I'm trying to rank for "dog health" with my site: http://www.dogflu.ca The site is 9 months old, and is a dog and human health site. My content is unique, and updated regularly, I've done all the link exchanging and directory stuff, is there anything els I can do? Thanks.
How about getting relevant quality one way links. Directories do not work really and reciprocals aren't that great either. Have you tried writing some articles and submitting them to article directories with a good link back to your site of course. Write blog comments participate in related forums and link to your site where relevant. The niche is quite competitive, there are good authority sites ranking high... so will take some work. Most important, don't give up
From what I see, your anchor text is weak on the sites you submitted to. It should only say "Dog Health" and then link to your site. If you do this for the next 2-3 months, you should rank for page 1.
Yeah I've started to look for strictly one way links, and am even buying some one ways. I am also starting to just use "dog health" as my anchor text. I used coop for a while but have to?? thanks
Sorry for previous post. I think that my coop use may have something to do with my drop as before I used it i was 1 on msn for dog health and now I am no where. Silly question, but how can one tell the anchor text that a site uses to link to other sites?
Use the tool on this site http://www.webuildpages.com/neat-o/ it will tell where their links are coming from and what anchor text they are using. Try this one also http://www.webconfs.com/anchor-text-analysis.php
Thanks for all the advice, I'm thinking that I just need to get good one ways and a lot of them with appropriate anchor text, as my content is not the problem. It is unique and always being added too.
True, you need to use the keyword "dog health" in your text links. You also should try to target more specific keywords. Dog health is VERY broad and will be difficult to maintain if you can even get to the top SERPs page.
OK, I'm confused. Your site is supposed to about "dog health" and the key word is mentioned frequently at the top of the home page, but all your articles are about AIDS, bird flu, cancer, west nile, and topics that are not even remotely related to "dog health" nor is the keyword "dog health" used anywhere in the articles or article titles. Why would Google think your site is about dog health and rank you for that term?
Stackman is correct. Your anchor text has to match your page text to rank well. Banless, that's the same tool I used to look up his link text. Similar minds think alike.
My site is actually a dog and dog owner health blog, so I also focus on human health. Maybe that is part of the problem...
Sounds like you would be better with two blogs. It's going to be a rare case that any of your visitors will be interested in both topics at the same time. Trying to mix the two in a single blog will continue to be a ranking headache for you, for either topic.