Some Tips to Maintain Your Google Rankings

You may see tons of articles on different methods to improve your Google rankings but not many ways to maintain them. Although both will pretty much use the same techniques. But one thing you have to keep in mind is when you are sitting at #1 for any search term you are actually quite vulnerable to losing that spot. In this article Ill discuss reasons why people lose their #1 position in Google and always some ways to prevent this from happening.

Having the #1 spot for any search term in Google can be rewarding especially if it’s a search term that you have worked hard on to achieve. This is why it will be important to maintain that spot, it can be depressing to lose the top of the Google ranks just because you neglected to continue your efforts. You may see many webmasters who have worked hard on achieving the #1 spot in Google, then once they have achieved this some webmasters may get lazy and reduce their efforts to focus on other terms. In some ways this can be the right thing to do, for example if you are in the first spot obviously it would be nice to get two keywords ranked, so they may focus their efforts on another keyword. If doing this it is important to not completely stop your link building efforts for the keyword that is currently #1.

One way to check if other webmasters are looking to knock you off of the top position is researching your keyword on a weekly basis to see what kind of new links are being generated with your keyword, this way you will be able to see who is trying to compete with you and you can at least match their efforts. In my opinion the easiest way to keep your rankings up is by creating new content as often as possible targeting your keyword and using links with that anchor text.

The bottom line is you should never feel too comfortable when having the top of the rankings, I see too often sites fighting over the top positions and swapping spots. You have to take advantage of having all the extra traffic and hopefully that income which comes with it and build additionally on it. There is also some great SEO software that will make your job easier tracking keyword rankings and competitors, I will not give anyway in this article but you can Google around. This software can keep track of your keyword rankings and even your competitors.

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