Originally Posted by
Dr.Marie
Welcome! I get excited when I see posters like you because you remind me of me.
woot, it's not everyday that a girl tells me she gets excited seeing something I do (too soon?) (^^)/
You have a good website and you are now taking steps to be a competitive website. When I first came here I had an "ok" website but I got very little traffic - about 34 visitors per day. I camped out in SEOChat and read almost every single post every day. I learned whose advice to pay attention to. I asked very specific questions and put the advice into action. Now my site is getting 1200 visitors per day and growing rapidly.
so this means I'm in the right place
What term is it that you are trying to rank for? Is it "yoyo"? When I search on Google.fr I don't see your site on the first 5 pages. If you are seeing yourself higher it may be a personalized search issue. Try typing in your search query and put &pws=0 at the end of the url and hit enter. This will show you the true SERPS.
I still have to learn how to figure these terms out, but I guess some of em would be "yoyo, tuto yoyo, guide yoyo, test yoyo, review yoyo" and the list goes on. There are not many people who actually look for yoyo related content on the internet, it's definitely growing but right now, in france, it'd be awesome if we were like 100 players, the thing is, I want to use my website to get more people to start playing, it's cheap, it's relatively easy and it makes for a good way to deal with everyday's stress (you should try it, actually, everyone should !)
The key to ranking higher in the SERPS is always good quality backlinks. In my time of learning SEO what I have discovered is that what makes someone a good SEO is the ability to generate good quality links. Anyone can do directory submissions, article posting and blog posts and easily get a list of hundreds or thousands of backlinks. But, just a few good quality links can easily outweigh those easy to get links.
There are two ways to get good quality links - buy them or create such amazing content that people link to you naturally. Buying links is controversial and the hot talk in SEO right now is how Google needs to learn how to devalue bought links. The day is coming where Google will be able to sniff out paid links and they will be devalued. I'd highly advise that you focus on getting good quality natural links to your site. This is not always easy.
by "good quality" you mean the link should be on a relevant website, ideally one with lots of traffic, but does it have to be on the main/front page or can it be anywhere on the site ? I still have to get a hold of how these "follow/no follow" things work.
It looks like you have some good articles (I didn't translate them to read them tho). But what you need in order to drive links to your site is SUPER AMAZING content that makes people say, "Wow...I NEED to link to this."
Good content is what we're all about, it's a relatively new website and we're working very hard to produce good content (currently, we're producing video yoyo tutorials for beginners, we have exclusive reviews and interviews as well and we already held a contest with free yoyos for the winners)
My best link getter so far is a calculator that I created to let people know whether their dog ate too much chocolate. It is very useful and so other webmasters want to link to it.
This is a good idea, now it's my turn to come up with something useful like this
So my advice to you is this...read all you can about linkbuilding via great content. Read every post by EGOL....he is the master of creating content that people want to link to. And ask very specific questions. For example, start a post asking for ways to create "linkbait" (i.e. stuff that would make people want to link to you) for your site.
And my last piece of advice right now would be to be patient...try things and see what works...and celebrate when something does work!
Welcome!
