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Why can't rank "benedict loves walking alone" on Google page 1?

by Benedict0471
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Hi, read much on long tail keywords and surely "benedict loves walking alone" is a long tail keyword with not much competition right?

Hence started an experiment and wrote an article on this keyword in:
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Unfortunately, though the page is indexed by Google, it never shows up in Googe search results.

Did I do something wrong?
#long tail
  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    Most certainly, otherwise you'd be #1 for that silly phrase.

    Look at the bright side, though, your thread on Warrior Forum is #1 for it.

    Analyze warrirofrum.com's thread, compare to what you did, and you'll know the answer...

    Originally Posted by Benedict0471 View Post

    Hi, read much on long tail keywords and surely "benedict loves walking alone" is a long tail keyword with not much competition right?

    Hence started an experiment and wrote an article on this keyword in:
    description
    permalink
    header
    content

    Unfortunately, though the page is indexed by Google, it never shows up in Googe search results.

    Did I do something wrong?
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  • Profile picture of the author osome317
    ranking needs content (renew), social, clean backlinks and much time.
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      Did you even read the original post?

      Originally Posted by osome317 View Post

      ranking needs content (renew), social, clean backlinks and much time.
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    • Profile picture of the author Benedict0471
      Hi all, thanks for the feedback!

      Yes, though the original post was not on Google page 1, this thread in Warrior forum is ranked #1 on Google yesterday (even though the keyword was only mentioned twice in the thread).

      This is how the results make sense to a newbie like me: Though the on site SEO for the original blog may be good, it is just one post and is clearly very much inferior for off site seo when compared to Warrior forum. Thus Warrior forum only needs to casually mention the keyword phrase twice for it to rank #1.

      Nevertheless, there is one interesting observation. If you refer to screenshot below, I have created another post which is now on Google #1. But it was not optimize for the original keyword "benedict loves walking alone". It was actually optimize for "Benedict loves fkdjose 2142". In summary, though it was optimize for keyword B, it got ranked #1 for keyword A just because it contains the full keyword A in the title of the blog!

      Is anyone able to offer an explanation? The two posts are actually identical posts in the same domain. For the second post, I simply replace the first keyword with the second keyword. Any comments would be greatly appreciated as nothing makes logical sense so far.

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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
      Banned
      Originally Posted by osome317 View Post

      ranking needs content (renew), social, clean backlinks and much time.
      Warrior Forum fail #5,287
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  • Profile picture of the author footfoot
    #1 now it seems you did it
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    • Profile picture of the author Benedict0471
      Originally Posted by footfoot View Post

      #1 now it seems you did it
      Yes, I did it. Unfortunately as explained in post # 5, the #1 spot was occupied by the post which was not optimized for the keyword.

      And if you realise, Warrior forum now takes the second spot even though it has much much better offsite seo like backlink, page rank etc. Since both posts only casually mention the keyword twice or so, logically would expect Warrior forum to rank higher right?

      Anyone can offer any explanation that makes some sense on the ranking result that we are seeing here?
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      • Profile picture of the author Benedict0471
        Since there is no further comment, will close the matter here with the conclusion so far in this little experiment:

        Basically long tail keywords work. Otherwise, a domain with only 2 posts will not have been able to rank #1 in Google.

        Thanks all!
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
    Banned
    Other than the 7 people reading this forum thread, nobody else is searching the OP keyword.
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