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General Discussion

SEO Help for first website

Hello,

I made my first website and I'm having a hard time getting it to show up under the search results I want.

This is the website: http://motootuatownhouses.com/

I want it to show up when I search for "rental houses samoa" or "accommodation samoa", but it does not.

Here is the description in my head: <meta name="keywords" content="Samoa Rental Houses, Samoa Rental Properties, Samoa accommodation, long-term, short-term, Rental, Rent, house, houses, townhouses, town houses, property, motootua townhouses, moto’otua townhouses">

I'm not expecting it to show up first in results, but can't figure out why it doesn't show up at all, not even several pages into the results even though there aren't that many relevant websites to this topic.

I've been working on google analytics, image tags, etc, but to no avail.

Would somebody be able to take a look and give some advice please?

Please note website content/text is limited because the owner of the property wanted it that way. Also, I realize we can always pay to have results show up at the top or advertise elsewhere to get more links going to us , but I want to consider all other options before suggesting this since this would cost more money to the website owner.

PS my host is dreamhost, don't know if that's relevant, but thought I'd mention it.

Thanks, Brianna

1 Answer

How long has the website been up for? It can sometimes take a while for search engines to show a website in the search results.

Also, I don't know a lot about SEO, but I'm fairly certain that key words have a lot to do with the content on the website.