I know it takes a bunch of magic hocus pocus to get onto the first page and the top ranking site in google for a keyword, but I'm really questioning googles thinking. I own an anime site (www.myanimesource.com), and when you type "naruto episode reviews" into google, the first listing is a link from tv.com that is a BLANK PAGE. Even on that page there is nothing that you can navigate to to get any episode reviews for the Naruto anime. On my site, I have nearly EVERY single Naruto and Naruto Shippuden episode reviewed. Each episode review is more than 500+ words (probably 800 words on average) and contains 3-5 pictures on each page. I outline EVERYTHING that happens in each episode with a pretty decent sized amount of original content for each page. On top of that, every page includes tons of keywords along with the necessary ones to help it get ranked in google. I don't believe there is a single anime website that, for this specific topic, has more quality, original, and quantitative amount of content as I have on this specific subject. If you include the SHIPPUDEN (sequel series) to naruto reviews, I have more than 400 reviews completed. Nothing comes close. Nothing comes remotely close.. Why is it that after all this time this isn't even enough to get me into the first page in google? Are there any tips for things I can do to get these pages, along with the tons of other pages where my content is higher quantity and quality than competing sites, to get them ranked higher?
Review site? it seems like a streaming site! Anyway..Do you think what you are doing is actually enough to get you ranked higher?
You guys probably didn't read a word i wrote. Quit worrying about your post count and listen. It has streams, but I have probably close to one THOUSAND total pages of rich content. I have THE MOST rich and informative content for this specific subject (naruto and naruto shippuden episode reviews). When you ask if I've done enough to get ranked higher, please tell me what else needs to be done. Rank 1 spot is an EMPTY FCKIN PAGE. Most of the spots in the top 10 have very little relevancy and fail in comparison to what I offer on the subject. Just take a look at these two links and tell me there isn't enough content. http://www.myanimesource.com/naruto/naruto-episode-reviews/ http://www.myanimesource.com/naruto/naruto-shippuden-episode-reviews/ Content rich my ass. If google really took this into consideration, something would be done by now...I do have a lot of streams, but the amount of total unique content i have on my site is simply ridiculous. I just think the whole idea of trying to strike gold by doing this or that for SEO is stupid when there isn't even a comparison of what should be the best resource for this keyword.
Actually i don't like the site. you don't have many contents. only videos are not enough. and why you are so much tensed about the ranking? ust do high quality link building and continue adding Good quality contents and descriptions. it will defiitely help. thanks
You sure you've got the right keywords? That's not a review site, its more a plotline/summary site. If I wanted plot summaries of Naruto episodes or synopsis your site is nowhere to be seen. Why don't you change your site so that it has "Naruto Episode 1 Synopsis" as the heading rather than review? Also instead of "Episode 1" why don't you use the actual episode name? http://www.tv.com/shows/naruto-shippuden/episodes/ was one of the first hits and it has links for you to write a synopsis but no content, which isn't really unusual for a google result (google results seem to be pretty crap these days). Also instead of that great big long list on the page you linked, have a small thumbnail of the episode, the episode number and *title* so people have their memory jogged if they're looking for "that naruto episode where he turned into a girl and cast love jutsu" or something, and they can see the little thumbnail of Naruto as a girl. Oh and thanks for the blast from the past - been a few years since some crazy person on the internet sent me several DVDs of Naruto and went "you'll love these!" ... haven't watched them for a while Edit: other half looking over my shoulder says your site/url should really contain "Naruto episode guide" as the title.
You must not be very intelligent. You must be like the other two who simply read the title, opened my site for 10 seconds, then closed it. I told them and I'll say it again. I have content...I have over 1,000 pages of content. It is an anime site that mainly concentrates on naruto. Simply visit the naruto section and visit some of the pages (like the reviews) and tell me I don't have content. Elf, I agree with you, but even if they're more like a synopsis/review...just think about it from this perspective. Rank 1 has, for months (possibly years), been that tv.com listing that you commented it on being blank yourself. Rank 3 is from narutoworld.com, and they have exactly the same kind of content that I have for the keyword. Granted they do have it labeled "naruto episode summary", they are still third on the list when you type in Naruto Episode Reviews. I'll say this is probably the only other relevant competing site, but even they don't have nearly the amount of reviews(summaries if you want to call them) that my site has. I have tried adding "naruto episode reviews" and "naruto episode summaries" and "relatingkeywordhere" in all of the tags which should also be picked up on search engines, regardless of technically what the term is. Skipping down past the youtube video and wikipedia list of naruto episodes that come into the rankings, you get another BS listing from animecrazy.net. Just because they simply have the word "reviews" in the title, they get to be ranked higher? Opening up this link, you will see they also do not have one single review for naruto, only the video streams and some user comments. This is starting to make me believe that no matter how much quality content I have for a keyword, I will always get shitty ranks because google has placed some website where the owner did some weird black hat hocus pocus so that his site is generally more authoritative on the internet. I guess that I can try messing with the main pages that link to the individual episode reviews/summaries, such as adding the title to that page and such, but I figured since I just have written books worth of content in general, the collection of keywords from the hundreds and hundreds of pages would have an effect!
