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I have a news website. I'm trying to ranked in google, but can't seem to be able to. My site is, theseatonpost.com. I have backlinks, but none are showing up on google.

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Quick diagnosis and next-step plan (short version). The symptoms you describe — a news site that republishes wire copy and shows very odd backlink counts — point to three common issues: Google picking other sites as the canonical/original source for syndicated stories, sitemap/URL noise wasting crawl attention, or a Search Console/manual-action signal hiding pages. , the thread comments from about duplicate/sitemap problems are on target; treat the syndication issue first because it’s the fastest way to explain why your originals aren’t surfacing. (developers.google.com)

Practical editorial changes to make immediately. Stop publishing full AP/CNN stories as-is. Either publish short excerpts that link to the original and add a clear, original headline/byline/analysis, or write original reporting that adds clear value (quotes, local context, analysis). Make author and date information obvious and consistent. For news publishers, Google treats original, timely reporting differently from republished wire copy — focus on unique coverage and trust signals rather than trying to out-rank the wire. (developers.google.com)

Concrete technical clean-up (do these in order). 1) Remove or exclude duplicated wire articles from your XML sitemap so only pages you want indexed are suggested to Google. 2) Use self-referencing canonical tags for your unique articles and eliminate parameterized duplicate URLs (or block them). 3) Verify robots.txt and that Googlebot can fetch real article HTML (not a JS-only render). 4) Monitor Crawl Stats / URL Inspection so Google is spending crawl budget on your original content, not copies or noisy URLs. These steps reduce wasted crawling and help Google find and index the pages you care about. (developers.google.com)

Backlinks and Search Console checks. Check Search Console’s Manual Actions and Links reports first — if there’s a manual action or “unnatural links” message, follow the remediation path and document removal attempts. Don’t panic over a single huge backlink count: many tools and reports include noisy, parameterized or sampled data. Use the disavow tool only when you meet Google’s criteria (manual action or clear history of manipulative links) and after documented removal attempts. If there’s no penalty, invest time in original reporting, clear internal linking, and steady promotion — those move news sites up over time. ()

Short checklist: stop full-wire republication; thin sitemaps; canonicalize; confirm no manual actions; fix crawl/index issues; prioritize fresh original pieces and clear bylines.

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Member Avatar for LaxLoafer

Hi Arthur

How did you acquire the backlinks? Is it possible you've violated Google's webmaster guidelines in some way?

Note that back links aren't the only ranking factor. It's important to have original content on your site. If Google finds the same content elsewhere, it will attempt to identify the original source. The original will be displayed in preference and any copies will be masked from search results. Does your site contain much duplicate content?

You may also want to check that Google and visitors to your site see the same content. Try the 'fetch as google bot' tool in Google Webmaster Tools.

Viewing a site without javascript or styles enabled can sometimes help to understand what crawlers see. Is the content too sparse? Does it resemble a portal or list of links?

Member Avatar for arthur.seaton.52

No, I don't buy backlinks. The links I do have, I got organically. I haven't done anything that would violate google's rules. I'm very careful about that. I have a news site, so some of my articles are from AP, Times of Israel, Fox and CNN. But I have plenty of original material on it also. I've used 'fetch'. It works.

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Hi Arthur,
You can use Google Webmaster tools. and I am 100% confirms.You will be successfully.

Member Avatar for arthur.seaton.52

I've checked GWT. I have two stories that it says have over 14,000 links each. I'm wondering if I should delete those, as they may be problematic. No way a Taco Bell story is going to generate 14,000 links! Do you think they may be spam and that is keeping my links from showing up? I probably have 20 incoming links if I don't count Taco Bell.

Member Avatar for LaxLoafer

If Google detects unnatural links to a site I believe they'll notify you via GWT. Did you receive a notice?

Although 14,000 links sounds a lot there can be a perfectly valid explanations. For example, what would happen if your link appeared on a dynamically generated page with a unique URL? Telling Google about any query string parameters used might help, if the linking site is under your control. This type of issue is fairly common and expect Google is clever enough to recognize such links. I wouldn't be surprised if they treat a thousand links as one, if coming from a single domain.

It might look more suspicious if you had suddenly gained a few hundred in-bound links from multiple domains. I wouldn't be too concerned about the 14k links.

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Member Avatar for smithjohn1

IN such a competitive internet marketing feild it's not so easy to rank up among search engine.Need some more efforts and advanced seo strategies

Member Avatar for LaxLoafer

True, the market is competitive. But doesn't it seem odd that Art's site has zero PR, given that Google has crawled so many pages?

