Well, I just started my site like 3 weeks ago, and so far it's doing alright. I'm getting decent (like 5 long tail keywords I'm ranked in top 3 on the big SE's) search traffic. But the keywords I tried to optimize my pages for isn't ranked at all. I think I may have messed up with the keywords on my page. the website is bape hoodies The main term I'm trying to target is "bape hoodies". I've spent some money on blog articles, exchanged links, etc. I'm not in the top 50 on any of the big search engines. Term: bape Count: 70 Percent: 7.26% Term: hoodies Count: 4 Percent: 0.41% A different tool(scans meta tags, etc.): Keyphrase: "bape hoodies" Count: 43 Percent: 1.27% Keyword: bape Count: 360 Percent: 6.01% Keyword: hoodies Count: 44 Percent: 0.73% Maybe I under did it? Could somone try and give me a detailed way to correct the problem if there is one? I thought about changing the main navigation menu on the left to not include Bape in the links? But maybe that would just make it worse if I linked internally to just "hoodies" etc.? Thanks for taking a look guys, help would be greatly appreciated!
If you only have had the site up for 3 weeks I wouldn't worry about not showing up yet! Focus on getting some quality links and you've move up quickly. It always takes me three of four months to move up for keywords, especially if they are shorter keywords like 'bape hoodies'. It's all about the links, I wouldn't try to hard with keyword density it can get you in trouble if you get it too high.
3 weeks is actually no time for ranking a website in major search engines, you will need to dedicate more time in SEO now or hire a SEO to do it for you. As pointed in the above post you will need to build back links to your site with the specific "Key Phrases" from your external links. On a side note - You should be happy that your site is already listed in Search Engines.
thanks for the reply's guys. Yeah I am pretty impressed with how fast my sites got indexed, and I'm even getting small amounts of traffic from all the big search engines, even AOL & alltheweb. I did a lot of work with sitemaps, updating content, etc so it looks like it paid off. I'll take your advice and focus more on building links, instead of onpage SEO. Hopefully I'll make my goal of $50 a day soon
Here's a valuable tip: Go to Google and analyse the keyword densities of the top 10 sites, do an average of the valus and go for that.
^^ hehe I already did that before I posted I was kinda worried tho cause #1 hoodies 32 4.46% bape 30 4.18% #2 bape 29 13% hoodie 24 10.76% as you can see they are quite different :| But I think I'll leave it alone for now, if in a month I haven't seen improvement I'll make some adjustments. Thanks so much for all the help you guys. Every reply was quite useful!