I feel like an idiot for starting a website in the Wordpress Hosting niche a short while back and I feel like it's almost impossible to rank. Logically, I know it can be accomplished, but I'm having a difficult time estimating how much effort (and $$$) it would require to rank on the first page or preferably #1. Has anyone had any positive (or negative) experiences trying to rank a site such as this? I'm at the junction where I need to decide if I should "Rank or Sell" the site. The site is WordpressHostingHQ . Com Cheers, Tim
Why is it hard for a wordpress website to rank high with google ?? Can someone please explain that to me ? Is Wordpress not good for google ranks ??? Why ?
I think the overall consensus is that Wordpress-based websites do generally rank very well, but the problem I'm facing is that I tried to target the "Wordpress Hosting" niche.
You've possibly narrowed your focus too much by targeting Wordpress hosting. I wouldn't have thought there's be too much you could write on the subject, though I might be wrong. If you had an existing, established Wordpress/web design site already, you could push existing traffic to the hosting site.
Perhaps. Although "Wordpress Hosting" does have 74,000 global searches per month, so I thought it was a decent Niche target.
74,000 is not that much... If you want to I can make you a Full SEO report for your website, to see why you are not listed in the top 10 for your keywords... I'll do it for free,,, send me a PM... I will be using IBP software for this...
I noticed the site takes a looooong time to load - and I am on a 50Mb/sec connection, so it must be your hosting or site. Take a look at that. Also, maybe expand the niche to WP themes? What about sponsoring a free WP theme?
Thanks Everyone - Munier: Thank you very much - I'll send you a PM shortly. Phynder: I've noticed the slowness, too. I might be able to fix it with a WP plugin? I like the idea of sponsoring a free theme - Good call.