RANKING PROBLEMS

coolsheet said:

Are you using any SEO plugins? If not, and because you're pretty noobish, I would say install Yoast. Although I prefer to optimize manually, for newer users I definitely advise something like Yoast or Rank Math. I have a site I recently did a test on with Yoast. I wanted to see if it had an impact on sites where users didn't know how to manually optimze it. So I tested on a site that had been up for years but never really ranked for anything. As soon as I installed Yoast it boosted my rank due to making the site more crawlable, adding knowledge graph, fixing canonical errors, and creating a site map. I used screaming frog on static sites typically.

On another note you may have killed your site with those links. But it really depends on the quality, and I Imagine you bought "packages" of links. I don't see any other legitimate way you'd have that many links. And these link packages are trash. All of them. Anyone thats selling you a "diversity package" or anything they've nicknamed it nowadays, stay the fuck away. I've ruined sites using these diversity packages on BHW. Focus on high quality links. High quality cost anywhere from $100-$300 per link if you're buying. Or you could learn how to do outreach.
Yes all those links were bought and yeah it turns to be of no use. nontheless. i will appreciate if you can show me where to get good links for 100$ and also im a little scared to spend $100-300 on one link and get no result

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kaudo said:

And where do those 60k backlinks point on your site? Are they to the homepage, to the blog posts, to the product pages?

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kaudo said:

This is online sales of prescription drugs.
The YMYLest of all YMYLs, that is the reason of poor rankings.
And overall poor condition of the website too.
I suggested OP to open a new thread where he clearly states what kind of business he runs and ask if someone with this particular experience can help.

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coolsheet said:

Well you aren't going to get results with one link typically. The ROI on SEO is insaneso if you're no optimizing for words that are going to earn you an ROI it's pointless. I think this is one of the more common pitfalls. Not understanding the intent behind a search and how that correlates into dollars in your pocket. I have no problem spending $5k monthly on a website that I know is going to earn me 200%+ ROI. With SEO it's typically a lot more gains. My lowest earning site has probably done 1000% on my initial investment.

And on that site I've probably spent $50k-100k in backlinks over the last 6 years. And still actively building to stay on top. But I've trained my own link builders nowadays so I'm saving about 50% of the cost by doing that.






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Ah just saw this.

Yeah op, this is like the one of the TOUGHEST niches to be in. There are wayyyyyyy easier niches out there. You're better off starting over again.

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Xtx1 said:

I have a domain over 6-8months old, 11DR, 60K backlinks, from 100 referring domains and 80% do follow, in an average competitive niche but yet i have zero traffic it really gives me concern as to what could be the problem? what am i not doing right?, is it even normal at all?.

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Xtx1 said:

true... what can i do to move forward?

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kaudo said:

You should also have some "submitted and indexed" there, what is that number?
Or anything beside the above URLs, that is labelled as "valid" in the first column, not "excluded".
Those that are "valid" are accepted by Google, those that are "excluded" are guess what.
You mention you have 14 products indexed, they all should be labeled "valid" in the first column. I also presume you have some pages like "about us", "terms of use" "privacy policy" and some informative content (e.g. blog) beside the product pages...

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