My website - about a year old - doesn't rank for the search terms I wanted. At all. I went through 15 pages of search results on Google, and then found a website that checks for you along with other search engines - and my website literally doesn't come up. I'm hoping that searches for 'west midlands web designer' or something similar will find it - these words are in my site title and homepage description, which I thought were the most important?

 

I tried putting in different terms (my name + web design) and the website appears quite early on, so I don't think my website is being penalised in any way. I currently basically don't get visitors, and nobody has linked to the website yet, but surely that can't explain why my site isn't coming up at all for these terms?

 

In case it's relevant, I did only change my site title to include these search terms, and add a site map, a week or two ago. Maybe that's it?

 

I know it takes a long time to get to the first few pages, that's not the issue - it's that apparently the website doesn't rank at all for any terms unless they include my name. What am I doing wrong?

Edited August 10, 201511 yr by rhubarblover

Have you applied any promotion tactics with your website?

 

See, it happens most of times that you don't get your website link in search results especially when the site category have lot of competition and when site have some issues. As you are saying, you have better used your keyword on Title tag & body section and used proper sitemap, so, let's start with few other points:

 

a. Check your website redirection, if any. Check if your website opens with or without www. For ex: If your site name is abc and its opening with both http://www.abc.com & without www i.e., http://abc.com. That simply means your website have redirection issue and it need to be solved by your server panel.

 

b. Check your website cache. See, is it crawling or not. check this: cache:http://www.abc.com . If crawled, when was the last time. Accordingly, you need to do some promotion work on that.

 

c. Do some promotion work on your website fot that particular keyword such as: starting with promoting on few bookmarking websites like: Pinterest, tumblr and more. (Search on Google)

 

d. If you write blogs related to your website category then start to use your keyword on your blog (don't use so much as there are some rules by Google guidelines) and put link of that webpage which you want to focus on.

 

e. Generally, if you start with off page promotion techniques, it'll show your keyword in 5-8 search results pages within 1-2 months.

 

 

Regards,

Savy Nacion

Edited August 13, 201510 yr by Savynacion

Hi Savynacion

 

I'm impressed with your assistance and tips... I would be happy to submit my website to you for a review on SEO front to be honest.

 

Cheers

 

Daniel

Savynacion -
Thanks for the advice. My website redirects to the www. version, and that's the one I've given Google Analytics/webmaster tools. It is definitely being crawled, too.

I'm not really promoting the site in any way yet - no social media or blogs. Do you think that might be all the problem is, then? It just seems odd that it doesn't appear in the search results at all, as I wouldn't say the West Midlands is highly competitive in regards to web design - though maybe it would help to narrow down the area a bit...

It just seems odd that it doesn't appear in the search results at all, as I wouldn't say the West Midlands is highly competitive in regards to web design - though maybe it would help to narrow down the area a bit...

Well a search for - west midlands web designer, returns 701,000 results in Google.

 

Google no longer takes the meta keyword tag into account so it will be down to your content. Without seeing the content it is difficult to tell how relevant that search term is to the content of your pages.

Can i have your website link please ? You might have missed something.

Hi Savynacion

 

I'm impressed with your assistance and tips... I would be happy to submit my website to you for a review on SEO front to be honest.

 

Cheers

 

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

 

It would be my pleasure to assist you as SEO person.

 

We can discuss it further on skype.

 

id: manoj.bisht.here (My main assistant)

 

Regards,

Savy

Savynacion -

Thanks for the advice. My website redirects to the www. version, and that's the one I've given Google Analytics/webmaster tools. It is definitely being crawled, too.

 

I'm not really promoting the site in any way yet - no social media or blogs. Do you think that might be all the problem is, then? It just seems odd that it doesn't appear in the search results at all, as I wouldn't say the West Midlands is highly competitive in regards to web design - though maybe it would help to narrow down the area a bit...

As a SEO Person, I can understand your problem and it really matters to have your website in first page search results. Ok, let's start with few processes initially:

 

a. You said that you have applied webmaster tools on your website. So, i'd recommend you to go to the option of FETCH AS GOOGLE in your webmaster. It's a simple process: Sign in with your gmail account (by which you have created webmaster) on https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ > Click on your site manager or name > Click on crawl button > under crawl button you'll see Fetch as Google > you can see domain as default on this page so you have to fill the other pages url on the blank box. For better understanding study this: http://searchengineland.com/how-to-use-fetch-as-googlebot-like-seo-samurai-214292

 

b. Second step to search in Google: "business listing sites list". Now, all you have to do is to fill your business information on 5-10 good PR sites. This will help you alot to crawl your web pages. Don't do so much, simply on high PR few sites.

 

c. As i have mentioned in previous post: Start blogging, Write good quality content and linking process.

 

 

If you still facing problem, you can connect with me on skype: manoj.bisht.here (I'll try my best to help you solving your purpose)

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Regards,

Savy