Help ranking for a keyword
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Ok well I'm serious about may business and everything I do the problem is that I just can't seem this ranking for a keyword thing I do rank on the 1st plage for every keyword but in this business it's all about the top 3 my page is a pr 2,I can't rank for this keyword it's low competitive the site has a pr 0 and has one back link to it on open site explorer. They rank first. i want to say my site is the best out there I have a seo company working on it and I have spent around 5k on it since we launched it in 2010. I just can't rank for "chesterfield lawn care" or chesterfield lawn service. My webite is www.greensidelawncare.com I have watch the. Videoson here but it just does not answer my question I need to know how to do the right seo. I have a ridiculous amount of content on the site everything I do it to help the customer.
It just need to know what to do I have started to blog but what do I need to do to really help my seo? I mean is it blogging should i blog about stuff and use keywords should I blog and not use keywords maybe 50/50? Do I go out and blog about pages on my site or pages that are ranking of google? I heard that links are not as important as they used to be I do try to update my Facebook and twitter pages but its hard to anyone to RT or comment or like my stuff its lawn care it's not that interesting I try to make it as interesting as i can.
keywords that I rank for are
st Charles lawn care, st Charles lawn service,St. Peters lawn care, st. Peters lawn service, o'Fallon lawn care. Creve coeur lawn care. If you have any suggestions on how to make my site better please let me know.
Www.greensidelawncare.com thank you to all that can help me
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I can see that you have a page partially optimized for Chesterfield Lawn Care http://www.greensidelawncare.com/west-countychesterfield-lawn-care/ with Chesterfield lawn care in the H1/H2 headers and body copy but for some reason you have not used that keyword phrase in the first paragraph - this usually helps. It helps to have the keywords in the URL and I also notice that your URL reads as countychesterfield (maybe should have a hyphen to divide the words).
Next I would focus on getting citations and links from sites that are ideally local to the chesterfield area. Perhaps you could get some coverage in a local newspaper for example.
Check out David Mihm's local search ranking factors http://www.davidmihm.com/local-search-ranking-factors.shtml
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It does not appear you've designed your site for the user - it looks quite spammy. If you really want to rank for Chesterfield Lawn Care, add it to the title of the homepage.
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