Need help/insights. Site SEO = OK, Authority BLs = OK, Rank page #1\. How to reach pos #1?

[azaiats2]

Hi there! Some doubts are confusing my head and need some assistence from you to get on the right track.

I'll explain my situation and want to hear from you what do you really recommend for med/long term permanent results.

1 - I have a PR2 (.com.br) domain;

2 - I'm talking about little/med competition micro-niche keywords;

3 - I got all pages I want to, indexed (I have a well SEO constructed website with internal link building);

4 - If a keyword has average competition, I'll already start ranking in page #3 on the SERP's; For a few low competition keywords I start on page #1;

5 - I do a little whitehat link building, 1 or 2 backlinks on authority sites and then like 15 days later I came to page #1, generally on position 9/10; And then I got stucked No more authority sites where I can get backlinks...

I do some posts on the company twitter/facebook page's, but they are no follow, so I don't really now if this can help. (never see a SERP result).

I did some "blackhat" stuff to see if it really work: I can say for sure the "profile backlinks" that we can buy from some sites doesn't work (maybe it's just for me). I can't see it on webmaster tool and neither my ranks changed since I bought a pack of 100 links (the links are working, I see it one by one) to test. Maybe the problem is about the domains, cause my site is .com.br and I'm buying .com profile links. I guess google understand backlinks from .com.br more valuable for my sites.

Back to whitehat: I wrote some articles and posted it the right way, of course on .com.br articles sites, got it indexed and can see the backlink on webmaster tool, but no change on SERP's. (maybe this can be a long term result and I'm not seeing it yet).

I'm really "scratching my hand" to do some blackhat stuff, but I don't want to lose what I already have done... I heard a lot about scrapebox but doesn't fell confortable to spam as hell a lot of blogs. I really want long term permanent results (my sites are totally whitehat/corporate sites). Can you expert guys give me some point to where I need to "walk" now to improve the SERP's? I never reached top #1 and want to try to rank at least one time to understand how this can be made...

I'm thinking now to pay someone to rewrite 20 copies of an article and up it on some sites, to see if 20 can improve something. But still no confident, because it will cost like $100 for a good writer do it for me on my language. Maybe I can do better things with 100 bucks.

I guess I did the path right: Internal SEO -> got indexed -> backlinking from authorities -> new articles backlinks to me (is it ok at this position or no?) -> (what next ?)

I know SEO is a hard/never ending work, but what I'm trying to get cleaned on my head is the path of the work (if a right path really exists). Every word will be apreciated. What do you can suggest to me to try now? (please give me a hint to see SERP's results if I feel that something worked, no matter how it can cost to me, but I'll pay for the work happily)

Sorry if I'm a little confusing, english isnt' my first language. Thanks.

[azaiats2]

Thanks for replyiong me Nicole!

I don't see this so difficult. Luck for me, at my country level, SEO isn't so advanced. Almost competitors have one or two backlinks at most.

I'll for sure rewrote my procedure to include your suggestion. Thanks again.

Anyone else have a insight for me?

[NicoleMunoz]

One of the more advanced (ie difficult to outsource) but highly effective strategies is to offset the links your competitors have.

1. Go to OpenSiteExplorer.com or MajesticSEO or any other software such as SEOSpyglass, Market Samurai, and run a backlink report of your top 5-10 competitors.

2. Organize the results by Domain Authority OR Page Authority OR AC rank OR Page Rank... and make a short list of 100-200 links.

3. Most of the links might be blog comments, or forum profile links or guest blog posts... some closed blog networks.. go after the easy ones first and then get as many as the hard ones as you can.

4. Re-run the reports with another keyword to get more competitors to reverse engineer.

5. Repeat.

Nicole