I find this weird, i am getting hits for a keyword like red apple, but the main keyword apple but when I check google for the keyword apple, im not even in the top 1000. How is this possible? My site is up for 6 months now and I got some nice backlinks..im lost
This is how sandbox or keywords filters work, some of them are filtered out. Do you have many anchors with this specific keyword ? If so, try to diversify those anchors. Are you in the SERPs for this particular keyword with this kind of query : allinanchor:your_keyword ?
Try using keyword spamming with the word "red" it's just that this word might be missing in the on-site text...