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2 Years of SEO and still no Top 3 rankings. Is the niche too competitive or is my strategy flawed?
Posted by on February 19, 2026 at 10:22 amI’ve been grinding on my website for two years. I’ve covered the basics on-page, technical, and some link building but the growth has completely stalled.
I'm an SEO executive myself, so I've checked the usual suspects (Search Console, AHrefs, etc.), but I'm looking for "out of the box" ideas to jumpstart rankings.
What would be your first move if a site hasn't moved up in 6 months despite regular updates?
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Figure out what your competitors are doing that you aren’t. Everyone always starts with “what am I doing wrong?”, when they should be starting with “what are *they* doing right?”.
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Audit your skills 😛
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>I’m an SEO executive myself
umm…
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I think google doesn’t fully understand what your site is about, so your authority is low in the space. I recently started a small business website (local biz) and it started ranking within 2 months on low competition keywords and within ai overview as well. I made sure that the inbound links provided search engines context of the niche as well as the content.
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You’re probably targetting too competitive keywords, because it’s almost impossible that during 2 years of content creation you don’t reach any top3 even on very low competition – long tails kw.
How many articles are published on the website ?
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“some link building”? Did you buy backlinks?
Google is now all about relevance. Those hundreds of backlinks people got are great, but you’re better off having 10 super relevant backlinks than 10k random, unrelated links.
Also, like others have said: what is the tip 3 doing that you’re not? Do that.
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The issue is 100% links.
Check the top 3 ranking sites.
They all have more links than you.
Only SEO executives who don’t understand or believe in link building would ask a question like this.
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