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Suggestions On Moving Up From #3 to #1 Ranking

by ellers
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To all you IM gurus out there:

I'm currently ranked #3 on Google for my keyword. This is after months of hard work, I'm finally ranked high but I have not been able to dethrone #1 spot.

After further analysis and research in seeing what #1 rankings, using SEO Quake, I see that #1 spot has over 600 delicious bookmarks. I'm even in some categories and rank higher in others with respect to #1 ranking but it appears these back links on delicious is what is separating me from #1 ranking. I only have 3 back links on delicious.

So I've tried creating an account on delicious and posted all my posts to delicious however, SEO quake and others, don't recognize these back links that I created. I even did the same thing on Digg and yet the results indicate that these backlinks don't show up on these SEO rankings.

Question, how do I quickly create these back links on delicious? Is there another way to create back links yourself or is this something I have to wait organically:confused: I'm so close to achieving #1 but maybe you can suggest a way to get over the top with achieving #1 ranking.

Thanks
#moving #ranking #suggestions
  • Profile picture of the author chandan_dutta
    According to me those 600 links from Delicious is not the main reason. Try to get few links from High PR pages and you should get #1 with more backlinks. It may take some time anyway...
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      The truth is, you may never overtake them. There is not a set list
      of things to do, including getting more backlinks. Some sites will
      stay on google at #1 forever.

      Stop looking at a total of this or that, and thinking that has some
      magical charm. If you do, you will ignore your website and visitors,
      and sink. Then blame it on google for not following the script.

      Have you thought about actually improving your website?

      Little known fact: Digg could ban you for spamming.
      Digg uses nofollow in most cases, likely yours.
      delicious may be using that now as well. I haven't used it
      in a long time.

      You should check your ranking in keyword combinations
      Hardly anyone searches for just one word, if one word is
      what you are ranking for.

      You don't even talk about high quality, high PR backlinks.

      You could wait until hell freezes over and still not be #1.
      Anyone who tells you can do it with some list is lying.
      What about the other zillion people following a list? Don't
      they count? How can you possibly overtake people who are
      following the same list as you? The truth is out there.

      You could never figure out what list #1 is following. There
      are too many google intangibles. Saying they have 600 backlinks,
      so if I get 601 I can win is nonsense.

      You may get to number 1, you may not.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author ellers
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        The truth is, you may never overtake them. There is not a set list
        of things to do, including getting more backlinks. Some sites will
        stay on google at #1 forever.

        You may get to number 1, you may not.

        Paul
        I always thought there was software out there to get xnumber of backlinks. My website is actually quite good. I think I have provided a great service. The website at #1 is not nearly as good as mine but has been around for some time and has the many links as I mentioned previously.

        I just thought there was some ninja trick that would work to dethrone number 1 but I guess there...isnt?
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  • Profile picture of the author Social-Media-Marketing
    It's not merely the number of backlinks that causes a site to outrank another for a particular keyword phrase. Google is looking at well over 200 variables each time they rank a URL for a particular keyword phrase.

    Your URL could have 1,000,000 inbound links and a URL on another site with 100 inbound links can out rank your URL for a particular keyword phrase... for instance if your 1,000,000 IBLs don't contain the keyword phrase (or slight variations) as the link text while all 100 IBLs for your competitors URL does contain the keyword phrase (or slight variations)as the link text.

    There is typically no one thing you can do to get good rankings. Typically it's the sum of LOTS of small things you optimize that when take as a whole have a big affect on rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author Groovystar
    Hard for me to really comment since I don't know the details. There's no way to know if it's 'impossible' till you try. How long have you been at it? What's the keyword? Is that keyword real competitive? That stuff.

    There is no one thing, but actually I think that's a good thing. It gives you more options.
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