Alright guys. I need your webmaster skills and knowledge to help me solve this one. I have a blog that has been alive since November 2012 and has never ranked in Google. If you check it...it is listed as N/A. Now this blog is very original and I spend a lot of time making quality and long articles. It's not spammy. It's not full of links. In fact it's no different from any other site I've ran and have ranked up in. After reading a few articles I feared perhaps I was Google Banned. Kinda of ridiculous but what else should I think? So I contacted Google and requested a re-evaluation of my blog. According to Google I am not Google banned and in addition they reviewed the site and found no violations of the Google ToS. Now I'm stumped. What could possibly be left??! I can't understand why it wont rank in Google and I don't know whether it is hurting the site or not. Can anyone help me brainstorm and solve this one?
I know that this can be frustrating. Keep in mind that just because you build a site or even create unique content doesn't mean that you will rank well for certain keywords. First, you must get indexed by the search engines. The best way to do this is to get some links from some websites that are already listed, preferably authoritative sites. Then, you need to optimize the content for the keywords for which you want to rank well. Lastly, you need to build the authority of the site through links, citations, social shares, etc. so you can beat out your competition and rank well. Your site is relatively young, less than a year old. I don't know what niche you are in or what keywords you are going for, but it usually takes some time and good bit of effort to get a site to be seen as authoritative by the search engines so they will rank you. It basically sounds like you just need to do basic SEO and persevere. You can get there. Kurt Steinbrueck OurChurch.Com