Question about SERPS

[oagady]

I am getting desparate about SERPS. During the last month I've got a lot of quality links from relevant pages with the keywords in the anchor text. I've got links from one page with PR7, few with PR6, many with PR5 and a lot from from PR3 or less. Google regalarly updates my new links (except for the links from its own directory - it doesn't show it when I type +www.singles-space.com, even though I've got into Google's directory a month ago). But all my efforts don't bring ANY result - I am not moving in SERPS.

I've read on the forum that changes in SERPS happen when Google updates both the links and PR. Do I have to wait until the PR update? What is the other's webmaster's experience - how and when the changes in SERPS happen?

Thanks

[jacobwissler]

There was a major change in SERPS today, hope it helped you. Your subject is very competitive. I found you on the third page of Google SERPS. It could be a lot worse. Your key phrase does not appear anywhere on your page.

SiteReportCard http://www.sitereportcard.com/index.php shows that you have 23 broken internal links on your first page, but when I tried to find those links on your page, I couldn't see them. Are you using hidden links, or did I just miss something?


Your first page has very little text, other than links, and tries to address many subjects relating to Russuan women. Try writing some quality text content for that first page. I would also urge you to change your title to Dating Single Russian Women (or whatever your primary key phrase is), and then use that exact phrase in the text of your site, near the top of the page, at least twice, perhaps three times, but don't over use it.

Try to make your key phrase the focus of your first page without repeating the phrase too often. Disclaimer: I have only been in the SEO business 3-4 months, and do not have the experience of many others on this forum, but so far my ideas appear to be working.

[oagady]

Thanks for reply, jacobwissler

Yes, I know that my subject is very competitive and actually today I noticed some move up in SERPS.

Regardind http://www.sitereportcard.com/index.php - I checked my site using this tool and I am not sure that this tool is working properly. The broken links they report is the links that don't exist. My server is set up that when you type the domain name of my site, the page which is actually displayed is :
domain name + /dating-service/dating-russian-woman.jsp. You can set any file to be displayed as a home page. You can name it index.html or whatever. My home page is /dating-service/dating-russian-woman.jsp. When this tool checks the links on the home page and encounters something like /diff/FAQ.jsp, instead of adding this to the domain name it adds it to the full URL: http://www.singles-space.com/dating-...p/diff/FAQ.jsp. It's a mess, of cource this file doesn't exist. So, this tool doesn't know how to handle links on the page.

Regarding using the keywords a lot in the text - it's a pain. I don't want to make the home page heavy with a lot of text (in my field - dating service - a lot of text on the home page can be really annoying for people who search for those services. I got married using one of the dating services, I know the feeling). I am trying to keep the home page clear and appealing to the customers (actually, this is what I've been able to achieve - when I uploaded this new version, the registration doubled the same day).

Yes, I try to repeat the keywords at the top of the page. The keywords I am targeting at are "single russian women" and "dating russian woman", but I can not do it to an extend that it will sound imposing for the customers. Also, as far as I know, Google mostly relies on the back links with the keyword in the anchor text. So, this is what I've been trying to get. I've got a lot of them, and spend every day looking for places where else I could get links. Hope it will improve my situation soon. I think this efforts on getting more links is the ugly part of web-site development. Instead of improving the quality of the service, adding new features (I love programming!), I have to spend time on browsing internet searching for potentials link places. Crazy.

But I really appreciate your reply. Thanks

Agady