New Websites - How Hard to Rank them Now??

You won't rank them overnight (unless there is no competition). Focus on providing the human visitor with what they want, and think of SEO second (if at all). Your long term results will follow.

Michael

Not difficult at all. With Google whipping out a lot of competition for bad practices, I think its easier.

But I see new sites are getting sandboxed now more...

You can rank them, just build lots of good quality links and PING THEM or build tiered links to them.

This way all your links get registered by the Search Engines, and you can rank fast.

Bob, it's a minimum of 3 months to see good ranking or authority for a new domain. Ask your Developer to customize page according to 'good' SEO standards. Such as....

* Title tag
* Domain URL
* Text formats
* Redirection issues
* Website speed
* Websites crawler access(sitemap, robots)
* Image settings
* and everything that relates to SEO....

I suggest to make contact with fellow niche bloggers, to show how your websites can help their visitors, by this way you can earn natural links from authority or high ranked websites.

My experience with clients with new websites are like this...

* Bought a domain with good background.
* Made Well structures pages
* Done keyword research
* Copyrighted their content, made sure its at-least 80% original.
* Did on-page optimization for each page separately (for static pages).
* Added google analytic's.
* We dealt with a business website, so did schema mark-up.
* Did local optimizations
* Did some content promotion to directories(paid) and top unpaid.
* Did some promotions with other niche authorities.
* Finally tracking everything and improving.

To repeat again, first we done on-page work & done some good promotion natural way. It took minimum of 10 weeks to see good ranking(in google). Here we made sure, that we didn't done any bad practices, such as link requesting or anything like that. And it worked wonderful, for all of our clients.

Oh! Boy, it costed the same way, it happened for our clients. Businesses can afford anything to improve their service or business. But for individual it's a tough time to take care of. Just spend some time with your developer or your friend to care of the initial phase, on-page thing. Then do some promotion natural way. Again don't forget, it takes good time to see results, based on your research, competition, hard work.

Hope it motivated or helped you

I have not noticed any differences in ranking sites in the past three months, and if anything things have gotten easier as one poster has already mentioned due to decreased competition.

Most of my websites hit first page within 1-3 months depending on the competition of the niche and how aggressive my SEO campaign is.

I would avoid big spikes in backlinks to stay out of the sandbox.

Forget competition, niche, domain age, etc, etc. The answer to your question simply depends on who you are asking . Some will say "SEO is dead", and it is nearly impossible to rank now post Google updates... I like to call those people.. idiots. Which is good for me, the less jacka$$es out there running around doing SEO the wrong way, the better it is for all of us!

I just ranked a brand new website, in a very competitive niche, for several very competitive keywords in less than 6 weeks. An internal page targeting a really competitive "mesothelioma" related keyword in less than 2 weeks.. it hit Google's index at page 3, then jumped to page 1, #6 after I made some several on-page changes, changed the URL structure and made it a sub-page of a larger category. Overall rankings have been improving ever since. I'm focusing mainly on building an awesome website/content structure with several main categories, (which are my money pages), that each have 8-12 sub pages, some of which are money pages as well... with only very few, high quality back links. Rankings have been improving weekly, and I have jumped over million dollar companies in this finance niche, some of which are spending thousands a month on SEO and tens of thousands on AdWords. All of which, have been targeting this particular niche for years.

Like @G.O.A.T said above, for the guys doing it right, SEO has become a lot easier.. that statement is 100% true.

Best of luck Bob!

Josh

Its not hard to rank new domains. Ranking a website is depends upon the keyword competition, efforts taken to rank for the particular keyword, techniques used

I ranked mine in 11 days. Build a few links from article directories, web 2.0s and use content that is unique and you are good to go. The keyword I targeted had 1600 exact match searches and only two sites were properly optimized for the keyword.

I then wrote some posts on the blog and built links with Gsa keeping a good mix of anchor texts and lol 11 days later on first page

I think we need high quality content together with diversified and quality backlinks and do it gradually. We can still rank a new website.

Hi All,

Thanks for your suggestions. Will follow and see how it goes.

I might not know a lot but do know that SEO is not spamming!

I started a few new websites and it seems that they are in sandbox. Any advice to improve the rank and get out of sandbox?

Thanks