New site. How important is traffic for a new site? And what about domain age?
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Hi guys. I've been building a new site because i've seen a real SEO opportunity out there. I'm a mixing professional by trade and so I wanted to take advantage of SEO to help gain more work. Here's the site: www.signalchainstudios.co.uk
I'm curious about domain age. This site fairly well optimised for my keywords, and my site got pretty good content on it (i think so anyway). But it's no where to be seen on the SERP's (link at all). Is this just a domain age issue?
I'd have though it might be in the top 50 because my site's services are not hard to rank for at all!
Also what about traffic? Does Google want to see an 'active' site before it considers 'promoting' it up the ranks? Or are back links and good content the main factor in the equation?
Thanks in advance. I love this community to bits
Isaac.
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Lol, thanks!
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You are a Crack Monica!! Thanks for sharing!
Regards Isaac!!
Carlos
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Yeah, Totally makes sense! Better get building
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No problem. I love the Moz Community. It rocks for sure.
I mean small as in very few pages and content. I consider a site to be authoritative based on the information I can find on it. So if you have 12 pages with a ton of uniquely valuable content, then your site is authoritative in my opinion.
That being said, it is better to have a site with 12 pages of great content than 100 pages of lame, duplicate, uninformative content. You can get the same authoritative stance in the SERPs with few pages of outstanding content, or many pages of outstanding content. Does that make sense?
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One other quick question if I may?
When you say the site is small, do you mean there aren't many pages, or that there's not a great deal of content (copy, images, etc) on the site?
Or both?
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Awesome Monica! Thank you so much for your time
Should;nt be to hard to change this.This community is just ace!
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Yes, ideally your URLs would build as you go through them.
abcinc.com/online-mixing/studio
abcinc.com/online-mixing/software
abcinc.com/online-mixing/software/download
Something like that
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Ah! So the site would benefit from adding the "online mixing" keyword to the URL's for all the deeper pages in the site? Can't change Home page now though
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It is very important to have the keywords in your URL and Title tags. It is what the engines use, aside from content, to determine what your page is about. It is how they determine where you are relevant in the online world. I wouldn't say that they are not important. Content is king of course, but your URL and Title are kind of like the introduction to your content. Successful content builds off of the main key term for the page.
So, for online mixing, my url would be something like abcinc.com/online-mixing/studio
My title tag would be something like Chicago's Best Online Mixing Studio or The Only Online Mixing Studio You Need. Then my H1 would be something similar, The Only Online Mixing Studio You Will Ever Need To Use, and then my content would focus on the pros of the site, what tools are beneficial to online mixing and how my site uses them to achieve the ultimate mix
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Thank you for your kind words
About the URL. I was under the impression that keywords in here wasn't such a big deal anymore? And only 2 competitors on top page have the main keyword phrase 'online mixing' in the URL. Plus I do have 'mixing' in there, so it's no so bad?I hope so. I really wanted to commit to the brand, and keep it strong and not 'dilute it' by just putting keywords into the URL.
I will take your advice a build my site out, add blog, fresh content. All part of running a good business anyway
Don't want to only really on SEO Though free traffic is alway nice!!!Also, I'm working on gaining my old back-links at the moment, some pretty decent ones, highly relevant. It was a Flash site before, so not great from an SEO point of view.
Thanks again!
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Don't worry, it happens to the best of us!
My thoughts, you need some quality backlinks and more content. Your URLs are not optimized very well, meaning you don't really target your key terms in them, and the site is small. I would say getting a blog and adding fresh content, having a social media presence, building some quality backlinks and adding more content to your pages will help you. The design of the site is beautiful, though! Good Job!
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Apologies apologies apologies. Typed in my old sites URL. duh! New one is on the bottom post.
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I know! What an amateur! Wrong URL
New site is below
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Thanks for taking the time to respond. I'm so sorry I sent you to my old site. New one is on the post below
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If you use the new domain change the moz points and also the google score. In my opinion, the best way is to use the other domain and improve it. Good Luck!
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It is the hosting I believe that has expired, not the domain.
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I see the same thing as Jonathon. Though a whois search says it doesn't expire till this August (and has been registered since August 2009).
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All I see on that domain is "this webspace is expired".
If you still see your website, try clearing your browser cache. It could explain why your site is not ranking.
I sent you to my old site!
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