Site URL: MobileHotspot(dot)com My site is 12 months old, with 6 year old domain, I have a decent amount of 100% hand written quality, keyword relevant content. I have also spent months "building" backlinks via natural and revelent sources such as Ezinearticles, web 2.0, blog comments, forums, videos, guest posts, etc. I say "building", becuase I have honestly went about this as "site promotion", rather than just blindly backlinking. In my estimation over 300-400 BL's, many from high PR sites EzineArticles, Youtube, high PR Angela profiles, EDU Do Follows...no junk or link spam or paid links....yet I get the feeling that I am being slapped by google as if I did such... My questions: 1. Webmaster tools shows only 13 links (WTF!) I know this is not the real number, but Is it normal to show such a massive low number when compared to ones own estimates? 2. Can't get past PR0 - What could be holding me back? It seems a VAST majority of my IBL's are being discarded or something. Any advice? 3.I cant get in the Google top 1000 for the sites focused keyword ("mobile hotspot") even after nearly a year of solid content and backlinking effort, would you say I am in the "Sandbox"? (Interestingly I am on page 1, and mostly postion #1 for Yahoo, Bing, MSN, AlltheWeb)...There are TONS of other TOTALLY unrelated, poor quality sites in Googles top 1000 for "mobile hotspot", but I cant oven get to position 999? What gives? Any and all suggestions are welcome, I amd end the end of my wits as to why my site is toxic to google.
There are tons of web pages of poor quality that are ranked high in Google on very popular search terms. It is interesting that the Google SERP are very precise for some keywords and phrases and not that relevant for others. I do not see Google to county any pages to link to your site. YOur blog URLs are search engine friendly. Try cross linking between relevant pages and content!
I think that there could be a potential problem with all your affiliate links - they are all "followed" links. At the very least you should change all of your affiliate links to "nofollow".