Showing up in the right results

[thedailycynic]

I have a site that I am tring to work on getting up in ranking and placement. My keywords are "Music News Washington DC." When I do a search for those keywords in google I come up no where even though I have a PR 4. If anyone can offer me some help that would be great.

My url is

http://www.thedailycynic.com

Thanks,
Jeff

[bhartzer]

How did you determine that you want to rank well for the term "Music News Washington DC"? Are a lot of people searching for that term? I would check the keyword research tools and see if there are a few other phrases that might be a better target.

In any case, you're doing well for that term already without knowing it:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...shington+DC%22

Your best bet is to get more keyword text links to your site that include those terms (Music News Washington DC) but not necessarily in that order.

[jackson992]

Problem is you did the search with quotes and I doubt many users use quotes when searching

[burkey]

Sounds like a relatively non-competitve niche, so I would recommend following the advice for optimizing for your specific keyword that attracts many searches.
However, I do not agree that you should abandon efforts toward garnering a high ranking for less popular keywords. Many successful webmasters report that a high percentage of their traffic actually comes from "fringe" keywords and search phrases instead of the specific terms.

[thedailycynic]

Whats the difference between searching with quotes and without quotes and how do I optimize for the with out quotes?

Thanks

[adore]

When using commas, you get results where the exact phrase is used. Without commas, you get these pages where all keywords from the phrase are used - not necessarily in the same order and next to each other.