Very confusing results

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My main site is relatively new (several months) and it's selling products through amazon affiliate. I have not used spam or bought links but steadily growing the number of backlinks through manual SEO. The content/articles are unique and made for humans to read. On page optimization is not perfect but good enough to rank somewhere in google. I have 0 amazon links on my homepage but instead they are spread on the articles, few links each article, around 25 affiliate links in 5 articles. I have legit social media which is grown naturally without buying. Homepage is static (only one post is ever present but this should not be a problem).

The issue is that my homepage is nowhere to be found in google for the keyword that I rank, not even on the last possible page, meanwhile I find incredibly bad websites and even free blogs that actually rank for this keyword. How is this possible? Website with only 1 article, and literally nothing else, not even backlinks and yet you can find it in google but my site cannot be found. I have no idea what could be wrong.
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  • Profile picture of the author alvinchua91
    I think you have too many affiliate links per article.. Just 1-2 max will do.
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    • Profile picture of the author flipfire
      Originally Posted by alvinchua91 View Post

      I think you have too many affiliate links per article.. Just 1-2 max will do.
      This... You don't need that many affiliate links.

      Regards,

      Lee
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      • Profile picture of the author GeneralBlob
        Originally Posted by alvinchua91 View Post

        I think you have too many affiliate links per article.. Just 1-2 max will do.
        Originally Posted by flipfire View Post

        This... You don't need that many affiliate links.

        Regards,

        Lee
        Alright so if I remove all amazon links will this fix my site? I'll add them later on and it will be just a few.
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        • Profile picture of the author Curtis2011
          Originally Posted by GeneralBlob View Post

          Alright so if I remove all amazon links will this fix my site? I'll add them later on and it will be just a few.
          No, removing affiliate links won't help you rank higher. The people who mentioned that have no idea what they are talking about.

          To rank your home page, you ideally would have:

          1. Lots of text content on it that is focused on the topic at hand. 500 words is typically the minimal, but more is almost always better. If you really want to rank at the top of Google for your keyword, I'd say 2000 words is the minimum amount you should aim for.

          2. A few pictures that are SEO optimized.

          3. If you want to go all-out, even embed a related Youtube video on the page.

          4. Social media links such as G+ will slightly help you also.

          5. Lots of links to related pages on your own website. For instance, if your website was about dogs, then you might have a bunch of links to related pages about specific breeds of dogs.

          6. And of course, more backlinks to your home page with your keywords in the anchor text.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jimerson Farveez
    Originally Posted by GeneralBlob View Post

    My main site is relatively new (several months) and it's selling products through amazon affiliate. I have not used spam or bought links but steadily growing the number of backlinks through manual SEO. The content/articles are unique and made for humans to read. On page optimization is not perfect but good enough to rank somewhere in google. I have 0 amazon links on my homepage but instead they are spread on the articles, few links each article, around 25 affiliate links in 5 articles. I have legit social media which is grown naturally without buying. Homepage is static (only one post is ever present but this should not be a problem).

    The issue is that my homepage is nowhere to be found in google for the keyword that I rank, not even on the last possible page, meanwhile I find incredibly bad websites and even free blogs that actually rank for this keyword. How is this possible? Website with only 1 article, and literally nothing else, not even backlinks and yet you can find it in google but my site cannot be found. I have no idea what could be wrong.
    Make sure you add 'nofollow' tags to your affiliate links

    Anyhow, you may notice that there are threads over there over last few weeks, saying that their amazon sites traffic are dropped... better you could search the forum to find such thread and get more details...
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Nofollow has nothing to do with affiliate links. It does not do a thing,
      except make it seem you have spammed, untrusted links on your page.

      I have no clue as to why people on the WF are clueless about what
      nofollow is, and how it should be used

      Not everyone can rank for a given term. People need to realize, the first
      thing in "Why don't I rank, " is that there a millions of people online doing
      websites....

      Google has no obligation to do anything for any webmaster.

      The definition of "incredibly bad websites," is all websites that WF
      members don't own. Or so it seems.

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

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      • Profile picture of the author Curtis2011
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        The definition of "incredibly bad websites," is all websites that WF
        members don't own. Or so it seems.
        Lol. I totally agree.

        People post all day long about how they cover their website with PLR content, spun content, crap content that they outsourced for $2 per article, and then talk about how they blast their site with 40,000 automated crap-quality backlinks... and then they wonder why Google isn't ranking them higher.
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