You are 3 or 4 months in and you are asking where you went wrong?

This isn't 2011 anymore....

I recommend you just watch Gary V's video to get your head straight and your expectations on track: Hard Work & Patience - A Gary Vaynerchuk Original Film - YouTube

I have doubt about your "best keywords".I think you have to do a proper keyword analysis again.I would like to recommend "market samurai" or do it manually. Search volumes of the keywords, strengths of the competitors, competitor backlinks,Competitors DA,PA,PR..etc

Let me try to be a bit clearer than I was in my previous post.

Yes, you need to be more patient. I'm not sure who you have been hearing is getting ranked in 1 to 2 months... Getting ranked for what?

My comment about 2011 you need to understand that several years ago it was drop dead simple to not only get sites ranked in 60 days, but to make money from them as well. We just don't live in those times any more....we just don't.

A bit controversial but IMO there is definitely a sandbox in place for new sites. Whereas it used to take 2 months to rank, I'm finding its much closer to 6 months or more.

So yes, IMO you need to be more patient. Put in the hard work. Come back in a year and tell us how you are doing. If it was that easy to rank sites in 60 days don't you think everyone would be doing it?

Instead look around. How many threads are on WF complaining about not getting ranked in 60 days? To be honest, that's exactly why I don't come here any longer. Look at this thread....everyone has joined WF in 2015. I've been here since 2008 - I'm ancient when it comes to internet years. I've been around the block. Take it from me (or don't, your choice) but you need to be more patient and put in the work.

Did you watch the video? My guess is you didn't....

Care to think on how to find your website by your targeted audience?
Try to analyze and study your audience (in active online community) regarding their behavior on your related field and you will come up an effective idea on how to reach them.

@kallebru24

Another thing to think about before you take this project further.... Even if you get the traffic you are looking for, is it going to convert to a sale?

I don't know your market at all. But based on the comments in this forum post they must be out of line: RetroCollect Forum • View topic - I will get any rare Japanese games for you! Brand new!

So before you take this project much farther....maybe run some paid traffic to see if you even have a viable business? You might find that you just aren't competitive on pricing and therefore no amount of traffic is going to help you.

Backlinks. You only have handful of them, and most are lousy. There's less than half-a-dozen good if you only count one per site (according to Majestic). If you want to seem popular and important to Google backlinks are something you need.

And yes, that's probably the hardest part of SEO.

There's a few points from Big Kahuna's posts that I'd like to highlight. First, patience. It just isn't that easy to rank high. Second, product pages. There's very little text, and the popup might actually hurt you. Do you have individual product pages that can rank? Can you write something interesting and/or funny about the stuff you sell? That might help.

In your opening post you state:

...have you ever considered opening an Ebay store or selling some of the items you have offered on your website on Ebay as a means of getting interested and "buying" customers (you state your prices are better that those currently selling there!) to first of all 'buy' and secondly learn who you are, i.e., build a list?

Do not rely on SEO as the only source of traffic for you, it should be part of a comprehensive strategy that seeks to find users who will value your content.

You can use PPC, Social Media, Blog Outreach, Forum posting, and other strategies in the mean time to build up your traffic base as you wait for SEO to catch up, once you get more data it is easier to make adjustments, and account for user flow, landing pages, bounce rate, and targeting keywords similar to what you are already ranking for.

For such a website, you need to create a COOL Facebook Page and Twitter Account (or any other Social Media profile too)... People will start sharing it and using it daily like crazy as you said they are often buying those from Ebay... For SEO.. Maybe create some videos promoting products, don't forget to use related forums too!

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