advice needed SEOing landing pages

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by saturn100, Mar 4, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi
    question for you, does google have anything against landing pages. 1 page websites designed to sell a product
    I have made two of these sites recently and neither are ranking

    Following success getting a friends site to rank
    I created a landing page to sell an ebook using keyword rich domains
    I got links to it but it did not rank

    OK I looked at it and decided maybe the niche was too saturated
    So i did more research and tried it again
    I found a term that had less that 1,000,000 pages in google but yet a ton of Ketword enquiring
    and build a new landing page
    I then outsourced the link building and as of today I have more page links than the number 1 site
    But yet I am still not in the top 1000 sites

    Why is this
    Does google have something against these style landing pages
    Am I wasting my time with them
     
    saturn100, Mar 4, 2010 IP
  2. scheng1

    scheng1 Peon

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    Out of the 200 factors, domain age is also a factor. I think you need to work hard, and just be patient.
     
    scheng1, Mar 4, 2010 IP
  3. selectsplat

    selectsplat Well-Known Member

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    No, there's nothing wrong with landing pages. Google doesn't see them any differently than any other webpage.

    It's difficult to answer why you aren't ranking well. We simply don't have enough information. Here's a dozen questions to get us started.

    1.) How long has the landing page been up?
    2.) How much direct competition does the key phrase have (note, this is not just resutls from searching Google for the phrase)
    3.) How have you optimized the page for that phrase?
    4.) You you have any duplicate title, or cannonization issues?
    5.) Is the page indexed in Google at all.
    6.) What type of backlinks are you acquiring?
    7.) Are you using the key phrase you are targetting in your anchor text?
    8.) How much content is one the page?
    9.) It the content that's on the page completly, 100% unique?
    10.) How quickly does the page load?
    11.) Is the page on an IP with other domains?
    12.) Are there any crawl errors reported in Google Webmaster Central for this page?

    Once you've answered all of these questions, I'm sure I'll have a dozen or so more.
     
    selectsplat, Mar 4, 2010 IP