| Why am I not ranking in a totally non competitive market? | dagger12 | 5/9/09 6:14 PM | I have done the following: 1. checked title & meta tags. 2. submitted url. 3. verified sitemap. 4. written keyword rich content. 5. got 2 good site related links to me. Specific questions: 1. Do all the outgoing links on my site hurt my ranking? 2. |
| Re: Why am I not ranking in a totally non competitive market? | Autocrat | 5/9/09 6:29 PM | Okay..... I'm really hoping you are not going to go defensive, turn narky or what ever. But .... is it mre... or is it a site based on links to other sites? A Direcotry? As that's what it looks like. For that to work - you generally have to inves |
| Re: Why am I not ranking in a totally non competitive market? | dagger12 | 5/9/09 6:54 PM | Not defensive.. just in dire need of some advice... The site is kind of a directory but i have considered scrapping the links to other sites and just providing more specifics in the content. Would i be better off doing that? I will take your advice i |
| Re: Why am I not ranking in a totally non competitive market? | ThisNewGuy | 5/9/09 8:39 PM | 1. Yes, outgoing links does hurt in a way that the crawler might leave your site prematurely. But it shouldn't hurt in a significant way. In other words, it does hurt, but very minimally. 2. Google takes a long time to get to every site that is submi |
| Re: Why am I not ranking in a totally non competitive market? | ThisNewGuy | 5/9/09 8:41 PM | Oh, adding to what I said, since the crawler reads your code from top to bottom, all those br tags is being considered more important than the actual content. So in the crawler's eyes, your website is more about br tags than free things to do. |
| Re: Why am I not ranking in a totally non competitive market? | Phil Payne | 5/9/09 11:17 PM | Jehosophat! Some of the links on http://www.freethingstodo.org/online.html will keep you out of the index ofrever! |
| Re: Why am I not ranking in a totally non competitive market? | voicaemil | 5/10/09 3:24 AM | Phil...if he puts that page nofollow and noindex, he should be ok, right? Plus if he "omits" to link it from any other page in the site creating a PR transfer. |
| Re: Why am I not ranking in a totally non competitive market? | Autocrat | 5/10/09 8:48 AM | Okay - you want to become a resource for thing s to do. THats fair enough. And yes - plenty of sites that you could link to. But the idea here is to get people to your site.... and keep them there (or at least, as long as possbe :D). The problem wi |
| Re: Why am I not ranking in a totally non competitive market? | Phil Payne | 5/10/09 11:15 AM | No, that will not help him at all. He needs to delete the content, which he has done. |
| Re: Why am I not ranking in a totally non competitive market? | voicaemil | 5/10/09 2:34 PM | 10x phil |
| Re: Why am I not ranking in a totally non competitive market? | dagger12 | 5/10/09 6:45 PM | Wow, I will surely come back to google webmaster forum with other questions. Thanks for the excellent advice fellas! I will drop the links and write small articles on each item I have listed on http://freethingstodo.org. As for the research.... I am a compl |
| Re: Why am I not ranking in a totally non competitive market? | dagger12 | 5/10/09 6:59 PM | oh yeah, there is virtually no competition for this exact phrase... http://www.freethingstodo.org/ Thanks again!! |