Need help with latest authority site

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Hello warriors, I've been away from the forum and internet marketing in general for about a month now. The last site I made which is "site removed" is nowhere in the top 300 search results. Webmaster tools shows 136 links consisting of social bookmarks,few article links and web 2.0s.

I defiantly need a little help, especially since the time I took off has made me really lazy about doing anything IM related, I never had a site that didn't rank in top 100, and the fact that this site has 186 articles and probably hundred low competition keywords has me stump has to why it is nowhere to be found.

On another note I did little experimenting with youtube and made about 10 cent in last couple days lol, I guess it really does take 1000 views to make 1 dollar.

Thanks in advance for any help.
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  • This disappoints me a bit, since I know you're been working hard trying to get that site ranked.

    How well are you ranking for long tail keep words? How much traffic do you get everyday on average?
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    • Some days no traffic while other days 3 or 4. My keywords are nowhere to be found, what little traffic I do get is from long tail phrases. If it wasn't for the fact that this site is new, with very little links I would think it was penalized.


      I just can't figure out what is going on with this site, I took some time off from IM, to focus on other things, when I came back and checked , this site hadn't budged a bit in the serps.
  • What is the length of your articles ? are they completely unique ?
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    [Echo Tech salary] ranks #39 in Google SERPs.

    I just picked a random page title on your site (link in OP).

    Ranking #39 isn't good traffic wise, but it's a starting point.

    I would move the links out of the sidebar & into the actual content.

    Example 7 pages with the keyword anchor-text in the sidebar.

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    Point those pages/links from directly inside the content, at the page currently ranking #39 in Google SERPs. Repeat for the rest of the keywords.
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    • Well like I said I took some time off and kinda stop caring about IM for minute, so I hire few people from fiverr, resulting in the 136 links I have. Most are very low quailty, pr n/a or 0, so no big surprised that my ranking didn't improve.

      Also I did start to implement the advice you gave me about internal linking, but my personal life really got in the way of everything, I had all but given up, until recently.

      Thanx for letting me know about the popular posts widget.
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    Also, out the backlinks you built, what's the top 10 link profile look like (PR, relevancy, etc...)?
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    • Alot basically, when I checked out this niche Google had swamped the top of the serps with high authority sites and .edu and .gov domains since the penguin update.

      Nest, you really need a solid site to rank these keywords, your homepage needs to be a PR5 even to get a sniff of your internal pages hitting the top of the serps without deep linking them like crazy. Plus the fact they are low traffic you're not going to see a landslide of traffic.

      This is why I had a plan B, what worked 6 months ago, still works today with a few adjustments. I spend 2 months building my own bot, I've got some heavy high pr links backed up, nearly 10k, now aiming for 100k.

      If you built a neat and tidy 2.0 network I don't mind sending a few quality links your way just pm me.
  • 1. Don't use site wide menus like that (popular posts).

    2. How do you track your rankings? A lot of your pages are ranking, just not high enough to get traffic.
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    • I would say what he is aiming to do, having a good sidewide nav is a good thing, blogger is great for passing link juice around the site, including the archive and 1,2,3,4 footer nav you see at the bottom it's perfect, what he needs is some linkjuice.

      Nest! what you haven't got (and shame on you) is internal linking, your posts have no links to other posts? my posts have around 5/7 links in a silo structure, I literally stuff as many links into a post that I can to other internal pages. What you're doing is not natural. Panda could hit you if a quality review was "ads above fold/no internal linking" etc you need to think about this, take a look at the New York Times and look at the post linking, then look at GWT and you will see they take this into account.
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  • Which links in the sidebar? , and how come "echo tech salary" shows up in serps with pages that have nothing to do with that keyword.


    Thanks alot for pointing out echo tech salary rankings, I really thought something was wrong with this site, I used to use traffic travis to keep track of my rankings, but lost the license some how, I trying get that software again.

    I'm guessing ultrasound technician, pharmacy technician etc competition is really high resulting in not being found in serps, especially with my site not having to many links.
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      Ok, I see.

      I did the search & was looking at the Google Cache, you've removed all those links in the sidebar, but Google hasn't re-cached the pages yet.

      Anyways, build supporting pages & point keyword anchor-text from inside the content, back to the target page you want ranked, repeat...

      Seriously, you can make a big dent in SEO from relevant supporting pages on the same domain.
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  • A site wide menu like that one is ALMOST NEVER a good idea, unless you really don't care where your internal PR/link juice is going. All you have to do is grab a piece of paper and map out your site real quickly (use an identical smaller version if your site is big) and calculate how PR flows through your site (the formulas for PR are public, no secret there).

    Having site wides ONLY makes sense if you're optimizing for a few specific pages/site areas ONLY.

    You'll need a lot of link juice to rank for some of the bigger keywords... even with a good website. With a good website structure and good backlinks pointing to the right pages, you can definitely rank.

    I'd also put a lot more work into each page: get article formatting done properly, use pictures, lists, sub-headings and optimize page titles. That's a lot of work with a big site like this.

    The fact that you have random pages ranking for random keywords comes down to: bad internal link structure, bad page structure and badly optimized articles/pages.

    Good luck with the site!
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    • I get your point with ranking main keywords, If I was to do this then I would remove pretty much all sitewides and maybe also limit other navigation points and nofollowing some links, basically making the site less crawlable, also putting less content on the site but making the articles longer and more detailed.

      When you use blogger alot you can really understand how it's built, and it's built well for passing link juice around a site. The popular/recent posts are great if you have alot of content with a high index page pagerank. You can get your posts indexed within minutes and have them ranking for their keywords.

      It's also good because it gives the posts that are performing well in the search engines an extra boost, or promotes content people prefer to read, but sometimes it's necessary to remove this and pass on some linkjuice to pages that are not ranking well and require a boost. Sometimes I do this with a quickjump menu or hand building a sitemap on a seperate page.

      I would say to get this site going now what you need is a few links per post, between 3/6 and then raise the pr of the homepage (3/4) and push the pagerank to the internal pages then pass it around clusters of pages as much as possible and back to the homepage with your main keywords. Targeting main keywords aren't really necessary, you just need non spammy quality links, even if the anchor text is your real name or better still no anchor text then Google can't clobber you.

      My blogger blog, was set up like exactly this, but I decided to remove the popular posts, the footer navigation and any label navigation, post dates, author tags etc because it's an affiliate site and I didn't want it looking like a blog, but I can tell you, overall it had a negative affect on the site's health, but not alot, it was worth the sacrifice to get it looking tidy. The only thing I have is the archive drop down menu at the bottom of the sidebar.
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  • ^^good luck with the site! I too exercise 4-5 times/week, but that only seems to help with focus/productivity.
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    Need help with latest authority site

    Hello warriors, I've been away from the forum and internet marketing in general for about a month now. The last site I made which is "site removed" is nowhere in the top 300 search results. Webmaster tools shows 136 links consisting of social bookmarks,few article links and web 2.0s. I defiantly need a little help, especially since the time I took off has made me really lazy about doing anything IM related, I never had a site that didn't rank in top 100, and the fact that this site has 186 articles and probably hundred low competition keywords has me stump has to why it is nowhere to be found.