Zero SEO Activity, Please Help.

  • I’ve been running this site https://totalnewsreport.com/ for a few months now but it’s basically still invisible to any of the major search engines. Not only are the articles not showing up, but even when I try to look up the site “Total News Report,” nothing shows up. The only way I can find it at all is to search totalnewsreport.com, but even then only the “about us’ and “home” page show, absolutely nothing else.

    I’m currently running the Twenty Ten theme and have already incorporated the following plugins:

    All in One Seo Pack
    Google Tag Manager
    Google XML Sitemap
    SEO Facebook Comments

    So far, nothing has helped. I’ve spent days reading up on SEO and seen it can take from up to 6 to 8 weeks to get picked up by the crawlers, however I’m already beyond that and still have nothing as far as SEO.

    Off of 66 posts written, I’ve been able to generate around 20,000 page views utilizing social media, but off that I’ve only made about $39. I’m in serious need of extra income and would love this to be my source but am getting quite frustrated as I hired someone to create this site for $800.

    I’m wondering if anyone has any idea why I’m not being found at all or possibly may have ideas as to how I can begin to be found. I’m literally stumped and would sincerely appreciate any direction.

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  • The biggest myth about SEO is “If you buld it they will come”. That pretty much amounts to a huge lie. There’s no way that you’ll get traffic jsut from putting a site up and adding a few blog posts every now and then. That’s not how it works.

    There’s two main things that give you good SEO results. Those are:

    • Real and engaging content that’s geard towards real people reading it
    • Inbound liks to your site (other sites linking to your sites pages)

    They are both very important, and unless you work steadily on both of those, your site’s not going to get anywhere.

    The other point to consider is that google is getting very (and I mean very) good at recognising sites that are built with only ad returns in mind. I’ve seen some sites that have had great traffic in the past steadily go down because they are nothing more then a collection of articles that are built purely for SEO.

    As you can see, your site is indexed. Obviously not much of it though, and this could be anything from a duplicae content filter to the age of the site, or even some other filter that Google knows about but no one else does.

    Thread Starter Ted Wall

    (@ted-wall)

    Thank you for taking the time to respond. As you seem like you know what your talking about, hopefully you don’t mind answering a couple of quick questions.

    The guy I paid to create this for me chinsed out on me and used a free template called twenty- ten. Do you think it would help to pay for a “genesis” template?

    Also, does it hurt my chances with Google crawlers having the majority of my visits coming from Facebook? About 95% of my visits are due to a page I run.

    Thanks again!!!

    The guy I paid to create this for me chinsed out on me and used a free template called twenty- ten. Do you think it would help to pay for a “genesis” template?

    I doubt that they were being cheap by using that template as a base. The real cost in any site like that is the customisation that’s done to the theme, not the actual theme itself. If you look at the base theme for Twentyten you’ll see that it’s completely different from what you have.

    My main critisism of what they’ve done is that they didn’t use a child theme for the modifications. This is a big problem because when that theme gets updated all of the changes will be overwritten and lost and you’ll be back with the standard theme. Obviously not what you want. There’s tow way saround this. You can either remember for ever to never upgrade that thmee (not recommended due to any possible future security issues) or you can tell the devleoper to go back, do it properly and move all of the modifications to a child theme so that this doesn’t happen. You might get lucky and have them agree, so it’s worth a try.

    Also, does it hurt my chances with Google crawlers having the majority of my visits coming from Facebook? About 95% of my visits are due to a page I run.

    No. In fact that probably helps more then anything else as google can see that you’re getting traffic from Facebook which normally means that there’s some good interaction with your site.

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