Surely I'm Doing Something Wrong?

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Hi all,

After nearly 9 months of solid SEO, i'm starting to think that i'm wasting my time.

As far as I can see, i've setup everything correctly ON-SITE and i'm also spending a lot of time working on my OFF-SITE link popularity.

Could you please take a look at my process and tell me if i'm doing anything fundamentally wrong?

Thanks
Martin

ON-SITE

* Focusing on Title Tags AND H1's (at least 1 keyword in here)
* Ensuring the meta description and keywords are populated
* Ensuring the Alt Tag & Image name contain at least 1 keyword
* Using strong and emphasis tag where appropriate (on keywords)
* Inter-linking pages with anchor text as keyword
* Making use of H2 tags where appropriate (with keywords)

Off-SITE

* Using Angela & Paul's backlinking service (PR 6-9) on 120 sites (240 Kws)
* Using Joe's blog commenting service with 5000 links pm
* Have a web 2.0 profile on pretty much all of the big sites.
* Requesting links from related websites
#search engine optimization #dong #surely #wrong
  • You don't mention anything about your initial keyword research?

    Your keyword research is the most important part of the game in my eyes.. if you pick an ultra competitive keyword and are competing against sites that are aged and have lots of links then it will take too much time and effort to rank for the terms in the search engines.

    You should be looking at search terms that have under 100k competition in phrase match and competition that is not huge in terms of the sites in the top 20 of the serps. You should always have a main phrase and some 2nd tier phrases (long tail) if possible.

    if you Pm me your main keywords I don't mind having a quick look for you.
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  • I think he meant 100k competing pages.
  • I Agree with Traffic Mystic. If you're going to for they keyword "debt" or something like that, you're going to have a hard time ranking. To answer your original question, it looks like you're doing pretty much everything right. You must be in an ultra competitive niche. Hope this helps.
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      Thanks Spatch Merlin, this is great stuff. I am curious though, are you suggesting that some of my on-site activities are not entirely 'white hat'?

      Martin
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    • List building is one type of online business but it isn't the only one. Some people just don't feel comfortable spamming the crap out of a list with the latest CPA or JV offers (which is what most list builders do and I have a junk email box filled to the brim that proves this) while others don't have a problem with it.
  • if the competitiveness is too big, I think it is very hard to see the effect
  • what is back linking?
  • Martin, I've looked at the keywords and send back some stats on them and screen shots... They arnt keywords i would target (competition to high and high rank auth domains with 10's of thousands of link backs). I've also send a list of possible keywords that you would want to look at and they will get you rankings and traffic using the strategies your currently using.
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    • Hi Steve,

      Thanks for taking the time to look at my keywords. It's kind gesture and I'll really appreciate it.

      Like I said in my email, I am curious about the results your s/w was throwing out. In particular, the number of "Searches" column is widely different to the numbers from the Google Keyword Tool.

      FYI - i'm using the EXACT number of LOCAL searches for each KW I sent you.

      Also, what does SEO Traffic (SEOT) and Phase to Broad (PBR) mean?

      Thanks again
      Martin
  • Have you looked for any type of errors with your site?
    Several times in just the past couple of weeks when someone posted something like this it was found there was a faulty robots.txt file or robots meta blocking Google access.
    Boy did they feel foolish

    You have insured that all is ok on the home-front first?
  • Along the lines of something site-specific that could cause an issue... if this is a Wordpress site (sorry if I missed that information), is the privacy set to allow the search engines in?

    Beldin
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