I want to rank for the keyword "best funny pictures"

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Dave Elliott: have a look at the competition levels in terms of what you up against regarding people linking to it the current top 5. My guess is you wont have a chance of getting near the top.
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  Jackson Ertel: I don't think you will be all that successful chasing a search string like that unless you have a reasonable ranking to begin with.
  
  To begin with you will need to ensure that phrase is optimized into Meta Titles and content including headers. Looking at generating quality links from relevant or similar sites, ensuring social signals are pointing at it and used effectively. Authorship on the blog will be important too.
  I would also ensure all images have optimized Alt Text in the hope of getting placement and possible links from Google image search.
  
  Personally I would be looking at smaller search volume long-tail searches, maybe categorizing the images based on keyword research so you can target them more effectively.
  
  "best funny pictures" will be extremely high competition so you will need to work hard for first page placement.
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  Ashish Ahuja: The best course of action would be to target google images search as the first result is google images. So make best funny pictures and its synonyms as alt tags to your pics on site and do linkbuilding directly to your image location
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  W.E. Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:03:41 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/i_want_to_rank_for_the_keyword_quotbest_funny_picturesquot