Why are these sites outranking me?
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I am trying to rank for the phrase "a link between worlds walkthrough"
I am on page 1 but there are several results that just outranks me and I cannot see any reason that they would be doing so.
My site is hiddentriforce.com/a-link-between-worlds/walkthrough/
For that page I have 5 linking domains, varied anchor text that spans from things like "here" to a variety of related phrases. All of the links come from really good sites
My page has 1400 likes, 90 shares, and about 20 each in tweets and +'s
DA of 44 PA of 37
The 4 and 5 ranked sites both have WAY less social interactions, lower PA and DA, less links, etc
Yet they outrank me why?
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I second what Michael is saying. More content is better. Your page has 346 words of content. The top #1 result has 1,399 words of content.
So, taking a look at your site vs. other sites...
The other sites that rank ahead of you all have the keywords you are trying to rank at the beginning of the title tag. Yours starts four words in.
(see screenshot)The 1st ranked result has the keywords in the title tag, and in the page name (not directory)
www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda15-a-link-between-worlds-walkthrough.phpSame thing for the 4th ranked result:
www.linkshideaway.com/a-link-between-worlds-walkthrough/Your page has 346 words of content; the top #1 ranked page has more than four times that amount of content at 1399.
Sometimes Google will rank pages well that have short content.
In this case, I think that Google's algorithm is determining that a site that has lots of content, graphics and information is somehow more useful to the end user.
My recommendation... agreeing with Michael, above, is to beef up the amount of content on your page, and include a few more screenshots.
I know that this is tricky for something that you are selling, when what you are selling is the content. It's a balancing act.
I have a page that I wrote for an extremely competitive term that ranks very well. It has more than 12,000 words of content and 80+ screenshots. Does everyone who lands on the page read all 12,000 words, or watch the 48 minute video? No... But it outranks other pages that are just a few words of content.
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The social interaction counts are going to affect personalized results a lot more than depersonalized results (although this may be changing in the near future....see Eric Enge's post about this).
I'd say your backlink profile stats are right in line with the other 2 sites you mention. I'd say the differences in DA, PA, and RDs linking are really negligible. Your site and those 2 are all similarly tuned for the target phrase, from page title to URL to amount of content on the page.
You might try increasing the amount of unique content on your page. Big, original images, maybe shoot a little intro video of yourself talking about your game, and embed that. And crank up the total text on the page to over 2000 words. (See this study.)
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