My PR 4 website won't rank for keywords that have very weak competition

[Jamal4193]

I bought a real  1Yr old PR4 domain and used it to make a blog that would rank easily for new trending keywords (Ex: product launch keywords). I used Yoast SEO and made sure I did all the on-page recommendations it gave me and had linklicious ping the post and a couple high PR backlinks that I gave the page, but it won't even rank page 10 let alone index. My domain is indexed and the home page links to my post. I know a average amount of SEO but I hate doing it because stuff like this frustrates me. Can someone help me? Do I need to get certain backlinks? Is there a way to get my site and post to index faster?

BTW the keywords i'm trying to rank for have websites that are brand spanking new some of them are blogspot websites. Most of them don't have a single backlink to them.

[William.Lau]

Google recently devalue and valued EMDs, depending on the content.

What you would need to do is focus more on connecting with your users. Always creating fresh and unique content can gather links and a following. This will always in return give you links and consistent traffic.

At this point I can point a few things you can fix immediately.

-Complete the website
-Remove 'admin' as author, give you site a name and face
-Decide what niche and what crowd you are trying to attract
-Learn and observe how other sites similar to your niche are successful

Hope this gives you an idea of what to do. You can always read up on the SEOmoz blog, a lot of contributors provide great and insightful information.

[Jamal4193]

I thought they were weak because the site that were ranking had 0 everything. I didn't know EMDs were that strong. The reason that I bought this domain is because I could do a lot other things with it, and the fact that it was old and had PR would give the site some authority when trying to rank for KWs like the ones I mentioned. Thanks for shedding light on this but now I'm even more confused with what Google wants. What are the things I should be focus on doing? Building good backlinks? If so what type of backlinks should I focus on building? Some bullet points or links to resources would great. btw thanks for answering.

[William.Lau]

My reply was a little after you posted this information.

So some general things, your domain is fresh and PR doesn't mean anything at this point. You have 0 links according to OSE and your keywords are highly competitive 'hedge fund trader x' has A LOT of exact match domains and subdomains. This might be the reason why you are not ranking.

If you originally thought they were weak competition due to PR 0, etc, than you were mislead. The competitive is strong with those EMD. Your site has only 1 post and is not using a TLD, so this all can be the reason those sites are outranking you.

[William.Lau]

One of the thing that pops out to me is:

"I bought a real  1Yr old PR4 domain and used it to make a blog"

So was this just a domain and never had a blog before hand?

People have to realize PR is no longer a huge factor anymore. Its a measurement that can rarely be measured by anyone outside of Google.

How many actual quality links do you have to the site? There are millions of blogs and if you are in a competitive niche, it will be extremely hard to rank on the first few pages.

For more advice you should post domain and keywords you are referring to.

[Jamal4193]

• ed-success.info
• hedge fund trader X, hedge fund trader X review
• Files and content are probably no more than a week old, but its probably true for the sites are already ranking for these KW.

[eyepaq]

The PR of the site in this case is pointless.

There are a few questions that will help with the assessment:

• what is the domain url ?

• one or more samples of the keywords you want to rank with

• the age of the site (not the domain . the site: files, content you've posted)

Based on this feedback can be posted way easier...

Cheers.