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  • surabhi6
    surabhi6 last edited by Jul 25, 2014, 4:22 AM

    My keywords are not in top in 50.So, what kind of activity we do to get in top in 50 rank?

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    • Christy-Correll
      Christy-Correll Staff last edited by Aug 22, 2014, 8:22 PM Aug 22, 2014, 8:22 PM

      Hi Surabhi, it sounds like you are looking at one the Moz Analytics reports. If so, which one are you looking at specifically? (A screenshot would be extra helpful, but knowing what tool/report you are using will help me best answer your question.) I'm also not sure what you mean by the following question: "But I want know that my some keywords are targeted with other urls but got ranked in top 50  with different urls, how it is?" When you say "got ranked in top 50 with different URLs", are you referring to your own URLs (for pages that aren't optimized for the keywords that are ranking, or competitors URLs?

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      • surabhi6
        surabhi6 last edited by Aug 16, 2014, 4:19 AM Aug 14, 2014, 3:14 AM

        thanks for answered

        but i want know that my some keywords are targeted with other urls but got ranked in top 50  with different urls, how it is? and what kind of activities done get in keywords ranking in top 50?

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        • Er_Maqui
          Er_Maqui last edited by Jul 25, 2014, 1:09 PM Jul 25, 2014, 1:09 PM

          At first time, revise your content, page title, page description and others to verify they match your desired keyworkds.

          Think, today the meta keywords it's useless. You need to have your keyword present on your content, that's the more important thing.

          Also, if some of your keywords are present on page title, description, or in-page titles (h1, h2, h3...) that's better too. If the keyword are at the url, best too.

          If your ranking it's too low, revise your page for some things: First, your page are W3C ok (You can use the W3C page check), and then, use some free tool to evaluate keywords from page. Also, think, if your page are lack of content that's bad (You need a minimal quantity of content for get a better ranking).

          Also, do not forget to avoid the use of javascript / documents (Word, pdf), and flash, because they all are external, on some cases, google can get it, but at another cases not. It's better if your content (With your keywords) are present on the target page.

          I cannot recommend you a percentage of presence of a keyword, i think that's a very questionable thing. I personally use about 1-2% of keyword presence on the pages to get some rankings, and a good content between this keywords (I try to use them on the content, without force their appears).

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          • Squee
            Squee last edited by Jul 25, 2014, 1:07 PM Jul 25, 2014, 1:07 PM

            Start here:

            http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

            http://moz.com/blog/how-to-rank

            These will give you tons of help in how to start ranking keywords.

            Once you understand and implement this research/ideas/concepts.

            THEN, keep track of what is working and do more of that.

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