Pushing for the Top 3 Spots
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Getting a site listed on the first page for most keywords is fairly easy but pushing for the final 3 positions can be difficult.
Have you ever experienced a point where you feel you have given all you can for a campaign and are left scratching your head as to why your not taking over the competitors site ?
From experience SEO only tends to count once you reach those top positions.
When you reach burnout with a keyword with link building etc
Where do you turn ?
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I look at "who" and "what" is above me.
Let's say that you rank #3 and two very informative pages on Google.com are above you then you need a great title tag to compete with them for the click. You might never beat them for this query so figure out a title tag that will pull away their visitors.
Let's say that you rank #3 and two decent articles on decent domains are above you... Beating their links will probably be difficult... but if you beat their content then you might have a chance.
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I look at "who" and "what" is above me.
Let's say that you rank #3 and two very informative pages on Google.com are above you then you need a great title tag to compete with them for the click. You might never beat them for this query so figure out a title tag that will pull away their visitors.
Let's say that you rank #3 and two decent articles on decent domains are above you... Beating their links will probably be difficult... but if you beat their content then you might have a chance.
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