Link popularity

[Ravenfire]

I dont understand why a site that is very similar to mine is suddenly from having a lot of hits has trebled. What am I doing wrong that Im not getting indexed as well? Could it be my robot.txt files or something else?

www.mumszone.co.uk is my site. Sorry not sure if I have posted enough to put a link up yet

[Ravenfire]

Google - 34
Altavista - 364
MSN - 0
All the Web - 368
Yahoo - 373

These are my figures. Cant understand why I have google on the site so often as well but very few page rankings for them

[TWD-Tony]

If you send me the address of the other website I can use some software I have to compare it against yours (keywords, inbound / outbound links etc). It will also tell you about your keyword to body text ratio etc....


sales@twdhosting.co.uk

[Ravenfire]

Thanks have emailed you

[TWD-Tony]

A rather lengthy report is on it's way to you now

[peterjhale]

Even if you have more links you may not rank at all.

Google now has an age factor in its algo, so if you have a new site you will not rank for some time.

I am also rather worried that you have no links in MSN - that's normally the easiest place to rank

If you rank #1 on MSN you are on your way. Yahoo will be next, then Google.

SEO is a time game -- be patient.

If everyone could rank #1 overnight will a few hundred links the SERPS would be forever changing

[TWD-Tony]

This is very true - but it helps to get the "basics" correct right from the start, it's no good ignoring the basic SEO "bible" and throwing up a website that has irrelevant keywords or no inbound links etc - you could be waiting for a very long time to get a good ranking in the top SE's

I think that Google have seriously got it wrong by sandboxing new websites like they do... It discourages new online businesses and has in itself created the SEO business that makes a fortune from fake promises (in my opinion obviously)

[Ravenfire]

OMG dont no why but when checking my links I have noticed that they are decreasing instead of increasing, why would that happen.

On the link submission checker form I have seen that I now have 1273 with MSN

Thanks for the report Tony

Just to add that I have checked my webstats, Google for example has made 1569 hits on my site so far this month but only 7 are successful hits on "robots.txt" files. Could this be where my problem is?