Can't rank for 3 years =(

Two things come to mind.

1. Lack of authority links.

2. Incorrect keyword targeting.

Being in the 5th page of the search result emo would really give only few visitors. Study your competitors, look for their links by using the yahoo search and build links to those pages. Also look at the domain age of their sites. The older the age of the site the harder to beat it.

well its kind of a social site, chat forum, etc.
have a look:
emoforum (dot) org

i use adsense on it. i get lime 2 euro per day usually.

my autoblog sites are:
dracony (dot) org
and
tweetstore (dot) org

if you have any more advice) please share)
Thanks to everyone)

When I look at the numbers/backlinks, to be honest i'm not too shocked. Rankings in Google aren't determined by who has the prettier or "nicer" site.

You are at #33 for me. I didn't check the page 2 and page 3 listings, but all of the page 1 listings either are (1) >1000 backlinks to the given page (some quite large numbers), (2) have at least a few hundred backlinks but are pages on authority domains with massive numbers of backlinks to the domain as a whole (e.g., Wikipedia), or (3) the exact keyword is the domain name (i.e., emo.com).

Yahoo is giving me 771 links to the root domain for your forum (and 2140 for the domain). I also ran your site through SEO Spyglass (pulling data from Yahoo, Google, Altavista, Exalead and AlltheWeb), and it is showing only 430 currently active do-follow backlinks, and ony 81 current backlinks with the anchor text "Emo."

Based on that, it seems to me that your site does not compare favorably to the top 10 listings for "emo" and doesn't deserve to be on page 1 of Google for "emo" (based upon Google's ranking algo) until you ramp up the backlinking quite a bit. You are up against some fairly competitive sites when it comes to backlinks and your site needs to beef up its numbers (particularly with the anchor text "Emo") quite a bit if it wants to compete.

Tom

Anyone else see the humor in this thread? getting all down for not being able to rank for the keyword "EMO" haha

This thread tells you everything you need about how to rank your site. It can be another three years and your site will still rank in the same positions if you do not use that time to educate yourself on effective SEO...

and more importantly apply the knowledge and get down to work!

Build backlinks on trusted pages with targeted anchor text - and lots of em.

You might want to give some more thought to converting your existing traffic. After all in a forum people talk about problems and you can even ask them what problems they have then offer them solutions. You should be able to build a mailing list off of 500 a day too. Then you could hire a professional SEO consultant to give your site an in depth audit. That way you could develop a specific plan in your niche.

The keyword emo probably has much less value than many of the 2 and 3 word related terms that would more closely describe some problem people are seeking a solution for.

SEO can be boiled down to targeting the right keywords, having pages that the SE's will recognize those KWs for, and having enough links that are indexed.

The biggest problem with lower level links is many of them never get indexed. They can be induced to get indexed, but that is another story.

The whole question of how you have to have high quality relevant links to rank well remains just that, a question. I see some sites rank well by simply having a heck of a lot of links, though I think some high quality type links is important.

If there is a percentage on the works you would like to do, how many will you spend for each?

90% content 10% links? 50% content 50% links? or anything else?