Hello Friends,
I have been working on one of the SEO project from past few months and by working consistently on this I had achieved my first target that is to bring all the keywords on top ten position but now I am focusing to bring these in top 5 position and some of the techniques which I am using are directory submission, social bookmarking, forum posting, blogging, article submission etc., Still by using all these techniques the keywords are not yet stable on their position for example one of the keyword was on position 4 and now it has dropped down to position 7. Please suggest some techniques which can be helpful to bring all the keywords in top 5 positions and make them stable.
Thanks.

you are using directory submission, social bookmarking, forum posting, blogging, article submission etc.,
this not much to get your keyword in top 5 position.
your live site contain(META TAG) must unique and good.
you can choose off page activity submission site high PR Rank, fast approval and user friendly site.
and also do PPC on targeted keywords for high traffic on that keyword.

1. Good original text based content
2. Time
3. A target audience that will link to your site and keep linking to it. Social networking links suck unless you have a DIGG event.