Has Anyone Else Experienced This?

MattinSD · 09-21-2011, 11:43 AM

I have a site that is about two weeks old, is an exact-match domain name for my primary keyword, and is already up to #3 in Yahoo and #7 in Bing. The problem? I'm not even ranking in the top 1000 in Google.

What's even stranger is that the only backlinking I've done so far is manual bookmarking, building a couple of 2.0 anchor sites (Squidoo, etc.) for each of my pages, and manually submitting about 10 articles to the top directories - certainly nothing that should have run afoul of Google.

In other words, my on-page SEO alone got me my current rankings in the other search engines, but it's like my site doesn't even exist in Google's eyes. This is the complete opposite of what I usually experience with new sites, so I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this?

Could it be that Google doesn't like something about the theme I'm using (I'm using a Click Bump premium theme)?

JMartin · 09-21-2011, 11:55 AM

Theme matter for indexing and some light ranking? No.

For now, I'd keep building. Try adding another piece of content and pinging. Maybe get it a link that isn't from an article directory or 2.0 property you made yourself (meh anyway). Now and then I get a site that seems like it takes a month to get indexed and ranked right. Not a big deal to me though.

09-21-2011, 11:43 AM	#1
MattinSD Warrior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 27 Thanks: 3 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Has Anyone Else Experienced This? I have a site that is about two weeks old, is an exact-match domain name for my primary keyword, and is already up to #3 in Yahoo and #7 in Bing. The problem? I'm not even ranking in the top 1000 in Google. What's even stranger is that the only backlinking I've done so far is manual bookmarking, building a couple of 2.0 anchor sites (Squidoo, etc.) for each of my pages, and manually submitting about 10 articles to the top directories - certainly nothing that should have run afoul of Google. In other words, my on-page SEO alone got me my current rankings in the other search engines, but it's like my site doesn't even exist in Google's eyes. This is the complete opposite of what I usually experience with new sites, so I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this? Could it be that Google doesn't like something about the theme I'm using (I'm using a Click Bump premium theme)?

09-21-2011, 11:55 AM	#2
JMartin Money Never Sleeps War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Vegas Posts: 322 Thanks: 2 Thanked 28 Times in 25 Posts	Re: Has Anyone Else Experienced This? Theme matter for indexing and some light ranking? No. For now, I'd keep building. Try adding another piece of content and pinging. Maybe get it a link that isn't from an article directory or 2.0 property you made yourself (meh anyway). Now and then I get a site that seems like it takes a month to get indexed and ranked right. Not a big deal to me though.
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