I've been doing SEO and web development for several years now and I'm starting to get really frustrated. I have over 200 websites and none of them are getting traffic for the keywords I've been targeting for the last 2 years. I'll go after a very easy keyword and get the domain up to PR6 and do a ton of on site SEO and I'll still be on the 4th page when the number 1 position is a PR2 with crappy SEO. Is there some weird of stage for website that involves them being stuck on the 4th page or maybe all my websites have a penalty that pushes them back 35 positions? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks
1) Do you want to optimized your website for a really competitive keyword? 2) Have you made qualifies backlinks for your website? 3) Have you submitted your website to social bookmarking websites? 4) Have you written articles for it and submitted it on articles directories? 5) Please note that pagerank is not the only factor for ranking results.
Yeah, they're all on the same server and IP. Would that cause a problem? Also, most of the domains are brand new and I'm going for competitive keywords which only have aged domains on the first page. I never realized what a big factor that was until I started checking the dates of every ranking domain.
being on the same ip may be a problem. your site may have been penalized from google, as many sites on same ip exchanging links may be considered as a link farm. that already happened to me.
In my opinion, it's the age of your domain. Google loves old, established websites (even if their info is out of date). I have many websites on many IPs. I don't think that's your problem.
Unless you've got a team working for you, 200 websites is too much to handle. I'm assuming you're working on your own and to be honest handling more than 3 websites becomes a real pain because you just cannot give any one particular website the attention it deserves. Pick 1-3 websites from the list and concentrate all your efforts on them. PR doesn't correlate with rankings most of the time. Content and quality links does. Stop chasing PR! Get a few related articles written for your site, make them original and unique and try to get at least one quality backlink to the site. Give it time and repeat the process.
Thanks for the tips. I agree, 200 sites is too much to handle... especially when a lot of them are online schools, stores, & social networks. I'm currently trying to sell a bunch and just keep my aged ones. I just made this post to make sure there wasn't some sort of penalty that would give me the results I'm having. If google thought I was a link farm would they give me a 35-40 position penalty or would they just take away my PR?
they might give you a #4...and thats it. Its all in their algo. get some more varied ips... and no crosslinking on all the sites-
if i were you ill go check the backlinks of my competitors go cross check it to what you have and beat em
many people have said already. I also guess its a age factor. also try to concentrate on three or four main sites. Its better to earn from one site huge then to ern from several small sites.Just an personal opinion
Yes there is of course a trust factor for aged domains, but the true answer is you are most likely lacking backlinks for your targeted phrases. PR 6 is amazing, and a great achievement, but if the PR 2 has more anchor text backlinks for the phrase chances are they are going to outrank you. Try doing a couple rounds of social bookmarking, press releases, and article writing, and see if it's still impossible.
I think this is just the effect that you get because site owners defend positions #1-#3 vigorously. Since those positions get the lion's share of the traffic, they notice when they are being challenged by a new site, and respond.
Sounds like you need to do some backlinking, although remember Google prefers quality over quantity. Social bookmarking, press releases, articles all of these will give ytou a vaired backlink profile.