Hi, Friends, I have a site for 4 mounth. My site pr:2 Alexa: ~380k. Everythink ok. But Google isn't sending visitors. Ä° have 220 index on the google. I add my subject on the sharing sites(digg,stumble...) What the reason google isnt send my site... My site is : http://www.storybus.net Thanks ...
Thanks the answer. Yes. I send sitemap google webmasters tools. I wonder my site is in a kind of sandbox. I heard all new sites is have been in sandbox for 5-6 mounths. Is it true. Must i wait?
The way to get organic traffic from Google is to have URLs on your site that rank on page 1, possibly page 2, for keyword phrases that are searched on frequently at Google. People have to be able to see your page in the SERPs before they can click on it and become a "traffic" statistic for your site. - The PR of your site has almost nothing to do with how your web pages rank for specific keyword phrases that users search for at Google. - Your Alexa rating is meaningless for SEO... Enough said. - How many pages you have indexed has absolutely nothing to do with how your web pages rank for specific keyword phrases that users search for at Google. You should note that you are going to have a hard time getting your pages to rank as long as you are simply posting actual stories that already exist 100,000 other places on the web (not to mention I'd be worried about copyright infringements). Google likes sites that offer unique and compelling content. IMO you need something to differentiate your site from all of the others out there who also simply repost short stories. You need to provide some type of added value for your visitors. Think about the audience you're trying to attract? Do you want kids who are working on book reports? Do you want adults who just love to read? both? Then come up with something that you can give your personal touch that they can't get elsewhere like a review of each of the stories... for example, explaining things like metaphorical references and symbolism used in the stories, little tid bits like "did you know character <insert character name> was based on the author's best friend <insert best friend's name>. Your author pages consist of the first paragraph or so of text from each story by that author on your site w/ links back to the story on your page. Again no unique content. Why not consider hand writing a long one page biography about the life of the author and in it give a paragraph of text in your own words about each story he/she wrote (linking back to the story pages on your site) and some factoid about it like what inspired him/her to write it, where he was when he/she wrote it, whether it's based on a real person, etc. The way your site is today, I see no unique and compelling content on there that would make other sites want to link to you... And without inbound links you can practically forget EVERY ranking in the SERPs at any of the search engines for any keyword phrases w/ even a moderate amount of monthly searches.
Thanks your useful answer Canonical, - Yes the content is not orginal. But i have not copyright problem. Because all stories in my site are public domain. So all of this stories are not copyright laws. - Thanks your advice. I think to do my own review or explainig about story too. ı will do your advices...
I would also consider some on-page/on-site SEO changes as well: 1) I would remove storybus.net from every page <title> on the site (except about us/contact us type pages). Having this in the <title> tells the search engines that you want every page on your site to rank for storybus.net. Your home page with only a handful of inbound links should already rank high for those types of searches that exactly match your domain name. Having this in the <title> also dilutes the keyword density of the "real" targeted keyword phrase(s) in the <title>. In otherwords, on the page for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat", having it in the <title> makes it harder for the page to rank well for searches for "the black cat". 2) I would suggest on each story page that you add the author's name to the <title>. For example, on the page for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" I would probably use: It will be much easier to rank for long tail search phrases like "the black cat by edgar allen poe" than it would be to rank for "the black cat". 3) I would also change your <h1> on each the story pages so that they include the author like: This will help reinforce the targeted longtail keyword phrase from the <title>. 4) I would add a widget to each story page in one of the right columns that highlights other stories on the site by that same author. Make the header for the widget be an <h2> and target the author's name. This will help reinforce the targeted keyword phrase from the <title> and <h1>. So render the widget similar to: By doing this you have Edgar Allan Poe pages linking to other Edgar Allan Poe pages... creating inbound links from other relevant pages. 5) On you author pages I would probably tweak the page to target slightly longer tailed but VERY similar, related phrases... Maybe something like: These longer tail phrases (assuming they get a decent amount of search traffic) would be much easier to rank for than the broad phrase "Edgar Allan Poe". Put the most important keyword phrase 1st followed by the second, followed by the 3rd. Only include multiple keyword phrases if they are VERY similar (different by only one 1 word or so) and synomous. And ranking well for keyword phrases that have a moderate amount of traffic is ALWAYS better than not ranking well and getting no volume for high volume search phrases. Small bird in hand is better that 2 big birds in the bush! 6) Change the <h1> on the author pages to include one of targeted keyword phrases from the <title> (preferably the primary or 1st keyword phrases from the <title>) like: Note it's not exactly the same as the 1st keyword phrase in the <title> suggested in #5 but it DOES include all of the targeted keywords in the first keyword phrase. 7) On the category pages like Children's, Humor, Romance, Adventure, etc. I would consider again targetting longer tail phrases. Targetting "Adventure", "Humor", "Romance", etc. is going to insure these pages never rank. It's just too competitive. I would consider modifying your <title>s to something like the following: etc. I think you get the picture... These are likely still competitive, but not NEARLY as competitive as the one word phrase the <title> targets now. 7) On the Category page change the <h1> to target one of the keyword phrases (preferably the primary or first phrase) from the <title> like: Note by choosing the 2nd keyword phrase from the <title> suggested in #6 I have included all keywords from both the 1st and 2nd keyword phrase in the <title>. 8) If you're targeting US readers I'd suggest using "Humor" instead of "Humour". Just food for thought. Good luck. The site looks nice.
Canonical, Thank you very much.I 'll do your advice. Really you helped me very good. This site my first and unic site. So that i dont know a lot of thinks. Thanks again..
canonical is explaining the things in a great way. Thanks canonical, and good luck bolanka. What I feel here is you are not targeting over keywords. Go and have a look at Google Adwords Keyword tool before you publish a page. If people search for CAT STORY and you have STORY OF CAT, they make difference when your authority is low. So, search for right keywords and target them in url and title. Remember, title tag is of 65 character length - make full use of it
As you said you are new, go on Google and search for SEO and related things, you will understand a lot by reading great books and tutorials.
i don't think it's the sandbox problem--u 'd better start with the on-site SEO , to see if things improve