Let's say you register a new domain, install and setup Wordpress and don't put up any content immediately. During that time, your site gets indexed in Google and has ranking of 100-300 for your main keyword (main KW is in title, H1 tag and footer). Then a month later you put up unique content and as time passes, your site is nowhere to be found in Google for your main keyword. I've had a few sites that have behaved this way and the common factor I see is that I registered the sites months before I actually put content up. The sites are still not found for the main KWs. Anyone else experience this and is there a way around this? Would it be better to setup the domain and put up content at the same time? Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.
It's pretty simple... if your website(s) is up for a long time without any changes, G consider it irrelevant. You must come on with new content at least 1/month.
I just put a new site on an old domain, (couple of months ago) and have found that Google has been all over it.. When I first got the domain I had it parked for a few months.. then I put one page up (static html) with a few paragraphs of text. I had no idea what sort of site I was going to build so the text I had on that one page was totally unrelated to what the "new" site is about. I left it like that for about 6 months. Built my new site (static html), added it to webmaster tools, and submitted a sitemap. (It was already in Analytics.) Don't think it affected my site at all, and I even feel that I may have bypassed any sandboxing doing it this way, but I am unsure about that, (I will probably get sandboxed as soon as I post this ) Anyway, since launching the site I have had a steady increase from search engines. overall search engines account for 52% of this sites traffic, 25% referrals and 22% direct. Cheers James EDIT: Here are the search engine stats
Actually this is more about on page SEO than not. Plus sometimes G gives relevance or a boost to new sites. If you were ranking and then as content was added you dropped from the rankings I can help, send me a PM with your URL.
I faced the same problem. In fact i my site was ranking in 2 pages but after some days i m not able to find it in 100. So i got answers form experts that it is problem of google dance. When you have completed all content and continue with your SEO efforts. It will get good SERP soon. All the best and wish me the same
Thanks for your response. I think you're right about the google dance. I'll just continue to build backlinks and when the site comes back, it'll come back with a punch.
I always try to get sites online as soon as a domain is regsitered, even if it is a simple page holder with keyword title, footer and a paragraph of text. Even if you get to making a real site in 1 month or 6 months later I have found this really works in cutting down sandbox time, as you site already running to an extent. I find this works the same as buying an older domain which has been online for sometime. We had a domain with page holder for 2 years, client brought it and once site was uploaded crawled first time, search engine update and went straight to first page for target keywords.