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Just FYI for anyone who sees this post later on.  We're getting a marked improvement in organic search traffic after fixing some of the page load speed issues.

Thanks for the help!

Is there a way to tell for sure if you're in the sandbox?

Thanks Donna!

Thanks for the response Donna,

In Webmaster tools I'm not seeing any queries and very few impressions.

I would expect the the site to be at least ranking for "nj architect", even at a very low ranking 50+, just based on the site's content.  I'm not expecting first page rankings yet.  I am just now seeing any at all.  That's what concerns me, that there may some other problem with the way the site is set up.

Thanks for the help Dirk!

We pushed this Word Press site live about a month ago www.primedraftarchitecture.com.

Since then we've been adding regular content, blog posts 3 times a week with social posts on facebook, twitter, G+ and LinkedIn.  We also submitted via Moz Local about 3 weeks ago.  Yext about two weeks ago and have been adding about 5 listings to small local directories a week.

Webmaster tools shows that the site map is valid and the pages of the site are getting indexed and it shows links from 7 sites, mostly directories.

I'm just not seeing the site ranking for anything.  We're getting zero organic traffic.

I though we did a good job not over optimizing the pages.  I'm just stymied trying to figure out what's wrong.  Usually we push a site live and see at least some low rankings after just a couple of weeks.

Can anyone see anything that looks bad or where we've gone wrong?

Matt,

For those ping tools do you put the url of the directory where the link is or the pages of the site that I'm trying to rank?

yes, primedraftarchitecture.com is correct.  typo.

How do I ping the directory links?

I just built this site for a client http://primedraftarchitecture.com.  It went live 3 weeks ago and the pages are getting indexed as per Webmaster Tools.  But I'm not seeing it rank for anything.

We're adding blog articles regularly and used Moz Local for local links and have been building links in other local directories (probably about 15 so far).

Usually I get some rankings, although very low, after just a week or two for new sites.

Does anyone see anything glaring that may be causing a problem?