Hey guys, so I launched this website to sell Soccer shoes and equipment. Basically I developed this Wordpress website and plugged my astore through an IFRAME. Problem is my website doesn't rank on Google/Yahoo at all! Completely our of the top300 results and it's been 2 months since I launched it. I have been building a lot of quality links in the past few weeks, all relevant and high PR. Is this normal? Did you have a similar experience? Does Google frown upon astores? Cheers
The problem with amazon astore is that they are simply a copy of Amazon pages so in order to prevent a panelty from Google they have set a very ridiculous crawl rate for all the astores. By typing astore.amazon.com/robots.txt ====================================== User-agent: * Request-rate: 1/5 # Maximum request rate of 1 page every 5 seconds (12/minute) Crawl-delay: 5 # Used by several bots (12/minute) ====================================== With thousands of astores you will hardly find many that have over 100 pages being indexed by google for long because then they match the content, it is flagged as duplicate content and then removed from index. In your case you have embedded the astore in your website which is somewhat better but in order to make people purchase from embedded astore, you need to have a lot of traffic which I am afraid you lack because other than astore your site does not have any other content. I would say rather than just building links for your astore, you should add related articles to your website and work on building targeted traffic. Then when you have the minimum amount of traffic ( lets say a few hundred from SEs / day ) you will see the hard work being paid off. You can then use that traffic to get orders from your astore. Good luck !
If you integrated aStore within an iframe, it shouldn't affect your website much (if any at all). How's the content on your WordPress? Unique + Quality?