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Asked: Oct 24, 2009

Will a new website, with much competition, gain a presence in organic searches after the one-year mark?

My website, www.bizbuylink.com, is a site that lists businesses for sale, and it was launched 2/09. Our competitors would be bizbuysell.com or bizquest.com, for example. As we move forward with directory listings and inbound links, we find that organic searches in Google, Yahoo, etc. still do not have us showing up within the first several 25+ pages. Is this to be expected for a site with several competitors that have been on the web for years? Do the crawlers better recognize / list a site that has been around for more than a year?

Will appreciate all help and advice... Thank you...

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In Internet and Ecommerce > Internet Marketing
In Internet and Ecommerce > SEO
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Yes and no.
The age of a domain helps.
http://www.webconfs.com/age..
.


But it is only one of hundreds of factors that determine your position in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages).

However, after reviewing your site I am sad to say that you will never show up. You are using javascript to create a "tab-like" interface which also seems to inject your content after the dom is loaded (in layman's terms when all the content is already loaded the javascript magically inserts your copy).

This is evidenced by looking at a cached version of your home page in Google:

http://74.125.95.132/search..
.


As far as Google is concerned it only knows you have a footer. Thus only knows that you have a copyright, about us, terms of use, privacy policy, and so on. This can also be seen by right-clicking on your webpage and choosing "view source". That is basically what bots see.

You need to change how your website infrastructure is output. Not necessarily anything about the layout or content I'm not reviewing that. Your site is the equivalent of a FLASH site with no SEO at all.

Once you get that taken care of you can start checking and doing some of the basic SEO items like you find on simple lists like this: http://www.webconfs.com/top..
.


And when you've done all that, just keep making relevant content and you will get there!

Answered: Oct 24, 2009

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Yes and no.
The age of a domain helps.
http://www.webconfs.com/age..
.


But it is only one of hundreds of factors that determine your position in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages).

However, after reviewing your site I am sad to say that you will never show up. You are using javascript to create a "tab-like" interface which also seems to inject your content after the dom is loaded (in layman's terms when all the content is already loaded the javascript magically inserts your copy).

This is evidenced by looking at a cached version of your home page in Google:

http://74.125.95.132/search..
.


As far as Google is concerned it only knows you have a footer. Thus only knows that you have a copyright, about us, terms of use, privacy policy, and so on. This can also be seen by right-clicking on your webpage and choosing "view source". That is basically what bots see.

You need to change how your website infrastructure is output. Not necessarily anything about the layout or content I'm not reviewing that. Your site is the equivalent of a FLASH site with no SEO at all.

Once you get that taken care of you can start checking and doing some of the basic SEO items like you find on simple lists like this: http://www.webconfs.com/top..
.


And when you've done all that, just keep making relevant content and you will get there!

Answered: Oct 24, 2009


Greetings, Ease of navigation needs to be improved first. Even a top header featuring a few businesses. This is a very tough market. I would suggest article marketing on topics such as How to buy a _______ business and daily blog on google about the business for sale. Have each article link to your business web site same with the blog. Do a search as if you are buying a business and see where the URL"s are coming from. Do the same. Hub pages, merchant circle, etc.

Now it you are just a static site and hoping for somebody to find you, you are not going to have much luck online.

Steve www.IBOtrainer.com

Answered: Oct 24, 2009


TraderDan knows what he's talking about. Follow his advice and you should have much more success with the Google crawlers in the future.

Answered: Oct 26, 2009


I've seen new sites appear in the Google index within less than a month and rank nicely for competitive phrases. However, it's going to be an uphill battle unless your pages are extremely helpful to people who are searching those phrases. You'll also need some important web sites to be linking to your domain -- sites like cnn.com or stanford.edu...sites that Google thinks is important. I agree with the others that your site is unlikely to appear relevant to search engines because of the way it was designed.

Answered: Oct 26, 2009


Taking a look at your site, how it is organized, and how it is programmed it may be difficult for the search engines to read it. It appears you are using JavaScript for users to click into any information about individual listings…and Bots/Crawlers typically look right over that stuff.


You may also want to optimize your URLs so they contain keywords in them, add more relevant keywords to the page title, etc.

Answered: Nov 03, 2009

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