Need help with latest authority site

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.