Less links is ranked higher than me

by Sea1c
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Hi,

I am relatively new to this game and have spent some time creating a, what I would consider, full and complete website (6 main pages with multiple subpages on each). I turned my attention to backlinks and have some articles posted and have a few profile links setup. So my question is why am I ranked lower than some who created a 2 page website and according to Yahoo Site explorer has half the links I do? Non of which appear to be anything special, in fact a few are from dead websites.

Now they do have the keyword in their url and are using wordpress, unlike me. They have what looks like no, to next to no, on page SEO.

Appears to be newer than mine as well.

How are they doing it? My first thought was they have higher PR links but going through them, that does not appear to be so.

Very frustrating. I thought I had a grasp of the principles of getting ranked highly...I guess not.

Any Ideas as to what I am missing?:confused:
#higher #links #ranked
  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    How does their content compare to yours?
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  • Profile picture of the author tommygadget
    First off, you'll never get the complete backlinking picture from any tool. So, having said that, your competition probably has some high-PR links that you don't know about. Remember, one high PR link can outweigh hundreds of 0 PR links. Don't worry about what they're doing, just keep building links.

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  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    Tommy got there before me.

    There is NO fully accurate link checking tool.

    I have sites that I KNOW have over 20,000 links and no tools show more than 1000.

    If they're ranking higher - get more links. Don't assume you know what they have - you're never going to see it all.
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    nothing to see here.

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  • Profile picture of the author BudgetSEO
    If they use wordpress, they are using a secret tool called as "ping list" which pings their post everytime its posted. Also wordpress url's can be made SEO friendly.
    Could be their URL's existed long before you started the site so form this into a bigger picture.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew Barton
    Having the keyword in the domain will definitely be a benefit to them... plus, don't forget to look at their on-page optimization as well. Getting backlinks is incredibly important, but it isn't everything. If you both have a comparable backlink profile then the website with the best on-page SEO wins.
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  • Profile picture of the author khenmhike
    Maybe the quality of their content is the main factor why their site is higher than your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    No Urls, no possible way to say what can it be. Content? BL? Internal structure?
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