I’m happy to report that my Google page rankings for my problem site have now been holding steady at number 2 for the last couple of weeks.

Page ranking number 2 for keyword

This is very cool and I will keep adding content and blog posts until I take out the number 1 ranked site.  I think I will be doing some short videos of the techniques I use and try video link building as part of this as well.

Once again, stay tuned for the next update…. SEO rankings are a journey, not a destination!

Jim

I Have an SEO Problem… Apparently I Don’t! is a post from: Enduring SEO

I’m tending to discount the Caffeine update issue because I have used the same optimization techniques on other sites that are no worse for wear.  I’m also not ready to declare the bad incoming links scenario the victor at this point either.  Perhaps a third scenario is that I have not really spent any time generating new content on the site, focusing pretty much exclusively on link building, which can be pretty exhausting.  So I think I’ll add some new hand crafted pages on a fairly regular schedule, perhaps 1 every week or two, as an attempt to see if that makes any difference.

I’ll probably also set up a blog and free associate a bit to bring up the page count.

While I am tearing what little hair I have left out over this issue, it’s not all bad.  I have found a new tool that allows me to REALLY get a good handle on the link architecture of any site I am interested in. This tool uses a proprietary search engine to provide ALL the backlink results to the domain, not the hamstrung details provided by Google or Yahoo.  I’m finding it very handy in gauging how hard it might be to move a client site past the incumbents on page 1 of the SERPs.

Stay tuned for more anon,

Jim

I Have an SEO Problem, Quest for Answers…. is a post from: Enduring SEO

There are competing theories to explain this, one being that my site got caught up in the recent Google update and came out on the short end, ranking wise. The other is that I got less picky than I should have in my article marketing efforts and that some of the articles are located on “gray barred” (bad reputation) pages that are killing my rankings. The second theory flies in the face of conventional wisdom that incoming links can’t harm your SERP rankings, but it was expounded by someone who has enough data to be convinced that bad incoming links torpedo rankings all the time.

I’m still on the fence between these two scenarios and have not given up looking for a third or fourth potential cause of this pain in the butt situation.  I will be documenting my efforts to track down the cause and implement the fix right here in this blog, so stay tuned.

I Have an SEO Problem, Perhaps You Can Relate? is a post from: Enduring SEO

I call this approach “Enduring SEO” since I feel following these principles will get my client’s sites on to the first page of the Google SERPs and keep them there through any algorithm adjustments, etc.

The first principle is to establish a link building program, using keyword focused anchor text, that delivers inbound links to specific pages at a consistent rate, for as long as the client wants to achieve high rankings for those pages.

The second principle is to ensure each page targeted for a high SERP result, has well written, value added content related to the keyword (or words if low competition keywords). I don’t subscribe to the keyword density school of thought, I use the keywords were they make sense and read well.

I have found that following these principles consistently leads to success over the long term.

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