What am I doing wrong?

Not sure what I am doing wrong....I have used vbseo on other of my sites before for radar detectors and within a couple of months was able to easily get on page 1 of google for keyword "Radar Detector Reviews" I decided to start a new website on a different domain...been around 2 months...and my ranking stinks...in my vbseo sitemap i have over 1,100 links in it and only 367 are indexed with google. I am not ranking well on any keywords like I usually do... was hoping someone could take a look and see what I might be doing wrong? I am trying to rank well for keywords "Radar Detector Reviews" and "Speed Traps"

Radar Detectors Review Forum, Speed Traps & Laser

I think I'm already critique this forum before ?
And I didn't see any of my tips done in your forum

YOU NEED TO POST NEW THREADS : 204 thread in your forum that's can't give much visitors from google. post new threads daily is your way to get new visitors in a short time.

Some additional tips to the old critique thread :

• Please try to use vBSEO Relevant Replacements Check Out : [How to] Setup Relevant Replacements with vBSEO
• Please try to remove your forum title from your threads title check this thread : [How To] Remove Forum Title from Thread Pages for Long Tail Optimization / Increased Thread Title Relevancy
• I want you to remove include every thing in your sitemap (Albums,Members Profiles Pages,Showposts .....etc) and only include thread pages and forum display only From vBSEO Sitemap Generator
• Are you Installed vBSEO Sig ?

Originally Posted by marco1

I think I'm already critique this forum before ?
And I didn't see any of my tips done in your forum

YOU NEED TO POST NEW THREADS : 204 thread in your forum that's can't give much visitors from google. post new threads daily is your way to get new visitors in a short time.

Some additional tips to the old critique thread :

• Please try to use vBSEO Relevant Replacements Check Out : [How to] Setup Relevant Replacements with vBSEO
• Please try to remove your forum title from your threads title check this thread : [How To] Remove Forum Title from Thread Pages for Long Tail Optimization / Increased Thread Title Relevancy
• I want you to remove include every thing in your sitemap (Albums,Members Profiles Pages,Showposts .....etc) and only include thread pages and forum display only From vBSEO Sitemap Generator
• Are you Installed vBSEO Sig ?

I think I got all of that done, do you mind checking

Good!

Some more tips

change home.php to index.php and rename the forum index (index.php) to forum.php

And Create new vBSEO CRR to redirect forum.php to "forums/"

Agreed. The biggest thing for you now is content. post post post! fill your empty forums with a general instruction post or something so they don't look empty (the geographic region forums).

Another issue is that since you replace the login box with an ad and move it to the left sidebar, on pages where there is no left side bar (basically every other page) there is no login link or box anywhere.

Originally Posted by marco1

Good!

Some more tips

change home.php to index.php and rename the forum index (index.php) to forum.php

And Create new vBSEO CRR to redirect forum.php to "forums/"

Ok got all of that done, thank you very much! As far as create new custom rewrite rules for vbseo where would I find the code I need? I checked all the links on my site and everything seems to be working fine, but as far as google index pages I hope this doesnt effect it much?

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Agreed. The biggest thing for you now is content. post post post! fill your empty forums with a general instruction post or something so they don't look empty (the geographic region forums).

Another issue is that since you replace the login box with an ad and move it to the left sidebar, on pages where there is no left side bar (basically every other page) there is no login link or box anywhere.

I added the side login box to the "forum display" page as well, let me know what you think?

edit, looks like you already did this

a couple of your left nav vba pages don't seem to work

Radar Detectors & Radar Detector Reviews
Radar Detectors & Radar Detector Reviews

both just reload the homepage

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

a couple of your left nav vba pages don't seem to work

Radar Detectors & Radar Detector Reviews
Radar Detectors & Radar Detector Reviews

both just reload the homepage

Ok I think I got it, thanks for the quick help and excellent support!

How are we looking now?

top link duplicates the forum link. i assume you want the top link to direct to root, not to the forum

Allright I think everything is good now? Server seems to have updated itself?

Getting there

Your CSS is still in-line, not linked.
[How To] Move CSS to file system

You're also using an h2 without an h1, which is technically invalid.

I'd look into using an image replacement technique for your header graphic instead of just shoving the h2 ( which should be an h1) up top.

instead of this mess:

Code:

 <h2>Speed Traps &amp; Radar Detector Reviews</h2> <table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="4" border="0" width="100%" align="center"> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top"><img src="http://www.aradardetector.com/images/misc/radar-hdr.jpg" border="0" alt="Speed Traps &amp; Radar Detector Reviews" /> </td> </tr> </table>

use this:

Code:

<h1 id="hlogo">Speed Traps &amp; Radar Detector Reviews</h1>

and place this in your Main CSS (at the bottom) in the extra fields:

Code:

#hlogo {
margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
background: url(/images/misc/radar-hdr.jpg) no-repeat center center;
width: 100%;
height: 208px;
text-indent: -999999px;
}

as this is untested, note, you might need to change the url to include /forums/ in the front of it background: url(/forums/images/misc/radar-hdr.jpg) no-repeat center center;
not sure what your true path is.

I think I got it? If this is correct would be great as before I had the text at the top of the page which looks tacky but was there for SEO. Can you verify

Yup, looks good

It's Seo-friendly (text based, but hidden off margin WAYYY to the left ) and user friendly (graphic view).

Now, move that CSS to the filesystem