Apparently I am not very good at keywords that will rank. I follow the rules and find low hanging fruit but never can find my sites using these keywords.
My question is WH
Highly searched low QSR keywords is we're it's at. But you can get lucky with low hanging fruit. Good luck
Tommy
I thought I had some of them too. It's kind of weird. I find a keyword that looks like it is searched thousands of times in a month and the QSR is like 33. Then if I plug it into google it says there is 250,000. I don't understand. Do the keyword tools treat the keyword as if it has quotes and then google looks for each word and the combinattion of words. I'm kinda not getting it.
The reason why Google has a higher number is that they are giving you every possible combination of the keywords. But if you put them in quotes you will get a better result.
I think some really comprehensive jaaxy training would be useful
Thanks guys for your help on this
Hey Matt,
You could create new posts with your new keywords and let the low hanging fruit ones alone. Remember that low hanging fruit is not intended to rank as easily as the stronger keywords or it's going to take longer to get better positioning.
So your stronger keyword posts could actually help the low hanging posts because as your site becomes an authority, the whole site tends to improve.
Best Regards,
Jim
That is a very good thought. Just keep trying new things with the new content rather than messing with what I have out there already. I think it is good natural content so that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for that.
There are many factors to getting ranked with Google. It all starts with the content that you write. But there are many other factors. Age of your domain, if your website is less than 4 months old, it'll be more difficult to rank. How often and consistently you post content. Posting 3 times a week is better than 1 time per month. Your post need to be at least 500 words in length. Your post's socially engagement and number of comments are factors. How long people stay on your post is another factor. All of these and more are seen as indicators of your authority in the subject matter. The more authority you have the higher you rank.
Thanks Steve, in other words just keep at it and the more the better. The site is only a couple of months young. I hear so many success stories of ranking on the first page right away anon. I just thought I must be doing something wrong cuz I can't find my stuff. I can find it just not with the keywords that I thought I would be getting found with.
What you say makes so much sense. Thanks for the reinforcement. I do have to blog more often. I am only managing about once a week and some are not quite 500 words.
I would keep adding content with new keywords. In time your site will have more authority and everything will rank better. After about 4 to 6 months you may want to look at re-writing some of your content. I wouldn't change the keywords but try to improve the content based on the same keywords.
Hey Matt,
You can take the page that you make the change and in your webmaster tools, have Google crawl it. If the number of changes are significant, then it could be worth it to resubmit a sitemap. Bear in mind that there are no guarantees that Google will rank it based on those actions. It's really just letting Google know that you have made changes and hopefully they act quicker on it.
Best Regards,
Jim
Never that I can see. GWT shows 1 keyword for one site in avg position 74. My other site shows 2 one at postion 850 and the other at 94 (this one is not even my keyword but I think the word avoiding got ranked in the long tail. Other manual searches I have done show little to no results if I dig really deep/
My dog blog has 12 posts and two pages. My affiliate site has two pages and 4 posts. Not huge by any means.
Does it make a huge difference if I do these things that Tommy talks about in this? https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/rich-snippet-meta-discription . I have not done that for everything. Just some of the posts. Some say it makes a difference others say not. So far I only use the WA keyword tool. Would subscribing to Jaaxy make a huge difference?
Hey Matt, I prefer Jaaxy vs the WA keyword tool. Don't forget you get 30 free searches with Jaaxy as well.
Rich
Yup, I used them up early on. Wondering about its full potential as a paying subscriber. Do you get lots from it's other features?
Meta descriptions are a good thing I'll look at the training. You should be able to find good keywords using the tool here but Jaaxy is cool.
Can't tell you yet for sure as I just did the upgrade and mostly due to the searches.
Rich
It's a great tool, it makes doing research easy and fast I do it everytime I have a thought about something
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Keywords barely rank if at all
Apparently I am not very good at keywords that will rank. I follow the rules and find low hanging fruit but never can find my sites using these keywords.
My question is WH
I would leave you current content alone and just continue to write more. Build it, they will come!
Thanks Kary, I think that's what I'll do. It makes more sense now that I've had some feedback on it and thought about it some more. I'm bound to get a good keyword sooner or later : ) I think rewriting the content will just cost more time in the ranking side of things.
