Poor visibility on google, please help.

Hello all, I hope someone may be able to advise me on the problem im having with SEO. Heres the info.

I run a website based on the Super Mario Bros series of games and I use the most recent version of Joomla as my content management system.

The site has been up since April 14th this year, and I know it takes a long times for sites to settle into the search engines etc properly as seven years ago I ran a different Mario site using PHPNuke, this ended up third on results for my targetted main keywords of "super mario" on google.

I am having an absoloute nightmare however getting any visibility for the same keywords now. The website is at www.Classic-Mario.net - can you see anything on there that might be scaring off the search engines, particularly google?

Or is the five months the site has been around simply not long enough to get anywhere?

I've got H1 tags (joomla does them auto I think) on all my 1200+ pages, meta tags and descriptions on each individual page, lots of backlinks and building more all the time, some of which from very popular sites, a sitemap registered with google webmaster tools which says I have 114 pages in their index etc.

Our Alexa rank has gone from 25mil to 700k in this time but the traffic generated from search engines on the whole is still 5% or less

Can anyone please help, is there anything obvious im doing wrong?

Best regards

Luke

 

how many pages you have indexed in google? you can't expect much search traffic if you have few.

 

Well I have a total of 1200+ pages, 119 of which are indexed. Should they all be indexed?

 

Yes, all your pages should be indexed. You can also use Bing.com's Toolbox and submit your sitemap to Bing for some extra traffic.

 

not all, but this is a very lower ratio - only 10% indexed.
I usually get 95% indexed. check the quality and uniqueness of your content
the indexing itself does not guarantee search traffic, but this is a minimum requirement

 

You need more links to your webite with the anchor as the keyword you want!

 

@ thejared - OK I have submitted my sitemap to bing, thanks for the tip.

@ atxsurf - I know yeah, less than 10% of pages indexed isnt nice at all. Well the thing is, It cant be a major problem with my content I dont think because at least 300 pages were from my old site, which was fully indexed, although that was several years ago - and even all of those arent indexed. I read something earlier which says the more well ranked your site is, the more of its pages will get indexed - is there any truth behind that?

@ cartoonbabyboy - I have a lot of sites relevant to the theme of my own site linking back to me. But 99% of the time those sites have the hyperlink in the text "Classic-Mario.net" - I am trying to target keyphrases such as Super Mario, should I get some of those links changed to say - "Classic-Mario.net Super Mario Brothers" in order to help google decide we are more important for the keywords "Super Mario" ?

How often is the importance of a site weighed up by the search engines, someone said it was quarterly is that right?

Thank you very much for all who are helping its much appreciated.

 

yes, it is always better if you use the anchor text than the website name.
I will suggest to use Classic-Mario.net Super Mario Brothers, and hyperlink only the super mario brothers.

Meanwhile, you might need to consider studying on the keyword, longtail keyword can generate more targeted traffic and easy to rank better

 

You should produce some more content with better quality, don't focus on quantity.