Our site has been up almost 2 months and no rankings yet?

[Tormz]

Our site is www.AkinsSeptic.com.  We spent a lot of time on the site and have not received any rankings yet.

Can you advise as to what we can do to get this site ranked at all.

I know it needs a lot of SEO work and some links, however, it should rank mildly due to the low competition of keywords we are using.

Thanks in advance.

[irvingw]

Ricky, the .net site appears to be penalized, go to google and type in akinsseptic.net - results show for the .com site.  Also, if you simply type in akinsseptic in google you get neither site. This is an indication of trademark suppression AKA Google penalty. Your first step would be to unwind the penalty, until the sites are cleaned up you won't get rankings unfortunately.

I definitely believe that domain name age plays a large part in rankings out of the gate.  I have heard that it is better to let Google find your site on it's own (from following links on the web) rather then submitting your URL to Google, because if you submit it Google they start the clock from when you submitted it. I have not tested this but since it's possible I never submit new sites to Google URL submit tool.

[amitjain]

It ultimately depends on when you submitted your site to Google. The PR you see and the PR Google sees is two different things completely. People tend to game the visible PR we see all the time. Focus on content ,building relevant content, and relevant inbound links. It takes time to work your way up using ethical white hat methods but it pays off in the long run. PR does take a long time though. PR is determined by a lot of things and one of them is the quality of the inbound links to your site. If you're building trash links to your site that's not going to be effective. Quality over quantity.

[RyanKent]

Hi Ricky.

A few items I noticed when reviewing your question:

• your site is listed in Google

• you have another site listed in Google akinsplumbing.net. This second site is hosted on the same server as the akinsseptic.com and contains similar information. The akinsplumbing.net site is older and has higher DA/PA then the new site, so it will rank and the second site will be viewed as the duplicate. Duplicate content is algorithmically penalized so you can't expect it to rank well at all.

• I agree with vitalscom on many topics, but I disagree on the point of taking a year to build up Google's trust. If your site isn't ranking in the top 50 for your home page on a key term, either you are in an ultra-competitive nationwide topic such as "life insurance" or there is a problem which should be investigated. In this case, the problem is your content.

In summary, I would recommend using one site to represent your company. You can combine your DA in one location which offers strong SEO benefits. If you want to offer a second site on the same topic, you are playing a cat and mouse game with Google. You are attempting to hide the fact you are one company with two sites covering the same topic. Google will analyze your content, IP, web design and other factors in an attempt to determine if a relationship exists between the sites.

[StalkerB]

Keyword density?

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http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/seo-myths-that-persist-keyword-density

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/some-opinions-on-the-seo-myths-realities-fight

http://www.miislita.com/fractals/keyword-density-optimization.html

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization

[APICDA]

I agree, while sometimes sites do seem to whiizzz up there quickly, 2 months is hardly long enough time to become worried.

In looking briefly at the the site, on site optimization seems to be lacking for what I would guess to be major key words/phrases

Also, there does not seem to be much going on in terms of links, you may give this some attention.

I also took a look at the area in which you are competing, seems like there is a lot of competition out there.

I would be patient, work on your content and generate some quality strategic alliances in which to foster relevant links.

[irvingw]

Brand new sites can sometimes take up to a year before Google trusts it enough for real rankings. But looking at your site, you basically took the same page of content and simply changed many (too many) instances of the location.

http://www.akinsseptic.com/alpharetta-septic-tank.html

http://www.akinsseptic.com/athens-septic-tank.html

I would rewrite each page as much as you can, including the generic "About Akins Plumber & Sewer" footer content, and maybe lower your keyword density so the pages don't look over optimized. Whoa easy there Less is better.

<meta name="keywords" content="septic tank, septic tank service, atlanta septic, atlanta septic tank, septic tanks, septic repair, septic tank repair, septic pumping, septic tank pumping, sewer line, sewer repair," />

alt="athens septic tank services, septic tank services athens, septic tank service athens, athens septic tank service, athens septic tank chemicals, chemicals septic tank athens, athens septic clog, athens septic clogs, clogs athens, sewer athens, sewers athens" title="septic services athens"