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Anyway, I did submit the old URL home.fuse.net/mydomain when I first made it. Now I have a www.mydomain.com and have resubmitted it as well. Yahoo, MSN, Alta Vista, ect have now found my new 2 week old www.mydomain.com but google hasn't. It does list home.fuse.net/mydomain, but doesn't list anything about it except acknoweleging it in the search results. That old URL has my logo, website name and a short discription saying it has move. It has the origian meta title and discrpition in tack. I will kill this old site probably a month from now to ensure the transition is smooth.
I did some free research regarding my SERP on MSN (they have the most pages indexed right now).
In 2.7m results I rank 129 on a two phrase keyword. Overture says tehre were 15,694 searchs on these two words in September
In 185k results I rank 1 (overture N/A)
In 1.5m results I rank 3 (overture N/A)
In 1.5m results I rank 20 (overture 143)
In 97 results I rank 1 (overture 61) <- this keyword is the name of a program I reviewed/have tutorials on
In 16K results I rank 2 (overture N/A)
in 112K results I rank 2 (overture N/A)
In 60k results I rank 6 (overture N/A)
I have only had 1 person so far use a search engine to visit my site to my know ledge and that was with the one I ranked 20 out of 1.5m.
I have had about 700 visitors in the last 3 weeks and 1500 page views. Most of my traffic has come from forum posts that linked to various features of my website.
My website contains so far 1 program review, 2 calculators, 1 photo gallery, and 1 program that I wrote and it can be downloaded. Most of the forum posts were either regarding the gallery or the calculators.
The goal of the site is to be primarily content driven with articles, tutorials, and reviews for digital photography. I also sell inexpensive prints from my photo gallery.
I have placed my site in two major photography directories as well. I have placed links in my signature on forums (that allow it) back to the photo gallery or program depending on the forum.
I was wondering if anyone could give me any suggestions of what to do to improve SERP and links? Any suggestions in general?
Search engines tend to list sites that have lots of "good" in-links, and the in-links come from having good content. Granted, you may need to beg for the first few in-links, in order to get listed at all, but if you've got solid content and some patience, the traffic should come... in time.
So what sort of content do you have?
Eliz.
I don't really have much right now. There are only 11 pages to my website and only 6 of them are content based. The other 5 are things like polices, contact, etc.
I will probably be adding a content page every week. I realize that is probably low but I am doing this in my free time (I have a real full to job after all).
Regarding the "forum advertising" I try to make the posts as relivent as possible to avoid spamming. For example if I write an article about program x for specificlly camera company y's cameras I will post in that manufaturers section of the forum. If it is about printing I post it in the printing sections.
I have a somewhat small site (not even four hundred pages), but the content (algebra lessons) is very useful and rich for the intended audience. And since my audience is students, not search engines, the traffic is fairly consistent. That is, people are coming to my site because what is posted is consistently useful to them, rather than happening to be this month's SEO-algorithm's traffic spike feeding into an AdSense campaign.
But this didn't happen overnight. I exchanged links with a few other, related (but frequently small) sites. I got myself listed in DMoz. I watched my logs and listened to feedback, trying to make the site more user-friendly. And I continued to add more content.
And then I waiting a couple years. Patience can be a very important part of the process.
Eliz.
I have a website that I have just begun to build. I started about 3 weeks ago.
