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galleryseek · 03-17-2005, 01:06 PM

My site healthygo has been around for over 10 months. About 6 to 7 months after, for a period of around 2 weeks, I began actively persuing backlinks. I manually requested about 135 (all of those were added to my site as outgoing links of course) and about 35 reciprocated. The last PR update I only got a PR3 (this is after I got all of those backlinks) which I assume is because of all of the outgoing links (I have like 1 PR5, and 8 PR4 / numerous 3/2/1 backlinks). However bout a month ago I removed all of the unreciprocated outgoing links which I hope will raise my PR to atleast 4.

Now my question is, why the hell am I not ranking hardly at all for keywords I should be on the first / 2nd page for in google? Is it because I was "Sandboxed" for acquiring too many links unnaturally in a short period of time? Because having examined all of the relevant variables like kw density, backlink quality/quantity, I should be beating the large majority of the top 1,000 results on google for these terms.

MSN I rank well for my target keywords, but google I am just fucked. I'm #4 for "fitness plans" on MSN & #5 for the same term on Yahoo, while google I don't even rank within the top 1000 results.

I assume it is just a matter of time, but if there is anything else I can do to improve the situation, what would it be? Thanks.

03-17-2005, 01:06 PM
galleryseek Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 8,234	SEO People, explain to me wtf is happening. My site healthygo has been around for over 10 months. About 6 to 7 months after, for a period of around 2 weeks, I began actively persuing backlinks. I manually requested about 135 (all of those were added to my site as outgoing links of course) and about 35 reciprocated. The last PR update I only got a PR3 (this is after I got all of those backlinks) which I assume is because of all of the outgoing links (I have like 1 PR5, and 8 PR4 / numerous 3/2/1 backlinks). However bout a month ago I removed all of the unreciprocated outgoing links which I hope will raise my PR to atleast 4. Now my question is, why the hell am I not ranking hardly at all for keywords I should be on the first / 2nd page for in google? Is it because I was "Sandboxed" for acquiring too many links unnaturally in a short period of time? Because having examined all of the relevant variables like kw density, backlink quality/quantity, I should be beating the large majority of the top 1,000 results on google for these terms. MSN I rank well for my target keywords, but google I am just fucked. I'm #4 for "fitness plans" on MSN & #5 for the same term on Yahoo, while google I don't even rank within the top 1000 results. I assume it is just a matter of time, but if there is anything else I can do to improve the situation, what would it be? Thanks.