Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I know this question has come up several times. however, I wanted to get some fresh updates based on your experience.
I started a new website about a week ago and was wondering how many months I should wait before I can expect decent traffic from Google.
I have about 20 back links already from partners/friends websites with PR ranging from 3-5.
I update the new website on a regular basis and have over 1K-2K unique visitors a day through partners websites. Does 5-6 months sound reasonable? Has anyone experienced decent Google traffic within a few months?
The site had 4 potent editorial style backlinks within a few days of its launch. After 4 months, Google Search was providing 64% of organic traffic.
The target market is only moderately competitive - the trophy keyword has 157 million results with 21 Adwords advertisers. The more targeted 2-word and 3-word phrases are in the 2 million to 3 million area with 8 advertisers or so. But there are some secondary phrases I was intentionally aiming for that have not yet drawn traffic after 10 months.
Still, the client is pleased and the business is doing fine. Also, this client was a joy to work with, a very "quick study" who pressed no ideas that I advised against.
The domain is very valuable (1 common word), the site is well designed in my opinion (outsourced), and has been getting 1-2K visitors/day (on average).
The PR toolbar is still gray (No PageRank Information Available).
That would depend on your unique content, titles, and meta tags.
I dont use Meta Tags.
I dont use Meta Tags.
That could very well be the problem if not your sites eventual death. No TITLE tags is duplicate content on every URL. No description tag won't hurt you nor will no keywords tag but no title tag will kill! Are you making static or dymanic DB driven pages? If dynamic/db pages I would highly recommend you code something or have somebody code something for you for at the very least a meta title tag and while they are at it a way to do decsription/keyword tags if you wish.
when you google www.example.com it shows up first but on the second page
That sounds like a penalty - and on such a young site! Have you checked to see if the domain name has a dark history?
Its dynamic, I am using CMS (Drupal).
Tedster: my bad, i meant google: example.com with out the 'www'
when you google www.example.com it does show up first.
whats interesting though is when you google the domain the first 2 results are the inner pages and not the home page.
in other words: www.example.com/folder1 shows up.
the domain is new so it does not have a history.
