SEO: What am I doing wrong?

11 years ago

Pretty broad question. I don't think the site is being penalized. But you can create an account at Google Webmaster Tools and Google will let you know if it is.

Your home page has a PR of 0 - so quite low and probably wouldn't be able to rank for anything other than super easy keywords. And since to get to any of your actual keyword pages takes 2 clicks (build muscle to secrets-for-how-to-get-big-arms) at that point you have a PR of N/A (so no PR at all). So your keyword pages have very little SEO value.

Checking the site in Majestic SEO, only 2 backlinks are showing up - both from the same article directory. So while you've been building good content fine, your backlinks are virtually non-existent. You probably have more than just those 2 since Majestic (or any other backlink took) won't actually catch all of the links. But regardless, that's your key issue in my opinion. You need more backlinks - more good backlinks.

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UMS

11 years ago

Your site isn't penalized.

While you might have been building a lot of backlinks, it can take sometime (if at all) for those backlinks to be recognised.

Looking at your site with Majestic SEO and ahrefs, they are only picking up 2 backlinks, so you'll need a bit of patience and building more backlinks.

Now, you say you are targeting low competition phrases, but I looked at a few of your post titles (assuming they are the keywords you are targeting) and

bmi calculator
back exercises

are both extremely competitive keywords.

The easiest one I saw on your home page was

best toning exercises

although that gets very few monthly searches.

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TotalWebsiteControl

11 years ago

I think your way to over optimized and google can see that.

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MikeFriedman 11 years ago

Originally Posted by TheSeoGuy89

I think your way to over optimized and google can see that.

Based on what? What is over optimized?
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- TotalWebsiteControl 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MikeFriedman
  
  Based on what? What is over optimized?
  
  Just... this feeling... i have deep in my gut.
  
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  Michael_Le Banned 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by TheSeoGuy89
  
  Just... this feeling... i have deep in my gut.
  
  is that how you offer seo services to your clients? based on a feeling in your gut? so doing an actual site audit wouldn't cross your mind then?
  
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  TotalWebsiteControl 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Michael_Le
  
  is that how you offer seo services to your clients? based on a feeling in your gut? so doing an actual site audit wouldn't cross your mind then?
  
  Its called sarcasm slick.
  
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  Michael_Le Banned 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by TheSeoGuy89
  
  Its called sarcasm slick.
  
  ok....bowlcut
  
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3rnald0

11 years ago

Thank you for the replies. I agree that I think google hasn't given me credit for my backlinks yet. UMS - on the google keyword tool it says back exercises and BMI calculator are low competition keyphrases. How do you determine competition?

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UMS

11 years ago

Originally Posted by 3rnald0

UMS - on the google keyword tool it says back exercises and BMI calculator are low competition keyphrases. How do you determine competition?

Unfortunately you have made a classic keyword research mistake by misinterpreting the competition column in Google Adwords Keyword Tool (GAKT).

This is the level of competition of people bidding on a particular keyword for their Adwords campaign and not the competition to rank for that keyword.

To check how hard it will be to rank for a keyword, you ideally need to analyse the on-page and off-page SEO for the first page of results (or at the very least the top 3-5) to see how optimized they are.

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3rnald0 11 years ago

thanks for the help UMS
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DF85

11 years ago

Originally Posted by UMS

Unfortunately you have made a classic keyword research mistake by misinterpreting the competition column in Google Adwords Keyword Tool (GAKT).

This is the level of competition of people bidding on a particular keyword for their Adwords campaign and not the competition to rank for that keyword.

Why would competition be all that different for the same keywords with Adwords v. organic?

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UMS 11 years ago

Originally Posted by DF85

Why would competition be all that different for the same keywords with Adwords v. organic?

While there can be some correlation between high competition for Adwords and organic competition, you should never base your organic keyword research on it.

A good example was one of the keyword phrase "bmi calculator" that the OP was targeting.
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M_Usman

11 years ago

In my view your website needs more optimized data with in site.... use your targeted keywords in blogs title, use deep linking Deep linking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia build your links on do follow high authority pages you can measure page authority from here http://moonsy.com/page_authorityback-links will work when you have good text in your site and quality of back-links will be high also you need to grow your social media with relevant peoples or who are interested in your content

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lutherlars

11 years ago

I've also found that lately, Google are also taking much longer to recognize links than they used too. Sounds like you are on the right track, but trying to acquire some high pr links relevant to your nich wouldn't hurt.

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M_Usman

11 years ago

Originally Posted by lutherlars

I've also found that lately, Google are also taking much longer to recognize links than they used too. Sounds like you are on the right track, but trying to acquire some high pr links relevant to your nich wouldn't hurt.

If the back-link posted on high authority pages Google recognize links quickly

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winsoar

11 years ago

Age of site and size of site are big factors. Keep adding useful content to your site, and compare your site with the competitors who are already at the top of Google to get an idea of what Google are looking for.

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- lutherlars 11 years ago
  
  LOL right.
  You my friend, are an idiot.
  
  Originally Posted by ribon
  
  Its for overSEO.
  Please check your webmaster tools and write request to Google.
  
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  paulgl 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lutherlars
  
  LOL right.
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upendraets

11 years ago

Backlink have no value ... Do follow backlink have the value so, just increase your do follow backlink

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sadeeshbala

11 years ago

I think u are going too fast... build more do follow links

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John Romaine

11 years ago

Originally Posted by 3rnald0

....building (white hat) backlinks

LOL, oh the irony.

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3rnald0 11 years ago

Originally Posted by John Romaine

LOL, oh the irony.

would you like to explain your comment?
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patco

11 years ago

Your site is good and let me congratulate you for the posts that you can add daily. Just continue doing this. SEO is a SLOW process. Also, do not forget to use article marketing and also build a linkwheel or link pyramid using top web2.0 websites!

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3rnald0

11 years ago

thanks for the kind words patco

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falcott

11 years ago

SEO is not a quick method. Also, a lot of your backlinks may never be seen or recognized by G, unless they are from high traffic and/or PR sites. That's just one of the things you have to accept. Some links also may disappear. You just need to keep building and building.

One of the things you could try is to build a blog network. Forget about public networks unless you want G to slap you. If you build your own then it could cost $1000s. Instead, try using Web 2.0 properties such as reddit, squidoo, etc. (Maybe you're already doing that?)

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kaytav

11 years ago

Since you mentioned, that your website is new, it will take sometime to rank your keywords. You will have to be patient and keep building quality links.

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Suir1980

11 years ago

Your problem is you're in the ultra-competitive fitness niche.

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FrankRumbauskas

11 years ago

Your site is wayyyyyy too new. That's about all it comes down to. Once the site is several months old you can start serious link-building but even then it will probably take several months to reach page 1 on competitive phrases.

Another tip, whatever comes out of Matt Cutts mouth, just do the opposite and you'll shoot up in rank.

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