Hi I've been working on my links the last week or so using information I have picked up here - A real great insight btw! When I started I was position 10 for one keyword and about 30+ for the other on Google. When I started the link:site on yahoo was 10 inbound links (from a few forums, webdesiginer etc). I now have 33 inlinks on yahoo site explorer with links from various directories that my competitors are on as well as links from an article submitted to articlebase, articlesnatch, articlealley, hubpages (same article on all 4) plus a link from Digg. Yet I have moved down not up! I've checked the competitors links on yahoo explorer and they haven't changed. The market I am in is not one that has a high level of SEO activity as offline advertising is the main method used and as far as I can tell, my site is the only one with links from article sites, from digg etc. My site is made with clean html and css etc so I don't think it's that that is stopping me. Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong? Cheers!
this is too early to tell. usually when you start a fresh site, due to freshness element and link building campaign, your site shows high on ranking but usually that initial ranking dont last for more than a week or so. thats why you were up in ranking and went down which is only natural the way google ranking works. what you need to do is to keep building links and over time you will climb back up. it takes time and patience to get up there. if you want to maintain a stable ranking, then you need to build links for some time, one week of link building is not nearly enough.
Give it a little bit of time before you freak out. I have noticed alot of times you sink before you shoot up. If after a couple weeks you are still sinking, you are doing something wrong. I was ranked #10 on Google and started to drop in the ranks. I kept working on my backlinks, and got all the way to page 5, and then POOF! #1. Have some patience, and keep your SEO clean, and it will work itself out.
Hi mate. I agree with the other guys. It's too early to tell so you need to keep persevering with the link building. Go nice and steady - try adding 10-20% more links month on month - articles, directories (just use your URL as the anchor text at this stage) - then after a few months look for a could of choice anchor text links. Should do the trick
In my opinion, only knowing what you've shown in this thread, I think you are treading some dangerous territory with your link building strategy. You want to get out in front early with QUALITY backlinks. I think you were probably better off with 10 solid inlinks, than you are with 23 spammy or duplicated-content articles with your links. I think MAYBE Google is actually penalizing you because (pssst ... they probably know you're taking shortcuts). Spend some time getting real quality, RELEVANT links!!
There are far too many variables in play to know for sure. I agree with some of what seowebguy said, that you should be looking for backlinks on high quality, relevant sites. Links from spun and duplicated articles are of very little value.
Ok, let's start with a question of scale. 10 links is completely insignificant for most terms, 33 is the same. Google dance will move sites around. This is NORMAL. SEO is not a straight forward process and it does take time.
Hi Thanks for the replies. I've written a new article on a different subject now so will submit that once and then change it around before submitting it elsewhere. Like I've said, the other sites have no links of any quality that I can find which makes me think even just a few quality links like I have mentioned above should put my site above them. By the way, my site is over 5 years old so it's not a new site. Thanks again!