Green Grass still isn't growing

[Petorchard]

We have recently started a Pet Website. We have been on-line for 6 months. We have tried the link exchange, advertising, etc....still no search engine results. I am begging everyone to please visit our site Petorchard.com and look around. I would like everyones input on why our site is still not getting search engine results. Is our code wrong?? Are more keywords needed in our code ?? For example..when I do a search for "Bulldog for sale", I am seeing peoples personal websites selling bulldogs....Pet Orchard is nowhere to be found.

Help........

[voasi]

I'm not sure if this post was meant to be an Ad or what, but i'll respond anyway. You don't have any links.

Get some. :)

Then, let us know how things are going.

[Petorchard]

When you say get some links....are these to inbound or outbound links ?? How many are you thinking we need to get ?? How does links explain why small dog websites with no links are ahead of petorchard in the search engines....

[KeithO]

site age. thats your problem. animal sales are competitive and you are only 6 months into the game.

[jnmsnow]

Inbound links is what you are looking for. As many RELEVANT one as you can get. You need to look for site that have to do with pets.

[hbonline]

showing up in the search engines is a catch 22. Basically you need all the stuff previousely mentioned, but what you need most is traffic. No visits, no placement. You need to prove the the search engine that your site is a resource for your particular content. The way you prove that is lots of inbound links from other pet sites, and good content that is not stagnant. And with more inbound links, you will get more traffic. It does not happen overnight. Content,links and traffic are king!

[williamc]

showing up in the search engines is a catch 22. Basically you need all the stuff previousely mentioned, but what you need most is traffic. No visits, no placement.

That is nothing more than a myth. This has been discussed until its dead as a beaten horse. There is no evidence showing that clicks count in the rankings, and google rep matt cutts has stated that the search team does not have access to analytics information either.


Petorchard: concentrate on using your keywords as the anchor text in your aquired inbound links. I am not seeing your site as fitting the sandbox profile, so you CAN rank well. You just need to work on it.

Start here: http://webworkshop.net/search-engine...on-basics.html

[hbonline]

show me a site that ranks high in the search engines (using two keywords or less), with no traffic, it aint gonna happen.

Yeah, you will rank high if your search term is so specific that you focus it down to your site, but with "normal" search terms you won't show up until you are a "resource"

My site HBonline.com is a site about Huntington Beach go to yahoo and use "huntington Beach" as the key words and see where I pop up.

Nick

[williamc]

show me a site that ranks high in the search engines (using two keywords or less), with no traffic, it aint gonna happen.

Yeah, you will rank high if your search term is so specific that you focus it down to your site, but with "normal" search terms you won't show up until you are a "resource"

My site HBonline.com is a site about Huntington Beach go to yahoo and use "huntington Beach" as the key words and see where I pop up.

Nick

Keyword: article distribution
Website: articlesender.com
Age: 2.x months old.

And it had virtually 50 hits a day before it got ranked. Of course it now has traffic as it is #2. But it did not have before then.

Point.Click.Score.

This does not even mention the fact that the top 3 serps get the lions share of googles traffic, which means if clicks were counted as part of rankings, those top 3 sites would never get moved out of the top 3 as they would always be getting 80% more clicks than anyone else. Your theory is bunk.

Myths are easily debunked.

[hbonline]

williamc Wrote:And it had virtually 50 hits a day before it got ranked. Of course it now has traffic as it is #2. But it did not have before then.

hmmm...
you were getting traffic before?? (where did you rank before, before??)

now you rank #2 but have traffic??

seems like your traffic got you to #2

plus you rank a very high 38,000 in Alexa which indicates you are getting a ton of traffic, which warrents you in a #2 slot. and according to Marketleap.com you have a ton of inbound links at over 7,800 seems like you are a traffic machine, Good Job!

I checked the other sites in google with your keywords and guess what?? the site above you has an Alexa ranking higher than you at 5,800 which is why it is #1 and the sites below you are 178,000 and 805,000 You happen to be #2 in traffic!

You can assume the site above you gets more traffic and the sites below you get less.

Seems like you just proved my point.

I just won in overtime :)