We have new website abexpress.ae. The website is not ranking in the first page when I search with the Domain name itself. Any tips to improve the SEO for a new website?

[AlliedTransport]

We have launched a website abexpress.ae. The website is not ranking well even if we search with the Domain name.

The Domain authority of the website it 10. How to increase this?

[AlliedTransport]

Hi GR,

I am using google.ae. yea I know its just a metrics. When I search with Ab express in google.ae the abexpress.ae is not in the first page. There are many other websites with the same name nut from different countries. Yea site is online for just few months now and it doesnt have enough history too.

[GastonRiera]

Hello there!
Happy new Year for you too.

Which country are you using to search? As your TLD is .ae you should use google.ae.
Check here ( https://www.google.ae/#q=ab+express ), you do appear in the first page.

On one hand, I'm not finding any major issue. It may be that your site does not have enough history (this is how long it's been online), or that you have very few backlinks (ahrefs found 1, majestic found 2  and moz found 1) or it may be that there are really few searches and you never get a click through google search.
All these, are some of the more important things that google takes into consideration to say whether your site is "relevant" for a certain search or not.

On the other hand, Moz's metrics aren't absolute. So you shouldn't be driven by PA, DA or whatever. Moz tries to say how likely is a page to rank, but they are not inside google's algorithm. There are thousands of items that google considers that cant be considered by Moz or any other SERP tool.

Hope I've helped.
GR.

[GastonRiera]

There are lots of things to focus.
There might be hundreds tips to be taken care of.

Have you understood all of the basic items in SEO? take a look here: SEO: the begginer's guide - Moz Also, here some checklist for further knowledge:

• On-Page SEO: Anatomy of a Perfectly Optimized Page (2016 Updated) - backlinko
• SEO Audit Checklist for 2016 - GotchSEO
• SEO CHECKLIST 2016: 41-STEP ON PAGE SEO CHECKLIST

Best Luck!!
GR.

[AlliedTransport]

@Gaston its fine.

I tried to search the business with the company name that is Ab express and it was not showing in google search. So we have to work on the oeverall seo? or any thing which I need to focuss?

Thanks you so much for your help.

[GastonRiera]

Hello!.
Im really sorry, cant help you here.
I've never had to verify the address with another method than receiving the card.

[AlliedTransport]

Hi,

I have another question. I have created the google business account for abexpress. But in address field I cant enter the P.O box as and takes only physical address. I havent received the card yet.Is there any other way to verify the business?

[AlliedTransport]

@Gaston thanks for the quick response

[GastonRiera]

There's no ultimate need in setting the preferred language and country. it's desirable to set those. At least so Google knows where are you Targeting

[AlliedTransport]

@Gaston,

Yes the site has only 7 pages.

1. The site was launched 3 months ago.

2. Webmaster tool account has been set up

2. We haven't configured the preferred  language and country.  we offer services within UAE, GCC, Levant countries and North Africa. So should we set this option?

[GastonRiera]

Hi,
Yeap you should have a robots.txt file, even if you dont want to block any URL.

Im checking with a crawler (SpiderFrog) and you have only 7 URL accessible. Are all those the URLs you want to be indexed?

http://abexpress.ae/
http://abexpress.ae/terms-conditions
http://abexpress.ae/industries
http://abexpress.ae/about
http://abexpress.ae/services
http://abexpress.ae/contact
http://abexpress.ae/faqs

Just to be sure:

1. how long has this site been up?
2. Have you created a Search Console account for this site? Have you upload the Sitemap to that account?
3. Have you configured the preferred domain? And what about the preferred language/country?

GR

[AlliedTransport]

Hi Gatson,

Should we use robots.txt file if I dont want to block any urls?

[AlliedTransport]

Hi Gaston,

THanks you so much for your response. I will look into it.

[GastonRiera]

Hello,

Your site does appear when searching for the domain itself. Take a look at this screenshot:
https://gyazo.com/471d935ab33651527a53c3b9436b44bc

Regarding the DA, remember that it is a metric from moz that analyzes the links pointing to your domain (mainly) and then it offers a number stating how likely that domain may rank.
You shouldn't focus in incrementing the DA itself. There are other issues and ideas where to spend your time and money.
One of the issues is that you don't have redirected the non-www to the www version (and there is no canonical tag). And other issue is that there is no robots.txt (I couldnt find it).

Best luck.
Hope I've helped.
GR.