Why Am I Failing With SEO???? Example Included!

Sorry for the rant guys but im sick and tired of spending so much time on pages on my sites that never ever rank. I just need to know what I need to look for and know what it takes to beat sites.

I am very eager to learn this. So if anyone can chime in I would be so thankful

Well it's quite obvious that you're wrong there... Come on man, times are getting harder and harder - a few backlinks? Should be enough?

Why the rant? Why not take this opportunity to test different link building ideas? See how many backlinks actually get you to page 1? Position 1?

Test everything, assume nothing.

Continue learning and experimenting - you'll get there eventually.

Good luck!

bay37, I have been testing. I was in another niche and built around 70 backlinks and could not beat what seemed to be a easy site to beat on google.

I assuming im missing some important information here. I make sure the following for SEO:

- I make sure the keyword im targeting is in my title

- I make sure it's in my meta tags

- I make sure that I use the keyword once every 125-165 words in the content

- I make sure to bold the keyword once in my content

- I make sure to make my keyword clickable in the content once

- I build backlinks to the page using anchor text of the keyword phrase im targeting

- I make sure the page url has my keyword phrase in it

Am I missing anything important here?

Yes.

It appears as if you took that list straight out of a low quality SEO guide/course.

You need more backlinks. Off-site SEO (backlink building) means nearly everything. All of the stuff you just described in your post can be done within 15-30 mins. The "other" stuff - link building - takes more time and effort (or money).

Have a look at the Warrior Forum thread in my signature and compare your target keyword with the one described in that thread. That's a good starting point if you really want to rank your website on page one.

I'm no big expert but, that site has

- five instances of the phrase "GMC Topkick Dual Suspension Bike" on the page.
- one of the five instances is in bigger, bolder font (on-page title)
- another is a link to that same page (site menu)
- still another containing the phrase is a link to Amazon to that product
- the phrase in the page's title
- the phrase in their description tag
- the phrase in the URL

Oh, you're doing the same thing? Well I guess there's something that Google likes better on that page than yours. What, I don't know. Maybe you use the phrase four times instead of five. Maybe that link to the Amazon page helps. Maybe a few good quality incoming links help.

ok guys. bay37 im gonna take a look at that link So basically what I should new is start with a new site and come up with a backlink plan right?

I know it's all about testing and experimenting. I guess my best bet would be to "try my best" to target low competition keywords and then start my backlinking plan.

I just dont understand though why some sites that do the same thing as me and have no backlinks can rank higher then me when I do have some backlinks.

there is lack of competence. Its not just building backlinks and analyzing the site but the hardwork you spend efforts and patience must be considered.

Carl why would you not put the keyword in your titles at article directories? I use the exact keyword in my title for my site page.

Carl, I have done this with articlesbase and have had mixed success. They do not always rank well even for terms like the example bike term above. But I understand what you are saying about direct competeition.

The first step in your plan should involve targeting keywords that actually get traffic, unlike the one you mentioned in your initial post.

Hey,

Couple of pointers:

I'm a huge fan of long tail kws and can see that you are gunning for long tail as well.

For the benefits of others: Long tail comprises of about 70% of searches, regardless of the topic/niche you are in. (seomoz [dot] org/blog/illustrating-the-long-tail)

Firstly, if you are gunning long tail, you need to be less obsessed about your SERP. (SERP is not that important.)

Secondly, ranking for long tails require you to know about your niche and common sense. From my experience, most of this long tails can’t be found on any keyword research tools as well.

Thirdly and luckily, you can find these “longtail kws gems” easily:

1. Quick fix: Check what people are searching to land on your site (Basic Cpanel Awstats - Search Keyphrases Full list) should be able to give you this list, if no tracking has been installed on your site

2. Long term: Implement and use google analytics, check the page that you are optimizing for, what are the kws that people used to land on your site?

Fourthly, use common sense and select the kws that you think make sense. (Check your ranking on Google and how much traffic they are sending.) For example, 1 long tail kw, you are ranking on 9th and it send you 10 visitors in a month. You can safely say that by moving up to 1st-3rd spot, you can get 100 visitors easily.

Fifthly, optimize your on-site factors. Internal linking can help you with ranking as well. Go with the flow, choosing kws that Google is already ranking you usually makes it easier.

Last but not least, provide quality content, on your site, especially when doing article marketing. Provide value to the readers. Give webmasters good reasons to link to your site and content. (This is the best long term link building strategy!)

Hope you find the above useful.

To your success,
Moses

Thanks guys. First off that's not my site that I listed. Second that is a buying keyword that shows up in the keyword tools. It only has a few daily searches but it will convert and make money period.

I want to know though if there is a limit of building links too fast or not. Im really confused about that. If I build 20 links on day 1 then none the next 3 days then 20 more the 4th day is that bad?

Thanks for all the insight guys. I know I will figure this out with everyones help

Build backlinks... Do a little bookmarking and create RSS feeds and send them to RSS directories..

SEO is just a trial and error,and if you failed try again until you got the result you desired.

Yup! I think You need some Good quality backlinks... Build few high pr backlinks and add more content on site.. I think It will rank...

first of all have some fresh content on your site and then good backlinks make sure that directory and social bookmarking you are doing is of good pr as above 5

Ok so im going to build backlinks. Does it matter how fast I build them or is that just a myth?

OP, no offense but your Meta-Description Tag Sucks!

I see scott g already mentioned this, & you still havn't fixed the problem (almost 24 hrs later) in your source code as of this comment.

Fix everything in red.

<meta name="description" content="[caption id=attachment_36 align=alignright width=201 caption=GMC Topkick Dual-Suspension Mountain Bike ][/caption] Cycling can mean a lot of things" />

A simple change as mentioned above, along with a few quality backlinks, should move you in a week. Right now, when Google reads your page, this is what it sees first, A Look on the Latest GMC Topkick Dual Suspension Bike: A Review. Good news, if that is your keyword phrase, you dominate the SERPS!