Highly searched low QSR keywords is we're it's at. But you can get lucky with low hanging fruit. Good luck
Tommy
I thought I had some of them too. It's kind of weird. I find a keyword that looks like it is searched thousands of times in a month and the QSR is like 33. Then if I plug it into google it says there is 250,000. I don't understand. Do the keyword tools treat the keyword as if it has quotes and then google looks for each word and the combinattion of words. I'm kinda not getting it.
The reason why Google has a higher number is that they are giving you every possible combination of the keywords. But if you put them in quotes you will get a better result.
I think some really comprehensive jaaxy training would be useful
Thanks guys for your help on this
Hey Matt,
You could create new posts with your new keywords and let the low hanging fruit ones alone. Remember that low hanging fruit is not intended to rank as easily as the stronger keywords or it's going to take longer to get better positioning.
So your stronger keyword posts could actually help the low hanging posts because as your site becomes an authority, the whole site tends to improve.
Best Regards,
Jim
That is a very good thought. Just keep trying new things with the new content rather than messing with what I have out there already. I think it is good natural content so that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for that.
There are many factors to getting ranked with Google. It all starts with the content that you write. But there are many other factors. Age of your domain, if your website is less than 4 months old, it'll be more difficult to rank. How often and consistently you post content. Posting 3 times a week is better than 1 time per month. Your post need to be at least 500 words in length. Your post's socially engagement and number of comments are factors. How long people stay on your post is another factor. All of these and more are seen as indicators of your authority in the subject matter. The more authority you have the higher you rank.
Thanks Steve, in other words just keep at it and the more the better. The site is only a couple of months young. I hear so many success stories of ranking on the first page right away anon. I just thought I must be doing something wrong cuz I can't find my stuff. I can find it just not with the keywords that I thought I would be getting found with.
What you say makes so much sense. Thanks for the reinforcement. I do have to blog more often. I am only managing about once a week and some are not quite 500 words.
I would keep adding content with new keywords. In time your site will have more authority and everything will rank better. After about 4 to 6 months you may want to look at re-writing some of your content. I wouldn't change the keywords but try to improve the content based on the same keywords.
Hey Matt,
You can take the page that you make the change and in your webmaster tools, have Google crawl it. If the number of changes are significant, then it could be worth it to resubmit a sitemap. Bear in mind that there are no guarantees that Google will rank it based on those actions. It's really just letting Google know that you have made changes and hopefully they act quicker on it.
Best Regards,
Jim
Never that I can see. GWT shows 1 keyword for one site in avg position 74. My other site shows 2 one at postion 850 and the other at 94 (this one is not even my keyword but I think the word avoiding got ranked in the long tail. Other manual searches I have done show little to no results if I dig really deep/
My dog blog has 12 posts and two pages. My affiliate site has two pages and 4 posts. Not huge by any means.
Does it make a huge difference if I do these things that Tommy talks about in this? https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/rich-snippet-meta-discription . I have not done that for everything. Just some of the posts. Some say it makes a difference others say not. So far I only use the WA keyword tool. Would subscribing to Jaaxy make a huge difference?
Hey Matt, I prefer Jaaxy vs the WA keyword tool. Don't forget you get 30 free searches with Jaaxy as well.
Rich
Yup, I used them up early on. Wondering about its full potential as a paying subscriber. Do you get lots from it's other features?
Meta descriptions are a good thing I'll look at the training. You should be able to find good keywords using the tool here but Jaaxy is cool.
Can't tell you yet for sure as I just did the upgrade and mostly due to the searches.
Rich
It's a great tool, it makes doing research easy and fast I do it everytime I have a thought about something
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For a couple of weeks now I have been cleaning up a lot of spam in my comment approvals. Is it recommended that we disable comments for a while so the spammers give up on our si
Whilst spam is annoying I think that you should take the positive out of the fact that your site is attracting attention :)
I like your site so far. Our two dogs play together, but they fight over bones sometimes, even when there are plenty around.
