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Hey friends,

Please suggest me strategy plan (ways to reach the goal) for the following:

I want to reach top # 10 on Google for a keyword which has about 6,900,000 competitors pages. I am fine with ONSITE SEO, What are the approaches I can apply to do so, Let me know your suggestions friends :)

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A practical onsite-first plan that actually moves the needle for a competitive query starts with measurement and ends with surgical improvements to relevance, crawlability and user experience. Raw result counts (the “6.9M”) are noise — as and hinted — so begin by benchmarking the real SERP leaders: intent they satisfy, content format, page structure, and which rich results they trigger. Set realistic expectations: onsite work helps a lot, but highly authoritative rivals may still need additional signals later.

Do this technical checklist first:

  • Ensure indexability: XML sitemap, canonical tags, no accidental noindex, and clean redirect chains.
  • Mobile and performance: responsive layout, LCP/CLS/INP improvements, compressed images and caching/CDN.
  • Crawl efficiency: shallow hierarchy, logical URL structure, fix 4xx/5xx, and use robots to avoid wasting crawl budget.
  • Structured data: add Article/Product/FAQ/Breadcrumb schema where appropriate to lift CTR and eligibility for rich snippets.
  • Log-files and Search Console: confirm Googlebot visits key pages and watch for coverage/indexing issues.

Content and on-page work (the meat of onsite SEO): map each target keyword to a single canonical URL to avoid cannibalization; build a pillar page that fully answers the query and link to deeper cluster pieces. Make the target page objectively the best single resource for that intent — clear H1/H2 structure, scannable sections, concrete examples/data, images with optimized alt text, and a short FAQ that supports snippet potential. Use focused internal links with descriptive anchors to funnel authority to the target URL.

A simple 90-day workflow: week 1–2 audit and urgent fixes; weeks 3–6 implement content rewrites, schema and internal linking; weeks 7–12 speed and UX improvements, then measure. Track impressions, CTR, positions, index coverage and Core Web Vitals. If progress stalls after solid onsite improvements, reassess competitive strengths and consider a measured external signal strategy. Avoid shortcuts that risk penalties; prioritize user value and measurable gains.

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Member Avatar for canadafred

Hey friends,

Please suggest me strategy plan (ways to reach the goal) for the following:

I want to reach top # 10 on Google for a keyword which has about 6,900,000 competitors pages. I am fine with ONSITE SEO, What are the approaches I can apply to do so, Let me know your suggestions friends :)

These 6.9 million web pages aren't your keyphease competitors, they are search results. You need only examine the first two or three search engine results pages for various of your keyphrases (across the various major search engines) to help you determine who are your keyphrase competitors.

Member Avatar for Mark121

Hi,
You should start quality work on off page seo and try to get back links from your niche related do follow sites. It would be helpful for increase your keyword search ranking.

Member Avatar for quicktpgo

Hey friends,

Please suggest me strategy plan (ways to reach the goal) for the following:

I want to reach top # 10 on Google for a keyword which has about 6,900,000 competitors pages. I am fine with ONSITE SEO, What are the approaches I can apply to do so, Let me know your suggestions friends :)

Then you shall focus on off site seo. Just build links, build quality links from relevant authority sites.

You can try link wheel and link bait.

Member Avatar for franklinjoe

The first step would be to take out some keywords for which you want to rank well in search engines then submit your sites in web directories using that keywords as title so that those words would be hyper linked to your site.
Write some articles about your website and submit them in article directories using the same keywords in the title and in the body and use that keywords to get links to your website. This will help you great time in getting your site higher rank in search engines. After submitting the article you can bookmark these articles in sites like digg, mixx, yahoo buzz etc.
These are the basic steps but very effective.

Member Avatar for AirForceOne

In my own experiences, picking up some long tail niche relative keywords or local targeted keywords would be really helpful at the very beginning. Of course, blogging, social bookmarking, article submitting, press releasing, forum posting and signature links are all nice for building backlinks. :)

Thanks,

Member Avatar for articlewriter1

OK< unfortunately no one but yourself can decide what is the best working plan for your site. You should set goals and aim at accomplishing them. You are basically asking us to provide you with a course of action and that is pretty much business specific. Whatever worked for my business might not particularly work for yours. So you have to analyze your competition, examine and analyze your own site and determine where you need to make changes in order to WIN those prestigious spots on the first page!!!

Member Avatar for dawn.visp

After On-Page, do Off-Page Optimization. It is done outside your site. It deals with building links. Article submission, blog commenting, forum posting, classified ads, press release, online group posting and classified ads are just some of the techniques that falls under Off-Page.

Member Avatar for KennistonG

Have you tried article marketing? That should help you man, Try to do massive article marketing as well as try to do more blogging about your niche and make sure all the links are indexed by Google, then you should reach your target. Aren't you?

Member Avatar for infinique

Hey friends,

Please suggest me strategy plan (ways to reach the goal) for the following:

I want to reach top # 10 on Google for a keyword which has about 6,900,000 competitors pages. I am fine with ONSITE SEO, What are the approaches I can apply to do so, Let me know your suggestions friends :)

I think you got the wrong idea. Example: If the keywords is "Web Design", When you see 6,900,000 pages, it's just telling you that there are 6.9 Million pages with either "Web" or "design" inside. This has totally nothing to do with competition.

You should use the Google Adwords Tools to see the number of searches and use SEO Firefox or SEO Quake to see your competitors PR/Links Cache Pages...etc.

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