Did EVERYTHING ... yet no results?? Wanting to give up...

Mate I am confused you said you want PR in 3 weeks of work? You know google updates PR quarterly. And the next PR updation is quite possible in coming month.

Coming to ranking you confuse me again.. you want ranking for 3 weeks of work? SEO needs patience. Even your built backlinks might not have got crawled. Keep patience dude if you don't have enough patience then SEO is not for you. Go for PPC. My advise don't broke keep building links.. hardwork pays..

Results simply will not come overnight regardless of doing all of that and more. It is going to take time. 3 weeks? Are you kidding me? And for a fairly competitive term like that? And you're contemplating on giving up? I'm sorry, but if that is your mindset then you should do just that because you're defeated before you even got started.

Instead of being frustrated you might want to continue building backlinks. How bad do you want to succeed? This business takes work despite all the hype and crap that is sold on IM. 3 weeks is absolutely nothing.

This niche is very competitive, it is not easy as you say it is. Do a yahoo backlinks search on all the competition on page on then average them all together to show you the backlink count you will need to even have a chance. go to Yahoo, then type in linkurl). this will show you how many links a site has to it through the site explorer. You will not do this with only 3 weeks of work. trust me. my first niche ever was weight loss because i thought it was easy...it's not. haha. keep working though there's lots of money to be made in that niche! I can help you also if you're new to this. follow my blog i'll show you how to be successful.

Sorry homie - but you aint even warmed up yet ...

Here's the first competitor you'll need to knock off

How to Gain Weight and Build Muscle Naturally

the other is anAbout.com site [ usually a beeeeyotch to beat em but doable

How to Gain Weight - I Want to Find Out How to Gain Weight

gainweight.info is a pr 5 w/ 2k backlinks showing just in yahoo site explorer ... you have 15 backlinks.

enuff with the on page seo mental masterrrrr ...errrr ... never mind ... Dude you need massive amounts more backlinks to compete if you want to play the organic search game on those keywords.

I mean really - look at the page thats ranking #3 ... at the content LOL

thats high quality? its a decent MFA site brother - its all about the backlinks. When youre ready to commit to tossing 2500-5000 backlinks at that page and/or some other crafty seo - then youreready to play - you have done FAR from everything sir.... sorry to be the one to inform of this.

Backlinks Forum

Spend some time there

According to Yahoo you only have 19 backlinks.

You need about 2,000 - 5,000 if you want to be first page for that particular keyword.

Get Scrapebox.

3 weeks is too short to get result. You have to work harder than that. Submit post in Forum like this with your signature could increase your number of back link.
Keep on working and wish you more luck.

3 weeks isn't too short for ranking, you should be in top 100 if at least if you are just starting on SEO. There is a honeymoon period in Google in which you have to capitalize when you start building links. All your links are low quantity. You need high page rank links, I'd recommend you outsource your SEO effort if you only got 20 indexed links in Yahoo in 3 weeks.

When I first started, I spent about $500 to $1k a month building upwards of 5k links a month, you aren't doing enough. I'd be happy to talk to you step by step if you have the time, please PM me.

I think you're right. You have put so much work into your campaign and it's still at PR 0. I'd quit too if I were you. I mean three whole weeks of work? Man. I feel for you bud. I don't know what I would do if I ever put that much work into a site and still have it be at PR 0 after three weeks.

Add to your to do list: Get thousands of links

Hey there Alfred

Ok so you are not ranked in the top 500 ( yet ). Your site is indexed. Currently as of the 29th of August 2010 you have 22 backlinks to your site. The number one competitor in Google for your keyword is How To Gain Weight and Build Muscle Fast. This site has 1997 backlinks coming in. You are not going to compete against about.com by virtue of the fact that most people associate this site as an authority that will not try sell them things, so it isn't a direct competitor if you catch my drift. YOu just need to package your site different to them.

As far as I can tell your keyword has 82,000,000 results of whick the in quotes competition is around 114,000 and the allintitle competition is 413,000.

So the only real problem here is your are the new guy! 3 weeks and you want to topple two established sites, one of them about.com. NO CHANCE! If you want fast and instant results then do a PPC campaign. IF you want SEO results start targeting a lot more keywords around that primary keyword and settle yourself in for 4 - 6 months of work.

Your site is decent enough. Just be patient my friend and of course consistent. Keep building links and you will get there.

