My Google page rank is 0. How can I improve it?
Hi, I recently built a taxi site for a client and had kept about 200 keywords in each page. My client has another website, which is older he kept only 5 words on it and it is a single page with not much content, yet it is at the top when searched in Google. Whereas the site I built has lots of keywords, headings, pictures, relevant information, a sitemap, is responsive and it's coming on page 7-8 in Google search. It's been only 5 days since I published the site. What have I done wrong? Or will it take time to improve the ranking? Should I add more keywords? This is some of the information that shows the status of my website:
domain analysis for:
muscat-taxi.net
Google PageRank: 0/10
Domain Authority: 1/100
Page Authority: 1/100
Global Rank: 0 Alexa USA Rank: 0
Alexa Reach Rank: 0 Alexa Site Links: 0
External Backlinks: 0
Referring Domains: 0
EDU Backlinks: 0
GOV Backlinks: 0
PR Quality: Very Weak
Domain Age: 5 days (registered on 04.09.2015 )
Thanks for your advice.
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Dec 28, 2016
I have provided a lot of tips about SEO please check here http://www.knigulper.com/search/label/SEO i hope this will help you to some extent.
Jul 4, 2016
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Jun 19, 2016
First of all for your kind information the page rank is not important nowadays in SEO. You can focus on increasing Page Authority PA for your site quality.
You will get quality backlink from your industry relavance.
Sep 21, 2015
Improving your PageRank is a very challenging task that can take months. But the simple, quick answer is: get popular, quality sites to link to your site.
The long answer is look at Google's rankings factors and try to improve your ranking for the most important ones. Moz has an excellent list of what SEO experts think Google values the most. It's not perfect but it's generally seen as accurate: https://moz.com/search-ranking-factors
As far as how to get backlinks for your site, that's the tough part of SEO. My quick advice is to be creative and to create a great product.
Sep 17, 2015
Hi Vamsi,
There could be a number of factors, but the main one I see is the age of your domain. Being only 5 days old, there has probably been very few visitors and even less back links to each page, or your site as a whole.
PA is a huge factor here and is updated the more a page is crawled by G's robots. If you want it to crawl more often, and thus get higher PA, you will need to get more eyes on each page and more links pointing to them. I would also look at your inner site linking structure as PA is distributed through links to other pages. Thus, having a proper linking structure will help to distribute your page authority across more of your site, which will help your SEO efforts in general.
Quality content is key on any informational page. Create something that people will want to read and the backlinks should start coming in. Promote your content with other sites and on social media. If it is good, people will notice.
Also remember this is a marathon and not a sprint. You won't see huge ranking improvements right away. These things take time and your metrics will slowly start to improve as your domain gains some age and clout. Also, these metrics are not necessarily updated continuously and often times minor G algorithm updates are needed before you see any sort of vertical movement.
Overall, this is normal. Just try to increase your back link numbers in the right way and don't engage in any black hat tactics. That will kill your site before you can even get off the ground.
Hope this helps.
- Ben
Sep 17, 2015
Also, it does not look like you have any robots.txt information set up. I could be missing something here but that is definitely something you want to look into. Robots.txt lets crawlers know what parts of your site to crawl and index, and which pages you want them to avoid.
Sep 19, 2015
Thanks Ben ,for your msg ,i didnt know about robots.txt ,will look it up and try to implement it . What is PA,in u r post?
Sep 17, 2015
Hi Vamsi,
Before you read this, I highly recommend that you grab a cup of coffee, or Shai for there is a lot of reading here!
You got many good recommendations here that I highly recommend you, and your client, consider!
As far having someone do SEO for your client for $20, I am sorry to say that no professional SEO will take that offer, and might even see it as an insult.
I am sorry to say but you put too much on your plate than you can handle. I am just being honest here and I am not trying to offend you, so don't take my below recommendations/comments as an insult!
Did you look at your client's competition? If he just hired you to design the website, then probably not. And if he wants you to do SEO, or copywriting (content writing), and you don't feel you qualify (no insult meant here), then I would recommend to be straightforward with him!.
