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Initial rank of a new website

by Danijel Bjelancevic
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So I've started with an affiliate site. I have a 4000 words money page with images, videos etc. I have the main keyword on the most required places. I also have 7 supporting articles with 800-1000 words length. Money page is linking to all these supporting articles which are then linking back to the money page. I've added it to the google webmaster tools, it's showing no issues.

So after the site was indexed initially, it can't be found in top 100 which is a bit odd to me. Keyword difficulty on kwfinder is 37. My content should be good and even better than the most sites ranking for this keyword. Is this normal? Should I give it more time? I will build links of course, but I've expected a lot better initial rank.
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelkoehler92
    If you are not building links then also you can go for social signals give it a push and see. Since the website is new so it will take a bit of time to show up in the serps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danijel Bjelancevic
    Yeah I've already ordered social signals. Only thing I am afraid of is that something is done wrong and that is why it doesn't show up...
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    The fact that your content is good, better than the competition, is not relevant to ranking.

    You've done nothing to deserve showing up in the top 100 for keywords with some competition.

    So, yes, it's normal if there's competition. I just checked one of my sites for a keyword that gets a score of 31 for difficulty, i.e., not hard. The tool says I got 1 backlink, which is not true... I have some 100. Use majesticseo.com or a better tool. You need to outdo your competitors.

    Originally Posted by Danijel Bjelancevic View Post

    So I've started with an affiliate site. I have a 4000 words money page with images, videos etc. I have the main keyword on the most required places. I also have 7 supporting articles with 800-1000 words length. Money page is linking to all these supporting articles which are then linking back to the money page. I've added it to the google webmaster tools, it's showing no issues.

    So after the site was indexed initially, it can't be found in top 100 which is a bit odd to me. Keyword difficulty on kwfinder is 37. My content should be good and even better than the most sites ranking for this keyword. Is this normal? Should I give it more time? I will build links of course, but I've expected a lot better initial rank.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    You people never cease to amaze me.

    You act as if google cycles through sites like water, daily flushing the results to make room for new ones.

    Where did you ever get the idea that if you build a new site, google must rank it?

    Now what does the other half believe? That if their site falls off, they must be in some sort of google penalty.

    So the first group believes their new site should knock someone else off.

    The second group believes that if they get knocked off, they must be penalized.

    Both of those ideas are ridiculous.

    It must be why both groups constantly delete Site A and replace it with Site B.

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

      You people never cease to amaze me.
      It must be why both groups constantly delete Site A and replace it with Site B.
      Paul
      Quitting is what actually blocks the success to happen, right? I don't plan to quit so fast, I will keep building links and adding content and see what will happen
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  • Profile picture of the author Danijel Bjelancevic
    Those were my expectations by following my previous examples. I was just curious if that is a normal behavior, if I knew the answer I wouldn't ask. Of course I don't expect to have a good rank right away, I was just curious if it's normal that it doesn't appear at all after indexing.
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    • Profile picture of the author SERPTurbo
      Originally Posted by Danijel Bjelancevic View Post

      Those were my expectations by following my previous examples. I was just curious if that is a normal behavior, if I knew the answer I wouldn't ask. Of course I don't expect to have a good rank right away, I was just curious if it's normal that it doesn't appear at all after indexing.
      How long has it been since your site got indexed?

      Even if you are trying to rank for dead-low competition keywords, it will still take a few weeks to appear anywhere in SERPs and that's assuming that you have built up the content on the site and built some decent backlinks.

      SEO is not an overnight game, so I'm not sure why you are expecting instant results...
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  • Profile picture of the author vic1
    And to add; there are trillions of lines of existing content that is indexed and re-indexed and indexed and re-indexed and trillions of lines of new content indexed, so on and so forth.

    Plus the fact that Big G constantly runs different types of ranking experiments; I explain to people; who in the hell knows? You work and you wait and don't do anything stupid.

    You want to know for sure? You'll have to ask Google and they're not talking.
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