#1 on Bing, nowhere on Google. Should be at least top 3\. Any ideas?

[C-Tech]

I have a page that "should" be top 3 on Google - it's optimised (A on the Moz Pro page grader), it's the most relevant result (it's for an e-book, and the page is the publisher's page for the e-book). Other pages on the site for other books are top of the Google SERPs, and this page itself is top in Bing for the search phrase.

The page is https://camphorpress.com/books/formosan-odyssey/ and the keyphrase I want to rank for is "formosan odyssey" (with or without the quotes). Does anyone have any insight as to why it's not ranking in Google? Over-optimised? Duplicate content?

Many thanks.

[dynamyt100]

How long ago did you create the page? I can see a Twitter feed on page 2 referring to you. Perhaps the actual page has not been indexed as yet? Have you checked in webmasters?

[metafser]

I think, its not ranking for over optimised. I tested a project. Which project for Google and Bing. I saw When I optimized any link without google rules, my keyword ranked on bing but i didn`t find my keyword in top 10 page of google. Thats called over optimize.

Why i didn`t say anything about duplicate content, Cause i have a affiliate website of amazon. But its completely duplicate content i posted. But some link ranked on google.

Beside, Google didn't rank when i submited in some spam directory or spam directory network. So If you want to rank on google, You need to optimise content. Social Signal is the best way for getting rank on google. Also Valuable directory submission can help you for getting rank.

I saw you submitted your link in lots of site. Thats why PA increased but not ranked on googl. But You social signal is very low. Increase social signal, i think your page will rank on google. and remove bad link by Webmaster tool.

[wearehappymedia]

Would love to hear people's thoughts on this. Have seen it before but never looked much deeper because it was so much more important for us to rank our client on Google.

[C-Tech]

The page has been live for a year. It is indexed by Google, as evidenced by this search: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:camphorpress.com+formosan+odyssey

No issues in Webmaster Tools either, that I can see.

[DirkC]

Strange case - you do rank for the full title (Formosan Odyssey: Taiwan, Past and Present - position 3) - and number 1 for the first phrase of your description. Google works in mysterious ways...

Two remarks on the page - the image of the cover is incredibly heavy (https://camphorpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Formosan-Odyssey-cover.jpg) - you might to optimise that & there is an issue with the review markup (check https://developers.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/  - reviewed item is missing)

However - the heavy covers equally apply to the other pages on your site, and I imagine the review markup problem as well so it's not an explanation of why this specific page doesn't rank for the book title.

rgds,

Dirk

[C-Tech]

It's the only page on that site with a review - I wonder if that might have something to do with it? I'll ask them to resize and smush the images but as you say, it's ranking for other keyword combinations, so that's likely not the root cause. It's a strange one.