Why Keyword is not ranking
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I have blog website - http://uncutweb.com/
My website ranked for keywords - What Color Shoes To Wear With Gold Dress, Keywords is having Moz Difficulty Score: 35% with A grade moz On page Score.
But why my website is not ranked for What Color Shoes To Wear With Purple Bridesmaid Dress or **What Color Shoes To Wear With Coral Dress???**They have less difficulty score and having A grade.
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Domain Authority is a metric that Moz uses, but is not a metric that any search engines use for ranking.
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Hi Varun,
You're in a weird space here, because you're competing for very long tail keywords that have a lot of answers via forums. If you have a well-written page that is a part of your website and a decent Domain Authority, you should be able to beat them. However, your site looks very young and doesn't have many backlinks or social shares.
Like Wiqas said, part of this is getting links to pages and social attention. However, reviewing your site, I'm worried that Google won't see your pages as very high quality because:
- You have the header of the page, but not any of the text, above the fold. The majority of the top of the page is either blank space or an ad. This looks like low quality content and will be devalued from Panda.
- You're bolding the keyword that you want to get noticed. This can help if it happens naturally, but when you consistently use a long tail keyword in the page title, the header, the URL, and bolded on the page, it will look spammy.
- You're creating a lot of content that is very similar. When I searched on your site, I found "What Color Shoes to Wear With Gold Dress" and "What Color Shoes To Wear With Gold Sequin Dress." Although the articles are not identical, I wouldn't publish content in such an obviously patterned way.
- You're targeting search terms that are not common grammar. A person would be more likely to search for "what color shoes to wear with a gold dress" or "what color shoes to wear with gold dresses." When Google matches keywords, they'll often ignore grammar words, but I guarantee you, the algorithm will notice that you're not using standard English.
You seem to be churning out a lot of content. It's going to be tough to get all that content to rank if you don't give yourself time to make sure that it's well written and useful, plus, you're setting yourself up to get hit by Google's quality control. I'd advise that you slow down a bit, write each article in a unique and compelling way, and spend some time sharing your site. It may seem like a slower process, but it will pay off in the end!
Good luck!
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hey; I can see your website ranking on 10th spot for this Keyword.
See : http://screencast.com/t/lGMjgs0IPPg --> Good.
You need Some strong backlinks+social likes and Hopefully you ill be in Top 5 for the Keyword.
Thanks
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Sorry, Here is correct URL - http://uncutweb.com/
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Hey Man,
I cannot able to open your Website Nor Google is Recognizing above given url ? Can You Please check that its a Right URL.
Also, There are many factors by Which Google Ranks individual pages Like Your Domain authority, No. of Social Likes, No. of backlinks and Page Speed etc.
We will love to see your landing page So that Give you a proper advice.
thanks
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