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Site Not Ranking, Not Sure Why

by tkerth
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So i've been working on a small niche site for the past couple weeks, have built 20 web 2.0 backlinks, listed my site on 30 social bookmarking sites and have been commenting on blogs everyday.

When I check my rankings withSeoSerp my site is not found and i am just curious what i am doing wrong. the keyword has low competition and only has around 1000 exact search matches every month. Also barely any of my backlinks are showing up in ahrefs.

If anyone could offer any insight into what could be going wrong here it would be much appreciated
#ranking #site
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by tkerth View Post

    If anyone could offer any insight into what could be going wrong here it would be much appreciated
    Has Google actually indexed your site in the first place? Nothing ranks without having been indexed first. Anyway, this is the place to ask/discuss it: Adsense / PPC / SEO Discussion Forum
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  • Profile picture of the author RogueOne
    Originally Posted by tkerth View Post

    If anyone could offer any insight into what could be going wrong here it would be much appreciated
    You're banging your head against the wall.

    Your site might never rank.

    Focus on driving traffic to your site in a manner you can control.
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    • Profile picture of the author tkerth
      Originally Posted by RogueOne View Post

      You're banging your head against the wall.

      Your site might never rank.

      Focus on driving traffic to your site in a manner you can control.
      Well I am trying to drive traffic from forums and blogs but I dont want to just give up on being able to bring my site organic traffic from google. Especially because I selected a low competition keyword for the reason of being able to easily rank my site on the front page for my keyword.
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      • Profile picture of the author larryboy03
        Originally Posted by tkerth View Post

        Well I am trying to drive traffic from forums and blogs but I dont want to just give up on being able to bring my site organic traffic from google. Especially because I selected a low competition keyword for the reason of being able to easily rank my site on the front page for my keyword.
        You said you started a niche site?
        How much content do you have on it?
        How often do you update it?
        How natural is your link building method?
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        • Profile picture of the author tkerth
          Originally Posted by larryboy03 View Post

          You said you started a niche site?
          How much content do you have on it?
          How often do you update it?
          How natural is your link building method?
          I currently have 1 main article around 800 words and then 3 articles 400-600 words. I have been making small changes in the site every couple of days but have not added content in probably 2 weeks.

          For my link building I bought 2 gigs off of fiverr, one for social bookmarking (only 30 bookmarks) and then another gig to submit a couple original articles to 20 web 2.0 sites. These two gigs were separated by a week. Other then that i have been making anywhere from 3-8 blog comments a day on various sites.
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      • Profile picture of the author ProSence
        Originally Posted by tkerth View Post

        Well I am trying to drive traffic from forums and blogs but I dont want to just give up on being able to bring my site organic traffic from google. Especially because I selected a low competition keyword for the reason of being able to easily rank my site on the front page for my keyword.
        Keep working on this, fatching traffic from forums, blogs regularly, it would help in ranking too.

        This is called traffic management, if your site has suddenly 100 visitors and it disappeared next day then you are not going to get benefit, the traffic should be natural and if it is natural then it would of course be regular too...... so you have to maintain this follow first.
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  • Profile picture of the author RedShifted
    Well obviously the keyword you're going after isn't as easy to rank for as you initially expected.

    I'm targeting 300-500/month keywords, moderate to high competition, and I didn't see much of anything improvement till month 3.

    Now its month 5, and many of my keywords still dance dramatically.

    If you're using web2.0s, you have to backlink them too. What I would do is make a second tier of web2.0s, spin a ton of content then link from tier 2 to tier 1.

    You can also just consider getting some relevant/high pr links.
    Or look for an aged/expired high pr domain, buy it (you can often find them cheap) then use it as a linkfarm.

    It seems the more and more I do SEO the stronger and stronger / better quality my backlinks have to be. Make sure you are variating your anchor text too.
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  • Profile picture of the author zenichanin
    Get some better backlinks. If they're not showing up in Ahrefs, chances are they are pretty bad.

    Also, hook it up to webmaster tools and see how often and how many pages google has indexed.
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  • Profile picture of the author cctvinstallers
    Have you tried linking out to an authority site and a relevant youtube video ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Lanx
    your backlinking is probably just lacking, did you just do like 100backlinks and that's it?
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  • Profile picture of the author nidhi10
    Ranking Depends alot upon Keyword and SEO backlinks
    For anchor text do not use all links for main keyword.
    i use 40% for exact kwd, 50% related kwd and 10% url/click here/about etc
    and i start ranking high ;-)
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  • Profile picture of the author supereek
    i am facing the same problem with a micro niche site with 12 articles on a semi-emd (so keyword-info.com).
    got a diversity of backlinks to it etc etc.. i check in google > site:mydomain.com
    and everything is properly indexed, i use a seo plugin to keyword all articles. i also am targeting a low competition keyword, researched it trough Traffic Travis and other methods, it says 'very easy to rank' but somehow i cannot succeed ranking this website.

    i made the site with 5 articles around 2-feb-2013, since then i am adding a article every week..
    i honestly dont know what i am doing wrong, or perhaps some sites just dont rank lol
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  • Profile picture of the author tkerth
    Thanks for all the tips, I guess all I can do is keep working on my backlinking and trying to build organic traffic!
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    Did you try using Social meda sites to rank? Google+, Facebook, Twitter?!? They would help you get your site quickly indexed by Google. Also, are you sure that those forums and blogs are niche related?
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  • Profile picture of the author alvinchua91
    make sure you submit to all the big search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.
    Social bookmarking - you are already doing it, so good.
    How about article marketing and guest blogging for SEO purposes? They can help you rank too!
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  • Profile picture of the author harry123
    first you have to recheck your site for content and robot.txt whether it is index properly or not
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  • Profile picture of the author InitialEffort
    In order for a certain website to appear in the SERP, it must be indexed first. There are 3 things that you can do. First, try pinging the domain. Second, build a couple of links to your website and ping those links. Lastly, make sure your settings are set to index your website in Robots.txt or Wordpress. Also do not use a mass indexing tool that uses whois links built to your website. This tool is in Scrapebox, so avoid it.
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