Hi

Does anyone have a strategy or any advice on building search rankings for a website for a vacation travel destination? Example, a Caribbean vacation villa. Although located in the Islands, almost all customers will come from the USA. Therefore the site needs to reach its target clients.

Local SEO is important to have obviously but what strategies other than geo-targeted paid SEM should one use to gain organic exposure to customers in another country?

What is the optimum number of keywords to be targeted for SEO? What are the factors to be considered while choosing keywords?

backlinks will grow by itself if you have great and usefull content, google now makes a special attention with user experience

Google takes a while to update. Stop worrying so much about backlinks. They don't matter all that much. You're just wasting time when you could be making new content.

now i saw you already indexed with 66 links

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1. Publish at least 1 blog post per week. Think in the mindset of the user, They mostly search for solutions. Focus on providing value to the users.
2. Build Natural Backlinks

Of course all sites won't go down. That would make no sense at all. After all, the first position would be empty, right?

Google's goal is pretty clear; Serving the best possible results for searching user, sorted by relevance (and of course, adding a lot of ads to make $$).

So when your site went down, some other is now where you were before. Because G thinks it's more relevant than yours. And all those changes and updates in their algorithms are aiming for better search experience.

If your site doesn't change/update and other does, it's perfectly normal that your ranks will decrease over time. It's dynamic environment and search results are changing with every single query. So keep working on your site, content, accessability and you should see some positive changes eventually.