It has been 1 month and my site is NOT ranked in Google for any Keywords...

10 years ago

Originally Posted by John Conrad

My site is ranked in Bing and Yahoo for some keywords, but not Google. My main keyword phrase is not ranked in any search engine.

My domain is only a month old. Keyword density of main keyword phrase is about 4.5%. I have posted 4 SEO optimized articles a week for the last month (16 articles total). One of my article has received over 600 Facebook likes and 9 tweets - all natural - NOT paid.

Nowadays, is it common for Google to take this long to rank a site for keywords?

Would you mind to PM the domain to check out why? without your domain is hard to say what's the problem.

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thebert

10 years ago

You say you've posted 16 SEO optimzed articles. Are they original? Are they spun? What kind of SEO did you do? What niche? What's been indexed? Any other backlinks? Have you checked your weblogs to determine what bots are crawling your site or what your visitor traffic looks like?

And yes, it's common for Google to take this long to rank a site. Unfortunately, you may never rank for you keywords. And unfortunately, depending on how you can answer the questions above, you may have been sandboxed : (

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Slin

10 years ago

You have not been sandboxed. Going about it the natural way is just going to take a little while.

It's hard to say without seeing the keywords, and your articles, when you say that they are optimized what do you mean?

One month of time isn't much in the SEO world, especially if you're only action is just posting to social media sources. Have you acquired links from sites in the same niche? Do you have Google Authorship set up?

You may need to put a little more work into your SEO if you're planning on getting mass SEO traffic.

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LABEShops 10 years ago

Have you submitted your sitemap to google webmaster tools? The usually speeds things up a bit.
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- SchoolofKA 10 years ago
  
  I've had a sitemap on my website for the last 3 weeks but never submitted to Google Webmaster. We will if that helps. Thanks!
  
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  Have you submitted your sitemap to google webmaster tools? The usually speeds things up a bit.
  
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  nettiapina 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by John Conrad
  
  I've had a sitemap on my website for the last 3 weeks but never submitted to Google Webmaster. We will if that helps. Thanks!
  
  Do you know if Google has indexed your site? Sitemap is not necessary, but it's such a basic thing compared to optimizing articles.
  
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  SchoolofKA 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by nettiapina
  
  Do you know if Google has indexed your site? Sitemap is not necessary, but it's such a basic thing compared to optimizing articles.
  
  Yes Google has indexed the site.
  
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korwil

10 years ago

Getting organic traffic from Google is more difficult than most people think. The most important thing is to focus on writing unique, quality content and promoting your site naturally. You can use social media to expand your audience and I would focus on building traffic through sources besides Google.

I would do a quick search of your website like this in google: site:Your Website URL by yourwebsiteurl.com and see if anything is indexed. If nothing shows up, then you might have a problem with the indexing of your website.

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SchoolofKA

10 years ago

It's indexed.

Originally Posted by korwil

Getting organic traffic from Google is more difficult than most people think. The most important thing is to focus on writing unique, quality content and promoting your site naturally. You can use social media to expand your audience and I would focus on building traffic through sources besides Google.

I would do a quick search of your website like this in google: site:Your Website URL by yourwebsiteurl.com and see if anything is indexed. If nothing shows up, then you might have a problem with the indexing of your website.

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mrrightme

10 years ago

You need to build some backlinks for you website with seo tools.

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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

It's normal for a new site with no authority/quality links to not rank in Google SERPs.

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nettiapina

10 years ago

I was watching a project in which an established company build a totally new site to follow their corporate branding, and redirected traffic from their old site. Nice PR3-4 links too, and some of them even changed to point to the new site. It took a couple of weeks to really show in Google SERPs even for them.

If Google knows that the site exists there's not much to do but wait a bit.

Are you really tracking the SERP positions? Can you tell if they're in top 100 or nowhere at all? Assuming that the keywords are not impossibly hard to compete on having new site in top 100 is a really promising sign. Google can bounce it to top SERPs for no apparent reason, but it can fall back as easily.

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Bonita T Josephson

10 years ago

You cannot expect your site to rank in Google within one month unless your target keywords have very low competition.

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paulgl

10 years ago

Where do you people learn that if you build a site, do some seo, then
it has to rank.?

Nothing could be further from the truth.

There is no magical checklist not matter what some snake oil salesman
tells you.

You might never rank.

Did anybody ever tell you that?

Funny how some speak out of boths sides. First they think it's easy to
just replace sites in SERPs. But if their site gets replaced, they talk
about penalty and sandbox.

Paul

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SchoolofKA

10 years ago

well, I would HOPE it would rank at least somewhere. Even if the rank is 2,999,999 out of 3,000,000.

