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[rogerdan]

I am sure they had something to do with it. G seems to like "new" sites for a brief period as well. Then they seem to "settle" in to the SERPs and stabilize. I am sure there were a couple of things at work there.

Doing a quick look with McDar's keyword tool on "singapore properties" your site shows 5 BL's and 230 pages. The top site has 172 BL's and 2050 pages. You are going to be hard pressed to beat that with 5 BL's. Plus, the links that show have DreamShelter as the anchor text.

I would focus on getting relevant backlinks with the term you are trying to optimize for in the anchor text. As for the on page factors, make sure that the term appears in the title of the page you are optimizing, you have the term appear on the page a few times and try to use the term in some heading tags as well.

Great. Thanks for the information, at least I have a better understanding of what to do now. Thanks SEO mentors. Besides that, is there any other thing that helps?

By the way, I tried to enter www.dreamshelter.com.sg for my url and singapore properties for the keyword phrase. It does not show the number of back links i have strange.

[Jade456]

I looked for your links pages but couldn't find them?! Am I missing something Rogerdan?

[chachi]

that tool had some issues yesterday, you may want to try again today. FYI, link:www.dreamshelter.com.sq will give you the number of links on G and @www.dreamshelter.com.sq will show you all pages that mention the url.

[Jade456]

Hmmm....I just tried the url again and nothing came up. I'll try again later

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[Jade456]

Okay I figured it out. You have the wrong url posted. Its a G not a Q at the end.

[IGotRealEstate]

I want to add about you changing your PHP directories. Always make small changes to see the reaction...

[rogerdan]

Thanks for the interesting point. But I guess the major change did alot of damage to my ranking on Yahoo. The top ranking was bringing in quite a number of leads though. What a pity.

By the way, a competitor of mine actually post on my suggestion box asking for a link exchange. If I were to do a link exchange, would there be any repercussions or consequences ?

[SEO Jason]

yahoo switched engines a while back. figuring them out it seems to me that yahoo puts a lot more weight on format and content. ie. do a h1 then content then h2, content, h2, content, h3, content, h3, content, h3, content, etc.

also make sure that your content is not duplicate content. make sure your headers contain the words your trying to optimize for, but in different variations.

etc.. Dreamshelter Singapore Properties / about singapore properties / Listings of Property in Singapore. etc.

having a layout like that, should help you out with yahoo.