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Hello

Straight to it; I have created several different 'Website Design' landing pages, I have optimised each page for a specific location, such as 'Wells', ' Bath', 'Bristol etc.

These are new pages, with good on-page SEO, including target keywords in content, H1, H2, etc. I have submitted all of them to Google, they have been indexed.

If I use the 'site:' command, it shows. Although when I type in the exact phrase, or title name it comes up on like the 5th page, but a user would never type that in.

Any ideas? My root domain has a PR of 3.

Also, other landing pages which I created around a week ago have a position of #4 for my target keywords, these pages do not have backlinks or anything.

Any ideas? Help would be much appreciated.

#search engine optimization
  • Always a bit of guess work without full information but...

    PR3 doesn't really mean anything anymore. That hasn't been updated in a long time.

    What links do you have to today in Moz, Majestic, etc? Where are they coming from and what's the anchor text supporting your site?

    You might be more lucky that any page (with traffic) is ranking with only on page SEO. I wouldn't be surprised if the week old page drops off until you build some links.
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    • What links could I build though for a landing page??
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  • If you site/pages are relatively new, I recommend building up links naturally to each of the pages so finding sites within your niche, asking for guest posts, links and posting on local forums is always a great start. If you are new to SEO, these are some of the best methods to get started with and they are free.

    Also, link to the pages from your home page. This will flow the link juice from your main page, to your sub pages.

    If some of your pages are ranking high up with little backlinks, the keyword you are targeting may have a low competition within Google. Meaning, not many people are trying to rank for that keyword so the competition to get to the top is low.

    Once you want to push the boat out a bit, you can start buying links, investing in PBNs (private blog networks), social shares, web2.0s etc. All of which I explain/provide via my site.

    Hope this helps.

    Tom, ThatSEOGuy
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    • Seems as if you need to buy a lot of software though to make the tiered link building strategy work.
  • Unfortunately, the majority of SEO is not free. Unless you want to sit at your desk for hours creating all the content and links yourself. Much like building work, where you need to invest in bricks before building a house.
  • Did you start building up that PR 3 from scratch or did you just purchase an expired PR 3 domain. If it's an expired domain, that would explain the problem. If it's not, throw some links at those pages and see where they will rank.

    You can't just rely on link juice from your root domain particularly when your site doesn't have a lot of authority (PR 3 doesn't mean much these days).
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    Need some help

    Hello Straight to it; I have created several different 'Website Design' landing pages, I have optimised each page for a specific location, such as 'Wells', ' Bath', 'Bristol etc.