Really struggling with serps....
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My website is only a week old or so but I have no pages showing on the serps or at least in the first few hundred results! I have many other hobby websites that had pages in the top 100 results instantly and the niche of this new website is tiny and not saturated so it should be up there already! All pages are indexed but non showing in the results.
it feels like I have been penalised or something but I don’t see how or why?
my website is www.magnet-fishing.co.uk of anyone can see anything obvious that I am missing
regards
Andy
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Hey Andy! I'm sorry to hear about your struggles. Here are a few ideas to help:
1. Link to this new site from a few of your other hobby sites to give it some credibility
2. Either sign up for https://www.yext.com/ (if you can tie a local address to it) or start building some basic social media profiles to start getting a base of links (Facebook, YouTube, Linkedin, Twitter
3. Research people of influence in the industry on Linkedin or Twitter and see if they'll share helpful articles like this: http://www.magnet-fishing.co.uk/how-to-magnet-fish-guide/ to help build some social mentions
4. Keep adding new content
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