Originally Posted by paulgl

Where do you people learn that if you build a site, do some seo, then
it has to rank.?

Nothing could be further from the truth.

There is no magical checklist not matter what some snake oil salesman
tells you.

You might never rank.

Did anybody ever tell you that?

Funny how some speak out of boths sides. First they think it's easy to
just replace sites in SERPs. But if their site gets replaced, they talk
about penalty and sandbox.

Paul

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yasha

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AliHaider145 10 years ago

Doesn't matter, in Google search engine competition is very high as compared to Bing and Yahoo. So you must make powerful backlinks of the post which you want to take good position in Google.
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Steve Waller

10 years ago

If your so-called "main" keyword phrase is a relatively uncompetitive one then I'd be only a little concerned.

If most of the top 10 is made up of sites with some authority then you've got to practice some patience because, as others have said, one month is not a great deal of time for Google to really start to rank you against these more established players.

Are you building backlinks at all or going for the all natural approach?

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SchoolofKA

10 years ago

The PR of the sites on the first page is relatively low. I think there is 1 or 2 PR3 and the rest is N/A and maybe a PR2 and PR1.

On the other hand, when you type in the keyword, there are about 45,000,000 search results...

Originally Posted by Steve Waller

If your so-called "main" keyword phrase is a relatively uncompetitive one then I'd be only a little concerned.

If most of the top 10 is made up of sites with some authority then you've got to practice some patience because, as others have said, one month is not a great deal of time for Google to really start to rank you against these more established players.

Are you building backlinks at all or going for the all natural approach?

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yukon

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by John Conrad

The PR of the sites on the first page is relatively low. I think there is 1 or 2 PR3 and the rest is N/A and maybe a PR2 and PR1.

On the other hand, when you type in the keyword, there are about 45,000,000 search results...

The page that's ranked doesn't have to show PR & probably won't unless it's an older page. That doesn't mean the same ranked page doesn't have PR.

You need to be looking at the big picture when researching competition (why is the page ranked). One example, a page can be ranked with internal links.

45,000,000 results doesn't mean anything when ranking pages. Look at the top of the first page on the SERPs, that's where your trying to rank. That's your competition.

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Steve Waller

10 years ago

Originally Posted by John Conrad

The PR of the sites on the first page is relatively low. I think there is 1 or 2 PR3 and the rest is N/A and maybe a PR2 and PR1.

On the other hand, when you type in the keyword, there are about 45,000,000 search results...

Can I just ask whether those are the PRs of the pages that rank or the root domains of those pages?

It's just that even a PR N/A page on a high power domain such as a major news network has lots of ranking power that you might be overlooking.

What about other metrics? How many root domains do the top 10 have pointing at their pages? What about trust indicators such as MozTrust or TrustFlow?

Your social signals may be good but, in isolation, these mean very little; you need to start compiling ideas for a broad backlinking strategy whether that means press releases, infographics, guest blogs, PBNs, broken link building or something else entirely.

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koubain

10 years ago

you must build natural high quality pr links consistently and wait to see the results in the month 2 or 3 and it depends also in the competition

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jamil

10 years ago

If Your Keyword Competition In High Soo Waiting....For Ranking Besouse Google Web Site Ranking System Depands On Your Keyword Competition And Your BackLinks.

Bing ,YahooEtc... Ranking and Keyword Competition Different

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nenala

10 years ago

well, i would say you can do some more optimization on backlinking and keyword density.. i have just started my first site, and against all odds is was ranked for a few competitive keywords within 2-3 weeks.. Just keep going!! keep on building and searching

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f4u

10 years ago

Make Sure You Choose Low Competition Keywords Because High Competition Keywords Take Two Much Time To Index And Build Your Site Authority So That It Rank Fast

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prosperus

10 years ago

None of my sites have been ranked in a month in Google but then they just took off you are dealing with temperamental google remember ...good luck

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larryboy03

10 years ago

Originally Posted by John Conrad

My site is ranked in Bing and Yahoo for some keywords, but not Google. My main keyword phrase is not ranked in any search engine.

My domain is only a month old. Keyword density of main keyword phrase is about 4.5%. I have posted 4 SEO optimized articles a week for the last month (16 articles total). One of my article has received over 600 Facebook likes and 9 tweets - all natural - NOT paid.

Nowadays, is it common for Google to take this long to rank a site for keywords?

Keyword density at 4.5% :O

I would lower that to 1-2% maximum. Iv seen better rankings from that kind of density. High density works well with bing and yahoo but Iv found the page being more relevant and natural at that percentage.

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