That's what google wants you to think. In reality, its all about the keywords - particularly in title. I changed some h2 tags on my site a few years ago from something irrelevant to something that people actually search for and shot to the top of rankings for those keywords and never really left for them. Since the site got ranked, everyone has been madly backlinking to that site. Its amazing what a few keyword rich titles and anchor text within your site can do. Make sure you've got meta description and keywords set for your pages and don't focus so much on 'review', its the last thing I'd think to search for looking for your site content. Can you write a synopsis on tv.com and somehow sneak a link to your site in the synopsis? Don't duplicate the content though, write something really short and point it to your own site if you can.
Its not about magic, or hocus pocus. Its all about the basics and trust. Whats up with this? http://www.myanimesource.com/robots.txt This doesn't provide any info to bots and tells them your sitemap is on another domain (even though you do have a sitemap on your domain). So if you have 1000 pages of rich content, why do you let Google index the other 26,300 non rich pages? http://www.google.com/search?&q=site:myanimesource.com (About 27,300 results) http://www.google.com/search?&q=site:myanimesource.com/tag/ (About 20,000 results) http://www.google.com/search?&q=site:myanimesource.com/wp-content/ (About 34 results) Having 1,000 pages of rich content on a site is good... But adding another 26,000 pages of crap to the site, makes Google see the site as 'mostly' crap. Cheers James
Build backlinks to each review, and the category the reviews are in, providing more juice to each post inside the category.
That might be a crucial mistake on my part. I logged into my google webmasters account and chose where the sitemap file would be, and use an auto generating sitemap.xml plugin for wordpress. Non rich pages are things like 404's, archives, etc? I haven't looked into anything with robots.txt, what should I use that for? And elf, I'll try to do that and I guess I'll work on going back and experimenting with headings and anchor texts. I guess I might as well do what I can to try and get these ranked higher, seeing as how I've spend more than a month of actual typing time on them.
And what exactly is it that he should be worrying about, if it is not the ranging and related to it traffic? :->
How old is your website? Unfortunately the domain doesn't load at me, I would love to help but it just won't open. Edit: It has now opened after 15 seconds. Long loading times aren't often a problem, but if it's above 10 seconds then that's quite long. Where is your host located at and which country are you mostly targeting at? I was and still am in the same boat as you. Some of the articles I had on pages were ten times better compared to competition, but Google didn't know me. It's like this with thousands of other websites too!
It's shitty host gator. If i'm logged in on wordpress everything goes slow. The next step is some stupid 40 dollar a month plan...not exactly many options. But when nobody is logged on wordpress (I have 2 more people that help) it loads in a second for me. The site has been out for a year as of october. And Tatoos, I'm going to look into seeing how to get rid of most of that crap, like tags and such. EDIT: Check out my robots.txt (http://www.myanimesource.com/robots.txt) and tell me if that's a good format, and if it will help get the crap out of google so my site seems less like spam. Should I change anything with the sitemap? I use an auto sitemap builder that compiles and sends to google..
Set your robots.txt up something like... User-agent: * Disallow: sitemap: http://www.myanimesource.com/sitemap.xml Code (markup): Some of your content pages are in the /tags/ folder, so don't block that folder with robots.txt. You will have to add a <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> to the pages you don't want in the index Cheers James
Isn't that code going to block my whole sitemap? And are you saying I'm going to have to sort through 20,000+ pages and add those snips of code in each one I don't want indexed?
When you started this thread and were "questioning googles thinking", I assumed you must know a little bit about how Google and the web works... It seems you don't. Here's a good place to start. http://www.w3schools.com Some info about robots.txt http://www.robotstxt.org Some info about your CMS http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress Cheers James
One thing you could do is look at the backlinks of the competing sites, and see if you can get in on some of that backlinks, they might just have been there longer than you, and unfortunately or fortunately as it may be Google does rank age of the site pretty high as one of its factors