Backlink variety would not hurt and 3 weekes is far too short a time to assess impact of backlinking efforts. Go blog commenting, articles, videos etc and expect results in about a year judging by comp in your niche

And if I may...your 3 week SEO campaign is not "complete SEO". SEO is a process. It is not a grocery list for the week.

When you need some content, I would be glad to help. I have experience in weight gain, eat after midnight, potato chips, pop, pizza, joe louis, ice cream and couch surfing. It's a slow process, but helps with with Weight gain!

My God man... You gave it a whopping 3 weeks? Give it 6 months to a year... then decide if you want to give up. If getting a web site to the top of the SERPs required 3 wks of part-time effort, everyone on these and every other SEO/Make Money Online blog, forum, chat room would ALL be Billionaires!

Welcome to the wonderful world of online marketing. It's just like the real world. Nothing comes cheap or free.

In internet marketing, you have to be patient because it is not like an instant noodles. I am sure one day you will reap what you have sown.

Thank you all for the response, even the harsh ones.

But let me clear some things up first. I think some of you guys might have misunderstood me. I don't know too much about SEO, as I just started and this is my first time, but I didn't at all expect to be in the top page after 3 weeks.

My question was, why I'm not even on the top 500. Random websites that have nothing to do with weight gain are even on the top 500, and not mines. That was the main question.

And I got my answer, it seems as if google updates it quarterly. So thank you for answering that. Oh and thank you for the H1 heading suggestion, I just changed it all to H2 and kept only the keyword in h1.

The warriorforum is truly amazing. Thank you all for the help.

OMG, if you think you can do 3 weeks work and be killin it in a niche like that youv got to be kidding yourself, you website had PR as soon as its indexed in Google, only a fraction thats closer to 0 than 1, Google toolbar is only a rough outdated guide at best. Forget about PR and if you want to give up after 3 weeks, i dont think IM is for you.

It is kind of funny that everyone here is saying "Only 3 weeks?", or "3 weeks isn't nearly enough time", or even "You need 2,000 more backlinks", but if you look at the WSO's, promises of success after a short time or a short list of tasks seems to be the main selling theme.

This person is probably new to IM, and believed the sales pitch that the big guys were throwing to him.

Now not everyone promises the moon for a 3 page site and a few articles, but how many sales pitches have you read promising success in just a short time and believed them when you were first starting out.

This person just got caught believing what he was sold.

Stick with it, and keep doing more of what you have done. Give it some time and learn about other things you can do to increase rank and traffic. Just don't give up, learn from your trials, and you will get everything you want.

SEO doesn't work as you think, it requires a look of patience and page rank has never grown overnight. The reasons why you are not ranking high is because your site is still new. Do some little marketing and relax your nerve, its going to take some time.

You know all these people have been commenting about alot of things and only a few have actually given decent CONSTRUCTIVE criticism and help. What you should look to do - offsite SEO is what Im mainly experienced in- is creating a variety of backlinks: social bookmarking, article submissions, profile backlinks, forum posts in relevant forums with your site used in the signature, linkwheels, directories, high page rank blog commenting backlinks are fantastic!!! You should also social bookmark the urls where you blog comment and you see results faster. You do these things especially the blog commenting on high pagerank pages and you will see results. Try a large number of profile backlinks - 1000 or so and you will see your site jump up in the search results.

As for on site SEO there were some good suggestions. And dont worry about you web address - you dont need to have your keywords within it. Just make sure you use your keywords as the anchor text for the term you want to rank high for.

One thing I would say is your trying to sell a product/ebook whatever it needs to be more promient than it is now. Some people just offer a sales page with very little value/content to the user. You have went the other way, which is great for the user but not so good for you. Your ebook/affiliates or whatever it is (if anything) needs to be more promient.

And backlinks are everything if your in a competitive niche. I understand you can rank highly for low competitive words but to really get up there, you need high PR backlinks. And lots of them.

Good luck mate

oh and pagerank - dont worry about it - it may take you 3-4months before you get a rank but it doesnt matter. My competiton was a PR5 i overtook them with a brand new domain within 3months. Mine is a PR4.

I have two suggestions. Keep consistently backlinking this site. Do it every day if you can.

And while you're waiting for results on this site, go ahead and start a second site. Then start backlinking it too.

Maybe choose something related, but with a little less competition so you can see results faster. A less competitive site will also prove to you that your methods are working and will just take longer for the first site.