Google Isn't Ranking Me in Market Samurai
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OK, so this could be paranoia, not sure. Being a newbie, it probably is.
I bought my domain name in early November and have been tweaking the layout, posting content, backlinking, etc ever since.
I'm trying to rank for a specific keyword. When I run this keyword thru Market Samurai Rank Tracker, I show up in Yahoo and Bing at 15 and 18, respectively.
My problem is with Google (isn't everyone's). My keyword hasn't shown up in the top 1000 for my main page for any keyword I enter....nothing. However, my interior pages are ranking (albiet high) for a couple different, non-targeted, keywords. Now while I understand I won't be on the first page of Google this quickly because of slightly high competiion, should I be concerned that my home page isn't ranking after 45 days within the top 1000? What concerns me is I've never seen it once in the top 1000 and many of the other sites outside of the first 10 pages of Google are garbage and nowhere near targeted.
I've set up the All In One Seo plugin, so it's optimized to the full extent. I submitted my sitemaps (.xml, .xml.gz, rss feed) to Google. Could this be the issue, that maybe I didn't do this right? I'm stumped as to what is causing Google to basically ignore my homepage and only ranking for interior pages. Like I said, Yahoo and Bing are ranking my keyword on page 2.
Am I just not being patient with Google? Thanks so much for your help.
Trent
I bought my domain name in early November and have been tweaking the layout, posting content, backlinking, etc ever since.
I'm trying to rank for a specific keyword. When I run this keyword thru Market Samurai Rank Tracker, I show up in Yahoo and Bing at 15 and 18, respectively.
My problem is with Google (isn't everyone's). My keyword hasn't shown up in the top 1000 for my main page for any keyword I enter....nothing. However, my interior pages are ranking (albiet high) for a couple different, non-targeted, keywords. Now while I understand I won't be on the first page of Google this quickly because of slightly high competiion, should I be concerned that my home page isn't ranking after 45 days within the top 1000? What concerns me is I've never seen it once in the top 1000 and many of the other sites outside of the first 10 pages of Google are garbage and nowhere near targeted.
I've set up the All In One Seo plugin, so it's optimized to the full extent. I submitted my sitemaps (.xml, .xml.gz, rss feed) to Google. Could this be the issue, that maybe I didn't do this right? I'm stumped as to what is causing Google to basically ignore my homepage and only ranking for interior pages. Like I said, Yahoo and Bing are ranking my keyword on page 2.
Am I just not being patient with Google? Thanks so much for your help.
Trent
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