What am I doing wrong? Despite all of my efforts I cannot get my site to appear anywhere at all in Google results for the two best keywords, “Aneurysm†and “Aneurysmsâ€. Old sites that have not been updated in months, even years, short articles, and forum postings (but not mine) all appear in the results for these keywords but nowhere does my site appear. For just about any other related keyword(s) the site appears, often in a good position but I cannot get anywhere for these two words. I have been adding back-links whenever possible and last time I checked it was over 600. I have tried to keep adding new content, have a keyword in my domain name, have meta tags but nothing I have done seems to get the site to appear anywhere in the results for these two keywords. Does anybody have any suggestion at all? My site is http://www.aneurysmsupport.com/ Would somebody take a look and give me an opinion or suggestions?
I'll try to help here. Based on what Market Samurai returns, the keyword "aneurysm" is a high competition keyword. In other words you have your work cut out for you. Having the keyword in the domain only works if you are not up against the big dogs. The top ten for your target keyword are wikipedia, a .gov site and authority sites like webmd and others. They all have high a domain age of 7 or higher and they all have page rank of 4 or higher. Honestly I myself would not target that keyword. I would instead focus on finding long tail keywords. If you are going to continue, it's all a numbers game from here.
I seem to be doing well on the long tail keywords. What I find frustrating is that the site appears nowhere at all in the google results for these keywords. I realize that the competition for those top spots is tough but I cannot get the site to appear anywhere at all in the results, not page 1, 5, 10. or 70.
Oops I misread your question. I did check your site for your target keywords, and it does not show up. I would continue to link-build. Your site is relatively new and may simply be experiencing the google dance. You'll show up sooner or later.
Thanks, I will continue link building and would be very interested in any other suggestions anyone might have.
you can put any link on any page so check site have Good PR or not, site links is nofollow or dofollow links, site popular or not and main site is related for your business or not
If your site is new you could have a new website penalty. I had a site that was p7 for a key term for 6-7 months and then suddenly - without any changes or links on my part - rose up and is now close to the top of p1. Of course, if you have lots of competition, you need more effort. A quick look at your site showed good onpage seo. A very minor point - alt text as "aneurysm" - would it be better to be a bit more explanatory so as not to seem too spammy. My only other suggestions - apart from waiting if the site is new - is to 1 Check your site via a keyword density check just to make sure you don't have a penalty for too high a density (doesn't appear like it from a quick scan) 2 Make sure your backlinks have a real mix of anchor text - one of my sites has just got a hefty penalty (hopefully shortlived!) because then anchor text was too similar - I though I'd varied it, but with hindsightit wasn't enough.
Thanks JJ1. I have been varying my anchor text, though most say simply Aneurysm. Anyone have any other thoughts?
Single phase keywords will always have high competitors........it's better to choose 2 or 3 phase keyword with less competitors and more search volumes.........
I understand that the competition for these words is high but it baffles me that the page falls nowhere in the results, especially considering many of the ones that do, and some rather high.
You know, it is tough to tell without going into an indepth analysis of your SEO, on-page and off. Also remember that each site is analyzed by Google in the following way: Site content, H1 and Met tags, Keyword and Keyword relevance to content, backlinks (although Google does not rely heavily on those as do Bing and Yahoo). Now, with your main keyword being so competitive it might just be that Google figures that for those particular keywords other sites have more relevance and hence your site was filtered out for those two keywords. This explains why you SERPs is great for other keywords, key phrases and long tail keywords and NOT for the two most important ones. I am not an SEO expert but my fiance is and has explained this to me numerous times, and I think I finally got it. : ) If you are interested in his analysis just send me a PM and I can forward your information on to him.
you only have 83 backlinks, this could be too low: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.co...wm=i&bwmf=u&bwms=p&fr=yfp-t-708&fr2=seo-rd-se whereas one site in the top10 has above 200: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.co.../www.brainaneurysm.com/&y=URL+erkunden&fr=sfp moreover, as told here, your sites creation date is: Creation Date: 12-dec-2009 omg, this is too young to get higher in the serps.
My site has relevant content, and a fair amount of it compared to other sites that list relatively high in the results. It has original content as well. When the term Aneurysm is searched the first two pages are authority and big budget sites. On page three the lesser site begin. For instance, on page 3 fourth position is this site http://www.columbia.edu/~mdt1/ There is some interesting stuff but it is nothing but a page full of links to other sites. After the title there is nothing but a list of links. Page 3 number five position is a link to a you tube video of the band Aneurysm Page 3 number 10 is a Medical News Today article on Aneurysms The further back you go the worse they get. Many are little one page articles regarding Aneurysms on university servers so they are probably seen as authority sites. I can seen, since the site is only three months old, not appearing in the top positions, but cannot understand why it is not appearing at all. Any thoughts?
I have over 600, depending on what site or tool you use to check. Try this one http://www.seomastering.com/backlinks-checker.php
I just checked using the above mentioned tool, it was 579. Yesterday it was 600. Exactly how many I have I don't know but it is well into the 100's.
you dont have around 600 links! the yahoo tool I use only shows a max of 2 links from the same domain whereas your tool shows all links that come from the same domain. Thousand links from one domain will be counted as one link!
One word keywords are always extremely hard to rank for. It also seems that most people don't search for one word keywords, but a phrase or sentence. It would be wise to change your keyword goal.
What tool are you using. I just used the following http://www.seomastering.com/backlinks-checker.php and checked http://www.aneurysmsupport.com/ and it said 589 total Yahoo site explorer show 295 This site here http://www.websiteoutlook.com/ shows 397 I'm not sure exactly how many links I have but it is certainly more than 2. I certain that there are several hundred.
It is not appearing high in the SERP's jophan, it is that I am not appearing at all for the two best keywords.