Been at it for 10 months

Still not much in Yahoo or Google

[drsteve744]

I've got 200+ pages of relevant content, a daily blog and RSS . I have about 150 unique visitors +/- per day I rank pretty well on MSN, and 66% of my traffic comes from there. But to this date, nothing on Google and close to nothing on Yahoo. I know that things will explode when I am in their top 10 or 20 for some of my pages. I am just out of ideas as to what to do next.

Any helpful suggestions, ideas? What am I missing? I want to do this thing right, and I think my site is really great overall.

[keno]

First of all, your site is doing better than mine, but I will mention a few things that I find odd about it, or at least one page of it.

I see the title of the page, and the page heading in bold, and the page description, and the key phrases all match up. However on the page I’m looking at, those phrases are not in the body text. “Spcy ndle sld” page (modified not searchable).

My understanding is that Yahoo and Google are two different animals, and you may be looking at two different problems. The above observation may help to address the Yahoo problem.

Have you looked at the logs and searched for those same terms in Google and Yahoo?

When I search on your page titles they come up number one or number two in Yahoo and Google.

The following link will bring you to a page, which describes what may be going on with your site. It mentions symptoms dealing with the site being found by URL, title, and anchor text, but not the keywords it was designed for.

[webmasterworld.com...]

Edit>> Oh, and BTW if you think traffic is going to explode once you hit Google, you might want to take the URL out of the profile or you will have ten more competitors when you get there

[drsteve744]

Thanks for the response Keno. The Thread makes some sense to me, but it's obvious that speculation is rampant. I do feel better about the time frame involved, so I keep adding content and trying to be patient.

What do you mean by "check the logs"?

any recommended tools for tracking SERP's that I need to know about?

[keno]

I really like NetTracker 7.5 lite for looking at the logs - Free, and can also run from your PC.

Some people seem to like AW Stats - Free

Google analytics might be a good one to try once it gets going. It's new and I don't know anything about it.

Webalizer - records search terms but doesn't tell you where they come from.

What I meant was to copy and paste the search terms that you are found by on MSN onto the other engines and see if they find you for those terms. If not found - why not?