Title: SEO problem
Last modified: October 15, 2022

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# SEO problem

 *  Resolved [acruickshank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acruickshank/)
 * (@acruickshank)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-problem-20/)
 * I have been publishing blogs on my website for sixteen years. In the earlier 
   days. Every post I published was on the first page of a Google search. Now I 
   am lucky to find it at all unless I also add the site title along with the post
   title. All of my posts are on Microsoft Edge or Bing on the first page of a search.
   
   With Yoast as a rule I optimize until I have all green. Very frustrating as my
   content is so much better than it once was.
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/)
 * (@maybellyne)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-problem-20/#post-16105316)
 * 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/](https://yoast.com/reasons-optimized-content-doesnt-rank/)
 *  Thread Starter [acruickshank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acruickshank/)
 * (@acruickshank)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-problem-20/#post-16105680)
 * 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
 *  Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/)
 * (@maybellyne)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-problem-20/#post-16106004)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [acruickshank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acruickshank/)
 * (@acruickshank)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-problem-20/#post-16106154)
 * 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
 *  [Jeroen Rotty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeroenrotty/)
 * (@jeroenrotty)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-problem-20/#post-16117758)
 * Hey [@acruickshank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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.
 *  Thread Starter [acruickshank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acruickshank/)
 * (@acruickshank)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-problem-20/#post-16117937)
 * Thanks Jeroen
    I reckon I will just plod on as usual for my own personal satisfaction.

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