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Why does it take weeks to rank a site?

by stepiw
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Why does it always seem to take a few weeks to see a site in top 1000? I'm currently promoting my 2nd site ever, so I'm quite new to this. Maybe someone can explain the mechanics behind this. I've been building links for the past 2 weeks. Most of them got pinged. A lot of quality links including a few rented home page PR6 links, lots of web2.0, press releases on popular high pr sites, social signals, videos etc, but I'm yet to see this site in top 1000.

My first site was for the same keywords as this one, but it was built on a e-commerce platform and was actually selling products. This second site is an Amazon affiliate site built with FreshStoreBuilder that looks like a real e-commerce site, except the checkout button leads to Amazon cart. Is this why Google hates me now? For content on this new site, I at first used very short 175 word articles, but yesterday changed them all to about 2000 word unique articles. Don't know if that was the problem. Though my first site used copy pasted Amazon descriptions and it ranked just fine within 10 days, and was in top 3 within like 3 weeks.

This keyword has 40K monthly searches and has 5.5 million results in Google. Could anyone of you guys give me an insight on what's up? Not neccessary in my particular case, but maybe just explain why it seems to take a few weeks to rank for everyone?
#rank #site #weeks
  • Profile picture of the author Alex Blades
    Google wants to make all the money from it's SE users, so they make it hard for marketers to profit from their searchers. Your best bet is to target keyword with less competion, and optmize for other SE's and don't depend solely on Google, because they can wipe out your businesses in an instant. Google does what Google wants...
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    • Profile picture of the author stepiw
      Originally Posted by Alex Blades View Post

      Google wants to make all the money from it's SE users, so they make it hard for marketers to profit from their searchers. Your best bet is to target keyword with less competion, and optmize for other SE's and don't depend solely on Google, because they can wipe out your businesses in an instant. Google does what Google wants...
      Considering those things are based on algorythm, there's a rather precise science behind Google, and I just want to understand it a little better.
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      • Profile picture of the author intergen
        Originally Posted by stepiw View Post

        Considering those things are based on algorythm, there's a rather precise science behind Google, and I just want to understand it a little better.
        Alex - this is precisely why Google has an algorithm that takes into account many factors - one being domain age and NATURAL linking etc. (not a brand new site with zero authority). There is enough info on internet marketing and SEO here on the WF to fill up warehouses with paper if it was all printed. We can't give you one simple black and white answer in a thread as there are literally hundreds of factors.

        But I don't understand why folks are still trying to BUY back links. If you're in a niche for some short term gain by all means buy links that could look natural to Google and work to get your site to the top of the SERP's. I've done this for sites in the past and have made some great headway in low competition niches - as Google doesn't have as much of a choice and they don't spend as much time policing these niches (and local niches for that matter).

        However, if you a looking to build a longer term brand and build authority in a niche don't BUY back links - you need to EARN back links.

        Content has been (and always will be) the foundation of building solid traffic, visitors and links. There are multiple ways to do this and create traffic quickly and EARN back links. I launched a WSO addressing these techniques.

        A couple of secrets from my WSO - create excellent consumable content in your niche or have someone write it for you (textbrokers.com or others). I recently had an article written for me. Once I received it I had to re-write sections but it gave me a starting point and it took a lot less time (maybe 15 minutes). I posted it to Social media news, strategy, tools, and techniques | Social Media Today (it doesn't cost anything to post here and anyone who has solid content can get an article published.) - here it is - http://socialmediatoday.com/mark-kit...-new-moneyball

        Check out the share rate on it - literally hundreds of shares on several social networks. In my profile I have a link to my social profiles and my website. I received hundreds of visitors - the article was on my site as well and I received several natural back links to it - as well as some of my other posts on my blog. What did all of this cost me? $8.00 for the article and 15 minutes of time.

        So that's one quick easy strategy for you....enjoy
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  • Profile picture of the author Jason Perez O'Connor
    I wouldn't try to understand how a website ranks, when it gets indexed and try to come up with precise times because it never is precise. Just focus on your site and its ease of use for visitors, and marketing. Google will do what Google wants, when Google wants

    I've seen people rank in minutes and others take months for similar keywords with identical linking methods.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Why would you think google should rank your site #1?

      That makes no sense.

      Going into this with an attitude that googe MUST rank my
      website, is a bad starting point. Not to mention that it's
      just wrong.

      Here's the truth.

      Not every site takes weeks.

      Not every site will be ranked.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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