Hello, I am managing a brand new site. Have been SEO-ing for 3 months, been building links (posting with "nofollow" and "do follow", using forum signatures, buying directory links, getting featured articles and reviews with links). It's a strong niche financial site with about 40 articles, valuable content - no joke, no doubt, no over-SEO. Has AdSense ads on it as well. This should theoretically speed up the process. No blacklisting, nothing like that. www.mysite.com is indexed in Google (it pops up), so it "is in" Google, just that almost unfindable except for exact match URL or site name. Of course, I am using sitemaps. Been very very careful not to upset Penguin or Panda. I'm quite experienced in SEO/IM... still, it never took so long for me to "kick-start" a new site. Results of 3 months-worth effort: -Google sees no backlinks at all! (It should see at least 100 "dofollow" from about 50-60 unique sources) -PageRank null despite 2 recent updates that went through my other sites -Visits very very few... about 5/day and 3 of them is still me (maybe as little as 60 people visit the site) -almost all Google traffic that comes in is for search of the www.mysite.com (probably those who were looking for the domain) -most of the new visitors arrive through my blog post links, directory links etc.
Thats interesting Few things that you need make sure (1) Check your backlinks in google webmaster tools (2) Check the meta description tags of your webpages. (Just from page indexing point of view) (3) Check the preferred web address setting in google webmaster tools. Check if your site's address is the same as were used to build backlinks. Google actually see one domain with two different addresses like domain.com Code (markup): and www.domain.com Code (markup): So if the backlinks were build for www.domain.com Code (markup): but the in search results your website's url is being shown domain.com Code (markup): without www then thats the problem that you backlinks did not consider. You will need 301 redirect for that. Hope it will help.
Welcome to the world of trying to brown nose Google. Use other ways of driving traffic, like social media, and just look upon any traffic you get from Google as a bonus.
you should concentrate on keywords, quality content, forum & blog backlinks for seo . seomateriel.com
I might need URL rewriting for redirect from http:// to http://www. variant. I inserted a code into the htaccess and it didn't work! I guess this code should make the 301 redirect just fine, right? RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
The redirection is always something very important! Also make sure to set webmaster tools to www. as your preference for displaying links.
Have you check out joining or starting a small group on facebook where you all give social love to each other, some of my best sites succeed and rank on that alone!