Hi There I have one ecommerce website, say .example.co.uk (targeting for UK visitors) and it has PR 6 at the moment. I really wondered why I am not getting any good search ranking for my site. My site has a good number of quality back links and my competitor site has lesser back links, but still why they are getting good search ranking and why not me, they also have a PR 6. Is it related to something difference for SEO for international website? Should I need to do anything specific to target UK customers? OR my product page has more no. of back links than my home page. Will it make any difference? Even Though I have PR 6 and good quality backlines why my site is not having a rank in google.co.uk search? But my competitor’s site PR 6 and lesser back links than my site, but they rank on 1st page of Google search. Any SEO Experts can give a valuable info??? Thanks In advance Cheers Ben
Google has a very complex method of ranking on SERPS. Even a PR 0 site ranks high on google. It is finally how relevant is your site for search results!! You should look closely at on page SEO in your website, website content and keywords are very important. Comparing top 10 results with your site on all SEO parameters will help you.
It is probably not due to any one thing you're doing wrong. It's probably lots of things. In SEO there is almost never any one thing you can do to get a page to rank well (other than getting inbound links from relevant sites with link text containing the keyword phrases and/or slight variations that you want the page to rank for). Instead it's usually doing LOTS of little things which when done together cause a page to rank well. You can be a PR10 and still suck for rankings. Look at bing.com. They just were updated to PR9. What do you think they rank for? Basically, "bing" or "bing.com"... that's about it. Even if you search Google for "search engines" they are ranking around position 20 as of yesterday. PR is worthless... it has almost zero effect on how your pages rank for particular URLs. It just means you have inbound links... NOT that the links are good. The pages that link to your URLs should be relevant and the hyperlinked text (anchor text or link text) should contain the keyword phrases that you want to rank for. Having other sites link to you with your site name or "click here" as the hyperlinked text will do nothing for your rankings. Of course, without knowing your URL so that we can take a look at your site and make actionable suggestions, everyone here is going to simply be throwing out wild guesses.
Site Keyword position in SERP is not only depends on PR. It is just one of the factors. PR just comes with backlinks. To get keyword position, the backlinks have to link your site with keyword. Do on-page optimization, off-page optimization. Surely you will be on top. All the best...
"Target your keywords" If you are nowhere on google then your keywords are not targeted (you are obviously past the sandbox problem)