Hi, I wandered if anyone could shed light on this one. I launched this site about 3 months ago - http://www.algarverentalapartments.com Its got a fair PR and its doing well in all search engines but not a sausage from google! Google also appears to have only indexed one page, any ideas? Any help would be much appreciated. cheers neil (seo beginner!!!)
I'm not sure how you got the PR4, frankly. The site: query says you have 9 pages indexed but you have very few backlinks. I wonder about the adequacy of content on the page too. When you say, "it's doing well in all search engines but not a sausage from google", what search terms and which search engines?
its doing well on msn for phrases such as algarve apartments, algarve apartments to rent and yesterday for the first time it appeared on google for algarve rental apartments, but its not googling for other phrases. does that help?
I think you should work on quality link backs. This seems to be the single most influencial factor with all SEs. Good luck and welcome to the world of seo
The aged old advice is to get more back links, submit to directories, try to get anchor text the same as your targeted search phrases. I agree with Minstrel (for a change) your pages seem to be lacking a bit in the textual content department (though they do like very good) If your not in the Co-op ad network, then join it (see sig )
yep algarve is an area in the south of portugal (so nice), i am actually from uk originally and now living in new zealand but its my dream to head there! i was going to join the co-op ad netowrk but my question was - do you need technical skills to set it up (i have very few) where do the ads go, does it affect your sites appearance. Also i really appreciate your comments re. the content on my pages but could you elaborate more (should i have more bold titles, more text etc...) thanks for your help Neil