After you get top positions on Google.... what do you do?
I have one site on #2 position on Google, I think it's the maximum I can get, because #1 is really a strong site.
For me it's perfect, I'm getting adsense clicks so my only desire is that page stay there forever :-)
But.. what to do now?
Keeping building some backlinks or better don't do nothing?
I'm afraid to loose that position if I do something wrong, but maybe if I don't keep creating new backlinks I can loose that position.
What's your advise?
For me it's perfect, I'm getting adsense clicks so my only desire is that page stay there forever :-)
But.. what to do now?
Keeping building some backlinks or better don't do nothing?
I'm afraid to loose that position if I do something wrong, but maybe if I don't keep creating new backlinks I can loose that position.
What's your advise?
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You should keep building links to maintain a positive or neutral link velocity, Or you risk losing those rankings.
Look at ad placement / calls to action (for affiliate schemes) - can you boost click through or conversion rates?
Are there other keywords you could be targetting?
Can you improve your title or meta description to increase the attractiveness of your site in the search results to boost clicks through to your site? Perhaps there is some schema that is relevant that would add stars, photos or similar to your listing?
A lot of these things are irrelevant on page 2+ but once you have some traffic to play with you should test to see how to squeeze more out of your website
@gooner Your answer is the right one strectly connected to my question. Probably I have to keep building links at a slower link velocity, but I'm still afraid because I'm new with GSA. As sooner I have more confidence with this "Monster" tool, i will start again to create backlinks (now that project is stopped!)
@davbel Yes, I think this is something I can do without any fear, just manually added content is the safest way to maintain my position. Thanks!
@JudderMan The #1 site on google on my niche is a governamental website, .gov, that have some page where it talks of the same micro-niche. It's a PR5, very high autority, but few backlinks, not social sharing.... maybe it's not impossible, in the future probably I will try to rank the #1 (I was # for 1 day!), but at the moment I'm just enjoying #2 position, also because I think I have a more actractive title so maybe many people is clicking more my site than that site
@namdas I'm pretty new to IM, and for the beginning I'm focused to monetize only with adsense (easyer), but if I take a look af ALL my competitors, no one of them is using adsense, almost ALL of them are using affiliate programs..... Probably it means that for this niche the affiliate programs can pay more than adsense.
Actually Adsense pay me for every click (around $2-3), the affiliate programs pay me ONLY for sales (around $7-8), so I'm keeping using Adsense. I think there is more people that only read and click than people that really buy. What do you think?
Anyway the main topic was if to keep building links or not. For the moment I stopped... I wait a little time to see if something change.
....Just don't break the golden rule and start fiddling with the site, except maybe to add more content.
I know this from first hand experience when I got greedy and changed the title tags on a well performing site, which subsequently tanked it in the rankings (took about 1 month to come back to where it was after I changed them back to how they were before).
Ouch!
I always take the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" kinda philosophy. But you could maybe milk more profit if you think it's worth the risk.
Apart from optimising for conversions, sometimes it's also worth researching and adding new secondary keywords to your link building campaign, in order to rank for other terms and mop up more traffic.