New Sites in 2016 Get Automatically Buried?

I do not know of such an update.

"any brand new website will not even show up in google" for any keyword? I don't think that's the case if the website is indexed. But yeah from my experience it's harder and harder to rank new websites for decent keywords, but it's easier to index the websites. Sometimes Google find them via the hosting account and indexes them even though they don't have any links.

But besides this issue, how the new websites perform after you started promoting them? Or you didn't get to that stage?

Hey, the same thing happened to me. The opposite happened to me too. The sites that didn't show up in the search results are focusing on harder heywords. The ones that did show from the start in the search results, had easy (or easier) keywords as main keywords.

That simple.

If you think Google's up to no good, pick a keyword nobody is going after, make a page for it, then see if it ranks.

Keyword suggestion: DABK rocks to high heaven.

If you don't show up in the results yet have a page for me and my greatness, something's off with the domain's history and you should abandon all hope (It worked for Dante... (Inferno, Canto III).

If you rank for that, try something harder and more relevant. If you rank for that, try harder keywords. If you rank, it just means your chosen keywords thus far are harder to rank for than you thought.

Nonsense.

Make up a fake keyword with zero competition and I guarantee you'll rank a page.

• waffle unicorn jackwagon battery pill

So... what's that tell you?

Yep, SERP competition is the problem.

No. Site is fresh with no incoming links.


Yea that would normally make sense, but the keywords themselves are not very difficult. Some of them have very little search volume or difficulty that I threw in for filler articles. Yet across three sites all the keywords aren't even falling withing the top 200 positions. I've also tinkered with the onpage for about a month changing the density from anywhere between 0.1% and 1.5% with no change.

If I made these sites in 2015, based on their keyword difficulty, all of them would have fallen somewhere between 30th-90th placement initially without any backlinks after a few days of being published on a new site.

What you are describing has never happened to me in 2 years of SEO. Granted, I've never gone after super hard keywords like gold ira, but any page properly targeting a keyword will fall within the top 200th positions if the site is setup correctly. Most likely, the reason why some of your pages worked and some didn't was because the on-page optimization was done right on some but not the others. You are probably getting hit on a keyword penalty.

I've accounted for this by onpage "tinkering".

Yes I am aware that low volume doesnt necessarily equal low comp. I am saying that some of the keywords I am using are in fact low volume and low comp.

Low volume keywords that are low comp as well are sometimes highly profitable, because people overlook them. In my example, that is not so much the case. The keyword does indeed have low volume, low comp, and low commercial value. Still, it is good for this site for what I am going for.

I can understand maybe one or two keywords not ranking at all for their main terms, or even a site that is a one-off. But not three sites and multiple pages, unique content from 800-4k works each. With good on-page seo.

Im getting the impression that no one else is having this issue though.

There is no suspicion in the fact that ranking high in google search results is becoming harder and harder with time. This is a snowballing effect of many factors. Let me enlist some of them here. On the technical front, the search algorithms are becoming more intelligent with time. Latest algorithms are intelligent enough to find the best content for the best query. Search algorithms are taking counter steps to stop SEO experts who get their page in high rankings with moderate content quality. The updates in search engine algorithms every year is the evidence of their actions against such malicious practices.
Increase of internet penetration and smart phones maturity opened up a new army of bloggers and website developers. This has increased the rivalry for the keywords. There are many new authors that are making new websites and blogs daily. They are searching the keywords and targeting them. These new authors are also following the SEO tips to rank high. This factor has also resulted in more struggles to rank high in search results.
The impact of social networking platforms is not hidden from anyone. As more people discuss legitimately about your content on their timelines and feeds, your content trustworthiness will increase.
People are continuously updating their contents on the website, talking about it on social networks. This trend is demonstrating a fact that author must stick to two or three website only. Focus only limited websites update them continuously and converse it on social networking sites. This practice can save their website from future competition wave that is coming towards with time.