So, I have a phrase, well two keywords that by themself are pretty high keywords but together, according to Google Keyword Tool, not very competitive. I just registered it last week... so why isn't it high in Google PR? How can I fix this?
Get backlinks for PR (high PR backlinks if possible). And Google's keyword tool is for advertiser competition, not the amount of sites you'll be competing with. Which BTW isn't a very good way to judge the competitiveness of a keyword.
Google PageRank? after a week? It can take a year before you get any pagerank for that website. If you mean seach engine position then get some good backlinks and write good content. It can take a few months depending on your keyword(s) to get a good position.
Search engine position. Well my keyword is basically my domain name. It is the only domain name with this keyword phrase with a .com. So in terms of domain names, mines rule, no one else has one close to my phrase.
Exact match domains aren't magic. It helps a little, but that's about it. If not the SERPs would be dominated by the non hyphenated and hyphenated versions for ALL the tld's.
I think backlinks would be your best bet. A lot of the top 10 sites on google have quite a bit of them.
You have registered last week, mean Google may or may not index your site, first submit your website to search engines, and have backlinks from good sites.
Assuming you haven't misjudged your competition, it can take up to a month before you start seeing your website on the first page of Google results (not PR). In this period, there are several things you can do, to ensure your website ranks swiftly and well. 1 - internal SEO: optimize title,description, pages for target keywords and post regular content using those keywords, and several close variations of it. you should get part one finished as soon as possible, and set up the website so it features new content every now and then. 2 - external SEO: grab links from other websites to your own, preferably link with target keyword. getting good links is a science and an art! as far as link building goes, it's best to go slowly but surely. getting 5 to 10 links each day for a months is MUCH better than getting 5,000 links in a day then nothing for a week. Also, if you're in a rush to start seeing your website show up when you look for the keyword on google (although it will probably rank on page 10-15 at first, depending on the competition), here's a neat trick: PING! use pingler.com to submit your website, or just submit to a website like digg.com where the search engine bots are always active. If you place just one link as such, it will be enough to let the search engines your website exists, and from there it will be a week or so until it shows up in search results.
Get some decent quality backlinks (notice the word decent), do proper on-site optimisation and you will dominate serps with your exact keyword domain. It might take some time (a couple of weeks to a few months), but with an exact keyword domain, it is much easier to be on top.
bob25 said it all. there is a difference between the two. I was also confused at first. The keyword tell us about the number of searches people made using your keywords, and the Google Search Results show the sites that contain the keywords. See, that is why there is a difference