Okay, well i've being running my site for about 1.5months now. When i started, my SEO hits from Google were fairly decent. My niche requires a lot of posts so i had about 500 posts in the first 2 weeks and those were getting decent SEO traffic. As time went on i was expecting that my SEO could only get better but as i posted more (2.8k posts now) but ever since i had hit the 1month anniversary my SEO hits just died. I've being wondering why ever since. In this one and a half month time frame these are some of the reasons why i think my SEO could of died, but im not 100% sure hence why i'm here asking for ideas. I've changed the permalinks twice/3 times already since i've made my site. I've changed the post title and page title formats 3 times. I've changed from a number of templates also, i think i've changed it twice now. Would these have being a massive contributor in the dieing of my SEO? Or was my site just new and the ranks weren't properly fitted yet hence why i had nice SEO hits and now with time it has been ranked accordingly? Any solutions or ideas are much appreciated. Thanks.
Thats the bone that Google throws to the new sites. It will give you good rankings until they know more about the site, the inbound links, unique content etc..and then they position your site and your pages at their proper ranking page.
You have entered into the world of Google bullshit. Google works as follows: Day 1 - index pages, ranks well Day 3 - start examining the site (may take 2 weeks to complete) - ranks well Day 4-20 - site examined and site re-ranked - rank drops like a stone, may even vanish from index Funnily enough, adwords works in almost exactly the same way with their Landing Page Quality Score check. Anyway.... Here's a simple guide on how to launch a new site to avoid this problem: Launch the site with a minimum amount of content. Keep the majority of your content off the site for 3 to 4 weeks. After the 3-4 weeks start drip feeding your content onto the site, something new every other day is fine. Once all your content is on the site create a few articles with deep links to content on your site and distribute them on article sites like ezine articles. It's foolproof, and frankly I must be mad for giving this information away.
Do you mean no promotion in the first 3-4 weeks ? No link building etc ? no press releases , no classified submissions ? no social bookmarking no article,directory submissions ??
You hit the nail on the head yourself in first post, that's a lot of changes to your URL structure in a minimal time frame - that'd be my concern .... Google has indexed those pages and now when it re-visits them they are suddenly gone / 404 errors .... now Google will hold that against your site. Also you say you have 1000s of posts already .... that may also be of concern .... are they all unique ? if not Google will index them - then realize that they are duplicate content - then drop them also.
Yeah, this was the idea i was getting also and it was what i was afraid of. I was new to the whole site concept at the time, so as i learnt new things i just had to implement them straight away There is a word in all of my posts urls that are the same also, so i think Google will think that they are duplicates. If theres any chance, then i would hope it gets better in due time
you need to start from scratch and target first local region keywords and related seo promotion activities will boost your rank
Have you registered for Google Webmaster? I also have the same problem and got this message there: "No pages from your site are currently included in Google's index. Indexing can take time. You may find it helpful to review our information for webmasters and webmaster guidelines."
That does make sense, and thanks for sharing the idea in the end New sites have to deal with the sandbox anyway, and dumping lots of content at once may look suspicious. @hambels: that is cross-posting, buddy.
That is true, one of my sites was at the 1st page for a week then went down to page 24 once my site had been fully indexed.