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New site pages are indexed but not ranking for anything
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I just built this site for a client http://primedraftarchitecture.com. It went live 3 weeks ago and the pages are getting indexed as per Webmaster Tools. But I'm not seeing it rank for anything.
We're adding blog articles regularly and used Moz Local for local links and have been building links in other local directories (probably about 15 so far).
Usually I get some rankings, although very low, after just a week or two for new sites.
Does anyone see anything glaring that may be causing a problem?
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Matt,
For those ping tools do you put the url of the directory where the link is or the pages of the site that I'm trying to rank?
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I have just went through this exact situation with a client website. We built a new search engine optimized website for a client for a specific event / date. There was some heavy competition and we built enough high quality links to get the job done. Month 1 went by - not much happened, month 2 went by and my client was freaking out and were really really worried. They were panicking and really unhappy.
I will give you the advice I gave them. All we can do as an seo provider is do the right kind of high quality work needed to beat the competition - which we have done. We can only use our best experience to do what we feel is the best thing to do in each situation. After we have done all the proper work, we then become a victim to wait on Mr. Google actually finding all those back links and or on site optimization we have improved. That step has to happen to properly re-rank the website based on the work we have done. As Google finds the new links, the rankings should slowly improve. Until then, not much happens.
You can ping your webpages with the links you want crawled, tweet them out and get then shared to increase the possibility of getting them crawled faster. But in the end it's still a waiting game. We can gently help but cannot MAKE Google find all the links in the time we want.
In the end we crushed the first place rankings for our client well in time of the event. And it was a very successful event and the client was very pleased. However a few weeks before the rankings started exploding to the first position for multiple key words - the customer was in panic mode . They did not seem to understand or listen to what I was explaining and maybe did not believe me that we were just waiting on Google to find all the backlinks.
They thought that if I was an seo guy I should be able to get Google to find those links right away. So I think you are at the same stage when you just have to wait until Google finds those links to pass on some credit to your website.
Don't panic, don't worry - if you have done the work, you will get the credit to show on your website soon. Use a pinging service, ping out your pages with the links, share those pages on Twitter and click the links and get the links shared if you can. This may help get them noticed faster.
Hope that helps,
Joe
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Those two usually do the job. Google (and thus a number of SEOs) suggests pinging isn't necessary but we test & test some more and this works. We've sped up the process many times using this tactic.
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yes, primedraftarchitecture.com is correct. typo.
How do I ping the directory links?
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Link not working. Are you talking about primedraftarchitecture.com ?
I don't see a single link in Ahrefs for that site and only 1 single link in Majestic.
I can't tell if that's the site you're talking about but if it is, the links just aren't likely cached yet. Ping the directory links and they should get picked up faster.
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