You're probably suffering from an extreme lack of inbound links, not outbound links. The web is a popularity contest and you're seen by Google as the guy over

You're probably suffering from an extreme lack of inbound links, not outbound links. The web is a popularity contest and you're seen by Google as the guy over in the corner talking to himself. Inbound links are like saying, "Hey, look at this guy, he's great.". You can do a simple inbound link check in google like this: http://www.google.com/search?as_lq=yoururlhere.com&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/search?as_lq=yoururlhere.com&btnG=... Are there any results? Probably not many. Now try the same thing with ycombinator.com. Inbound links are 80% of the battle as far as I can tell.