Keyword search

Have I done something wrong?

[Jemado]

I have launched a new website a month and a half ago. It has about 120 visitors a day now, so I have a long way to go. All of my pages are indexed by Google, but I can only find them when I do 2 or 3 word searches. With 2 – 3 keyword searches al lot of my pages show up on the first 3 page results in Google. But when I look for one of my main keywords like ‘widget’ in a one word search, I can’t find my site between the first 30 pages of Google.
Is this just a matter of time or have I done something wrong with my site optimization?

[caveman]

Hey Jemado,

Let's broaden this just a bit, in a way that will provide more useful information. How is your site doing, generally, on the other SE's? Better than G? Worse? Same? I'm talking mainly about Y! and MSN.

[Jemado]

Well on msn my site isn't indexed on the first resultpage, but somewhere between 5 and 10. But it IS indexed on these main keywords.

What's also strange is that when I type 'information widgets' in Google i'm almost on every of my main keywords on the first or second page. But when I just fill in 'widgets', I can't find a thing..

[caveman]

Well the good news is you can rest easy. Well, don't rest exactly ... keep working. But the point is, your site's profile is quite normal. New sites can take many, many months to rank well on Google for key terms, though in some cases they can rank for secondary, long-tail terms within weeks/months.

MSN will typicall pick up and rank a new site fastest. Yahoo takes more time, sorta between MSN and Google. No worries. You're right on track.

Next step: Study this! [webmasterworld.com] ;-)

[edited by: caveman at 5:37 pm (utc) on May 17, 2006]

[Jemado]

Thanx for your answers Cavemen!

"Next step: Study this! ;-)"

That's already like my bible! :) I have a look on it almost every day. Great piece of work. My target for this website is quite high. so i'll hope it'll work out for me..

[caveman]

Actually, there's just one of me. ;-)

[Jemado]

okay mAn ;)

[Animated]

possibility to rank higher with multi word key words is always like in your case,rather then rank for a 1 word key word because there is less competition because its more detailed

[Robert Charlton]

Actually, there's just one of me. ;-)

Stemming. ;)

[caveman]

Duplicate me penalty. :p