No keywords showing up in search strings

Why is no one finding us on our keywords?

[tomthumb2000]

Our site has been up for five months now and has over 500 files. It is information rich, has a yahoo and (albeit a regional category) a Dmoz listing.

We only get around 50 visits a day and only a handful of search strings are listed and are rather obscure. As far as i can tell we are using the title and H1 tags appropriately for our selected keywords.

Is this just a question of time or are we doing something fundamentally wrong?

[keywordguru]

Sounds like you have a pretty decent site there and should have more traffic than just that. Yet if you are talking about Google, it can be a typical case of the supposed "Sandbox" penalty that won't rank new sites for up to 6+ months or so.

It is hard to tell without a specific url. Feel free to message it to me and i'll do my best to give you anything obvious that may be hurting.
KG

[bbcarter]

i think there are more possibilities than the newbie sandbox

our site has been up for 6 years, has about 2000 pages, and since late march has been disappearing.

even searching for our full biz name which is on every page doesn't bring us up sooner than #21 or so

I emailed google- either we're being penalized, or their engineers are hard at work in a never-ending quest to degrade search results quality.