Keyword filtering

One keyword filtered

[nuevojefe]

I have two sites which are entirely different in design and content but are focused on the same product. Both do very well for cityname red or cityname black but not at all well for cityname red widgets or cityname black widgets.

I do have a site that does well for cityname + a non related keyword, linking to these two sites. So that could explain some of it.

I don't have any on topic (widget) sites linking yet, but our pages seem way more optimized, have way higher PR and have a lot more inner links using good kw's in anchor than the competition who are killing us.

Is it our sites that are filtered for the keyword, or is it something about the keyword filter that is just filtering us out?

[Jack_Frost]

Based on what you are saying, it sound like you need some incoming links with the keywords in the anchor text.

Google has pretty much denied any use of filters and I've seen no evidence from the new Yahoo or Ink that they use them.

[nuevojefe]

That's kind of what I'm thinking. Except, I think that not only do those words need to be in the anchor, I think it needs to be in the title or be in some way highly represented on some of the pages those links come from.

The reason I feel this way is that I already have this "filtered" word as anchor text. It's just that I think this word has a tendency for spam so I can imagine this is one way to kill a little of that off.