My keyword: Dog Obedience Training Competition: 746,000 Pages My Website: http://onlinedogtrainingbooks.com I have been trying for the last month to get my site listed under the search term "Dog Obedience Training" and I can't get it listed. NOT even in the TOP 1000! I have allot of good UNIQUE information. I have a site map. I have a good amount on links to my site. Including a link from a PR7. I have "Dog Obedience Training" in my title. I have "Dog Training" in my permalink structure. My site is Indexed! I don't even care if it is listed in the top 100. I just wanted it listed in the top 1000 right now so I know I am doing something right. .
I didn't look through all of them. Are they all articles? If so, you should be okay assuming your site was indexed first. Someone correct me if I'm wrong...
I think anarmy is right about the content issue...you should be okay. BUT, dude - you have a great niche site (although highly competitive, but good nonetheless), but going by your original post, you say you've been trying for a month or so? competing for "Dog Obedience Training" is going to take quite some time to get decent results. One month is certainly no where near enough time to accomplish this. Give it a SOLID 3-5 months before you get concerned. You seem like you're doing most things right, so all it takes is what most people don't have - time. Any fellow SEO's will tell you the same. Keep at it, keep putting up that content, building quality incoming links, submit to quality directories, go out and comment on related blogs, maybe get some viral buzz going from an awesome article on your site....etc, and you'll be ranking fine. I know it's not a quick fix, but honestly, when it comes to ranking, there usually is no quick fix.
Your code is not search engine friendly. You drastically need to rework your HTML code on your page. You have keywords meta tag listed twice. Remove the meta tag keywords on line 27 Remove this comment crap on line 25... <!-- all in one seo pack 1.4.3.9 [-1,-1,] --> In case something goes wrong always save your work first. Then replace the code below with everything between line #3 through #18 with the code below. <html> <head> <title>Dog Obedience Training</title> <meta name="description" content="Your source for everything related to Dog Obedience Training." /> <meta name="keywords" content="dog obedience training" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="Online Dog Training Books." /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://onlinedogtrainingbooks.com/wp-content/themes/ProSense/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://onlinedogtrainingbooks.com/feed/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="http://onlinedogtrainingbooks.com/feed/rss/" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="http://onlinedogtrainingbooks.com/feed/atom/" /> <link rel="pingback" href="http://onlinedogtrainingbooks.com/xmlrpc.php" /> </head> <body> See if that don't work better for you. Remove this </body> on line 235 & 242 If I made a mistake PM me about it LOL. I repeat the code needs working on real bad. Good Luck to You! DJ5A PS: I must leave...
you site is just a month old and you're targeting a competitive keyword. It would take time and hardwork.
Do proper On-page optimization like H1, H2 tagging, alt image text, internal links anchor text optimization etc. Then you would see an increase in your rankings specially google. And yeah as "sacada2" said. It does take a time and a lot of effort
How to you determine how competitive your keyword is? I search Google for Dog Obedience Training and only found 800,000 pages. DJ5A thanks for the advice. I changed it up a little! +1
Results may seem low but if you observe all the top 10 results on 'Dog Obedience Training' you find that all of them have the phrase 'Dog Obedience Training' in their title tags linking to their homepage. That's one way to see how competitive it is.
First thing i think that you need change anchor text on your signature to Dog Obedience Training Hope this help!
If you are submitting articles on your site to directories you are killing yourself. Also no it makes no difference who was indexed first.
Hi, i made some report for your site compare to the top ten search in Google based on your keyword provided Let me know where to send it as it's a 41 pages report and i think you don't want me to attached it here
Hello GreenDog: I see you made the code changes I suggested. The title, keyword, description tags look better. Don't forget to remove the </BODY> tag at the bottom of the page. The way I see it, having this code at the top of your page in this order... <html> <head> <title>your page title here</title> <meta name="description" content="Description of your site here"> <meta name="keywords" content="list of keywords here"> <meta name="robots" content="index, follow"> </head> It's debated if all of the search engines honor robots tags, so I would include a robots.txt file in your root folder too. I did further research on your web site... I went to Google & performed a search of your indexed pages using this search phrase... dog obedience training sitenlinedogtrainingbooks.com It pulled up 16 pages total, 7 of them were Error 404 pages, 3 are no page found. What is happening to those pages? Only 6 pages working out of 16, I would think this is hurting you really bad. This needs to be taken care of ASAP. I would first build a nice custom 404 Error page. That way the customer doesn't get lost or clicks somewhere else. A custom 404 error page could easily save you 5% or more of your traffic, right now at least 10% I would think? I would try to find out what happened to those pages, hopefully you renamed them, if so I would change them back to the old names listed there in Google "OR" add those pages back in there with the exact indexed link page file name... The phrase "dog obedience training" might be a little tough to obtain right away. I don't know much about the subject but I would try for "dog obedience training books". A little broader subject keyword phrase. Just think about this below... On your home page, maybe optimize it for "Dog Training Books" On this page, http://onlinedogtrainingbooks.com/dog-obedience-training/dog-obedience-training/ Optimize it for "dog obedience training" And so forth. If you optimize each page specific for the subject on that page it will give you far broader chances of some of the other pages getting listed under that particular phrase. See what I'm getting at. Once you get that & a few other tweaks going. I would go back & optimize the listed pages, using the specific Title, Description, Keyword tags for each individual page. It will be a little work but the results should be great! Again, I know I'm repeating my self, get that custom 404 error page first, then work on what happened to those pages next, then you can get the rest as time permits! Good Luck & Hang in there! DJ5A PS: Let me know how it works out for you.