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Is my site toast?

by Branlan17
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I have a landing page with a constantly update blog (with my own unique content) but about 3 months back when the site was brand new, I didn't know much about SEO and hit it hard with profile links (and probably didn't alternate the anchor text as much as I should have). Right now, I can't find my home page ANYWHERE near the top 50 pages for my KW phrase except that a recent post on my blogpage is indexed on page 18 or so. My site is still indexed and all of the pages show up in a site: type search but as far as my keyword goes... nothing. I remember when I was just building profile links the homepage was around page 20 of the results and it's just never come back. Did I completely screw myself or will building links through article directories, free traffic system blogs, web 2.0's and profile links be able to get me back in the running you think?

Thanks in advance,

- Brandon Landis
#site #toast
  • Profile picture of the author searchnology
    If the site is as new as you say, you will need to build backlinks at a slower pace. You can go hog wild on bulk backlinking once your site is around 2-3 years of age with no dramatic effects.

    You are in "the dance" now so your site SERPs should come back (probably even stronger than before) but I don't think anyone can tell you how long it will take.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    It really sounds like your site is still too new and maybe you need to do more backlinking.

    If you are really desperate then....

    I've done this a couple of times so I'm not throwing this out as some random suggestion.
    If a site is just sucking and doesn't want to play along. Scrap the whole thing and start fresh.
    It's kind of a final solution answer but it might be the only way to get that site off the ground.

    I think we all learn a little more every day about SEO and site ranking and most of my re-boots have been my beginner sites and I've found that with what I know now it's a lot easier to start fresh then trying to salvage a sinking ship.

    I've always given a site at least a year to prove itself before considering a re-boot. You're site at 3 months probably isn't ready for such a drastic measure.
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  • Profile picture of the author SRLee
    I have a site ranked at No.1.

    Have been hitting it with 10 profile links per day as soon as it was indexed. It now has about 60 indexed links, and is on the No.1 spot.

    I'd say keep building the links, but if it doesn't cost much to rebuild everything, then rebuilding it will be much better.
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    • Profile picture of the author mad_hatter_29
      Branlan - you've got mail.

      Paul.
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      • Profile picture of the author dualdtmz
        I used to build profile links to my sites and they did well...well at first anyways. Many people believe so strongly in these profile links from these packets that are floating around. And for some people that may work as they did with me at first.

        But this is what I noticed. After awhile your profile links will start to get removed by the moderators and as they are removed it shows the search engines that sites are "de-linking" from you which causes some sort of a slap in a sense (lack of better explanation) some say its the go0gle dance. but some of my sites have never recovered from it.

        So i stopped building these profile links and my sites do ALOT better now and stay consistent and are moving up in the rankings. Not quickly but slowly and as long as they are moving even slowly then im happy with that.
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    Without quality links, your site will sink.
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    • Profile picture of the author jamessol
      guess its normal for start.
      layout your link building campaign and stick to it at least 6 months (do it moderately) then re check your campaign and see the result.
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  • Profile picture of the author euhlir
    You didn't really give much details. What keywords were you targetting?

    If I was targetting a heavy competition phrase with some little blog and 50 profile backlinks I wouldn't be able to find my site either.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nakkers
    Toast isn't the right word - it is still alive but it sounds to me that you may have a penalty that is similar to one that I have had on a few of my sites.

    Simple test - if you site's domain name does not have any hyphens the just typw the domain name without www or the tld

    If it is over page 4 then you may have a penalty. Best to search webmaster world or even SEOmoz for more details what type you may have.
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  • Profile picture of the author Branlan17
    Right now my link building strategy is...

    Submit an artilcle to EZA
    Bookmark it
    make a post on one of my web 2.0s with links
    submit the article to 800 directories with magic article submitter
    submit it by hand to 7 high PR directories
    submit the article to free traffic system to be placed on 30 blogs
    profile link it to 40-50 sites per month using paul's packets (I make my accounts then wait a week and post links on all of the open accounts)



    Oh, I had a question tho, way back then I was linking to the root domain, and leaving out the / at the end that denotes my homepage (http://www.my-keyword-phrase.info instead of http://www.my-keyword-phrase.info/ )

    Could this have any effect because my homepage in Google is indexed with that / at the end and all of my links were built to the http://www.my-keyword-phrase.info url. When I visit my homepage it has a / on the end.
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