I cannot rank for my brandname. My brandname is a KW with 0 search volume or competition other than my social media pages/crunchbase/other citation/directories.
I had robots.txt set to do not crawl up until 12 weeks ago. The site is indexed (verified with “site:” search)
I have:
\-decent backlinks
\-strong h1/h2 on homepage
\-organizational schema
\-social media buzz (reddit, instagram, etc)
\-all social media accounts set up
\-traffic (65k+ visits first mo)
\-citations/directories
\-rank perfectly on bing/yahoo/brave
\-sitemap and robots.txt look good
\-gsc set up without any errors
\-CWV are good
\-tons of original content/data
\-blog posts
Additionally, moz/screamingfrog/ahrefs/semrush have all given it a high score from an analysis perspective.
I have built sites for over 10 years + SEO for 10 years, and I’ve never had a site not rank day 1 for a 0 competition, 0 traffic brand name keyword, when everything else is good to go and google is ranking my social media pages/crunchbase #1. My site doesnt even show up at all in search unless you do site:”domain.com”
no penalties/manual actions in my dashboard
A well known SEO from X who I dm’ed suggested its my no-index/do-not crawl lingering…idk?
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