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Strange Page Ranking Curiosity...

by Bondtana
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I started up a website about a year and a half ago. This was before I even knew what SEO was. I did NOTHING to help with it's page rank. It has some natural backlinks, not many. After a few months, I put it on the backburner. Since then I started a new site & have been working hard on it's SEO.

I've noticed that a growing number of people have been coming to my blog through the old site (there is a link on the front page). At first it was 1 or 2 a day, it's crept up to about 8 or 9 a day. So I go to my old site and find out it has a 2 page rank... While my new site only has a 1.

I checked the backlinks for my old site at backlinkswatch.com & noticed a strange thing...

Certain places where I placed backlinks to the new site, it's giving credit for a backlink to the old site (according to backlinkwatcher). What the hell is up with that? lol :confused:
I'm assuming that's why the old site has ranked up...?:confused:

I'd really like to have those links crediting my new site if this is the case!

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
#curiosity #page #ranking #strange
  • Profile picture of the author Jon Steel
    For SEO you want to focus on 5 things:

    1) Backlinks (BIG)
    2) Meta-Tags: The Meta-Title and Meta-Description are CRITICAL
    3) Keyword Density
    4) Have a URL with your primary keywords in it
    5) The Age of your website

    These are the things that can make or break a websites SE position. Your old site has backlinks and it is also older - so google gives it a more favorable edge...

    js
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    • Profile picture of the author Bondtana
      Thanks for the advice man.

      I'm still worried about why my old site seems to be stealing my new site's backlinks...:confused:
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