I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong to not be listed in the ranking pages of my main keyword after 10 months in google. My website has very good/fresh content that Google crawls often. My site has a PR5 and my link popularity is decent compared to my competition for the keyphrase "Free poker forum" or "Poker forum"..my domain name is very keyword oriented..Everything seams to be on track..I get hits with smaller keywords on google and lots of images hits..I also rank top 10 for those keywords in MSN/Yahoo..I cannot figure out why I am not ranking within top 3 pages for this kind of keyword as my pagerank, link popularity..etc..is the same if not better than the people in the top 10..any help is greatly appriciated! Also, google has about 126 of my pages indexed Thanks in advance everyone!
TYhere are a lor of simular sites like yours out there!! Keep that in mind. It will be hard to get to the top.
thanks for the comment dakuipje! Any words of advice on how to make up some ground on them? Thanks again!
Suggestions: -More inbound links with your keywords in the title. -Google takes a lot longer than Yahoo/MSN, so it's hard to compare. Just out of curiosity, why is your main page's title "Free Poker Forum and Bonus Code - Forums". Why not just make it "Free Poker Forum and Bonus Codes"?
thanks for the advice getyour..i included in the forums in attempt to help with the search phrase "poker forums, free poker forums"..etc
You need more time and more trusted backlinks. Google will not be so convinced by a keyworded domain with two hyphens.
thanks thehoff..sadly, about 6 months after I had the site up and running i learned that G! is not a fan of the "multiple hyphens"..I will work on getting more quality backlinks and hopefully it will climb with time