Hi there, Im running a norwegian site about Brazil. Its called "Ferieguide til Brasil" which is Norwegian for "Travel Guide to Brazil". Ive linked to it from several of my blogs, from a couple of friends blogs, added it to categories and even made a local newspaper blog about it. It got indexed about 3 weeks ago and all sites are indexed. Problem is, its not ranking. Not even for the title. I'm not normally the guy that panics over this since I know that Google might take some time to do this - but this time I'm worried the site is banned or something. It should have been ranked a long time ago. Anyone know what might be wrong?
I have heard that Google don't like when you put keyword and it is not in the conent of the site at least once. Remove the keywords tag. There might be few more things that can stop you from being indexed. It can be, too many links with containing one word on a page, for example links with the word "Brasil". I hope that this will help you. Cheers.
With new sites, I generally advise them not to include a lot of ads and links until the site has some traction. it makes your site look spamy. One other suggestion from an SEO perspective is to LINK OUT to high quality sites in the related topic. That generally helps make your site more content rich and authoritative to Google.
I hardly doubt that google will make it harder for you to rank for having adsense on the site. I've heard of this theory, but is there anyone who can comfirm that this actually works? And could you use nofollow links?
That's crazy.. this thread is actually ranking while my site is not! I'm definitely banned for something! Is there a way to find out what? I haven't done any hard linkbuilding or anything..
You can take a look at the google webmaster guidelines, you may have accidentally done something wrong.
May be its not banned, I have a site, it used to rank high. But few months back, my site was dropped to the last page of search results, even for the title of my site. At the moment, I am ranked well in yahoo + MSN, but on google, every page of my site is on the last search result page.
I've gone trought the guidelines I have no idea what I might have done wrong. And it's not just ranking last, it's not showing in the rankings at all - even thought it's been weeks since it got indexed..
that sucks, try creating a Google webmasters account and submitting a sitemap and everything and see if their tools give you some feedback.
What kind of feedback would they be able to give me? Would they point out the exact reason why my site is banned?
If its banned then I'm not sure. But if its just having problems crawling your site for whatever reason, then it will give you those. And according to Google, you've got pages indexed so i'm not sure how long it takes to get in other google country sites.... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:http://alt-om-brasil.com/&btnG=Google+Search