Why am I not in Top 50?

[yowossup]

I have an on-page ranking report of 'A' for my search term 'titleist pro v1' on the following page:

http://www.acegolfballs.com/category/Titleist_Pro_V1___V1x/Pro_V1,i.html

How is it then that I am not even found in the top 50 results?

Many thanks in advance!

[EGOL]

I have an on-page ranking report of 'A'

Great job!

Now you are ready to begin the battle of resources.

[DougRoberts]

Hi Simon. Your on-page optimisation is just one of many factors. Just sorting out the on-page optimisation isn't going to be enough.

I notice from doing a keyword difficulty report that your chosen keyword seems to be highly competitive. The ranking sites have many more inbound links than you.

I also note that your page and site overall has very few inbound links and as such a low authority.

If you're going to want to compete for this keyword you're going to have to build some good quality inbound links. A good place to start may be by analysing your competition to see where they are getting their links from. Looking them up in Open Site Explorer is a great way to do this.

Hope this helps.

[KrisRoadruck]

Much as people hate to hear it, On Page plays a very minor roll in what ranks and what doesnt.

Your page itself isnt a particularly strong page (only 1 inbound link pointing to it) but more importantly your domain itself is just not there.

Take a look at these 2 links:

The first is a comparison between your page and the page ranking in the lowest spot on page 1 for the phrase:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acegolfballs.com%2Fcategory%2FTitleist_Pro_V1___V1x%2FPro_V1%2Ci.html&comparisons%5B0%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.knetgolf.com%2Fproducts%2F491-titleist-pro-v1-392-2009-2010-used-and-refinished-golf-balls.aspx

This second one is a broad look at those in the top 10 for that phrase:

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty/results.html?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=titleist+pro+v1&engine_id=96&commit=Run+Report

Pay special attention the PA/DA scores, The root linking domains to both the page and the domain itself.

Right now it looks like your entire site has about 25 unique root linking domains. Thats something you'll want to work on. Try and get the best links you can of course but any links are going to make a big difference for you right now. Spread em around. A bunch to the home page, a couple to this specific page. This is going to be a major factor on when and how high you rank. Good luck!

[Revolution_Inc]

Hi Simon,

Whilst having an 'A' on page grade is great, it isn't too difficult to achieve and by no means guarantees rankings on it's own.
Look into improving your PA/DA, work hard on improving the quality of links to your page and domain, with good anchor text as a start.

Also don't forget about the Google products (which are featuring on the first page). Interact on review sites and get your company listed. There is a blog post below which should help.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-rank-well-in-google-products-search-a-big-list-of-places-to-get-reviews

SEO is a sum of many parts, pay attention to them all, not just one.

Good Luck.

Danny