Ranking Even After A Good PR

Solution...?

[experienced]

Hi,

My sites are having Good PR 5 and 6 but even after these Good PR sites are not ranked well over the google. Is link exchange the only solution..? anything else is there..?

Rgds
Exp...

[Marcia]

Good PR doesn't always correlate with good rankings. How long has the site been up?

[jaffstar]

Are your inbound links targeted at your desired keyword or are they pointing to your url?

[Small Website Guy]

That's my site, PR5, great anchor text in inbound links, ZERO traffic from all search engines.

[webnewton]

Less Experienced!
Well everyone starts from scratch.Link building will solve your probelm, try to use anchor text with keywords for linking.

[annej]

Be sure you are specifically targeting a good key word or key word phrase for each page. Your pages may be too scattered and Google can't tell what topic your page is about.

Is the keyword or phrase in the title (preferably at the beginning? Is it scattered throughout the page (but not overdone)? Is it used in inbound link text from other pages on your site? And is it used in alt text and outgoing links anchor text?

I'm not talking about stuffing key words but about putting them in enough that Google can tell what the page is about. If you are using AdSense this helps Google find matching ads as well.

Are you trying for keywords or phrases that have a chance of getting into the top of the serps? Or is your keyword an impossible dream?

You may have already done all this but just in case there are things like this you can do to help your search results beyond external inbound links. Of course keep working on those as well.