I have a blog in a fairly competitive niche, nintendo wii gaming, the second on in my sig. I believe I have done just about everything I can. I have a fair amount of backlinks, optimized meta tags, keywords etc... But what I can't figure out is why similar sites with about the same amount, or a far less number of backlinks show up on the first page of google search results and mine doesn't even show up on the first ten pages. As an example I used "nintendo wii blog" as my search term. I know there is probably more to SEO than just what I have mentioned, but from what I have read those are the basics and it would seem to me that I should be up there higher in the rankings. Can anyone shed some light on this and what I could do to improve my SERPS? Thanks!
Well, when it comes to backlinks it's quality over quantity... not to mention that relevancy plays a major role as well. I took a "quick" look at your site and below are a few things you need to work on.... 1. Blog URL structure You should change the URL structure of all your blog URLs, use the category base killer mod and remove all the date crap from there using the perma link structure /%category%/%postname% turning your urls to the following From: http://www.wiiener.com/2008/06/11/wii-games-coming-out-in-july/ To: http://www.wiiener.com/other-wii-related/wii-games-coming-out-in-july/ Make sure to 301 redirect the old URLs to the new ones 2. Your Heading Tag\Content Structure You aren't using heading tags (h1, h2, h3) to structure your content on each web page properly, do some research into content structuring regarding heading tags. 3. Trying Changing the Sitewide Link Try changing your site wide links anchor of "Home" to the main keyword phrase your trying to rank for, internal links require the same anchor text effort as external links. Hopefully this will help improve your position, I'm sure there is more but I've wasted to much time already Best of luck
your site/domain is just a few months old, how old is the competition? that's likely what your are seeing. unfortunately it's very, very difficult for new sites to maintain high google rankings (assuming they can even get a good rank). give it nine months or so, then see where you are at. in the meantime learn SEO and keep adding content and building links.