Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I got a new domain on february 09 and started a careful link-building (200 links in 7 month) with a lot of different anchors and target-pages (linking to main- und subpages of the site).
The page seems somehow interesting because I got a lot links from social bookmarks.
Anyway: The page still is not showing up at all for the main-keyword "widget". I checked the whole backlinkprofile back and forward several times but couldn't find more then 2 or 3 links I would consider as beeing "bad". I got only 4 anchors saying exactly "widget", all others are variations of "widgets" or completly other texts.
But: The site ranks quite well for "widgét" which seems to me that some kind of filter is applied. This all reminds me a bit of the sandbox - but somehow I thought the sandbox wasn't used anymore.
Any ideas what I could/should do?
But it doesn't show up in the first 1000 results for "widget" at all. After 7 month, I expected a position on about 100-300 or so - but nothing.
@tedster: My total traffic from Google is about 120 hits per week - the "highest" keyword has 6 accesses per week. So there is some kind of long tail. The sites ranks for non-competetive long-terms like "widgets and more" (which appears in the title of the mainpage). But I have no idea what this could mean ;-) Okay, it could be an OOP for "widget", but using "widget" as anchor only 4 times out of 200 links - if I use less I would think why should it rank for "widget" at all ;-)
Okay, it could be an OOP for "widget", but using "widget" as anchor only 4 times out of 200 links
How about internal anchor text? Going over the top there can definitely trigger ranking problems, too.
no "widget" alone.
Seems like it could be part of the problem to me... If you don't have a widget page, why would I want to visit your site to find my widget? (The only way I could think of is if your link text to your home page was widget site-wide.)
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It almost sounds like you have an anchor text dilution problem... Think about what a search engine has to go by to determine who they should send your way.
There's a finite number of things they can use to determine relevance.
Three things I would look at carefully are:
1.) Inbound Link Text.
(What does it say about your site?)
2.) Internal Link Text.
(What does it say about the pages on your website?)
3.) Outbound Links and Link Text
Another way to rephrase my question above is:
As a search engine, how do I know to send visitors to your site for Widget when you don't have a single page on your site specifically about Widget? (Doesn't it seem like there would be at least 1000 better choices, even if they only have a single 'not very good' page about Widget? At least they have one.)
Due to the "anchor text dilution problem": I only have 4 incoming links using exactly "widget", but there are some more anchors using "Here you can buy a widget", "blue widget", "nice widgets" and so on. The site wouldn't rank for the misspelling "widgét" if "widget" were used too thin I think.
