so i got a point of sale site running now and I am trying to target the keyword string "point of sale chicago" but I am not getting a high listing on google search result with that. i got a blog running and all that. what am i doing wrong? Please help!
Think about how many others are targeting same string. Chicago is not exactly a small community. At this stage you are probably one small minnow in a big pond (Great Lake).
that market isn't utilizing search engine optimization at least from what i seen. but how can i improve anyway?
It's hard to rank high in Google if you do not do SEO techniques. Only blog is not enough, you can use some paid advertisement programs such as Google Adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing.
well i don't have the money for paid advertisement. obviously i am trying to utilize SEO but I want to know how to improve my techniques, what am I missing or doing wrong.
I think you need to add more unique content, as related to 'point of sale chicago' to your blog. Try also to get more backlinks with that anchor text in the hyper-ref tag. This could lead you to higher rankings for the keyword phrase 'point of sale chicago' as you want.
As I can see, you might get some "keyword stuffing" penalty there. This page repeats over 20x "point of sale" keyphrase. All you need to do is reduce the usage of this keyword to 2-3% keyword density level of overall page. You can use synonym or other similar targeted keywords instead of repeating your main keywords several times. Get more quality backlinks to your site, as I assume that you are targeting Google search here. You need to get backlinks from - relevant pages - website, blog, article directory, comments, etc - only dofollow link helps your ranking - higher page rank pages will help too - Get link using anchored "point of sale chicago" to your preferred page URL - Get from unique domain, unique IP sites. - Low outbound links (don't bother pages with more than 100 links) The more quality backlinks you get, the higher you will rank in search results. Since you don't have the budget, I can suggest you try some free link building process. Good luck to you!
"point of sale chicago" this keywords have "36,000,000" competition its very high competition. if you give your site URL so i will give you good reply for it. second target this keyword on home page or each and every submission put this keyword in title.