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I'm stumped - need SEO clues please

by mello
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Hey there fellow warriors

I think this may be the first time I've asked for advice?

I have a site that is over 5 years old. It is an EMD. The keyword is rated 'low' competition on google keyword tool. The kw has 90500 searches global and local. I have reasonable content on there (29 pages) including embedding some related youtube vids. It's purely an info site until I get some traction so there's no adsense or aff links or over-optimisation. It is a .info

For some reason it wasn't even in the waybackmachine even though it used to be?!?

In terms of links I have 25 backlinks and about 50 internal links. The backlinks are random so I could no doubt spend time getting more relevant ones.

I've done nothing with it other than add content and smarten up the appearance for years but want to now get it moving.

Average position in google webmaster is 700 for the main keyword 700!!

I'd really appreciate some suggestions on what I can do to improve it.
#clues #optimization or ranking #seo #stumped
  • Profile picture of the author Paramhansa
    buddy!! build more ONE-WAY HIGH PR backlinks to your money site!!

    i think you need more links, just work hard on link building and i promise that your site will gain MORE PLACES ON SERPS!!

    regards!!
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  • Profile picture of the author paul nicholls
    start adding more content while at the same time adding more links

    the more quality and higher the better and also relevancy

    give it a few weeks of adding content every day you will start to see a spike in traffic

    paul
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  • Profile picture of the author mello
    Thanks for the feedback, guys.
    Funnily enough GWebmaster tells me I have 25 back links which threw me cos I got a back link package a while back. A check on another site shows I have 107 back links from 16 referring domains.
    How many back links should I be building?
    Thanks again folks
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    • Profile picture of the author StevenJones
      Originally Posted by mello View Post

      Thanks for the feedback, guys.
      Funnily enough GWebmaster tells me I have 25 back links which threw me cos I got a back link package a while back. A check on another site shows I have 107 back links from 16 referring domains.
      How many back links should I be building?
      Thanks again folks
      Make it look natural, add content daily. Meaning every 2 - 3 days. Then build links each day to your website. 20 - 30 a day are a good start. Don't over do your SEO. Also use various anchor text and link back to every url (http://www.yourdomainsite.com, www.yourdomainsite.com, http://yourdomain.com) don't forget to add links to inner pages as well.

      Would be best to read some more on SEO in the stickies section of this section.
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      • Profile picture of the author John F Kennedy
        Get some links to your stuff, a basic guide..
        • If your content is not quality, make sure it is.
        • Your post ideally needs to be 1000 words
        • Ensure that you have done all you can regards your onsite SEO
        • slowly add more content
        • Add some blog commenting
        • Do some article submission back to your pages
        • Build some web 2.0 sites in your niche and link them back to your site with your anchor texts
        Add as many natural organic one way links back to your pages
        • Set up a delicious authority account and start bookmarking your pages
        • Bookmark your backlinks that link to your pages (article submissions, web 2.0 sites)
        • Bookmark authority sites in your niche
        • Import your list in delicious to other bookmarking sites
        • Find the RSS feeds from these accounts and submit them to your feed directories
        • Apply backlinks to your feeds
        Good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Some people say content ranks out its own, especially after the latest Panda updates but I strongly disagree with that, you will always need solid backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mosa
    What does the top ten competition in google look like? Did you use proper meta tags, description, titles? What kind of content are you putting up? And what kind of backlinks have you been building? Those are the first things i'm wondering.

    If your top competition is too steep you may never see much organic traffic from the search engines. Also your content should be related and unique to a point. You'll also want backlinks from quality sites/posts.
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  • Profile picture of the author WebPen
    25 backlinks doesn't mean all that much- a 5 year old domain but it only has 25 backlinks? Google doesn't see it as being too popular.

    I'm not saying to spam it with crappy links, but start a slow and steady link campaign.
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  • Profile picture of the author mello
    Appreciate the input, people.
    I've now got a plan. Rechecking the meta etc then checking I'm using kw in my articles and tags. Then will continue to add decent content - and longer articles - which are kw rich while blog commenting and forum posting on relevant quality sites.
    I love this forum - thanks again!
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