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your page title is likely too long and considered spam.

PR4 might be a little low for ‘dog training’, which is relatively competitive, so you might want to work on getting more links:

https://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ffreedogtraininginfo.com
https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ffreedogtraininginfo.com

and remove site wide links, as they delute the PR of individual pages.

lastly, change the home page’s title. the static front page plugin looks for the page slug, meaning you can safely change the relevant page’s title.

.info domains have been heavily abused by spammers. The word “free” is also heavily abused by spammers.

And I personally don’t click on stuff that’s “tinyurl”d. Icky…. just get a “real” domain name….

[That IS a personal opinion only – I don’t know that there’s a problem with tinyurl etc. from a search engine POV….]

Thanks everyone…

vkaryl: I just used tinyurl for the ease of this post. I didn’t want it to seem like I was spamming this board by using the true domain.

“lastly, change the home page’s title. the static front page plugin looks for the page slug, meaning you can safely change the relevant page’s title.”

Excellent point Denis. Great idea! As always, thanks.

Ah, okay jpepper. That’s better then…. I’ve just had a lot of not great experiences with tinyurl’d stuff….

And actually, your site provides some really good info. But the .info domain is a bit problematic from an SE perspective. You could look into a .org – .orgs are fairly well thought of. Or you could get on a snap list for either a .com or a .net. Or you could get the .us.com domain if available (though they’re pretty expensive comparatively….)

As to posting the true domain, not to worry, people do it all the time when requesting help.

vkaryl: Actually it is using a .com domain.

Thanks for your feedback and help with other posts on this board.

jpepper is right. It is .com, my eyesight is just going from too many hours spent staring at a computer screen.

BTW. I just shortened the title based on Denis’ feedback.

Not just yours…. I actually had to go back just now and look again, I think it’s the “info” in the title…. and those “real links” up there that slide off into the sidebar…. sorry jpepper!

In that case, you should be okay – the title is a bit long, but not longer than many out there. Not sure why it’s taking so long then (well, for sure SEO is NOT my strong suit!)

There’s some really good places out there to get SEO info: threadwatch.org; webmasterworld.com; threadwatch is some pretty high quality stuff, webmasterworld – well, you have to dig through it…. fine-toothed comb comes to mind – and SELECTIVITY as in don’t believe everything you read there….

As far as I’m aware, google doesn’t rate your site very highly because hardly anyone links to you. try this at google:

link:freedogtraininginfo.com

You only get a couple of links. That’s a major criteria for page ranks at google, last time I checked.

1. The link:yoursite.com function in google does not display an accurate number of links, and hasn’t for about 2 years now. The issue was that the feature was being heavily abused by over-SEOers and Google is pretty seo-unfriendly in general. MSN and Yahoo both have more accurate (but still not comprehensive) link:domain features. A PR of 4 indicates the site has a relatively high number of inbound links or at least the links are from high PR sites.

2. The term “dog training” is way way way too competitive for you to rank highly for right now. The number one site on Google for that string is a site with a PR 6. Get to a PR 6 then come asking for how to get to number one on that term.

3. Also, it’s not just an issue of PR. The biggest factor is whether the inbound links have the term and variations of it in the anchor text. Make sure you get links with “dog trainging” “training dog” “training dogs” “dogs training” “dog training tips” etc. in the anchor text and not just https://freedogtraininginfo.com

4. For what little it’s worth, your h1 headers should all incorporate target keywords. “Welcome” in an h1 is a waste of space.

The link:yoursite.com function in google does not display an accurate number of links, and hasn’t for about 2 years now.

I wasn’t aware of this. Are you saying that this is a bug in google?

> Are you saying that this is a bug in google?
It is a feature. As Joel said before it is deliberate. Google intentionally throws you off. Yahoo results are more accurate. MSN is simple the one with the smallest index of the three.

@joel Wonderful insights. Wondering if you could also provide some SEO insights on my site ??

Hey Angsuman,

Is your site

https://www.taragana.com/site/

or blog.taragana.ocm ?

I’d say that for both sites, it’s not clear what keywords you’re targeting. You’re at number-2 on Google for “simple thoughts” but how much good does that do you?

Even though on-the-page keyword optimization isn’t nearly as important as it used to be, it’s still worthwhile and I think it can make a significant difference in competitive search terms for MSN, and I know for a fact it’s a very big factor in non-competitive keyword search rankings in all the major search engines. The target keywords should be incorporated into page titles and h1 headers, and if possible in h2 headers and anchor text of links on the page as well.

Of course, the anchor text of inbound links is still factor no. 1 in terms of importance. But when people link to your site they will be much more likely to use your target keywords if you put the target keywords in the homepage title and/or h1 header.

After all, having the search term “simple thoughts” in your title and top header have helped catapult you to the top of google for that term. Now you just need to put that magic to work for a more valuable term (just don’t go for one that’s too competitive; search on possible target terms and note what the PR of the top-ranked 2-3 sites is; if it’s higher than 5, I’d probably try something else).