Far away from top 50, am i doing it wrong or does it come down to linkbuilding?
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Im currently far away from top 50 of a very crucial search term i google.
Its my frontpage and the search term is aimed towards the city i live in
Im having a hard time determing if its just a matter of linkbuilding.
My concrern is if google have some kind of punishment on my frontpage or if the page.
It could be a combination of SEO optimization that is not good enough and too little external links for the time being.
The page has been live for a small month.
Im in Denmark so there is no "sandbox"
my frontpage can be visited here:
http://www.nikolajgrundtvig.dkIts in Danish, but you should have a idea of the structure and the amount of text on the page
Im a photographer btw
Best reguards!
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Thanks for even more valuable input
I guess i need to run the tool and then see how i can get some good "dofollow" links to back my frontpage up.
Am i correct if it could take quite some time for google to catch up on the external links?
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I'm assuming that the term you're targeting is "fotograf i odense".
I'd recommend running your homepage through the SEOMoz on page optimization tool.
You're showing up within the top 100 which is a good start. If you can build some links to the site you should quickly rise up to the top 50.
Although I should warn you that until you get to page 1 (and maybe page 2) you won't really see a large increase in organic traffic.
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Thanks a lot for your detailed reply
You are indeed correct that "Odense" is my targeted city.
The search term is "Fotograf Odense" (Photographer Odense)
I guess i need to add my city some more, i was just afraid of "over optimizing" the site
Most of my traffic has been going from Facebook, but im trying to find potential linkbuilding possibilities and considering making a blog on my site to build more rapidly updated content.
I have some links "out and about", but i guess there is no data hauled about this yet.
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Hi Nikolaj!
If your page only been live for a month it is too early to expect to start ranking. Your domain need some authority, links, and get fully indexed. Sometimes google can be a bit slow in the beginning. Good links will for sure help you out, just don't buy them.
Perhaps a free photo shoot to people who blog about you
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Hi Nikolaj,
Having crawled your site there are no major issues I can see.
If you're targeting for your local city which I assume is Odense, you need to include it more on your homepage. I could only find 3 instances of the word Odense on your homepage which is probably not enough.
I did a backlink check and there appears to be no links to your site. Of course there may be some links which aren't showing up in the tools I'm using but this is an indication that you have nowhere near enough links.
I'm not sure if you already have done it, but you could benefit from listing your business in Google places.
Hope this helps,
Adam.
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