New Cam Adult Site - Indexing Trouble
 

Hi guys. Here's the situation I'm running into at the moment with my live cam site and SEO, which is indexing. would be great to hear any other webmaster thoughts for this sort of niche and connect with people who have more experience than me with this clutching at straws really now.

So yeah, from this thread's title it is 'New', but I've been doing some serious effort and time toward this affiliate site's performance, SEO & upgraded resources committing to this full time.. and its not just Google I'm having trouble with, but Bing as well. Something about prioritising other sites or some bull since September my sites completely vanished there and Bing webmaster support is super cagey for reasons why. So far I only rank on Yandex..

I added the property to search console the beginning of April this year when I installed Wordpress on it, but domain is older by 2 years or so. I did my research on SEMRush, started ranking for super low competition terms with less than 100 results on Google writing about certain cam site & industry trends gaining steady clicks and impressions. Then halfway though the same month, Google tanked my site from what I can only assume to be the sandbox period.

Now October and nothing has changed much. I upgraded my host from shared to VPS upgrading RAM and CPU cores since I also have a backend system which caused my site to get slow so speed isn't issue now. Those low comp terms I was saying about, I still don't rank for them. No 404s anymore, headings from h1 way down the hierarchy consistently and content written for humans by me, internal links.. Still nothing back from Google, even after submitting tons of urls for manual consideration in search console.

Won't rant more about it, but what's weird is I am seeing crawl stats increase so for context - 30 on a day in July, then 30K a few days ago. I'm just so confused why Google isn't indexing these pages or posts at all. Is it because they are just more cautious with this type of niche or something than a tech related service which I got no issue ranking for? I also bought domains that expired and 301 redirected them to my money site. After some time, Google only shows these pages now like cams in a certain country, but not my blog posts or anything. So confusing and feels like its gonna go on forever lol.