Again, I recommend that you are upfront and straightforward with your client because if you do SEO and write content for him, he might come back to you and complain about not being on top of his competition. So avoid the problems before they even start!
Just to protect yourself (from a client, and even a friend), always have everything in writing (email is also good).
Now, to your client's site and our recommendations/comments!
I took a look at your client's site and found issues that you can easily fix! Those issues are with the design, SEO - search engine optimization (On-page SEO), and Technical SEO areas!
Design:
Logo - Your logo is all the way to the left, while your menu is on the right with a huge empty space in between the two.
Icons - OK! Everyone knows what a Twitter and Facebook icon is used for! But what about the airplane, camera, and the phone icons? Are they descriptive? I check the Camera link and it takes me to a page with pictures of great locations but the camera icon is confusing for it does not tell me where I will end up once clicked.
Plus, it opens in another window (or tab depending how you have your browser setup) and this is a No NO when linking internally. Also, the tour page has nothing descriptive and not even a title. I clicked on the WhatsApp icon and, again, it opened in another tab. How many tabs will I have open and end up with if I visited every page of your client's site?
- The Globe? What is the purpose of having it on the website? If it does not serve any purpose to your visitors, then we recommend removing it for it will add unnecessary page load time.
-Text color - We understand that the orange color is part of your theme color, but you don't have to use it as your font color for the body text! Stay consistent and stay with today's design standards and trends! (my personal preference).
- Text - Centered text are against great UX (user experience). We, as humans, are used to reading text from left to right (or right to left depending on your native language), so give us what we are accustomed to.
- Background image - Don't use an out of focus image as a background!
- Responsive - You need to customize your client's site to look much better on a mobile device than it does right now!
SEO:
- Domain - Was the .com TLD not available? People are used to .com and if it was available, that would've been your first best choice!
- Keyword - Have you performed keyword research before targeting a specific keyword? - A very important part
- Page Title - Your page title could use some optimization - This will depend on the right keyword/keyword phrase to target
- Headings - You are not using any headings to help you boost your targeted keyword.
- Content - Google don't like landing pages because they tend to be very thin, and yours falls into that category. Quality content, and a good amount of it will help you rank your site better!
- Keywords - You don't need to have your keyword listed in the keyword meta tag (it is not longer used as a ranking factor). We also recommend that you remove it just because you will be helping your client's competitor know what your client is targeting and use that against him! - Depending on the amount of content, you should use your keyword/keyword phrase once, or twice on a particular page! You can also use synonyms.
Page Description - I did not see a page description! Even though the page description is no longer a high ranking factor, you should still write a good page description for the following simple but important reasons:
a) Do you want Google to guess the description for you, which is something you really don't want Google (and other search engines) to do! Plus, it will be difficult to have Google add a good page description from a page with thin content syndrome!
b) Use a good page description to entice visitors to click on your client's link, instead of your competitor's.
TECHNICAL SEO:
Images - You have images that are not optimized for speed (banner, logo, and logo1)
Images - You have images that are not optimized for SEO (same images as above)
Images dimensions - Your logo, and logo1 png are missing width and height attributes. When you do that, you are adding to the page load time!
Images - Missing Alt tags - Ad Alt Tag to every image you use!
404 - You have requests that are returning a 404 response (flexslider.css)
CSS and Scripts- You need to properly order your CSS and Script! What we mean by that is you need to make sure that your content is loading before any CSS or JavaScript file.
Leverage browser caching - If you don't need a feature, especially if the feature is outsourced, remove it because you will not be able to set its freshness lifetime (or expiration date). This external resource is from rc.revolvemaps.com/js/c.php (I really don't see the purpose of it on your site.
