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Help needed!!! I am a newbie

by Andy21
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Hi all, I have set up my real estate website since sept last year.

For the past few months, I have been updating the website contents and submitting sitemaps to google and bing. Bing has indexed 200 over pages of my website but the strange thing is, google showed my index page as 0 and ever crawled pages is 15.

I talked to a few friends. My friends said it could be due to me copying and pasting some the real estate news from local online newspaper website directly. So I looking through the net about adding canonical link to my post. However, just one day after adding the canonical link some of my news section in my website, my alexa ranking plunge and drop by 2 million.

I have been writing many original articles as guest post to some of the high PR ranking page that the forum has recommended. But I can't seem to get good improvement in my website ranking.

Can anyone help me with this problem? My website is New Launch for sale in Singapore. Thank you so much.
#help needed #needed #newbie
  • Profile picture of the author Iceware
    Well submitting your sitemap doesn't really do anything for indexing or ranking. I'm not sure where you are getting the content from but you need to make sure that your keyword is in the content otherwise google won't know what your site is about. Also make sure you are getting links from high PR do follow pages and not just the domain. I.E. if the homepage is a PR 6 but you get a link from a new page that new page will be a PR 0. Not rally sure what else your problem could be.
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    • Profile picture of the author Andy21
      Oh okay... Actually I only want to optimised pages that feature each of the new property launch. For example, Bartley Ridge - New Launch Talk for the keyword bartley ridge. So when people type bartley ridge, they will go to the bartley ridge page.

      The news section is just to consolidate all news related to property from different news website so that it keeps the consumer informed of the development. Is this a bad strategy?
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      • Profile picture of the author Iceware
        ok I see it looks like that search is very competitive the number 1 website has over 40,000 backlinks and is very optimized. It is possible to get ranked on page one just going to take a while and it will cost a good amount of money.
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  • Profile picture of the author Iceware
    I noticed that your social media buttons are not pointing to your business pages
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy21
    Okay thanks!

    But do you have any idea why google does not index my website? And also, it seems that some of the backlinks that I post a week ago does not show up when I use ahref to search. How long is the time lag between posting the backlink and indexing it?
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    • Profile picture of the author Iceware
      When you create a backlink it may not show up for a long time if its a low pr or spam type of backlink(like forum links). Now I have found that posting to sites like wordpress.com or squidoo the link may not get indexed for monthes unless you hit it with a 2nd teir, however if you buy a high pr homepage link I have seen indexing within 24 hours sometimes faster depending on the pr of the site. Now for your site it could be a number of things such as bad links going to it or crawl errors when google looks at your site.

      You can see a generally idea of what google thinks of your site on https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ it will tell you if there are errors on your site and you can submit your sitemap and see index status.

      if you are using wordpress, add the all in one seo pack and google sitemap plugins. So pretty much you need to get high pr (2 - 9) homepage links. For your keywords you may need many but rule of thumb is to not even get any backlinks below pr 1 because they will come to kill your site.

      I did this with my newest website where I hit it with only pr 1 or higher and it shot up to the first page within 24 hours and now I am currently number 3 to 5 on google for couple different keywords.

      I hope this makes sense lol ??
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      • Profile picture of the author Andy21
        Wow. I am more enlightened. Really thank you so much for your explanation. May I know what is a second tier backlink? What are some of good websites or services you can recommend to build good backlinks?
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        • Profile picture of the author Iceware
          Originally Posted by Andy21 View Post

          Wow. I am more enlightened. Really thank you so much for your explanation. May I know what is a second tier backlink? What are some of good websites or services you can recommend to build good backlinks?
          A 2nd tier is a backlink pointing to a backlink lol yea it helps to get the backlink index faster. I would recommend source-wave.com to learn about seo and a good service is Iceware Marketing
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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    Also, you need to improve page loading speed, it is slow a little.

    Concentrate on unique content creation only.
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    • Profile picture of the author Andy21
      Originally Posted by Hansons View Post

      Also, you need to improve page loading speed, it is slow a little.

      Concentrate on unique content creation only.
      Oh how can I increase my loading speed?
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      • Profile picture of the author Andy21
        Alright I'll take a look at those services and explore more. Thanks for helping out and clearing my queries.
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      • Profile picture of the author micksss
        Originally Posted by Andy21 View Post

        Oh how can I increase my loading speed?
        Since your website runs on WordPress check you plugins and if there are any you do not really need consider disabling them. Also a wp cache plugin could help speed things up. If after optimizing your site in everyway possible (image sizes, plugins, tidying up code, etc) doesn't do the trick it could be your web hosting plan that's slowing your site's loading speed down.
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