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Mar 07

Having Trouble Ranking Your New Site?

by Cameron Olthuis Strategy with 18 Comments

Ranking a new site for competitive terms is next to impossible. Yes, it can be done in rare cases but most of the time it’s just not likely. Aside from the stiff competition that’s already years ahead of you in terms of links and content, you have to deal with the sandbox, among other things. About the only ways to rank for these types of terms, I can think of are if you have bottomless pockets or if you solve a major pain (like a cure for cancer).

Don’t let that discourage you though. I have a solution that could possibly work for you. Create a new profile page on an established social media site and optimize it.

The bigger social media sites already have the built up trust and authority with the search engines. So while you’re waiting for your "real site" to start ranking create a profile with branded content and optimize that to rank for a couple of those competitive keywords.

Think about how often you see MySpace, YouTube, and Technorati pages ranking on the first page of the SERPs. Combine that with a nice link building campaign for the pages you create and it’s now looking realistic for you to take one of those top 10 spots.

Keep in mind that this is a technique to be used more for the purpose of targeting a few key phrases and it’s not very effective for going after long tail traffic.

18 comments - add your's now

Roman (03/28/07 at 9:28 am)

We got new site listed in Google’s top10 under enough competitive terms within 3 month only, well I thought new sites still have chances today.

Roman,
http://www.promodo.com

Michael Martinez (03/28/07 at 12:48 pm)

The Sandbox Effect is not the big issue it once was. SEOs should have a good collection of trusted linking sources they can work with to help client sites get indexed and ranking.

If it takes longer than 2-3 months to get a site into significant position on at least 2-3 expressions, the SEO should reconsider whatever strategy is being used.

There is no reason to tell people to wait 6 months to a year to get a good result any longer.

Cameron Olthuis (03/28/07 at 1:20 pm)

Michael, just to be clear we are talking about highly competitive terms. Do you really think you can rank for – lets say “debt consolidation” inside 6 months with a brand new site?

Miguel Cavaco (03/29/07 at 5:42 am)

Hello
One thing that ticks me off about google is that it desplays multiple results on a search query from the same web site.
How hard can it be to limit the exposer to one url per query?
Is it logical to have a website show up hundreds of times on a search query?
Try searching for the word “algarve” (region in Portugal).
I think it is googles mission to deliver me to a website where I can find the content I am looking for, and not to worry about holding me up to reach the cookie jar and sink it down my mouth.
Show me where the supermarket is, I will find the shelf!
Thank you.
Keep clicking…

Miguel Do Nascimento
http://www.myalgarvecars.com
info@localcars.pt

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Randy Ray (03/29/07 at 1:08 pm)

Martinez is right. It doesn’t take six months or even a year to rank for competitive terms anymore. It’s not easy, but get enough of the right kinds of links, and have good content, and you can rank for all kinds of juicy stuff. (Of course, getting the right links and having good content can be hard work.)

Cameron Olthuis (03/29/07 at 1:20 pm)

Randy, I’m curious what you define as competitive terms and what results you have to show you can do it in 6 months.

lunakizz (03/31/07 at 6:25 am)

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Bradman (04/04/07 at 4:40 pm)

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Its very hard getting a page rank these days, as day by day the competition increases. Its very important to keep getting quality links to your site.

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Software Development India (04/07/07 at 3:12 pm)

Yes, its very hard these days to rank, not like what it was 2 years back…

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Runescape Money Blog (04/08/07 at 1:09 pm)

Can’t get rank for a few days, It’s a hard work i think

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Phil Laboon (09/05/07 at 5:33 pm)

I’ll tell you what the sand box is not nearly as big as an issue as it once was. We are seeing some of our clients getting first page ranking for fairly competitive results (not as competitive as debt consolidation but still tens of thousands of searches a day)

Seems like Google is caring less about PR as well or is that just me?

Phil Laboon
http://www.eyeflow.com

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