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How to tell if your site has been penalized

by ohnoeedidntt
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For some reason I'm not able to rank for the target keyword. Its going on two weeks since the site launched. My on page seo is good, I bought 20 local citations, and 1 high tf/cf PBN link and have my profiles with my link on facebook and twitter. My highest competitor ranked #1 has 0tf/19cf and my site according to Majestic is 0tf/13cf and my link from a pbn hasn't even indexed yet. according to that , I should be on at least the first page right? Surely I'd be ranking somewhere in the top 50 I'd think. When I do site:mywebsite on google it shows that all my pages are indexed.

Another thing I'm confused about is, I'm ranked 31 for a terrible version of the keyword I was targeting. My niche is carpet cleaning in a small city in texas. the keyword I'm ranking for is carpet cleaning companies "city name" in "city name".. nobody is strait up searching for that... I want to be ranked carpet cleaning "city name" so I can start making money. Anyone have any ideas of what might be going on?
#penalized #penguin penelty #seo #site
  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    Since Penguin ignores bad links, you will never know if links are helping your ranking because they can't hurt you - at least with the automatic algorithm. They CAN hurt you in other ways. The only penalties you are likely to see anymore will be noted in your Search Console.

    Two weeks is very little time to worry about whether you are ranking or not. Link building can sometimes take months to have an effect.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Actually it's easy to test the strength of a backlink, just point the link at an image URL. Few people actually try to rank images outside of the image keywords (ex: car image, wallpaper, etc...). So... either the link ranks an image or it doesn't.

    OP, none of that social or TF stuff is ranking anything.
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    • Profile picture of the author ohnoeedidntt
      Since Penguin ignores bad links, you will never know if links are helping your ranking because they can't hurt you - at least with the automatic algorithm. They CAN hurt you in other ways. The only penalties you are likely to see anymore will be noted in your Search Console.

      Two weeks is very little time to worry about whether you are ranking or not. Link building can sometimes take months to have an effect.
      Oh ok, perhaps I'm a little too over eager. Thanks for the insights on penalties.

      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Actually it's easy to test the strength of a backlink, just point the link at an image URL. Few people actually try to rank images outside of the image keywords (ex: car image, wallpaper, etc...). So... either the link ranks an image or it doesn't.

      OP, none of that social or TF stuff is ranking anything.
      I was under the impression that TF and CF were the contributing factors in determining the rank. I must be misinformed. I thought those metrics were considered the link juice that helps your site rank or raise through the SERP. It seemed to be a common topic on a couple different local seo rank and rent guides I've been following. Any elaboration on that would be appreciated!
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  • Profile picture of the author TuxlerVPNConnection
    Originally Posted by ohnoeedidntt View Post

    For some reason I'm not able to rank for the target keyword. Its going on two weeks since the site launched. My on page seo is good, I bought 20 local citations, and 1 high tf/cf PBN link and have my profiles with my link on facebook and twitter. My highest competitor ranked #1 has 0tf/19cf and my site according to Majestic is 0tf/13cf and my link from a pbn hasn't even indexed yet. according to that , I should be on at least the first page right? Surely I'd be ranking somewhere in the top 50 I'd think. When I do site:mywebsite on google it shows that all my pages are indexed.

    Another thing I'm confused about is, I'm ranked 31 for a terrible version of the keyword I was targeting. My niche is carpet cleaning in a small city in texas. the keyword I'm ranking for is carpet cleaning companies "city name" in "city name".. nobody is strait up searching for that... I want to be ranked carpet cleaning "city name" so I can start making money. Anyone have any ideas of what might be going on?
    Its wise thinking to create backlinks manually. And you have to wait to index your backlinks. Sometimes it takes long to index backlinks. Why don't you start to create backlinks on a regular base? SEO isn't easy anymore. Its hard to be on top.
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