I have plenty of backlinks but the site does not seem to come up on Google`s first page.
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My site has been jumping up and down for many months now. but it never stays on Google first page. I have plenty of back-links, shared content on social media. But what could i be doing wrong? any help will be appreciated.
Content is legit. I have recently added some internal links is this might be the cause?
Please help .
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i have used yoast plugins but it didn't help that much. I can't figure out if the problem is on page seo or off page seo.
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Hi, I can recommend the yoast plugin for SEO (for wordpress sites). I don't have a wordpress site to look after anymore, but when I did I used this and it was the DBs!
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Well if the site is new and you are not greatly tied to it in any way, I'd start over. Not that you can't recover but it can take quite a while and will be some work. You have come to right place to learn though and that is to your credit! Check out some of the beginner guides here: http://moz.com/learn/seo
Wordpress is great and I am a big fan of Genesis and the Studiopress themes. Get a good host like WP Engine or Websynthesis just to name a couple. But most of all read in this forum.
Welcome and good luck!
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Thanks gazzerman1 and chris661 for your replies.
I am just new to wordpress and brought the theme and just started using them. Not sure about the coding on top.
I have seen site like mine ranking better than me even with the spammy backlinks. My seo guy messed up the links and it was too expensive so i started learning it myself.
I am new to this but dying to learn how i can improve it.
Shall i just work on a different site because i dont think i am able to get rid of them bad backlinks.
thanks
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Also in addition to what Gazzerman sees, looks like the WP template files that probably came as a demo with the theme are still there and indexed with the WP Latin boilerplate. This needs to be cleaned up. Use the site: operator in Google search and you will see them. I don't mean to be blunt but Backlinks look pretty spammy to me. If you paid for links like a lot of the comment spam and profile spam, you need to clean those up as well.
Best,
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Is it the the url on your profile? If so I just took a look at the code and you have 1600 lines of code before the first line of text, why is there so much code on this page? It should all be put in a style sheet and js files.
Google will favor better optimized sites, especially when its as bad as that. The site on the surface looks great.
Its not about the quantity of links but the quality, a good link is worth a thousand crappy ones and the weak ones can even hurt you.
Until we can look at your site and know for sure what one it is and then understand a keyterm your talking about for us to analyze it will be too difficult to answer your needs.
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