Member Avatar for arthur.seaton.52

Thanks for everybody's help. I guess I'll just keep chugging along!

Member Avatar for LaxLoafer

Art, the sitemap in your root directory contains nearly 400 items. I only checked a few of the URLs, but most of them look like they point to articles found on AP, CNN, etc. You're asking Google to crawl content they've almost certainly seen already. It's unlikely (unless I'm a banana) that you'll ever be able to out rank the original source.

You've also assigned each one a high priority (0.8). The priority tag gives search engines a hint as to what you think is important on your site, and it's relative to content on your site. By default, your other content will have a priority of 0.5. So currently, you're telling Google the best content on your site is from other sources!

I'm not professing that fixing this will resolve your ranking issues, but why not use sitemaps to promote YOUR content?

Bear in mind that search engines allocate only a limited amount of time for crawling each site. Sites that are of low quality probably get less time than others. By thinning out a sitemap you can make it easier for them to crawl and thus index your content.

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I have uploaded my sitemap in google webmaster tools.It only indexed very less pages.Then how i believe that sitemap can work well.Is there any site to submit my sitemaps.
Member Avatar for arthur.seaton.52

Yes, I do get some news from AP and others, but I also have my own articles. Yes, I see what you're saying about the sitemap issue. I have set my sitemap back to default. Is the default the best way to go? How can I get my articles to the top of the crawl? Should I put my name on the top or can I just use my site name? I've only been doing this website thing for about 9 mo. so I'm pretty lame on it still. Thanks for any help.

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Member Avatar for activeseal

you start off page optimization and get ranking on Google

Member Avatar for martinray675

1) Page Title
2) Words on the page
3) Keywords in the URL
4) (Domain Links) Links to your website as a whole (number and quality of links matter)
5) (Specific Page Links) Links pointing directly at that page (quality, number, anchor text and Google PageRank of links matter)

6) Avoiding Google’s quality filters that filter out low quality pages and low quality websites

Member Avatar for discussion123

Keep eye on On-page for website then defenotely you will get result...

Member Avatar for cunicjelly

you can work on off-page optimization and on-page optimization.
and take a dofollow backlinks then you can take a ranking in
google, and you can using seo tools to optimize your website.

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Member Avatar for LaxLoafer

How can I get my articles to the top of the crawl?

Tell Google your articles are more important than other content on your site. Give the URLs a relatively high priority in your sitemap.

Don't bury your content. Rewrite the URLs so that your articles appear closer to the root folder, e.g.

Should I put my name on the top or can I just use my site name?

Why not Both? Google seem to be keen on identifying authors, so I think this would be a great idea. Best to avoid claiming authorship of external content though. You don't want to get mistaken for a content scraper.

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Thanks for everybodys help. I'll work on all suggestions. How often does google udate ranking? Does anybody know?

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i can't too

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Same Problem happes with me Also
I have uploaded my sitemap in google webmaster tools.It only indexed very less pages.Then how i believe that sitemap can work well.Is there any site to submit my sitemaps.?
Can any Expert have answer On this Question?

Member Avatar for LaxLoafer

Is there any site to submit my sitemaps?

You shouldn't really need to. So long as a reference to the sitemap has been included in your robots.txt file, all the main public search engines should pick it up automatically.

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How often does google udate ranking?

Quite frequently, apparently. But the PageRank seen in Google's toolbar is only updated roughly every quarter, which makes it quite a blunt tool.

Member Avatar for arthur.seaton.52

So, I could be ranked 9/10 and not know it.(FAT chance) I'll be happy with a 1/10 right now!

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Member Avatar for khodiyarspring

Blog Commenting and Directory Submission is the best way of Increase your SERP in Google.

Member Avatar for LaxLoafer

Gaining a ranking of 1 would not be unreasonable after nine months work. It's possible your site may have been penalized for some reason. As in-bound links don't appear to be the issue, perhaps there's a Panda holding your site back.

Are there any similarities between your site and the type of site that Google's Panda algorithm is designed to catch?

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First you need remove your low quality back links. than you need to summit high page rank website sure with 30 day you will get ranks..

Member Avatar for eonejames

There are so many factors are working to get rank but as you told that your website got 14K links from different sites but as my point of view might be well worthy. Do you have check some of back links are actually found from Google webmaster tools because of they only shows those back links which websites are approved your links, but then after some of websites are remove your links for some reasons so just find out the actual back link you gain from different sites.

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