Matt, do you have Akismet on your website? It catches all your spam! I've had mine loaded since day one and it has captured one. However; all the rest of the comments have been legitimate.
Yes I do and have all along. It has been good until just recently. Hopefully it stays that way for you. Less maintenance if they don't find you
This is off your question, but do you have a dog training site? I have been looking for one. We acquired a 2nd dog in the house. He's a good dog most of the time, but he does chew up stuff sometimes. There's a few other things I want to learn to train.
It's more of a dog health and happiness site. I do have some discussions on handling as well. You can see if there is anything you can use the-healthy-canine.com
Thx for your interest and don't forget to comment : )
I just clear my spam every two or three days. As long as you have Akismet it will catch them and hold em for you before they go on your sites comments for view by everyone else. Enjoy
Yeah thanks goodness for akismet or i'd have a heck of a mess. Thanks for your comment. Just another one of the duties of a webmaster eh.
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For a couple of weeks now I have been cleaning up a lot of spam in my comment approvals. Is it recommended that we disable comments for a while so the spammers give up on our si
Whilst spam is annoying I think that you should take the positive out of the fact that your site is attracting attention :)
I like your site so far. Our two dogs play together, but they fight over bones sometimes, even when there are plenty around.
Matt, do you have Akismet on your website? It catches all your spam! I've had mine loaded since day one and it has captured one. However; all the rest of the comments have been legitimate.
Yes I do and have all along. It has been good until just recently. Hopefully it stays that way for you. Less maintenance if they don't find you
This is off your question, but do you have a dog training site? I have been looking for one. We acquired a 2nd dog in the house. He's a good dog most of the time, but he does chew up stuff sometimes. There's a few other things I want to learn to train.
It's more of a dog health and happiness site. I do have some discussions on handling as well. You can see if there is anything you can use the-healthy-canine.com
Thx for your interest and don't forget to comment : )
I just clear my spam every two or three days. As long as you have Akismet it will catch them and hold em for you before they go on your sites comments for view by everyone else. Enjoy
Yeah thanks goodness for akismet or i'd have a heck of a mess. Thanks for your comment. Just another one of the duties of a webmaster eh.
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In GWT I have a query showing in Search traffic > search queries > "my dog is avoiding me" its average position is 94. Can anyone tell me why it would be there when I don'
When someone searches Google, Google aims to give the person relevant results, if the exact phrase is found on that page it's probably going to be a relevant result.
But because most visitors do not use quotes around the search phrase Google will display relevant and related results too.
So when someone searches; my dog is avoiding me
They will display your page/post called: /a-multiple-dog-household-avoiding-conflicts
It's not really the answer to the search query but that's probably why it's several pages deep.
Thank you for that explanation. Would you say that it would be an indication that it would be a good keyword to build into my site?
People are definitely searching phrases like:
why is my dog avoiding me
So if you can write about this and provide some value, why not.
Thanks for this. Now all I got to do is find out the reasons for that and offer some solutions : )
It may be a phrase in one of your posts that google indexed. This is happy occurence when you have quality content.
I don't recall ever writing that keyword. I have all the non-existent pages deleted in GWT now as well. Thanks.
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In GWT I have a query showing in Search traffic > search queries > "my dog is avoiding me" its average position is 94. Can anyone tell me why it would be there when I don'
When someone searches Google, Google aims to give the person relevant results, if the exact phrase is found on that page it's probably going to be a relevant result.
But because most visitors do not use quotes around the search phrase Google will display relevant and related results too.
So when someone searches; my dog is avoiding me
They will display your page/post called: /a-multiple-dog-household-avoiding-conflicts
It's not really the answer to the search query but that's probably why it's several pages deep.
Thank you for that explanation. Would you say that it would be an indication that it would be a good keyword to build into my site?
People are definitely searching phrases like:
why is my dog avoiding me
So if you can write about this and provide some value, why not.
Thanks for this. Now all I got to do is find out the reasons for that and offer some solutions : )
It may be a phrase in one of your posts that google indexed. This is happy occurence when you have quality content.
I don't recall ever writing that keyword. I have all the non-existent pages deleted in GWT now as well. Thanks.
