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    • themesh
      themesh last edited by

      hello everyone,

      It seems my website http://www.scribidocampus.com/ is indexed by google but it si not ranking anywhere, even wehn i google scribidocampus.

      If i search any of the text on my website in " " no results come up.

      can someone tell me the reason?

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      • ThomasHarvey
        ThomasHarvey last edited by

        It looks like it's a new site, and the quality of the site probably isn't helping you, for example: http://www.scribidocampus.com/blog/scribido-sample-blog-four/ I would remove those sample blogs and update it with relevant content.

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        • themesh
          themesh @ThomasHarvey last edited by

          Actually, the website is quite old, Domain name is 3 years old, But recently got it redesigned after having downtime of couple fo months.

          What should be my steps forward?

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          • ThomasHarvey
            ThomasHarvey @themesh last edited by

            Remove those "sample" pages and add more quality content.

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            • MikeRoberts
              MikeRoberts last edited by

              Your content is _severely _lacking. It appears that you have three real pieces of original content (which are all pretty thin) and then 5 sample blog pages on your site. You can't really expect to be ranking for your content if you've done practically no work on your content. And you don't appear to have a backlink profile. You should really consider getting your name out there and getting some relevant links. These may not be the only reasons but they are contributing factors. Put some time and energy into expanding your content, making your site richer and more informative, and you'll start to see some movement.

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              • themesh
                themesh last edited by

                Thanks, i will take care of that. can you tell me what other factor could be the reason? as if i search a text in the website in double quote, it is still not coming up on results. might be some penalty?

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                • MikeRoberts
                  MikeRoberts @themesh last edited by

                  Without seeing the backend of the site and all the collected data, I can only speculate as to potential causes.

                  If there was a manual penalty, you'd be able to check that in Search Console/Webmaster Tools. Make sure your sitemap is uploaded to search console as well. Make sure there are no errors associated with it. Run a "fetch as" in Search Console to ensure that Google can properly see your homepage and submit to index. Build out the content. Build out the link profile. Determine your core search terms that you would like to be ranking for. Make sure to build out pages associated with those things. If things like the English Writing Course, the Premier League and the Newsletter Publishing are important then make sure they're higher on the page and more noticeable instead of in the footer. The meta keywords tag is not actually important but you do stuff a lot of keywords into it on some pages... consider toning it down a bit. Make sure your meta descriptions are well written and explain what the page is about. Don't just copy & paste a line or two from the paragraph of page content to re-use as a meta description.

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                  • themesh
                    themesh @MikeRoberts last edited by

                    thanks a lot, My team will be working on this and lets hope we do well.

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