Cannot get a site to rank at all - What am I missing?

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I've been working on the on-page SEO for wendycohen.pro for a few months now. For some reason, the visibility keeps being reported at zero. Nothing is ranking anywhere. Am I missing something obvious? Would someone be willing to take a look?

Any help or direction is greatly appreciated!
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  • Profile picture of the author gibbsjoan85
    how old is your domain?
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  • Profile picture of the author Blondie53185
    The domain is fairly new - it was purchased in May, 2016.
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    • Profile picture of the author gibbsjoan85
      I believe that also affect on the age of your domain. Or some of your urls are not yet crawled in the search engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    You're missing up pretty much everything.

    If I scroll down, I get that you help businesses grow. But I have to scroll down.

    Look up onpage SEO... You're messing it up bigly.

    This is the title of your site:
    Consultant: Luxury Design, Build & Real Estate Industry - Wendy CohenNot a good keyword in there.

    This is your first h2 tag content: PowerHouse Advisors
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    If you are Wendy then you need some help.

    If you were hired by Wendy then you need to give the money back.
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  • Profile picture of the author Blondie53185
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by Blondie53185 View Post

      Wow! I was looking for help -- not attacks.
      If you are Wendy then that was NOT an attack. You would be a career woman with specialties in some areas and need help in another area (every specialist in one area needs the help of someone in another area).

      If you were HIRED by Wendy (as opposed to being a relative or friend helping out - you would still need help though) then you can take it any way you wish. NO one should take money for a job and then come on to a forum to find out how to do it.
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      • Profile picture of the author DABK
        She means me. I left an answer about 2 times as long. Not attacking, just pointing out that both from an SEO and from a marketing/conversions, her home page and the consultant pages are missing pretty much everything.

        Told her it's hard to figure out what her keywords are from looking at her pages, that her prospects, should they land on either page, would be confused as to what the pages are about. Told her to make the pages more about them, less about Wendy, to do keyword research and learn onpage optimization.

        I spoke directly but, in no way, did I attack. The mods saw fit to remove the advice, and it was good advice, even if I say it.

        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

        If you are Wendy then that was NOT an attack. You would be a career woman with specialties in some areas and need help in another area (every specialist in one area needs the help of someone in another area).

        If you were HIRED by Wendy (as opposed to being a relative or friend helping out - you would still need help though) then you can take it any way you wish. NO one should take money for a job and then come on to a forum to find out how to do it.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
          Originally Posted by DABK View Post

          She means me. I left an answer about 2 times as long. .
          Oh, I didn't see your post before it was deleted, that explains it but yeah - theres a disconnect there that made me wonder if the home page content was just filler content.

          the only thing i would part with you on is that I would make it about her, who she is and what she has to offer.

          the disconnect happened to me because I expected an introduction of who she is and what she does but instead all I see is some program not previously presented as belonging to her.

          but yeah the fact you can't even tell what is being targeted is an indication she/he could get more information about the purpose of on page SEO
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by Blondie53185 View Post

    I've been working on the on-page SEO for wendycohen.pro for a few months now. For some reason, the visibility keeps being reported at zero. Nothing is ranking anywhere. Am I missing something obvious? Would someone be willing to take a look?

    Any help or direction is greatly appreciated!


    I see one followed backlink on a weak page.

    Post a couple of keywords you're trying to rank.
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelkoehler92
    Well at first glance You cant predict for what keyword you are trying to rank and for what country. Just by checking your website over Semrush or other tools you will find that you have no keyword ranking anywhere and no backlinks.

    I don't know why someone does not builds any backlinks and asks why they are not ranking. You need links to rank go build that first and please fix your onpage.
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  • Profile picture of the author ronzepplin
    I just checked your site. new domain is a problem. What i see is your site lacks quality content in blog section. Your blog has only job notices whic are not good contents after all. You can visit my website if want to know what I mean. Also I think you need to do some work in your analytics. because the country may be not specified from where you will get the traffic rank. I am not a pro still learning though.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by DABK View Post

    She means me. I left an answer about 2 times as long. Not attacking, just pointing out that both from an SEO and from a marketing/conversions, her home page and the consultant pages are missing pretty much everything.

    Told her it's hard to figure out what her keywords are from looking at her pages, that her prospects, should they land on either page, would be confused as to what the pages are about. Told her to make the pages more about them, less about Wendy, to do keyword research and learn onpage optimization.

    I spoke directly but, in no way, did I attack. The mods saw fit to remove the advice, and it was good advice, even if I say it.
    Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

    Oh, I didn't see your post before it was deleted, that explains it but yeah - theres a disconnect there that made me wonder if the home page content was just filler content.

    the only thing i would part with you on is that I would make it about her, who she is and what she has to offer.

    the disconnect happened to me because I expected an introduction of who she is and what she does but instead all I see is some program not previously presented as belonging to her.

    but yeah the fact you can't even tell what is being targeted is an indication she/he could get more information about the purpose of on page SEO

    Now now. No need to fight over it. I'm sure she meant both of you.

