Getting closer to the top spot

Search engine positioning

[spikedo55]

Okay folks. Please break something down for me. I have a site that gives out (this is just an example)"car buying tips." I'm number on Google for "car buying tips" but I really want to be number 1 for "car buying" because that's more searched on key phrase.

What are the basic steps to getting higher placement on "car buying" searches? As of now, even placing #1 on "car buying tips" my site doesn't show up in the top 50 for "car buying".

I have been steadily building my links with sites that have good PRs. But I feel my problem is with the key phrase. However, "car buying tips" is everywhere on my site so I can't understand why I wouldn't do better.

Sorry if I rambled a bit. It's hard describing the situation generically.

[spikedo55]

Sly,

Are you referring to the February Google update? When does that take place?

[stuntdubl]

>Are you referring to the February Google update? When does that take place?

No one knows for sure ('cept Googleguy), but it usually happends near the end of the month.

[SlyOldDog]

Spikedo

You will know about it if you just read here. About 15 minutes after it starts there's already a thread 4 pages long.

[rfgdxm1]

Weird. I just checked Google on a *truly* critical single word search for my site. I have been at #6 on the SERPs for this since the update. And, I've pretty much been stuck at #6 for this search for months. At the moment, I jumped to #3?! And, on all 8 servers. No fresh tag either, and I haven't changed that page in at least the last 2 weeks. Not that I am complaining, but I'm not used to seeing flux like this. I can only hope this is a harbinger of the future...