Hello Acruickshank,
Thanks for reaching out regarding your site’s ranking. If your perfectly optimized post isn’t ranking, there may be many reasons. This post discusses 10 possible reasons why your page is not ranking, even though it’s optimized –
https://yoast.com/reasons-optimized-content-doesnt-rank/
Thank you very much for your suggestions, Maybelline.
It will take some time for an old timer like myself to go through all this.
I really do not think it’s the quality of the posts. For instance if you take my current pos titled (Hydrangea Paniculata Magical Mont Blanc) it only appears on a Google search if I add Aberdeen gardening to the search, it then comes up on page one. I feel this is where the clue is lying.
Regards
Alistair
Hi Alistair,
You can take a look at point 9 in the post I shared. You mentioned that post comes up on page 1 when you add ‘Aberdeen gardening’ to the search term. So it’s likely the competition is high, and you are optimizing highly-competitive keyphrases. You should try a long-tail keyword strategy.
It will take me some time to get to grips with your suggestion of point 9. My site is all about garden plants, in fact an encyclopedia with plant names as the title of each post, so I guess it is indeed a keyword problem which Microsoft seems to cope with. I read they are not so fussy, rather insulting to myself I guess.
Hope to get back to you soon when I find out about Long Tail.
Delighted with your assistance.
Alistair
Hey @acruickshank,
Thank you for your reply.
I can understand that optimizing your content specifically for each plant would be a very daunting task now more than ever than in the past. I can imagine more and more shops and other players in your field will write or have it as a product on their site as well. Good luck.
Thanks Jeroen
I reckon I will just plod on as usual for my own personal satisfaction.