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How can you control the image that you want when you share a post to facebook? I have tried featured image, clearing the cache but it always want to show the logo/banner even if
Check this link out, it might help you:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/featured-image-and-facebook/facebook-links-and-image
Thanks for this. Yes I had tried setting the featured image on the blogs. I thought for sure that was the problem but no go.
Thanks
If I like then it gets the right picture. Once I like then I can share to my fan page and it gets the picture. Maybe my social plugin is screwy. I am using "Tweet Like Plusone" anybody suggest something better?
There should be little arrows on the pic/banner. Click the right arrow until you find the pic you want to post.
I saw that but it just had 1 of 1 and it was grayed out. So it was like it is not finding pic in the post
Oooh. I've had this problem before. I think all I had to do was log out of WP and open FB in a new window.
I kinda did that. I cleared my cache files shut down everything and rebooted. The when I tried again my forehead hit the top of my desk a couple of times LOL.
Oh no!! LOL I'm sorry that's not the answer then!
I use Zillashare and Pinterest "Pin It" Button Lite for my social plugins. For some reason I couldn't get the Pinterest buttons to show up with just Zillashare. Using both works great though! I'm not a guru at this so I don't know if it's your plugin or not.
The odd one will grab a desirable image but for the life of me I don't know why it won't on others. Tis a head scratcher.
Thanks, I'll be sure to let you know if I figure it out. Featured image is supposed to work. I found this info. You are familiar with code. Maybe you can decipher what we should do:
http://www.pragmaticworld.com/articles/view/Facebook-shares-wrong-image-Heres-a-fix
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How can you control the image that you want when you share a post to facebook? I have tried featured image, clearing the cache but it always want to show the logo/banner even if
Check this link out, it might help you:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/featured-image-and-facebook/facebook-links-and-image
Thanks for this. Yes I had tried setting the featured image on the blogs. I thought for sure that was the problem but no go.
Thanks
If I like then it gets the right picture. Once I like then I can share to my fan page and it gets the picture. Maybe my social plugin is screwy. I am using "Tweet Like Plusone" anybody suggest something better?
There should be little arrows on the pic/banner. Click the right arrow until you find the pic you want to post.
I saw that but it just had 1 of 1 and it was grayed out. So it was like it is not finding pic in the post
Oooh. I've had this problem before. I think all I had to do was log out of WP and open FB in a new window.
I kinda did that. I cleared my cache files shut down everything and rebooted. The when I tried again my forehead hit the top of my desk a couple of times LOL.
Oh no!! LOL I'm sorry that's not the answer then!
I use Zillashare and Pinterest "Pin It" Button Lite for my social plugins. For some reason I couldn't get the Pinterest buttons to show up with just Zillashare. Using both works great though! I'm not a guru at this so I don't know if it's your plugin or not.
The odd one will grab a desirable image but for the life of me I don't know why it won't on others. Tis a head scratcher.
Thanks, I'll be sure to let you know if I figure it out. Featured image is supposed to work. I found this info. You are familiar with code. Maybe you can decipher what we should do:
http://www.pragmaticworld.com/articles/view/Facebook-shares-wrong-image-Heres-a-fix
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Currently on my blog at the end of each post I have a couple of ads for product that are related to the discussion in the post. In the right side panel I have a few banners for
I'm finding that I get more click throughs in adding text links and not so many banners. Kyle did a great write up about it here: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/landing-page-optimization/text-linking-strategies
Once I took the banners and Adsense off some of my pages and incorporated his suggestions it definitely helped a lot.
Hope that helps a little. :)
~ Audrey
Thanks Audrey, I'll have look at the link you sent. What sort of things do you say in your text or are you making parts of your blog clickable/links to the ads in the conversation?
Some of my links will send the reader off to another page on my site or maybe off to the product.
For example this page is one of my top pages on my site: http://www.livinlyfe.com/god-sees-every-tear-we-cry/
If you look right above the YouTube video you'll see a link "coping with death and grief" if you click on that it takes you to a page of the Best selling books on coping with Death and Grief where I share a little bit about each book. From there the reader can choose a book and they are sent off to Amazon, where I have been making quite a few sales on the books.
