a link back to your site from within the body of that page. That's almost as good as customized and unique guest blogging.
      Thanks for the suggestions all.

      Debra, I actually don't do anything with RSS. Is there any service that you use for this?
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      • Profile picture of the author debra
        Originally Posted by highbrid View Post

        Thanks for the suggestions all.

        Debra, I actually don't do anything with RSS. Is there any service that you use for this?
        Well, you should.

        It takes all of 15 minutes to do and it can be done free by using RSS Submit free version. Or...better yet you can get Big Mikes RSS Bot which is really good.

        Be sure to choose your anchor phrases in your latest articles/page content first before you submit your feeds. Submit the main page and then your feed url.

        One more thing that you will most likely have to do manually. Find rss feed directories that are specific to your niche. For example if your site was a sports site, you would want to submit your feed to feed directories that are primarily only for sports. There are a few out there...just do a search "sports only related feed" and you'll find them. Use whatever your niche is in placed of sports.

        It is best if your choose your keyword phrase in the first paragraph, no further down than the second paragraph.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rocketguy
    You always hire someone to get you to the top. I know of some services offered that can do this. It just depends on how competitive the market is.
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