Improve Search Ranking

I'm trying like crazy to improve the search ranking for a
site:
www.whitelightcottonclothing.com and I can't get bring it out
of the
boonies.
I want it to at least appear on the first page for a search
for "white
light cotton clothing" and ideally a first page result for
"cotton
clothing."
I've got keywords, a sitemap, added to google and yahoo, I
don't know
what else to do? I been trying to get into the dmoz but can't
get it in.
any ideas?

You have at least two problems on that page -
1. There is almost no content
2. What content is there, is not contained within semantic
markup (e.g.,
<h1>, <h2>, etc.)
Forget the keyword meta tag - it will not help you at all.
You can read about this all here -
http://www.seomoz.org/articles/search-ranking-factors.php
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> I'm trying like crazy to improve the search ranking for
a site:
> www.whitelightcottonclothing.com and I can't get bring
it out of the
> boonies.
>
> I want it to at least appear on the first page for a
search for "white
> light cotton clothing" and ideally a first page result
for "cotton
> clothing."
>
> I've got keywords, a sitemap, added to google and yahoo,
I don't know what
> else to do? I been trying to get into the dmoz but can't
get it in.
>
> any ideas?

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Hi,
I am a new member of this forum as well and spent a lot of time looking for more information about the problems or improvements to my specific phones. I have been searching for a place to drop some suggestions but couldn't find any. Just like MartinMiller35 suggested a few posts before, it would be lot easier and faster when the mobile product sections would break down more in to sort by device and then into the existing sections of software/suites/ music/video`s/ maps/applications etc.
I also agree with fender77, it would make such a difference as people would describe the problem in addition to their device better. It might be helpful if any solution working fine for phone "X " could be placed into other sections where the people are having the same problems and crying out for a solution, not aware that in another post or maybe even in a different category there is already an answer for their phone "y".
To avoid more (misplaced) threads, posts I suggest there could be a "tips and tricks or how to" section per phone, like the "Top Questions for..". Maybe the moderators (or anybody else who has rights can copy same solution in the multiple sections.
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I have been going through a lot of posts but hesitated to use or comment or answer simply just because I`m not sure if the (menu)settings or OS, fw etc. are same or compatible and I wouldn't want to misinform anybody, cause any damage and simply don`t have the time to investigate other devices specs further.
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I`m sorry if this isn't the or my place to make suggestions or if I suggested something that has already been used in the past and wasn't working at all.
This forum has helped me better than the Nokia site or the Nokia Care and I hope it will keep helping us.
Keep up the good work!!
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