It will take time to achieve this for your one word phrase. If you keep developing your long tail phrases you are making yourself an authority on the subject. But it is very hard to be an authority when you are only several months old. There has been no time to build trust yet. What I have experienced when dealing with these extremely competitive words is that even though you are doing all of your leg work in site development and SEO you will need to age to become an authority. For me I notice significant jumps about every six months of aging for some clients. You may want to rethink your title as your main keyword seems to be repeated too often and may appear as spam. An alternative might be: Aneurysm Support and Information: Aortic , Thoracic , Stroke, Ruptured Brain Look at your competitors titles(top ten results). Most use the word once, a couple sites use the keyword twice. None use it more than that. Write or have someone write some "good" articles on the subject and publish them on ezine. If they are well written and informative others will use them on their sites. Also, do some charity work on the subject. If you can get some "thank yous" along with your URL published from .edu and other related sites you will be helping to build your authority and recognition. IMHO Google will not recognize you for your main keyword until you have aged a bit more and have gotten some "authoritative" sites to link to you. Good Luck!
Thanks. Plan to write more articles when time allows. Did do a couple decent ones but not sure how many sites posted them. I have been adding pages and have several more I will add in the next couple of weeks. Would be sooner but the real world job is eating a lot of my time. Had a link promised from a nice page rank 4 site. I added one to them, which I did not care to do, but have yet to get a return link. I like your idea for the title and have actually been using that very phrase in some anchor text for links. I could back the number of times I use the keyword down but that would be, in essence, changing the content of pages already indexed. Is that something I want to do? Thanks for the advice.
Are you getting much traffic from them? I am actually appear in the Yahoo SERP's for these two keywords, but overall traffic from is not near what it use to be.
make an update everyday on your site. and i dont see inurl keywords, you can use that also. making also some reviews coming from other websites with a link back on your site, need more more links.
I try to update as much as possible. I do have a forum which is active daily. Will this have the same effect as a blog? I see the google and yahoo bot in there often but never seen a posting indexed.
yahoo.de is the german yahoo. it is just used around 3.5% of all internet search engine users! so, in germany you can forget it as a SE. but for checking backlinks its a good site.
600+ is not sufficient for getting rank in single phase keyword you need to do more efforts in off page factors..best lucky..
I wondered if it would produce any traffic as so many Germans, perhaps most, speak English or at least some English and would likely use Google.
I'm working on adding more. Trying to find good, non-directory sites that I could convince to add a link.
You have a great looking site! Now all you need to do is tweak a few things. 1) You have great content on your site, a huge problem you have is you are not including any internal links from your content. Dude, use that content it's a goldmine waiting to happen! For every page/post (first instance) that includes the keyword "aneurysm" create an internal link to your preferred landing page (Index page, etc..), only do that for the first instance of the keyword, per page. 2) FYI, wikipedia has 955 pages that link to their "Aneurysm" page, it wouldn't hurt for you to have more than 955 pages with internal links, that link to your own "Aneurysm" page. 3) Don't be afraid to try & rank #1 for mispelled words, I'm sure that the keyword "aneurysm" gets mispelled often (example: "anurysm"). That single mispelled keyword only has 734 pages listed in the Google SERPs , that's not much competition. Don't mispell every instance of that keyword on your site, but it wouldn't hurt to create a new single page & bury it (back date) deep in your site. If you try this, include the mispelled keyword in the Page-Title, & Meta-Tag Description, for that page, so that the mispelled keyword will show in the SERPs description. 4) Anytime you create a new page/post, go back to some of your old post that are buried deep in your site, on the old post link a keyword to your new post/page. Do this for every page on your site. What will happen is, those old established internal post/pages will already have good link-juice, that will help boost the new post/pages, faster ranking in the SERPs. ************************* Again, great site you have!
Slimjim thanks and thanks for the great ideas. The misspelled word is an excellent idea and yes, that word is VERY often misspelled. I will get working on the links, I had considered that but did not realize that it had benefits other than convenience to my visitors. Thanks again.
Happy to help! The mispelled keywords can work, just don't over do it, or your readers might think your site is non-professional because of a bunch of mispelled pages of content, you need to draw a line someplace, maybe 2 or 3 pages each with their own mispelled keyword theme. Mispelled keywords are a little easier to rank for in the SERPs, build a couple of the mispelled keyword pages, focus on getting them to the first page of the SERPs. After that happens, use anchor text from the mispelled keyword page, to link one time only to your best correct spelling keyword (Aneurysm) page. On the anchor text inside the mispelled keyword page, make sure that anchor text/link is spelled correct (Aneurysm), that will be linking to the correctly spelled keyword page. ***************************************************** You might want to go back to all your older pages that don't include an image. Add images the same way you did on your Index page, ALT-text, etc... Try to get those images ranking on the first page of Google-Images. What happens a lot, is sites don't tweak their images to rank in the SERPs. If you search a keyword on Google most times the site that is ranking #1 in the Web (text only search) isn't #1 in Google-Image Search, simply because they didn't tweak the keywords in the images ALT-text like you did on your Index page. So get more of your images, in Google-Images... Also, the mispelled keyword pages, use the same mispelled keyword as your image Alt-text for that page only. Get that mispelled keyword ranking high in Google-Images, that will give you a small boost in Google-Web text only search. Try & think of the mispelled keyword pages as a way to get traffic to the rest of your site.
What about linking other terms and keywords in the page to relevant sections of the site? Is there any SEO benefit?
At Last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the bottom of page 15 for the term "Aneurysms" http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=aneurysms&start=140&sa=N&fp=ccfc95fdfe6a3d73 Thanks everyone for all of your help.
and looking further I see the term "Aneurysm" appears at the bottom of page 25, http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=aneurysm&start=240&sa=N&fp=ccfc95fdfe6a3d73 Thanks everyone, I am very grateful for all the help I received here.
Your site's PR is 1 and you are competing against gorillas for those difficult keywords. I suggest you check where their backlinks are coming from and start building links on those. This is not copying their strategy but seeing and maximizing which backlinks are working and which are just pure waste of time. All the best
Well, it seems to me that your site is nicely designed. The reason that it is not ranking anywhere in the SERP maybe the cause of two things: your keywords are competitive, and your links are not quality ones. Are the links you get from relevant authority sites ? And have you tried deep linking and varying your keywords in anchor text?
It is ranking now for both Aneurysm and Aneurysms. Absolutely need better quality links, which I have been working on with some success.