Periodically I'll target certain keywords in Google just to test certain SEO techniques. When I picked up the domain name torontomike.com to complement mikeboon.com, I decided I should target the search toronto blog. This is, after all, a blog with a Toronto-centric angle.

With fairly little effort I started ranking in the top ten on Google, but I seem stuck in either the 3rd or 2nd spot. There are a couple of bigger boys targeting the same keywords and they're tough to catch. Quite simply, they have a helluva lot more inbound links with the anchor text toronto blog.

I just took the screen cap below that currently shows me in 3rd. I'll update this little challenge when I'm on top of the Toronto blog food chain.