How many of you rank for good mainstream KW's on google?
 

I do well on Yahoo but I think my site is just still too new (yr old) for google. So I'm attempting to purchase a domain regged in 98' to see if I can improve my luck on google.

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I'm also buying old mainstream domains :)

Depends on your sector but try to get couple anachor link back from quality related sites, with ONE link, i goes from page 29 to page 2 on a big keyword in less then a week, so i m getting more links now :banana

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is 10 out of 33 million, or 11 out of 55 million good?

inbound links and good content is the secret to google.

tony

what he said

try searching using this , supposedly it tells you if your site is sandboxed

http://roberttaft.com/no_filter.htm

it seems to work for a few sites i have ranked well on yahoo right now , but no hits coming from google ( its a new site ), but searching using the no-filter method my site also appears high on google also , so maybe its sandboxed and will gain rank later . or ??

hits hits hits

yup probably the case.. how new is the site?

because of this information i'm no longer going to register new domain names when starting new projects. best just to seek out an existing name several years old with established backlinks.

good source of trafffic is neeeded

great link
 

Thank you for that excellent link. I'm going to lay off the link dumps for June, add content, and try to only add 2 or 3 excllent links this month. Several of my keywords go from page 1 (no filter) to "invisible" (normal search). Google is one tempermental mistress...

im in the same boat, witout filter im #2 regular im nowhere to be seen :helpme

almost a year old still sandboxed

its also important to note that that robert taft tool removes other filters aside from sandbox - this is what i've been told at least. so there could still be a chance that once you aren't sandboxed, you still might achieve those rankings due to some other filter.

My mainstream sites do much better on Yahoo than on Google...