Why my post is not even in top 100 of Google search?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  James Slattery: Ranking isnt just about content...
  
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  Partha Sarmah: James Slattery then what about it?
  
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  James Slattery: Partha Sarmah backlinks... engagement... domain authority... just to start
  
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  Partha Sarmah: Da is 55..
  
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  Jam: Partha Sarmah how many SERP Results are there? thousands, millions or billions?
  
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  Michael Martinez: Group expertDomain ity and other SEO metrics are only useful as predictive measurements. They don`t guarantee indexing or ranking, and they don`t provide insight into how algorithms work.
  
  Things that matter most include:
  
  1. How competitive the queries are that you`re tracking against.
  
  2. How many ways you MIGHT be violating search engine guidelines.
  
  3. How new the site is.
  
  4. If you`ve made recent changes that could affect the flow of PageRank-like value through or to the site (including adding "noindex" or "nofollow" directives to pages or links on the site, or disavowing links to the site, removing navigational links, deleting pages, etc.).
  
  5. Whether you`re syndicating the content to other sites. Whether other sites are scraping your content.
  
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  Partha Sarmah: Michael Martinez DA is 55
  
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  Michael Martinez: Group expertPartha Sarmah I may have misread your "content score" as "domain authority".
  
  SEO tool scores don`t explain anything. If you`re not happy with what`s happening the in the search results, you should change something.
  
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  Partha Sarmah: Michael Martinez What should i change?
  
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  Michael Martinez: Group expertPartha Sarmah I would start by providing more detailed information on the page. However, in a highly competitive query space you might be better off targeting less competitive results until you establish brand recognition.
  
  A good blog can help in highly competitive queries by bringing people to the site for information and then using referral links to send them to the pitch pages.
  
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  Perry Bernard: Group expertWhat does content score mean? This isn’t a Google metric.
  
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  Partha Sarmah: Perry Bernard Its a score given by All in SEO plugin..that means On page is fine
  
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  Perry Bernard: Group expertPartha Sarmah that’s only what the plugin developers think. It’s not Google.
  
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  Partha Sarmah: Perry Bernard At least it gives us some sort of idea how our post looks like
  
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  Ash Nallawalla: If you believe in things such as content score and DA, then you are chasing meaningless targets. If you look at the pages ranking in the top 100, see what they have done, if that is visible.
  
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  Roger Montti:
  
  Tenor
  
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  Roger Montti: What Ash Nallawalla said, plus 1.
  
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  Roger Montti: Plus one on what Ash Nallawalla said.
  
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  Richard Hearne: Group expertRoger Montti so +2 then?
  
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  Yaser Arshad: Did you get these scores from google?
  
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  Partha Sarmah: Yaser Arshad All in SEO plugin
  
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  Rudolf Ladyzhenskii: Well, your post is well optimised for a particular keyword. So are hundreds of others...
  
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  Neil Cheesman: The amount of competing urls is very relevant.
  
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  Partha Sarmah: Neil Cheesman SEMRUSH KD 26
  
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  Stockbridge Truslow: Group expertWhen I`m looking through a site to look at potential issues - I look at any score ABOVE 85 as a potential warning sign, actually. Typically 70-80 is good. Anything above that 85 range makes me check out the content and really study it because it often means that the content creator (and SEO team) have focused more on the SEO score than they have on the actual content. Invariably, when a score starts hitting that 90 range - it`s unreadable blather focused on slamming keywords into the right place (which isn`t really an SEO thing) and dumbing down the language below your target audience, and just writing blather to hit a certain word count.
  
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  Ash Nallawalla: I cannot answer your questions in the DM you sent me. We are not trying to belittle you, but there is a parallel universe of SEOs who believe in those numbers generated by tools and websites. You can fake some of those numbers and there are articles about that. If you put keywords in a WordPress plugin`s form, it will turn green and make you happy, but that means nothing to Google. We know nothing about your keyword research skills and the competition you face.
  
  The reality is that every URL has 10 chances to be on page 1 and if the best 200 SEOs work on 200 similar sites, 190 of them will not get to page 1. You cannot follow some tips and expect to rank on page 1 or even page 100.
  
  The other reality is that you are probably doing this for a paid client and I for one am not here to solve that problem. Some of us will only help in a generic way to benefit other readers.
  
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  Jim Hathaway: I’m dusting off some cobwebs. When you refer to “content score” where is that number coming from?
  
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  Cambridge Jenkins IV: Let me see the content and I`ll tell you.
  
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  Ubaid Ullah: This content score is nothing for Google. Google have hummingbird algorithm to understand meaning behind your content so if you are answering the query of visitors, you will get deserved ranking.
  
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