This is building up my links within my site as well as leading the reader to what they need.
~ Audrey
That is fantastic Audrey, Thanks for sharing that. That is kind of what I was getting at when I said "and link to a catalog per se and hype on the product there". But working the link into the conversation is an awesome idea. I think I'll rework my site in that way. I got a ton of ideas already.
Thanks again and you have a great weekend.
Matt
You're welcome, glad it could give you some ideas. When you're finished if you want to shoot over the pages you re-worked I'd be more than happy to take a look at them.
You have an awesome weekend yourself! :)
~ Audrey
Just thought of one more thing. Do you include your pages with the ads in your sitemaps.xml/robots.txt and let them get indexed just like any other page?
Hey Matt,
Yes I do. I just let Google index the whole page. However, I will say that lately I have been allowing Google to index my pages before I put the affiliate links on there. Not sure where I read this but remember someone saying or writing about allowing Google to index the page first then add your affiliate links.
~ Audrey
Some time ago, somebody asked if it is better to keep a blog site separate from a web shop. I can't fathom what Google wants and the direction to follow with some of the conflicting reports.
I think Google should provide a guideline, in print, on this issue so we can stop dancing in circles.
I have that too in my blog, I guess Google or Wordpress place it them for free, as an exchange perhaps?
I have the same problem but I don't really know how to answer your question. Can't wait to see what other people say to this.
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Add Placement - what is working for you?
Currently on my blog at the end of each post I have a couple of ads for product that are related to the discussion in the post. In the right side panel I have a few banners for
I'm finding that I get more click throughs in adding text links and not so many banners. Kyle did a great write up about it here: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/landing-page-optimization/text-linking-strategies
Once I took the banners and Adsense off some of my pages and incorporated his suggestions it definitely helped a lot.
Hope that helps a little. :)
~ Audrey
Thanks Audrey, I'll have look at the link you sent. What sort of things do you say in your text or are you making parts of your blog clickable/links to the ads in the conversation?
Some of my links will send the reader off to another page on my site or maybe off to the product.
For example this page is one of my top pages on my site: http://www.livinlyfe.com/god-sees-every-tear-we-cry/
If you look right above the YouTube video you'll see a link "coping with death and grief" if you click on that it takes you to a page of the Best selling books on coping with Death and Grief where I share a little bit about each book. From there the reader can choose a book and they are sent off to Amazon, where I have been making quite a few sales on the books.
This is building up my links within my site as well as leading the reader to what they need.
~ Audrey
That is fantastic Audrey, Thanks for sharing that. That is kind of what I was getting at when I said "and link to a catalog per se and hype on the product there". But working the link into the conversation is an awesome idea. I think I'll rework my site in that way. I got a ton of ideas already.
Thanks again and you have a great weekend.
Matt
You're welcome, glad it could give you some ideas. When you're finished if you want to shoot over the pages you re-worked I'd be more than happy to take a look at them.
You have an awesome weekend yourself! :)
~ Audrey
Just thought of one more thing. Do you include your pages with the ads in your sitemaps.xml/robots.txt and let them get indexed just like any other page?
Hey Matt,
Yes I do. I just let Google index the whole page. However, I will say that lately I have been allowing Google to index my pages before I put the affiliate links on there. Not sure where I read this but remember someone saying or writing about allowing Google to index the page first then add your affiliate links.
~ Audrey
Some time ago, somebody asked if it is better to keep a blog site separate from a web shop. I can't fathom what Google wants and the direction to follow with some of the conflicting reports.
I think Google should provide a guideline, in print, on this issue so we can stop dancing in circles.
I have that too in my blog, I guess Google or Wordpress place it them for free, as an exchange perhaps?
I have the same problem but I don't really know how to answer your question. Can't wait to see what other people say to this.
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I would leave you current content alone and just continue to write more. Build it, they will come!
Thanks Kary, I think that's what I'll do. It makes more sense now that I've had some feedback on it and thought about it some more. I'm bound to get a good keyword sooner or later : ) I think rewriting the content will just cost more time in the ranking side of things.