Any new website will not rank page 1 for competitive keywords in Google straight away. Ignore all the so-called “SEO Experts” who claim they can do this; it’s not possible.
There are techniques to boost your site quickly using tactics that are not friendly with Google’s Terms and Conditions, but would you risk it? I certainly won’t.
There is a term floating around called “Google Sandbox,” which is a scenario where you will not see many visitors for the first few months as Google tests your new website. During this time, they will slowly give you a trickle of visitors and test their user experience, i.e. time on site or bounce rate.
Once you are out of that “Limbo” mode, you can put your SEO strategy on full throttle.
Below is a case study of a client’s site within the Amazon affiliate game. It was a brand-new domain, and we controlled all content, SEO, and web design.
Brand New Website SEO
There is nothing worse than wasting hours of your time and money without any results. Many people opt for the cheapest SEO services, which will cause more damage than good. The best SEO services take time but yield actionable results in the long run.
The results speak for themselves, and below are two screenshots that demonstrate this.
New Website SEO Timeline
The website above is in a competitive niche, but it has had 0 to 14,118 page views in less than 3 months.
This is just an affiliate website, so earnings are small compared to the number of visitors. However, if you sell a product or service for £1,000 and you have 14,118 page views, this could result in an off-the-scale ROI.
Of course, all niches are different, and visitor numbers will vary, but the same tactic could be used for anything from solicitors to dentists.
The first month and partly the second month are all about getting content to the website. Not just thin content with no SEO but huge articles that get all the “longtail” keywords. You cannot rank a website without content because “Content is King. ”
On-page SEO is a speciality of Webspection, and it has been carried out since day 1. Once mixed with authoritative and powerful backlinks at the start of the second month, visitor numbers started to peak, and content increased each day.
During the third month, the “money” pages with the affiliate links started appearing in the top 3 results in Google. This resulted in conversion and over $12,448.01 in shipped item revenue.
All traffic is organic, and the content produced will remain at the top with small changes here and there. As the website ages, rankings will continue to increase, and more importantly, so will the earnings. Further down the line, social media can be used to boost sales, as this has yet to be used to its advantage.
Not Seeing Any Results On Your Site?
The above example is just a small project, but for a business trading with premium services or products, this sort of traffic can dramatically increase its ROI.
Over the years of performing SEO for clients, many have opted for cheap SEO packages. The usual scenario is where the SEO company employed puts mediocre content that is thin, non-related and has poor on-page SEO on the site. On top of this, they will have non-related or profile/directory links pointing to the site. This is a BIG NO NO, and you will not get very far with your SEO campaign.
This is where we come in. Webspection is an SEO agency in Cardiff that works nationwide to perform “Starter SEO” for many clients, and it has seen great results.
