It's quite typical to find that you're not in the top 30 positions on the keywords you picked. However, that's the problem WebPosition Gold helps you solve. You're at the first step!
You'll want to start generating optimized pages with the Page Generator and then fine tuning them with the Page Critic.
If you've generated pages and submitted, and still don't show up, fill out the URL verification tab on the Reporter, run the mission, then check the URL Verification report to see if you've been indexed yet.
Assuming you submitted to these engines and your pages have been indexed, you may simply need to do some more fine-tuning to rank higher. Rarely do you achieve a higher rank on all your keywords the first time out. Less common keyword phrases will be much easier to rank well on than common, or competitive words.
It's also possible you may have the Reporter mission setup wrong somewhere, and WebPosition is just not recognizing your pages as belonging to you.
An easy way to test this is to simply go to the search engine in your browser and do the search there and make sure you are in fact not listed. Be careful to type the keyword/phrase EXACTLY the same or you'll get different results. If you use quotes in WebPosition, be sure to use quotes when typing in the phrase in the search engine.
If you can find your page listed on the detail report but WebPosition is not reporting any positions on the Concise Summary or Summary reports, you've most likely made an error in entering the domain name.
Common mistakes are:
1) Misspelling the domain name on the Mission tab.
2) Including the page name in the domain on the Mission tab
3) Including a subdirectory name in the domain when the subdirectory is NOT indexed in the search engine. Make sure it's just www.mydomain.com. It should include a subdirectory name ONLY if you share the domain from your Host service rather than having your own domain name.
The string in the domain name field must be an exact match to the domain showing on the Detail report from the search engine. However, if the Detail report shows http://www.mydomain.com, then when WebPosition searches for www.mydomain.com that you inputted into domain name box, it WILL find it.
However, if you enter www.mydomain.com and the search engine only indexed it as http://mydomain.com, it's NOT going to find it since the "www" part isn't there to find. The solution in this scenario is to not enter the "www" or other prefix causing the problem when that portion was not indexed by the search engine. Even better, simply list all possible variations of the domain in the domain box.
If the problem is that you don't show up on the detail report either, but when you do a search manually on the engine, you do find matches, there may be something else wrong. Make sure that WebPosition searches for the EXACT same string as what you entered in the search engine yourself. Example: Cigar, cigar, and cigars could ALL produce different results. If you enter the exact same keyword in the search engine and still get different results than what WebPosition reported AND the searches were done within a few minutes of each other, please e-mail us a copy of the Reporter Mission (MIS) file and an explanation of where the problem is. We'll check it out ASAP.
If you are doing a search and WebPosition reports that your site was not found in the top 30, then that means you are not ranked in the top 30 positions. This is quite common and is exactly what WebPosition helps you correct. You can also do a broader search to see if you might be in the top 100 or top 200 by changing "Matches to Scan" on the Options tab of the Reporter Mission screen. Note: This will lengthen the time to search. Also bear in mind that even if you do show up in the top 100, few people will look for you past the first 30 or so matches.