Hi, I've been posting a lot of stuff on blogs to create backlinks and they have worked well for me. however, it is not working for certain anchor words. My site is about Barack Obama and the anchor words i'm trying to use are: Barack Obama Barack Obama Biography Barack Obama Trivia Barack Obama Quotes Barack Obama Videos I keep checking my ranking on www.shoemoney.com and I'm moving up in the rankings for every anchor word except Barack Obama. There is NO information on any of the search engines for my website when i type in "Barack Obama" but if i use the other keywords, I'm listed. Why is that? I've posted to about 30-40 PR3 and higher blogs with that anchor text and yet i get no response.
Your website is still fairly new, May 1, 2007. Barack Obama is a much more popular keyword then the others you have listed above. Yahoo is only showing you with a little over 300 links. The websites that are showing up in the first 10 have between 50,000 and 350,000 links. Others sites have millions of links, these being wiki and washington post. Google is not showing any links currently. link:www.whois-barack-obama.com In your title you have "The Barack Obama Website". "The" is a stop word, so get rid of it. Barack Obama Website | Barack Obama Biography could be a title you can use. Also your site looks to be made with frontpage, I would switch that over to html if you could. Sorry to get off topic a little.
keep going - remember that patience is the key. People tend to think that that will rank overnight or a few weeks or even a few months. This is just not the case. The sites you are going up against have big pagerank. You have nothing! By the looks of your site you also need to add more content with obviously the keywords being Barack Obama and make sure your site is SEO'd.
The fastest way is to look at your competitors' strength. Add more content and high quality backlinks.
thanks for the great advice. a few things: I checked on yahoo and i have over 700 back links there. for some reason they don't show on google - I will make the changes to my site as suggested - I have a list of backlinks for www.barackobama.com and am trying to create links on those site and ones similar to it. hopefully things will improve. thanks for the advice. if there is any more advice you have for me, please keep it coming.
remember the value of your internal links also - the more quality content you add over time the greater the link value of your own pages will be
i think Barack Obama related keywords are very comptetitive for these days. you must continue to build backlinks