A lot of people ask me why their site won’t rank #1 on Google. They think that just because they were prom king back in 2002 that their website deserves to treated like a king as well. Unfortunately, Google doesn’t care too much about your personal history. But Google does care about your domain’s history. The older your domain is, the more chance you have a trustworthy business. Further, the  older the domain, the more chances other people linked to it. So its all connected… like a web..

Below are the top 10 reasons why your site won’t rank #1 on Google:

1. Your Site Doesn’t Have Enough Quality Content.
2. You Put In Large Chunks Of Content All At Once and Never Update It.
3. You Engage In ‘Cloaking’- Your Site Shows Different Information To Search Engines Than It Shows A User.
4. Your Site Has Duplicate Content.
5. You Practice Keyword Stuffing.
6. You Have ‘Doorway Pages’ Made Ad hoc To Attract Search Bots.
7. You Link Out To Sites That Are Devalued By Google. Porn, Gambling, Tobacco Are Bad.
8. Your Domain is Brand New
9. Your Server is So Slow You Could Deliver the Content by Hand Faster.
10. You Are Still Using Flash to Display Your Content.

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