JavaScript Parsing - It is recommended to have your JavaScript parsed after your page load and not during. This way, your visitors will actually see the site content first, and not wait till JavaScript have been loaded! (jquery.min.js)
Minify CSS - Once your site is ready to be live, I recommend that you grab each CSS file, back it up first, and then minify it (remove any blank space and comments, and have all the codes into one single line for faster speed)
Minify JavaScript - Same as above
If you decide to take our recommendations, do so but take one bite at a time and chew it well.
Once you are done, test the site for speed and for design on a mobile device.
Once everything is fine, submit a sitemap to Google, Bing, and be very patient!
Please note that there is more to SEO and getting the right visitors to your client's site, or getting phone calls from customers, then what we've listed above!
Throw away your PR (Page Rank) analysis, and focus on providing quality and on topic content! Ranking will come naturally. Your Page Authority and Domain Authority will improve with time, but just be patient (or tell your client to be patient).
Also, don't focus on building links because your high quality and on topic content will do that for you!
Please remember to write for your visitors first, and not the search engines! Google will actually look at your content and rewards you for putting your visitors first instead of the other way around!
Start with providing a good design and good user experience, then provide great content, then work on your marketing campaign through social media sites, and other venues.
I hope this help you, and your client achieve high ranking.
Sep 17, 2015
Hi,
It's simply about connections.
Increase your Links.
Bon Courage
Sep 17, 2015
Hi,
Thank you for your reply ,i guess i have still a lot to learn .The fact is i am not a designer or content writer or SEO guy ,and my mistake was i didnt have anything written from the client about all this ,we only had a verbal agreement and then his requirements kept growing and growing and he wasnt willing to spend any money to hire others.This was actually my first freelancing work and i needed money so i quoted less.
Yes i looked into his compeitition ,he has like 0 competition as in this country ,there is no dedicated taxi service provider ,even if they are ,they dont have websites .His older website http://www.muscat-taxi.com/ is the only site that comes up on google as the first link on google.He already had a .com website but he wanted to keep two sites ,it was only his decision to chose the name
Do you recommend any book for reading SEO tricks?
Sep 17, 2015
The whatsapp page actually had a form ,where you can send details and it goes to my clients whatsapp messenger on his phone ,but then whatsapp is blocking the number if we use too much of it to send messages .
Regarding the sliding globe ,my client wanted visitor count ,which was easy to program ,but then he said he should know from which place with flags of the country ,each user came from,so instead i used this java script code ,and he was happy when he saw the globe revolving and stuff .
Sep 16, 2015
Hi Vamsi,
Hope you are feeling fine after getting a lot of expert suggestions.
Without pointing out errors and your experience, i am going to list down fat words to build traffic for new website or blog.
1- Build proper hub web page (Design, Development, Navigation, Sitemap)
2- Do competitor research (Niche-wise)
3- Keyword research (Google keyword planner or any other)
4- Do not filter keyword (Its Google job)
5- On-Site Optimization (On-page practices)
6- Build Social media channels
7- Build Social Bookmarking Channels
8- Off-Site Optimization (Off-page practices)
Practice ERA: 4-6 Months
P.S. : Do not focus on page rank, because i have asked question about Page rank worthy or not https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/71207-6043432302116171778?trk=groups-post-b-title and I came to point, its not worthy, so just focus on traffic, PA, DA etc.
Come back after 5-6 Months, probably i or someone may guide you more according to situation.
Feel free to ask more
Cheers!
Sep 16, 2015
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Jun 18, 2016
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Sep 16, 2015
Hi Vamsi,
Here is my short advice. Don't worry about google page rank. It's a new website that probobly won't have page rank for some time and that is expected. What you should be focusing on is the structure of the site and how you will develop engaging content that will give both the SERP crawlers and users an idea of what your site is all about. Page rank will come with time if you develop content that will attract visitors, backlinks, social shares, etc. There is a whole plethora of detail we could expand on here but the core of your question will be addressed once you start developing high quality, relevant, unique content on your client's site.
I am going to say thank you to Vamsi for this question. It is every new blogger or Web owners question. I have visited both the .com and .net taxi website and did not see any improvement based on the various responses/suggestions from members.
Thanks
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