Maintaining or improving keyword ranking
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I started a second website recently and it is doing very well. I am on the first page for a competitive keyword - spot 5 according to Moz. It is actually a category page that is ranking so well which is a surprise to me as I have read many times that I should deindex category pages due to duplicate content!
My questions:
1. How do I get backlinks to a CATEGORY page?! I have been able to get backlinks to certain posts because my website is a deal blog and other deal blogs give me credit for popular deals by linking to my post.
2. How can I maintain this high ranking? Of course I want in spot 3 but this website isn't even 2 months old so I know I should be patient. At this point, I just want to stay on the first page. What is the best way to do that? I am about to fill out the SEO stuff for the category page which I haven't done yet.Thanks!
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Thank you. The guest blogging idea is great but will be a challenge. I haven't started with social networking yet but it is on my TO DO list.
Can you get me a little more info on power internal links? I have a signature item that goes at the bottom of every post. It encourages readers to sign up for the newsletter. Should I have a link there to the category page as well? It is my MAIN category - it basically contains all my blog posts.
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Here are the following things that you can do to increase and maintain your ranking for desired key phrase in search engines like Google.
- Build back links from Guest Blogging. The idea is to write content on other relevant blogs and get a link back to that page as well as home page. This will increase quality links back to the page and you will see a positive jump in rankings from the desired key phrases.
- Try to increase the overall social value, it is recommended to get some real +1s to that page and a website as a whole.
- Powerful internal link will also help!
There are few of the basic things that can help you stay and jump positive in SERP rankings from the desired key phrases.
Hope this helps!
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