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Hi,
I'm promoting some new sites (entirely new projects).
Let's see...
Let's call it "Site #1" (niche site) - not doing too well yet.
Site launched in September 2012 (then it had about 50-60 visits/month - mostly myself). In December is had about 500 visits (some actually came from Google Search)
Still PR 0.
About 500 monthly visits (prolly 20 % is me).
1 (single) Facebook like (fan).
Google sees no backlinks.
I am getting several shares via SM buttons (by AddThis)
have done the following:
OFF-PAGE
-launched like 10-20 guest articles on various related resources
-bought 1 link on a PR 4 directory page
-acquired 150+ forum "do follow" signature links on a related forum (in 4 months or so)
-acquired 20 other forum "do follow" signature links on another relatedforum (in 2 months or so)
-left 2 in-post links on a VERY HIGH QUALITY (possibly the best forum in the industry), they are both "do follow" and editors left them there
-left about 110 DISQUS comments (URL can be accessed via clicking the link)
-left about 200-300 various blog comments with a wide variety of anchor texts (site name, few keywords, deep links, main page links etc.)
ON-PAGE:
-been launching new articles: about 2-3 per week (have about 60 pages total by now)
-have been optimizing for faster page load, smaller page file size
-smartly optimized for Panda, LSI etc.
-have enriched text as much as possible and have used a fair amount of internal linking
-have only used "nofollow" links for outbound links and for duplicate internal links, as well as the main site banner (it's also "nofollow")
I'm advertising wherever I can, concentrating on guest articles. But I couldn't get even PR 1???
I'm experienced, been working in the industry for 10 years. Yes, this is a "rare niche" site, but I was expecting at least PR 3 (having links across pages with decent PR), should have a lot more visitors per month.
I'm promoting some new sites (entirely new projects).
Let's see...
Let's call it "Site #1" (niche site) - not doing too well yet.
Site launched in September 2012 (then it had about 50-60 visits/month - mostly myself). In December is had about 500 visits (some actually came from Google Search)
Still PR 0.
About 500 monthly visits (prolly 20 % is me).
1 (single) Facebook like (fan).
Google sees no backlinks.
I am getting several shares via SM buttons (by AddThis)
have done the following:
OFF-PAGE
-launched like 10-20 guest articles on various related resources
-bought 1 link on a PR 4 directory page
-acquired 150+ forum "do follow" signature links on a related forum (in 4 months or so)
-acquired 20 other forum "do follow" signature links on another relatedforum (in 2 months or so)
-left 2 in-post links on a VERY HIGH QUALITY (possibly the best forum in the industry), they are both "do follow" and editors left them there
-left about 110 DISQUS comments (URL can be accessed via clicking the link)
-left about 200-300 various blog comments with a wide variety of anchor texts (site name, few keywords, deep links, main page links etc.)
ON-PAGE:
-been launching new articles: about 2-3 per week (have about 60 pages total by now)
-have been optimizing for faster page load, smaller page file size
-smartly optimized for Panda, LSI etc.
-have enriched text as much as possible and have used a fair amount of internal linking
-have only used "nofollow" links for outbound links and for duplicate internal links, as well as the main site banner (it's also "nofollow")
I'm advertising wherever I can, concentrating on guest articles. But I couldn't get even PR 1???
I'm experienced, been working in the industry for 10 years. Yes, this is a "rare niche" site, but I was expecting at least PR 3 (having links across pages with decent PR), should have a lot more visitors per month.
Just got back from a #BrightonSEO. I was given room 404 in the hotel I stayed at. Couldn’t find it anywhere!