New site and rankings

zokiii · 06-11-2007, 02:47 AM

Tell me your experiences about ranking new sites on google...

How much time do I need to achieve competitive rankings ?

jakomo · 06-11-2007, 06:53 AM

Hello,
All depend if your keyword is hard to rank or not, maybe for a very compititive keyword can take 1 or 2 years, but you need to work hard.

eshop600 · 06-11-2007, 10:38 AM

I had a new domain and initially it was ranking well for all words I wanted, about 2 or 3 weeks everything dropped off the google index, nothing not even non-competative words came up in google.

It took about 3 to 4 months to get found on the less competative words, lookup "google sandbox" on google. Nearly 1 year later and I`m still working hard to get up the rankings for the harder words.

For what its worth I would try and get about 5 really good inbound links to your site (at least 5 pr) then launch the site and do all your seo work.

zokiii · 06-11-2007, 10:50 AM

Is ok to expect that new sites can achieve competitive rankings in about 6-9 months ?

Of course with constant link building..

jakomo · 06-11-2007, 10:50 AM

Yes, this happen for new sites, first this can rank very well, but then your site can be sandboxes..

oseymour · 06-11-2007, 02:40 PM

it depends on how much work you are willing to put in, plus your content and if your competition is also doing SEO.

stevewaganer · 06-13-2007, 02:52 AM

It all depends on the competitivness of the keyword on which you are promoting your site. if the keyword is less competitive then its a chance to get higher ranking within month otherwise i ll take too long time. so dont worry just optimize ur site for keyword which is relevent to your site.

eshop600 · 06-13-2007, 03:57 AM

If you get put into the google sandbox then chances are you wont rank for any keyword, or at least thats what I found, the only thing I got found for was my company name.

After 4mths I got found for more words. It seems the age of the domain name is now a big factor, unless you have a product or service that everyone is talking about.

Cornbread · 06-13-2007, 04:56 AM

My experience: After three months with lots of good inbound links you will see some gradual improvement in the rankings, but you won't see any major improvement for close to 9 months. The Google sand box, or also known as ageing delay penalty is real and 99.99% of all new domains will experience this dilemma. Also the Yahoo ageing delay is around 3 months and MSN has zero aging delay penalty.

eshop600 · 06-13-2007, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Cornbread

My experience: After three months with lots of good inbound links you will see some gradual improvement in the rankings, but you won't see any major improvement for close to 9 months. The Google sand box, or also known as ageing delay penalty is real and 99.99% of all new domains will experience this dilemma. Also the Yahoo ageing delay is around 3 months and MSN has zero aging delay penalty.

I agree with that, my domain in now 1 year old and starting to get more traffic, or rather keywords I`m targeting are now showing on a google search.

king2163 · 06-13-2007, 07:05 AM

If you want to minimize sandbox effect ,
1- get the link from theme based website.
2-addition of content and adding a link must be proptional to each other.
3- don't get link too fast.
4- At start never go for directory submission.
5- Get the link with very reputated website.
6- Don't repeat keyword in anchor text too much. some time give url in anchor text.
7- Don't let google know that you are optimizing your website. so my 2nd point is more important to other.
8- All in one be too natural for google.

montux · 06-13-2007, 09:42 AM

Depends, I have a domain name which is 10 yrs old but not ranking in first 10 for its own name yet

Janna122003 · 06-13-2007, 12:23 PM

IT depends on your optimization. Google has many factor to consider in giving rankings.

charlesgan · 06-14-2007, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by zokiii

Tell me your experiences about ranking new sites on google...

How much time do I need to achieve competitive rankings ?

i wrote a blog post today, and its about my blog ranking in google and yahoo.
google is fast... a week. yahoo takes 1-2 months time to get to top 20.

eshop600 · 06-14-2007, 12:19 PM

charlesgan is that a new site? or an older established site?

ssomaxp · 06-20-2007, 10:32 PM

Hi to all

I think it depend on SEO you do, my site itself gained a google pr 2 within 3 month. I think if your site have good keyword and good web structure, the bot can easily index your site and your get pr very fast.

Somchai Naamphai

rukshankb · 06-20-2007, 10:39 PM

It's depend your content.But the time period may few months

sniperhiga · 06-23-2007, 11:20 PM

How competitive your site? If it "Youth football in Ohio" you need just 10-15 quality links and your site will be in top 10 in 1-2 weeks. Real estate sites

Good luck

Cornbread · 06-24-2007, 04:53 AM

My new domain was stuck in the sand box for four months and then I went on a wild link buying campaign, I purchased a bunch of really solid links like BOTW, v7n, Seven Seek, ewebpages and many more and I am happy to say after five months my site has emerged out of the sand box. I hand picked each directory link and only got the best, no link farms. I now rank very well for most major key words and phrases. I even rank better in Google than in Yahoo now. My summation: Quality directory links still work in Google.

tdd1984 · 06-24-2007, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by zokiii

Tell me your experiences about ranking new sites on google...

How much time do I need to achieve competitive rankings ?

You need to work, and educate your self the things that will take you furthest in life is persist ency and believes, with out that your not going to get far, so start building links, and start creating viral content