Gotta Love Getting Indexed

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Yes it looks like Google found my new blog after about a week, well it would have been a lot sooner but my link building efforts were down to nothing, it was kind of strange, I went to bed at about 4am last night and woke up today at around 11am (Yes I don't sleep much) and I checked my website traffic stats to see a decent increase in traffic.

This is what makes me super happy though, I found a good long tail keyword to optimize for, there were already just over 3 Million search pages when you typed that word into Google but my research told me it was super easy to get into with a bit of SEO, so thats what I did, all White Hat SEO too.

Anyway I did a few link exchanges to get things rolling and then I left it for the last week because I was busy doing other shit, mainly testing some Digg results and setting myself up some landing pages for an upcoming Arbi Campaign.

So I looked at where my traffic was coming from and it turns out that the majority of the traffic was not coming from my original top keyword phrase, it was coming from one that I didn't think of, its strange because I somehow in advertently SEOed my blog to fit into this other keyword as well, I haven't checked out the search results on this new keyword but at first look it seems to be a fairly competitive one that I just made #2 ranking.

There were just over 6 Million other pages when you search for this term, so the good thing about long tail keywords is that sometimes you get a double or tripple bonus that you were not expecting, I've even noticed my blog is being ranked on other 2 phrase keywords in #2 and #4 position.

So just thought I'd share that with you all, no real reason behind it other to say its a good morning when you go to bed with a daily traffic rate of 20 unique per day and wake up to find your listed in several keywords you were not before and already ranked in 200 unique and its only morning, plus I've gotten quiet a few adsence clicks for this and they pay quiet well.

P.S. sorry for any spelling, grammar or just overall reading errors, I just woke up, the screen is still blurry.
 


Apple D said:
good job

but remember the sandbox will kick in and you rankings may fall
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hahaha seriously, people keep talking about the Google sandbox, I never once had a single problem with falling into this so called mythalogical sandbox, some people say they can never get out of it.

I don't know it seems pretty simple to me when your doing white hat SEO, I've never once had a problem with my listings fall or anything like that, hell its never taken me longer then two weeks to get listed in Google, Yahoo, or MSN.

This is all based upon my other websites and blogs, some might call it lucky but I call it the mythological sandbox story, the people who get backlisted by Google do it because they 1) Submitted their url to Google, 2) are using major black hat or grey hat SEO or 3) They have no clue what SEO or original content even means.
 
Well, those of us who have experienced the sandbox, we know what we are talking about. What you may not know is I've only been hit by the new site sandbox on heavy competitive terms where I was #2 then dropped off the planet then returned a couple months later (with little addional efforts).

For my longtails, I don't have a sandbox issue on my new sites (I get 5 new sites indexed a week, on average within 1-3 weeks each).

Maybe it is just me, but the 3-4 word keyword focused sites don't get this sandbox issue. Maybe I am just lucky. :)
 
No need to submit your site to google. However, there IS A NEED to use their webmaster center to submit XML sitemaps of your site. It has helped for me.

But since this site seems to be so fucking focused on arbitration, none of you need to do this since you have 1-3 page sites. Heh.
 
Sanbox usually applies to competitive terms

most 4+ phrase kw's don't get sandboxed but some do depending on how many other sites are optimizing for it
 
electrojham said:
Why would submitting your url to Google get you blacklisted?
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SEO mistake Number one is submitting your URL to Google. SEO Tip #1 is NEVER submit your link to Google or any other search engine.

Why because Google has this little system where if they cannot find you easily on the web without you telling them where you are then they will give you a lower ranking because others will have a hard time finding you and because of it you might not be link worthy, have shit content, things like that.

This is why you have to do some link building when you toss your site on the internet, if you can get a couple of higher PR5 or PR6 sites with relevent content to link to your site then Google will list you in under two weeks, usually a couple of days with me.

How do they list you like this? Well they do so because those higher PR sites are spidered by Google almost every single day and if they find your new link on their site they will follow it through to your site, getting you indexed.

Basic point, if Google cannot find you online without you telling them where you are, it will hurt your rankings at first, you can recover from this but its another mistake people do to get them in this backloged, so called, Sandbox.

Again sorry for the spelling and ramblings on this, its still early for me.
 
ScottDaMan said:
No need to submit your site to google. However, there IS A NEED to use their webmaster center to submit XML sitemaps of your site. It has helped for me.

But since this site seems to be so fucking focused on arbitration, none of you need to do this since you have 1-3 page sites. Heh.
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Correct sitemaps are an easier way for Google to index your site, they are handy and super easy to create and dont forget to have your Robots.txt file just in case you don't want the spiders going places they shouldn't.
 
Yep, for those worried about low ranks, a DENY ALL robots.txt is the way to go. Guaranteed to have no rank related stresses in the future.
 
ScottDaMan said:
Yep, for those worried about low ranks, a DENY ALL robots.txt is the way to go. Guaranteed to have no rank related stresses in the future.
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haha yeah for those of you who don't know what the robots.txt file is remember to place the DENY ALL feature into it haha.

Thats going to screw up a lot of newbies.
 
I agree, I quit submitting to SE's months ago, since then my sites are getting picked up in days, in some rare instances hours.

Ive submitted sites to SE's and have literally waited months, even with some decent links point to the sites. Well Google anyway, MSN has always index quick after a submission.

I dont care how competitive your site is, you get some decent links and youll get picked up quick. Now actually placing for competitive keywords /terms is the hard part. Getting indexed is a breeze!
 
yea getting indexed isn't too difficult

ranking is hard especially keeping the ranking

Sometimes a site of mine will get 1000 visitors a day from google and then a month later the number plunges to 200 despite making no changes.
 
Apple D said:
yea getting indexed isn't too difficult

ranking is hard especially keeping the ranking

Sometimes a site of mine will get 1000 visitors a day from google and then a month later the number plunges to 200 despite making no changes.
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I may not have fully understood this but that could be your problem, making no changes to a site in a month will have an effect, Google likes to see fresh content, if you post on average once a day the Googlebots will come on average once a day or every other day, if you post once a month they might only come once every two months or more.

Simply put the more they come to index your site the better, it shows them that you've got more fresh content on the site and its not becoming and old dying site that they will lower your rankings because of this.

Its especially true with high traffic keywords.
 
Even if you have a static site that has little need of updating other than a few SSI files or perhaps minor database numeric changes, I've found simply reuploading the sites pages can help sometimes.
 
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