Hello Experts out there. Is it common for new sites, without much seo or links to be in the first few pages in first few weeks and then dissapear from from the first 10 pages? My site was on page 3 for some keywords and now it's not even in the first 10 pages on the same keywords? Thanks.
This is completely normal for new sites. Once the site becomes more established in the search engines, the rankings typically become more stable.
majority chances is that new sites with no quality amount of baclinks or seo optimization wont make it in the top page your site should get old before being high on the ranking keyword although i have seen a lot of site reach top within someday itself and later on go down and moreover it will be back in top when u r well stabled
ya it happens to some but not so common, do some optimizing now. If it has potential it will run fine.
I have started the ball rolling. The site itself is brand new (less than a month old) as we moved to a new domain. It's shocking how time consuming SEO stuff can be. I wanted things to settle, say after a month, and slowly start building links. Makes sense?
yea its not new for new sites to go up n down in serps . if u want to be consistent in serps then u must have quality back links . go n submit ur site in high reputed social bookmarks n directories , do blog commenting and forum postings n etc
It is completely normal thing that your website got top rankings due to its content, But then Google did not got anything else like good backlinks, frequently updated content, etc., hence you were removed from Top 10. Now, in order to get that rankings again, you need to create backlinks ( naturally ) and also update your website.
ya that is absolutely fine, SEO is a slow process which need time. Slowly make the backlinks for your site and go for quality rather than quantity.
Thanks Guys. Just a couple of questions. We are a small business. Our primary focus is business computer maintenance. Which often means a lot of the information doesn't chyange. I realise that it is a diffult area to get to page one on for natural search. And until the site has existed for a bit and we have a decent budget it's not even worth approaching any SEO experts. I am trying to update content, like add articles etc, but it's not on the main page. It's two pages or steps from the main index page. I am submitting xml sitemaps everytime we update or add pages. However, I get the feeling that Google and co prefer updated content on the main landing page! Am I right? Thanks, Ryann
Do continually dir submission, forums postings, social bookmarking etc. for getting good quality links.......
I suggest you to keep doing link-building for your site. As a new site, you have to create credibility for your site in SE's. So, try to get quality backlinks from relevant site. # Do usual link-building methods - Directory Submission, Social Bookmarking, Blog commenting # Use Social Media as a promotion to your site # Ofcourse, On-page SEO for your site # Keep your content as unique and keep adding fresh content that will definitely one among the factor to get high SERP rank
I think you missed a chance, the day you saw your website on a higher page you should have immediately started optimizing it. 1 month is very new so you have time, go to good directories (niche related), blogs etc. Most importantly don not forget to update content! Google loves it when websites keep refreshing their content.
The problem is that I did. Within a week of the site being index by Google etc I had got to work on getting the sites to Directories and various other places. Obviously some of those take time to come into effect. I was on page 8 for a keyword in the two weeks, and three weeks later I am not even in the first ten pages for same keword. I think I know what I am paying for: I changed page names a few times in the first two weeks as I was indicisive and didn't put proper redirects in place. As we know Google hates pages not found on searches. Anyway, you live and learn.
Changing the SERPs is quite normal for new sites. Once it disappears after couple of days, then it becomes very difficult to bring it to same position position and also to make it nearly stable there.
Your probably right. However, I really didn't want to hear that. I am going to keep lying to myself that I will bring it back up.
Google likes new content... This does NOT necessarily mean changing content on existing pages. If you have pages that are ranking well then I would recommend NOT changing the page at all... simply build more links to it from other relevant sites to improve your rankings. The best way to give Google fresh content IMO is to add new pages to your site. Each new page you add allows you to target a different keyword phrase (since each page should be targeting a different phrase) and gives you a whole new set of on-page ranking factors to do it with (<title>, <h1>, <h2>s, content, bold/strong, etc.) If each time Google visits your site they find new pages, they will start to crawl your site more and more frequently. They try to find a balance between your content generation rate and their crawl rate. The more new content you generate, the more often they crawl, the fast your content gets indexed and ranked. THIS is the goal of adding new content - to increase your crawl frequency. It doesn't affect your rankings other than providing new pages with which to target new keyword phrases.
Canonical - best piece of advice I have recieved. Thank you. This is going to seem basic to you, but, - h1's and h2's relate to headinds right? So you are saying I should have heading and subheadings using h1 and h2 tags? Have I understood you right? Also, is h1 better than h2, and h2 better than h3. Does Google and search genuinely engines look for h1, h2 code? Do they give words in h1 code more importance in terms of seo than say in paragraphs or non h1, h2 codes?