ok, so the short and simple answer is to 'trust the system' because it is all based on relevance.

But from experience, I know that is not a satisfying answer! lol. I struggled with this same thing before and I will see if I can answer the question for you.

Here goes...

Google is a search engine. they provide answers to peoples questions.

When someone asks google a question, google reaches deep into its index to provide the BEST possible answer. Reason for this is if Google serves up a good answer, the user will continue to use google. themore they use google, the more ads they are shown, the more ads they are shown, the more likely they are to use google over and over again instead of the user bailing for yahoo or bing.

so it is in googles BEST interest to provide you with the best answer possible to your questions.

Ok, now that we have that established....

When you use the QSR for a search phrase, for example "best wax candles" you get a search volume of 144 and QSR of 31.

now when you search "best wax candles" without quotes, Google gives you millions of results, pages and pages of results, and pages that have Domain Rankings of 83, 77, 95, 50, 38, 85, etc....

looks scary...

But it is not... why? Because of RELEVANCE.

the QSR gives you the number of times that particular phrase exists within Googles index. That is powerful information.

So google 'best wax candles' without quotes and look at the first result... The first result does not even have 'BEST' in the title OR the metadescription, in fact, that is true for most of the results on the page.

(as a ninja-trick... once the search results come up press 'control+F' and type in your keyword, you will see how often it shows up on the page in bright colors to make it easier, lol.)

Anyways...

you see that the pages that google is trying to serve to the searcher is not TRULY answering the question.

To an affiliate marketing blogger.. that is called OPPORTUNITY.

The first result ranks #1 and only has 900 or so words. Imagine putting together a great, beefy post (2,000 plus words or more) listing the best wax candles, going into great detail, and most importantly... ANSWERING THE SEARCHERS INTENT.

Your site will eventually rank number 1 because you are the best option out there.

Now the trick is that this process does take time. Weeks for established sites, months for brand new sites.

So if i started a website right now and wrote a post called 'best wax candles' becaues i am a new site, it will not rank immediately... but over time, google will see where my post BELONGS and with a 2000+ word post, with great detail, answering the searchers intent, I have a blog post that deserves to be Number 1.

The other sites in the listing are ranking merely because Google has nothing better to put there and those are high ranking sites. so Google hopes that the searcher will find what they are looking for by giving them an authority site to check out.

Google is literally grasping for straws.

Grab the opportunity and Give google a straw.

So in a nutshell, those high domain and high authority sites are there and they are rankings, but they are not very relevant.

That is why it is so important to have a very tight and well defined niche to target.

If someone is looking for the best wax candles and stumble on yuor site that does nothing but talk about wax candles, you solve the searches intent... making google look good.

you, in turn, can answer their question, direct them to your wax candle review pages loaded with affiliate links, they read, they click, they buy, YOU MAKE MONEY.

PHEW..... i hope that made sense. This is officially the long answer. lol.

You're absolutely correct. The QSR tells you the quoted search results... How many websites are targeting the exact keyword. However as you point out... They could be 100 small or newly formed websites, they may also be 100 huge industrial scale sites who dominate the niche. So it's a very different playing field. In one of my niches (health and wellbeing) I find the same... There are 1 or 10 huge sites constantly in top spots.. Just keep playing with adding a word or two and checking the first page of Google. I tend to see them dominate for short keywords... Paid ads... So once you target mid to long tail... Tends to get better. Good spot and question.. You really do need to check the competition...

Bootcamp Lesson I am now learning is teaching to post to all Social Networks that is Twitter, Facebook, Google plus and Pinterest posts we create, to what extent whether limited or unlimited in number, I cannot tell.

I feel you can have as many as you want just post different items there to capture the readers interest

You know:
You never know how far you can really go until you go to far...

They are a bit more strict than they are at facebook. But there is nothing wrong with posting more posts a day as long as you do not attach links in each of them

I agree with Ted. I think Kyle explained in the teaching on setting up a Google+ account. Not more than one per day. Google doesn't like crowding.

Candice

That is a good question - hadn't thought about that one!
Thanks for asking =)

I am fairly new, however, I did read that it seemed best to keep the Google + post to one a day. Google doesn't seem to like more than that.

What exactly is an external link?

I think the answer is a resounding NO!

The only place you can leave external links - wbsite url's, social media addresses etc - is on your profile page, in the designated location.
Don't risk slapped wrists or worse!

Terry

I think you will have to do this in site comments.
Thank you.

I think I found my answer. According this WA post here Stop Leaving Signatures With Your Website Link in WA it is not allowed.

Hi Guy,

I'm sorry but don't know this answer. I'm sure you will get some good answers to your question.

Cathy

I'm confused and intrigued by your question.

I use Jaaxy to figure out what keywords I should write posts around. In other words, I'm writing information to address what my potential audience is searching for. I assume that's what most of us are doing with the SEO portion of our training. But I've learned not to assume. ;-)

Unless my eyes deceive me your second image has the words small affiliate within your domain name. Since there are no spaces it looks like one word "smallaffiliate"

So, my question is...why would your audience have a need to type "smallaffiliate" into any search engine? My guess is, they wouldn't, so there are no results for those keywords.

My suggestion is to try a search without the dot com at the end and if it still comes up with nothing then there is no ranking for anything like it

Great question. Not sure?

All in One SEO when I built my Website that got Google ranking disappeared as a menu in my website dashboard and also I do not know what part it played by the disappearance too of my Home menu from my website , This however does not affect its normal functionality.

interesting question. looking forward to reading member's responses

You raise an interesting question, even I wondered some times. However I’m only 4 months In with only establishing myself. You might have done more than I when you were new. The question about SEO can be chilling.

Here's the screenshots for both of my sites. One is showing keywords, and the other one none.

This really trouble me, because the site with not keywords actually have more content than the one where keywords are showing.

Should I worry?

Plus I have a post published in December on a low competition keyword suppose to be easy to rank and I can find it no where in Google.

It's the first time something like that happen to me.

I mean I have seen posts have done in the past ranked, and even domain names.

So I wonder if I had done something wrong here

Leaving out any codes in a code-block would cause a redirect anyway. Because the address has changed from the initial link address. Any variation would cause a redirect unless the code is linked.. I think?

Have you tried this method? Don't Use Fetch As Google - Use AddURL

Hi Guy,
This has happened to me before. I left out a character in the URL when I first fetched. Once I noticed it I corrected it and refetched it went green.
Jerome

Hum...I have not noticed this.

"Redirected" usually means typing http instead of https in the URL field, so it had to redirect the fetch to the https version. ~Jude

I'm no expert but when that showed up on me it meant that there was a problem.(most often i did something wrong).

I have but I am not sure what it meant so I tried it again the next day and it was fine.

I haven't used it yet so I looking forward to the answer you get from others.

I think it's because I didn't put the / at the end...

Here's the screenshot