    And I think she answered the original question from Mike. Clearly not Wendy.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    The right sidebar with 3 similar contact forms is confusing.
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  • Profile picture of the author chooseyourself
    I'm no SEO wiz or anything...but I suggest you need more content.

    Yes there's other stuff that can help like H2s and whatnot, but I see one blog post. That's a damn fine place to start.

    Gotta have more indexable content and you can do this by adding blog posts...often.

    -Phil
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  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi Blondie53185,

    Congratulations!

    Based on your homepage headline "PowerHouse Advisors Consulting Mission Statement" you are clearly ranked #1 in Google search. Google has done it's job of ranking your page for exactly what it appears to be about.

    Which makes me ask what keyword were you attempting to target?

    Your on-page intext keyword you most prominently feature in your homepage is ranking perfectly well, however your keyword targeting is inconsistent for page title URL and anchortext. I'm sure Google and other search engines find those other signals unreliable and ignore them whenever they are inconsistent with your in-text content.

    If you want your page to rank for something other than what you have specifically targeted ("PowerHouse Advisors’ Consulting Mission Statement") in your on-page content, you need to place that content on your page in a way that it makes it clear to users that is what your page is about. You also want to include other SEO signals like page titles, URLs, and anchortext that are consistent with your page content. Google looks for those signals to understand what you page is about. if they are inaccurate, Google will consider them unreliable and ignore them.

    If you get the basics right you have a much better chance of ranking for what you want to rank for, but like I said, you appear to be ranking well for what your page seems to be about.

    Make you page content about something useful and unique, do the basic SEO, and Google will likely rank your page for exactly what it is about, and in a position that makes sense according to other relevant pages.

    Here's a primer for learning how to perform basic SEO:

    https://www.google.com/webmasters/do...rter-guide.pdf

    HTH,

    Don Burk
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  • Profile picture of the author decenthasoo
    Hey few pages got indexed, start creating backLinks if your domain new just wait 15-20 days everything show in Google Console / Google webmaster tool.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author BeckettR
    The main aim of your website should be the first thing your user looks at.
    You should have relevant and targeted keywords in the title.
    The h1 & h2 tags must contain the targeted keywords and they should not be the brand name if it is a new company. The targeted keywords and content should contain the answer "What the website does or is actually is about", if it is a company having a program then it should show what the program does and the benefits the user gets after doing it.
    The content must have your targeted keywords for every page explaining the main aim/ what is the page about question. To get relevant keywords do a keyword research and onpage optimization.
    The pages should be connected in a flow where every page connects to the other with relevancy and purpose.


    One idea is to make the website first introduce wendy, who she is, what she does, her purpose for this business and what she has to offer the audience as a promise (product or service).
    There exists a problem in the level of connection between wendy and what the program is and gives. Instead it should be in a flow introducing wendy, who she is, what she does (previously) and what she can offer her users and how she's gonna offer it (program), how many people have previously and currently being benefitted by the program and how you could be a part of it. This is an example of a flow where you gradually become familiar with the personality, appreciate what she does and have a demand which she can fulfill (by her services).
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Originally Posted by BeckettR View Post

      The h1 & h2 tags must contain the targeted keywords and they should not be the brand name if it is a new company.
      Hi BeckettR,

      Most of your advice was spot on but I will quibble with you on one aspect of your advice.

      I think it may be too strong to infer that "h1 & h2 tags must contain the targeted keywords". While that is generally a good idea, those tags are completely unnecessary for highly effective on-page SEO.

      Many people are aware that Google recommends placing keywords in your heading tags, and that is generally good advice. However, Google has never relied on semantically correct HTML markup. From the very beginning Google has assumed that people would often not use proper markup on webpages and that web spammers would attempt to manipulate rankings via sneaky markup tricks. As a result, they have never weighted keywords in heading tags any differently than they weight those same keywords in other HTML tags. It's never been about the tag you use, it's always been about how your content is rendered on the page that matters.

      Google simply renders your text and weights the importance of on-page (intext) keywords on the page based on signals of prominence. Text that is rendered more prominently is weighted more prominently.

      Because page headlines and section headings typically use Hx tags, and that is the semantically correct HTML method, that is what Google specifically recommends. However the heading tags are just a tool, and it not the tool that you use that matters, but how you use that tool. You can get the exact same benefit using a paragraph tag, a div tag, span tag, or any other tag that renders text on the page. And using heading tags that do not render text in a prominent location, size, etc has no special benefit.

      I mention this because a lot of people seem to misunderstand the purpose of using keywords within headings and how that effects SEO. It's not the tag, that matters, it's how your code renders the text that matters.

      I am an advocate of crafting semantically correct HTML markup, and using Hx tags for headings is the semantically correct method, so for that reason I recommend using Hx tags for headings. But it is not the use of the specific tag that improves SEO, it is the use of keywords in text, that render as prominent headings, that benefit your SEO, the tag used is not relevant to the SEO benefit. So, using Hx tags is more of a should rather than a "must" for SEO.
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