Guys,

Please lets talk about a specific topic. What you said about our website I will fix the things.

So I have some specific question on the websites that ranking high in this niche. As I said previously most of websites ranking in this niche, showing very few backlinks as well as low DA/PA and all scores showing as on majestic, Hrefs and open site explorer. What I guess they are either hiding the backlink data or there are something that I am not able to find out.

No# 1 website in this niche is spencersonline.com and this is vital that this website ranking on #1. All of their SEO score is very high as compare to other competitor's website.

Open Site Explorer Data for this website:

PA/DA: 61/68, Number of linking root domain: 3370, Facebook/Twitter/Google Plus sharing: 2830/1575/1141

Now I am showing you some websites that ranking on good position in this niche, with low score:

hotme.ca:
DA/PA: 24/28, Linking Root Domain: 14 Only, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus sharing: 750/93/296

industrialuv.com
DA/PA: 25/37, Linking Root Domain: 40 Only, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus sharing: 0/15/78

loveshop.ca
DA/PA: 20/30, Linking Root Domain: 24 Only, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus sharing: 7/3/3

hushcanada.com
DA/PA: 22/30, Linking Root Domain: 23 Only, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus sharing: 11/16/20

Can you think that a website with only 14 linking root domain can rank in such a high competitive niche. I am asking do these websites hiding their backlinks or are they doing unethical way to rank high?

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. I don't understand what you say by "that megamenu is overkilling with external links". Can you please explain what you mean by that?

You are saying about pagegrader and onpage SEO of Hushcanada.

This website is ranking for different keywords like "sex toys", "sex toys online", "sex shop", "sex store".

But no any keyword phrase they even mentioned on any part of their website. Only "sex toy" keyword has been mentioned on title tag. For each keyword Moz page grader gave "F" grade. For a low competitive keyword it can be acceptable, but they are ranking with such a high competitive keyword.

There are some more niche, that I am seeing this type of ranking puzzle. Do you think that Google take some other major metrics to rank a website?

Hi,

Yes I know pinkcherry.ca have some more number of backlinks than us, but not that much high as compare to our website. But hushcanada have very fewer number of backlinks, but if you see, their rankings are even better than pinkcherry and our website. For many keywords (such as sex toys, sex toys online, sex shop) they rank on first page.

Regarding backlinks anchor text, no website have anchor rich backlinks, most of anchor texts are irrelevant to keywords. I checked using Hrefs and Majestic SEO too.

As you said something wrong on my onpage, whats wrong are you saying about. I did not do any different things.

Thank you.

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your response. As per your questions, I am providing below some keyword ranking comparison for our website and pinkcherry:

sex toys: Pinkcherry.ca - 27, Cupidboutique.com - nowhere

adult toys - Pinkcherry.ca - 17, Cupidboutique.com - nowhere

adult sex toys - Pinkcherry.ca - 12, Cupidboutique.com - 60

Vibrators - Pinkcherry.ca - 12, Cupidboutique.com - Nowhere

These are some example only. There are too many keywords that they are rankings, but not we.

Now I am showing you their duplicate product URL pages:

http://www.pinkcherry.ca/5-function-p-e-prostate-massager-vibe-in-black

http://www.pinkcherry.com/5-function-p-e-prostate-massager-vibe-in-black

http://www.pinkcherry.ca/9-function-p-e-prostate-massager-vibe-in-black

http://www.pinkcherry.com/9-function-p-e-prostate-massager-vibe-in-black

http://www.pinkcherry.ca/anal-fantasy-beginner-s-fantasy-kit

http://www.pinkcherry.com/anal-fantasy-beginner-s-fantasy-kit

These are also just example, all of their products are duplicate each other.

Can you please analyze this and inform me what they are doing to achieve good ranking, which I am not doing.

Thank You.

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Hi,

I have too many question that I need answer to understand Google ranking system. I have been analyzing different website in different niche, but puzzling to understand how Google rank actually. Some websites have good number of backlinks with good SEO metrics, but some low SEO profiled websiites outrank good sites.

I am here with my first question.

I am working for one client website who sell sex toys online. So we are optimizing keywords like sex toys, buy sex toys, sex shop, sex toy store and too many keywords to rank on google.ca. My client website is cupidboutique.com. We have some competitors that I want to mention below:

1. PinkCherry: This is one of our big competitor. They have 2 domain one is for US and one is for Canada. Both websites ranking well for different keywords. Basically .ca domain is more successful than .com domain. But I am surprise why Google consider the websites for rank. If you see, both websites are identical, that means both website have same product, same category structure, and the most important all products description are duplicate on each domain. On google webmaster guideline, google mention that if 2 domain have identical content, then Google ignore the duplicate one in ranking. But still both websites ranking for different search term.

I compare the SEO metrics of our domain and their .ca domain, there is not big difference. Our websites also have good number of links, good PA/DA, even more good number of social sharing than them. But our rankings are not even comparable with them. They are ranking within 20-30th on Google for different product category keywords, but not our.

2. Hushcanada: This is another website ranking well, but I a surprise how? This website is ranking on very high competitive keyword with very fewer number of backlinks. Their PA/DA, number of backlinks, social sharing all metrics are very few. Their business also established recently that is 2013, which I found through archive.org, whereas our client business has been running since 2003-2004. As a Ecommerce business website their homepage is not showing any product , their catalog can be found under "shop online" page only.

There are even some more websites ranking well with very low SEO metrics in this niche.

If Google is not looking for these SEO staff, then what other staff Google looks to rank website?

Hope I will get some favorable answer of my question.