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SEO on an older site. How can i get it right?

by BDH
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So I have a site (actually it was my first pet project website) created back in 08 its getwealthyfast.com ive sort of been off and on with it for years i update it semi-regularly and all but it never seems to do well in rankings. I was originally shooting for first page for "get wealthy" and at one time i even had it on page 11 (i think) but now it dosent even rank for its own keywords (get wealthy fast)

I have tried everything over the years with this site. Ive spent hundreds of dollars but ive never gotten it to go anywhere but down. (Ive done the backlinking, hired SEO specialists, bought software but still nothing. I would like to know just what i can do with this site. im good at marketing but im still not quite there. Would appreciate any advice available thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author TotalWebsiteControl
    To many factors come into play here. Cannot give you any advice without knowing how many or what kind of links your seo guy built for you. The damage may be to great. Starting over may be your only option. 301 your current site to a new one and start fresh.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
      Originally Posted by Henrich View Post

      To many factors come into play here. Cannot give you any advice without knowing how many or what kind of links your seo guy built for you. The damage may be to great. Starting over may be your only option. 301 your current site to a new one and start fresh.
      I think this one just proves to this entire section, that you know absolutely nada about SEO.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by Henrich View Post

      To many factors come into play here. Cannot give you any advice without knowing how many or what kind of links your seo guy built for you. The damage may be to great. Starting over may be your only option. 301 your current site to a new one and start fresh.
      301 and pass on the penalty, that's the way to go! :rolleyes:

      @OP: Move the site over to a new domain and don't do anything silly like 301 or 302 redirect!

      Yukon checked and said there's not a legit link worth to transfer so redirecting makes zero sense, just make sure you get the old site deindexed, you can do that fast by using Google webmasters URL removal tool!

      In case you're emotionally attached to your site and domain name you can PM me for a cloaking + ranking solution, site doesn't rank anyway so nothing to lose!
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  • Profile picture of the author BDH
    hmm interesting advice. When i look it up it says only 16 current backlinks although thats based on a free tool online. So its probably advisable to just drop the domain?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Your backlink profile is weak for the URL in OP, get better links.

    You also still have the Hello World default blog page indexed after 6 years & ugly URLs (ex: domain.com/?cat=1). You have a lot of work to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author easypr
    Lots of factors are involve, that website is not ranking, i checked your website,you not optimize your website, not added the title tag in website, not optimize the images etc. And as you said you website have only 16 backlinks, when i checked its show above 16 backlinks of your website. Find the all backlinks of website with the help of online tools, use also google webmaster tools to find all external link are find out the un-relevant or spam links and contact webmaster of site to remove the your link from there pages. Or use disavow tools to de-index that backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author chrisv24
    You need some high quality links. I just did a quick Majestic check and your trust and citation flow are quite poor, so you need to come up with an effective strategy to gain high quality links.

    I'd also suggest taking a look at the current backlinks and see if there are any that could be potentially damaging your site and delete/disavow as you see fit.
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  • Profile picture of the author promo87
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    Well, I would say in order to rank it back you need to start from the scratch and yes scratch means cleaning up the whole profile of the site, remove all the back link it has, fresh start to the content, etc...... I would say rather than getting it done by someone else keep going on yourself, what SEO professional are going to do is even more spamming. So, if you want to get it back move forward on your own don't trust on others.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by promo87 View Post

      Well, I would say in order to rank it back you need to start from the scratch and yes scratch means cleaning up the whole profile of the site, remove all the back link it has, fresh start to the content, etc...... I would say rather than getting it done by someone else keep going on yourself, what SEO professional are going to do is even more spamming. So, if you want to get it back move forward on your own don't trust on others.
      There's nothing to clean up, the links are simply weak.

      His best link is nofollowed PR1.
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  • Profile picture of the author alvinchua91
    Like what niko mentioned, unless you really love that domain name, there is no harm changing to a new domain name.

    A tip: Never ever ever pay for SEO unless you see results. Links =/= results.

    You should always find an SEO company which can provide you results FIRST before you sign on long-term with them (hint hint e.g. my company Shark Web Pte. Ltd. ), or you will end up like your current situation where you pay hundreds of dollars with no real results to show for it.
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    • Profile picture of the author QWE
      In 2014, Google is all about quality content and quality links.

      What is quality content? It has nothing to do with giving great value to the readers. Not from the SEO perspective. It is all bout how relevant and unique the article is. Relevancy comes from how many related keyword phrases are residing in the article. This has nothing to do with the keyword density, but rather, keyword clout density.

      What is quality link? It is all about getting links from the sources which are not tainted by internet marketers...such as public blog network or comment links, etc...

      Private blog network links works the best. It is hard for Google to detect a common pattern as the signatures are all unique.
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  • Profile picture of the author BDH
    Ok guys thanks for all the good advice im learning alot
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