Please, Can You Help Me to Understand Why my Site is Ranking So Badly?

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Greetings,
I'm writing this post in order to ask you, if it's possibile, to help to understand why my mini niche affiliate site is ranking so badly.

I'm trying to rank the main url of my site, where there is the main keyword in the url and in the article.

=> These are the details of the site:
- 5 articles (included homepage), each targeting a different keyword
- outsourced articles are 800 words length
- the site is using rich snippet data (for stars and authorship)
- the outgoing links are all masked with prettyprint lite plugin (except for wiki pedia)
- the keyword density riported from seobook is as follow, including title, meta keywords, meta description (my main kw is the plural)



=> The competition for the main keyword is as follow:
- market samurai:



- apex seo:



=> The actual situation for my site about the backlinks is:
- at the beginning i used some social bookmarks
- sent some press release
- drip fed some social signal from g+, fb, pinterest
- actually i'm using:

+ seo maximus (for drip fed backlinks), with a distribution of anchor text as follow:

main kw: 15%
related kw: 41%
partial/full url: 19%
generic kw: 26%

+ socisynd (for social backlinks e some social signals)

- actually the situation is:
+ Majestic Seo



+ ahrefs



And finally my serp reported by serpfox are (my main kw is the first row, the second row is anther kw i'm targeting with another article of the site):


the questions are?
- why am i doing so badly?
- what should i check, what should i do, i don't understand?

now i'm trying to setup an account on pinterest to get some traffic, but it takes time and i tryed to use video, but my account was banned (i don't understand because i did an informative powerpoint slideshow, showing benefits of the product), so i don't know how to get traffic :-)

thanks a lot for your answers / help

best regards

Guido
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  • Profile picture of the author parmarjeet
    Have you checked out whether all of your contents are 100% unique(This is the first and very important point after penguin update).

    Secondly i would say that backlinks you have used might be of low quality and not helping your website to rank better.

    Always try to get backlinks from PR4 to PR9 sites. This helps a lot.

    Last point is after getting backlinks, have patients. It takes few days or months to give maximum results
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    • Profile picture of the author seomagnet
      You have answered your own question, more or less!!!

      You have a mini niche affiliate site, which means the first thing you have to do is On-page optimisation, have you looked if that is been done correctly on your URL. It is very important.

      and just like what parmarjeet has mentioned, have you got unique content as most affiliate sites pull the same content automatically and Google does not like that.

      To sum, ensure you have someone to examine your website as well as write your own product description...

      Hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Out of all that stuff posted in OP the only thing that could rank the page would be the external backlinks since the site itself most likely has zero authority (new 5 page site).

    So... since external backlinks are your only option, what's the quality of the backlinks you already have?

    If the backlink profile is crap like forum profiles, fiverr gig hype, might as well forget ranking or get serious about building a site & quality backlinks.

    All that social stuff posted is hype.
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    • Profile picture of the author AlexGeorge
      I was using SEO Maximus for a while, but quit after one month, I found a lot of the links to be quite spammy. Could that be a contributing factor?
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  • Profile picture of the author DPM70
    Have you checked out whether all of your contents are 100% unique(This is the first and very important point after penguin update).
    Wrong! Try again!
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    The ranking of a site hugely depends upon the number of relevant backlinks. So just make sure the backlinks you have are from good relevant sites else try to create more and see the difference.
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  • Profile picture of the author DPM70
    You know, I'm honestly thinking the BLEG signal for sites that don't warrant them is a big red flag - just like MS colours it!
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  • Profile picture of the author danlew
    You need to build relevant backlinks that are Panda or Penguin safe. Some sources that I would like you to build some backlinks are Youtube, document sharing sites, Web 2.0's, etc. Not only that, try to get your site in authority status, by linking it to your social media sources like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and top tier social bookmarks.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by danlew View Post

      You need to build relevant backlinks that are Panda or Penguin safe. Some sources that I would like you to build some backlinks are Youtube, document sharing sites, Web 2.0's, etc. Not only that, try to get your site in authority status, by linking it to your social media sources like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and top tier social bookmarks.
      Those are junk links, most are nofollow & fluff.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnsmith789
    Build high quality of links from guest posts, press releases, relevant backlinks. Also, write quality content and post it on blog and article websites. Increase your business through building citations.
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    I have 2 quetions at all which are most common MISTAKES that webmaster forgot...

    1) Is ALL your content UNIQUE? -> Is it optimizated for your MAIN keyword (H1 for your main keyword!)

    2) Did you do QUALITY On-Page Optimization, don't forget ALL things you should pay attention to -> Title (different in every page!), H1 for your main keyword and H2 for your secondary keywords (don't forget that for EVERY page H1 is the same while H2 should be DIFFERENT!!!), Alt tag for your images (SIMILAR TO YOUR SECONDARY KEYWORDS, NOT to your MAIN one!), title for OUTBOUND links only!

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  • Profile picture of the author Make Money Ninja
    Could be a million and 1 things. Although you have provided a bunch of details, its actually impossible to diagnose without the URL. Obviously you may not want to do this in public.

    If you want me to take a 5minutes look, PM me the URL.
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