Hi, my website is ranked for a 2 word phrase at #3 in google, but it's not ranked at all for the 2 words separately. I was wondering if anybody knows why? and how I can fix that in my SEO to get ranked for the single words. I don't even care if it's ranked #1000, i just want it to be ranked to begin with so I can climb up the ranking. Example: say i'm ranked #3 in google for "baseball gloves", howcome I'm not ranked at all for the keyword "baseball" nor "gloves"? how does google know i'm targeting the phrase and not the single keyword? and how can change my SEO to have the single keyword ranked? any input would be appreciated, thanks -gt
Hey interloode, It's not that simple. "baseball gloves", "baseball" and "gloves" are different keywords, and that's perfectly natural that you cannot rank high for the most general ones. The longer the keyword, the more likely you are to rank high on it simply because it is not so competitive. If we could just embrace all the targeted keywords by a huge phrase, the whole seo thing would become obsolete.
Simple, you are better rated for the phrase than as separate in Google. Look at the phrase and the competitors content, that will answer your question. Getting ranked for one word, two word phrases are a bit time consuming process and need more dedication in SEO. Work hard, I wish you can see your site for the split phrases what you had tried too !
thanks for the response. I just thought if i'm ranked pretty high for a 2 word phrase, I should at least be ranked for the 2 words separately, at least give me a #5000 ranking for all i care, but it's simply not ranked at all, seems weird to me. but it'll probably be tough for me to rank the single words all the way to the top page anyways, it was bothering me for a quick minute, im over it. thanks
Kinda works like this...Say you write a blog post about "ipod cellphone glue" well, that key phrase is probably pretty unique (haven't checked, just guessing) and should not have much competition so you will get indexed for that and end up on page 1. However, and I'm sure it's obvious, that none of those keywords on just any blog post is going to index well or at all for them individually. Also about indexing, if google has 4 billion results for ipod, its going to take its sweet time indexing the page at all if ever unless some serious seo work is done. Hopefully this puts your expectations back in perspective.