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Getting Indexed for a SPECIFIC Keyword?

by jsherloc
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Hey all,

I know I may just be impatient here, but I just thought I'd throw a question that has been bothering me for awhile, as I am curious to see what others here suggest.

I have been targeting several keywords/search phrases for my website that I am developing. I have done the necessary onsite seo for these keywords, and have started the usual offsite tactics as well.

Everything has been going well until recently when I realized there is ONE specific two-word phrase that I cannot for the life of me even get my site INDEXED for. My onsite seo is optimized for this phrase, and I have submitted several bookmarks/anchor text/etc for this phrase, but apparently google is ignoring my requests.

The reason I find it weird is because all of my other key search terms (some that my overall site seo is LESS optimized for) have been indexed and placed in different rankings by google over the past week or so, but this one phrase is not even a blip on the google radar yet.

Anyways, any quick solutions to atleast get SOME google love for this specific search phrase? I've never really had this problem before...I KNOW i can rank well for the phrase with good offsite seo campainging, but I'll be darned if I can't even get indexed in google for this phrase!

Thanks in advance warriors!
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaron Moser
    Google values social bookmark links pretty low. So get some higher value backlinks with this 2 word phrase in the anchor text and see what happens. If it's a 2 word phrase there may be a lot of competition. How many search results show up in Google when you search for this keyword in quotes?

    If it's a new site and you're trying to rank for a competitive keyword then it's going to take more time and backlinks before you start showing up for it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Nathan Hangen
      Set up wordpress.com, blogger, squidoo, hubpages, and weebly...maybe even knol and link them to your blog with that keyword.
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  • Profile picture of the author jsherloc
    Thanks for the advice guys. Yeah I realize that social bookmarks are valued kind of low, but using them and some other high pr backlinks sprinkled in has usually solved my problems up until now.

    In quotes the keyword has "131,000" for competition...which is a SOLID amount I agree.

    BUT, when I do allintitle:"keyword", I am only looking at 1,650 sites competition wise. Most of these competitor sites are NOT heavily optimized, which works in my favor.

    The good thing is, when I input allintitle:"keyword", my site shows up at position 6 on page 1.

    Thanks again for the advice guys.

    Any other suggestions?
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  • Profile picture of the author intelinside
    I guess you buy some patience

    However, you can do a quick lookup in your Google webmaster's tool about what Google Bot sees in external links to your site. This way you can check whether G has crawled those links containing this keyword or not.
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