Posted on July 6th, 2023

Ranking a brand new website is not a straight forward process. You would hope that once your new site is live, that google would immediately pick it up and get it ranked. But that is not the case.

My site Portland SEO Company Rankingheroes.com went live around June 1st 2023. However, if I searched for my site in Google, I could not find it. So, the first thing I had to do was to get if found by google. To accomplish this you need to sign up for a free account in Google Search console, then add you site to the account. There are multiple ways to do this, which I won't go into here, but this has to been done. Once you have added the site, you need to have Google crawl the site so it knows all of the pages. The best way is to add your sitemap which shows all of you pages. It might take google a few days to crawl the entire site but this is the first step.  

The next thing to do is to get into the habit of adding new content on a regular basis, like I am doing by posting this article. As you add new content to your site, make sure you go back to the search console and have Google crawl the page with the new content so it can find it.

As of the writing of this article, I am focusing on two keywords to rank for:

Portland SEO Agency - Ranking Heroes

Portland SEO Company - Ranking Heroes

As of July 6th, I am not found in the top 100. So I am starting today, but adding content as well as doing our Ranking Heroes off site SEO work. I will be providing updates as to how our service is doing as it relates to my own site. These two keywords are very importand and could provide great sales opportunities. 

Lastly, make sure you add in citations for your site. Citations are directories that list your name, address, website URL, type of business etc. These tell Google that your are legitimate. Examples of this are Yelp, BBB, Yellow pages etc.