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Why Won't My Post Rank?

by inxie
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Hi Warriors, seeking a little help if that's okay

So I'm trying to rank for the keywords:
"negotiation strategies"

Research shows the following:
Broad = 22,200 Global Searches
Exact = 4,400 Global Searches

Google search in quotes shows:
About 407,000 results

I realize it's probably all slightly higher than it should be. I went a head anyway and wrote an article for it optimizing as best I could - It's here on my blog.

I posted my link on social media and bookmarking websites along with several forums in the money saving niche. The post indexed in Google after 2 days and I was getting some traffic initially from my links. I submitted the article to ezine articles and goarticles too.

My problem is, it's been almost 3 weeks and when I enter the search term "negotiation strategies" I can't find my post even after 10 pages!!

I'm prepared to do everything I can to learn from my mistakes but at the moment I'm not entirely sure where I'm going wrong or where I need to concentrate my efforts next...

- Is it lack of backlinks?
- Is my optimization poor?
- Or are the keyword just too competative?

Any advice is welcome
#post #rank
  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    Try linking to the places where you put a copy of your post. Also, beef up your social mentions by using appropriate hashtags. Participate in retweet exchanges. Link to your url using goo.gl and use that for twitter.

    I'd also tighten up the subheadings and get the reader more engaged
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  • Profile picture of the author inxie
    Is that enough to bump me to page 1 though?
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  • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
    Simple: you need to build more quality links to that page:


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    • Profile picture of the author inxie
      So that's all I need to do is work on building backlinks?

      Can backlinks alone really drive my post from page 27 to page 1 of google?
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  • Profile picture of the author strategic seo services
    You need to continuosly build high quality backlinks to the post.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Just a quick glance at this thread & I see a fail already, searching Global data for a local SERP position is the wrong way to research traffic volume. By local I mean country TLD/SERP.

    Also your US/SERP competition is stanford.edu (Stanford Graduate School of Business). Not sure what country/SERP your targeting? Good luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author inxie
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Just a quick glance at this thread & I see a fail already, searching Global data for a local SERP position is the wrong way to research traffic volume. By local I mean country TLD/SERP.

      Also your US/SERP competition is stanford.edu (Stanford Graduate School of Business). Not sure what country/SERP your targeting? Good luck.
      Sorry could you elaborate on that? Little confusing for my newbie brain
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by inxie View Post

        Sorry could you elaborate on that? Little confusing for my newbie brain
        Global search data is the wrong traffic numbers to be looking at. Google has individual search results for most countries (global), your not going rank in most countries which makes global data useless.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_domains

        The amount of traffic is usually very different between global & local, local is usually a lot less traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author abdul786
    Retweets and Social bookmarking is the key here.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by abdul786 View Post

      Retweets and Social bookmarking is the key here.

      Your not going to beat out stanford.edu with tweets/social anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisMoon
    build quality backlinks and create social chatter
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