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From adsense to amazon. And erm.. Hmm.

by Iamcap
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Hello everyone.

After successfully making an adsense website that has become the authority in the niche and ranking number 1 for multiple terms within 2-3 months, I decided to try Amazon review site.

I am really struggling to rank this amazon site though. I have 6 1000+words articles that are well-written and presented nicely. I have also written two 500+words articles about the niche and the homepage has another 1000 word article about the niche.

My adsense site appeared in google very quickly and was around position 40 from almost the start. I did forum, social media and web 2.0 backlinking for both websites. Both are Exact match domains also.

If i search for my amazon site in google - one of my review url appears around position 400 for my keyword, but the root site is no where to be seen! It is definitely indexed and using site:mysite it does appear. So i am stumped.

How can my amazon site which mentions the keyword a couple of times on the homepage not appear within the first few hundred results, even my facebook page for the amazon site appears around 100!

Is ranking an amazon review site these days even possible?
#adsense #amazon #erm #hmm
  • Profile picture of the author Bryan V
    How old is it? Also check if the domain was previously owned by someone else.
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    Perhaps an attic I shall seek.
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  • Profile picture of the author Iamcap
    Created:2012-04-23, so relatively new and it was never used before!

    It might be worth mentioning that the website is a decent one because I have had a few visitors (about 15 in 3 months) from google images searches, and one ended up going to amazon and buying the product haha!!

    Could it be that because I have amazon affiliate links on my site, google doesn't like it?

    I really want to get traffic to it, but it seems impossible! If it wasn't because i have had success with an adsense site I would probably be close to quitting..
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  • Profile picture of the author alistair
    I've bought a couple of domains and added several 1000+ word articles to each but nowhere to be found, these aren't amazon sites though. I noticed in webmaster tools that there were a lot of crawl errors to urls that didn't exist.

    Judging by what the urls were I'm guessing the sites were previously used in blog networks or something and been penalized. They are indexed but absoloutely no rankings. Are you sure the domains weren't registered previously?
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  • Profile picture of the author Iamcap
    Ah that's something to keep in mind in the future if I ever buy domains.

    I have just checked my webmaster tools and there are only about 20 backlinks (12 from facebook, I post to the page every time I write an article, etc).

    One mistake I think I made in the beginning though was that I wrote an article as a post and made that appear on my homepage. Obviously this post had its own URL so the homepage had 0 value as the contents was from a post within. That is when I made a new article from scratch and put it on a page and set that as a static homepage (so no separate url). It's been a week and I haven't noticed much improvement.

    Could that be the reason?
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    That's still very new. So I wouldn't stress yet.

    Have you thought about finding an expired domain with PR and doing a 301?
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  • Profile picture of the author Iamcap
    I've never thought of that one, when you say expired domain do you mean domain not owned by anyone at the time? If so, where would you find such a treasure chest?

    I'm not stressed (yet), just slightly disappointed after having such fast and great results with my first site.

    I guess my remaining question is - Is it normal for a the root url of a relatively new site to not even feature in the top 500 of google even if it has content + exact match domain of the low competition keyword?
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  • Profile picture of the author Iamcap
    Well well well... I just realised that the day after I changed the "homepage with duplicate post content" to a unique page with no url, the impressions seemed to have spiked noticeably (not big number but in the graph it is noticeable) and in my data, when I go to top pages and click on "with changes", if i set the date from that day (about a week ago) to today, it says my main keyword increased 60 positions apparently (in general)

    It would make sense, but I still can't understand how it wouldn't appear at least in the top 500 anyway... Very low competition keyword...
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  • Profile picture of the author johnben1444
    Thou ranking a site largely depend on the competition but I have found out adsense ranks quicker than amazon mainly because of the inability to use the target trade names in URL.

    With good on and off site SEO you would be fine.
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