Why my site so poorly ranks on Google
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Hi
I hope you can help me for my site http://www.majordroid.com/
I really do not understand why my site so poorly ranks on Google. What can I do about that? Are there any errors or something? What can be done about that?
Also when I go to the Moz Tools - Open Site Explorer to check how many backlinks I have...
It says: 12 Total Links
but according to the Google Webmaster tools I have in total 334 links and 138 links to the homepage.
see attachment
Why Open Site Explorer does not see all the links to my site, which is a possible reason?
And last question, what I need to do to remove pages from Google search like this: <cite class="_Rm">/page/2</cite>. <cite class="_Rm">/page/3 and so on...</cite>
Thank you
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Thank you Paddy
It is very hard to get high quality links. For example I am also willing to write for other sites to get source link... but this is also hard to get in.
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Hi Ivan,
Thanks for your question. To answer each of your points:
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Google Webmaster Tools and Open Site Explorer will often report different numbers of links from each other. They both use different crawlers and different methods of sorting the data, so they will never match up 100%. The same is true of other backlink tools such as Ahrefs or Majestic. I wouldn't worry too much about the numbers being different.
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It can be hard to say why you're not ranking but it usually comes down to:
- The quality of your content
- The quality of your links
- The technical setup of the website
The quality of content generally seems to be fine and unique. However you don't seem to have many high quality links and as others have pointed out, there aren't that many. You may want to take a look at the following guide:
http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-link-building
You may also want to carry out a technical review of your website to ensure that there are no major problems, here is a very good checklist:
http://moz.com/blog/technical-site-audit-for-2015
It can often take time for traffic and rankings to grow, particularly in the industry you're targeting which looks a little bit competitive. So I'd advise taking a look at your competitors and seeing if you can learn anything from what they do. It does look like you're making progress though, I found this example of where you rank pretty well:
http://screencast.com/t/jRiE4BRllcd
I hope the above helps!
Paddy
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according to ahrefs.com, my site has 73 dofollow links
I know it's not much, but I am trying...
what do you propose ? what can i do to get more dofollow links ?
thank you
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Checked with ahrefs.com, ordering by ahrefs url importance (and skipping no-follow).
If you take the few ones coming from websites which are not forums or directories, like http://mobiteli.geek.hr/novosti/neo-mx4-je-prva-kopija-meizu-mx4/ you will see the content/copy is thin and the page authority is extremely low.
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Hi,Thank you for the reply.
Yes, I am not targeting terms like android, phone etc....I would love to good rankg for terms like, meizu, thl, elephone p2000 etc...
So, what can you suggest me ? What anchors do I need to use? domain name or ?
Massimiliano Favilli,
talking about backlinks, I have only one backlink to directories....
Other backlinks are from forums and sites. I have many backlinks from very good sites...
I dont where you watched ?
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In addition to what have already been said, the backlinks you have are of very poor quality, most of them are no-follow and almost all of them seems to come from forum or directories.
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It's not uncommon to see differences between the number of links reported on various tools. I've often found WMT is a good guide to the absolute number of backlinks you really have. Having said that WMT seems to keep links forever. Even dropped links from years ago show in my WMT.
BTW ahrefs.com is reporting 177 backlinks for your domain.
As to why your site isn't ranking as well as you'd like (we all have that problem!) What search terms are you targeting? Broad terms like "android" and "phone" are going to be very difficult to rank for. Maybe try ranking some of your review pages for more specific terms like "Meizu mx4 pro review". In this short term this is likely to drive more traffic.
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