How Do I Get Search Traffic?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by peppy, Aug 7, 2009.

  1. #1
    I am having some problems with my site: lolblackjack.com

    There are over 1000 pages (multiple languages) with lots and lots of written content and I have a PageRank 4 BOTW listing.

    Yet I get only 1 or 2 visitors from search engines each day. None from google in weeks and most are bots. I thought I had the page optimized as best as I could but for some reason nothing works.

    How do I get more search engine and Google traffic?
     
    peppy, Aug 7, 2009 IP
  2. Chancey

    Chancey Well-Known Member

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    #2
    Try to have a a keyword so that you could get more traffic.
     
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  3. SEO2

    SEO2 Peon

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    I would like to suggest you that :-
    1. find a keyword
    2. Do on page optimization
    3. Start linkbuilding
     
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  4. peppy

    peppy Active Member

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    I'm not sure if you looked at my site or not but I have an obvious keyword "blackjack" that I am going for.

    I have other keywords throughout the site related to blackjack and it's optimized as much as possible that I know of.

    Can you be a little more specific on what to do with my site exclusively?
     
    peppy, Aug 7, 2009 IP
  5. peppy

    peppy Active Member

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    Ah yeah, I see from my web stats that not one person has even looked at my site.
     
    peppy, Aug 7, 2009 IP
  6. atniz

    atniz Well-Known Member

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    I just checked your site. I think you should do more offsite seo. Concentrate on getting hyperlinked keyword dofollow backlink to your site. Install, google.com/analytics for your site and monitor which keyword google is sending you the traffic. Optimize this keyword and get top spot for this keyword in SERP ranking. It needs a lot of backlinks to get your site for top search engine result.
     
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  7. shahzaibpki

    shahzaibpki Active Member

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    I think google has penalized you for something wrong search engine optimization tricks.
     
    shahzaibpki, Aug 8, 2009 IP
  8. Michelle.

    Michelle. Peon

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    You need more backlinks. Your internal linking is very good. I just passed your site through traffictravis (free version) and it was rated A+ so that shows you need to work on off-page factors. You currently have 5 backlinks and zero pagerank.

    You can hire a ghostwriter to write articles for you, submit a backlink to your website at the bottom of the article and use anchor text (make it a textlink and target your keywords so the search engine has an idea what the link is about before it had visted the site) you then submit these articles to directories with a high PR, incorporate keywords you are targetting in the articles written but do not make it too keyword dense. 5% is good enough, or it is too spammy and you may get asked to remove the article.

    Here is a list of article directories http://www.vretoolbar.com/articles/directories.php Also ( crucial point) think of a good title for your article ie one that does not have too much competition, for example if you were to put 'blackjack' as the headline for your article you can be sure your article won't get that many hits, type this term in google you'll see you are competing with 17,900,000 people. Now type in 'playing blackjack tips' and see how much you have narrowed down your competetion? a lot... to 5,050,000. Try and get it between 1000-5000 a good free tool to use would be wordtracker. You can see what phrases are getting searches.
     
    Michelle., Aug 8, 2009 IP
  9. bert300

    bert300 Peon

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    use some basic keyword tools like wordtracker and are u using meta tags? and this content is huge... how many indexed pages? u can use ping services.. like pingler and technorati...
     
    bert300, Aug 8, 2009 IP
  10. AC-Coach

    AC-Coach Peon

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    In a nutshell, backlinks, backlinks, backlinks...

    Besides that, you've got a great site to build upon.

    Best of luck with it
     
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  11. peppy

    peppy Active Member

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    Thanks for the information! I'm glad to know that many of you also thought the internal linking and content was decent.

    I will try out these article directories sometime and I guess I will have to find some ways to get backlinks.

    Regards
     
    peppy, Aug 8, 2009 IP
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    lifeplayer Notable Member

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    You need to work out on SERP. Study on the keyword and Keep on build link
     
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    #13
    You can get 100 backlinks just by adding your site to your posting signature.
     
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  14. peppy

    peppy Active Member

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    I guess I could have but the signature links only appear on my new posts so I can no longer get those 100.

    Plus wouldn't Google frown upon casino links on an unrelated forum?
     
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    zinruss Notable Member

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    Do a keyword research and start building links for semi competitive keywords. Try to get quality one way links from related sites and bump it up to top 5 position and proceed further with other competitive keyword later.
     
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    #16
    it seems your site is getting penalized by google for some reason.
     
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  17. Michelle.

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    Put it in related forums, this will give you targetted traffic.
     
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    anhbloginc Well-Known Member

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    Get ranked in top 10 of first searching page in Google . Of course you will get good traffic .

    I get listed 33 with keywords " SEO Tips " , but i will try more.

    FedEx's Blog
     
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    1000 pages, but 1 or 2 visitors,,,,, then you want to build some good backlinks from related niche,,,,, you can easily get good number of visitors from google
     
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    You need to target more specific keywords for your niche that has active monthly searches. You can find these sorts of keywords through the google keyword tool.
     
    PhotonElectron, Aug 9, 2009 IP