How long have you had the current content on there? Or has it looked like this from the start? Sometimes when websites make radical changes to their design, etc, it effects rankings. Make sure you focus on keywords within the reviews, I cannot stress this enough. Generate a few backlinks by posting on some Naruto and anime websites and avoid any spammy backlinks as these harm your rankings and pagerank. I know many streaming websites which allow you to post a comment, just write something controversial and stand out A website with that many pages Google may view it as an article farm/auto blog/etc. Usually spammy websites have that amount of pages so like people have previously said, don't let Google index them. Everytime you write something new, submit it to Digg, Stumbleupon, etc. Promote on social networking websites. These won't generate backlinks usually but will increase traffic and Google will notice a lot of people visiting your website and talking about it and it'll rank you higher.
Forget about content! In my view it is all about off site SEO. In my sector (kids clothing), all the big boys (Mothercare, Adams, Next) appear on page 1 under 'kids clothes'. They have little content and very little on site SEO. BUT they must have thousands of people (the public) 'liking' , bookmarking and blogging. How can small companies compete? They can't, no matter how good their SEO is. The results were so different to 2 years ago when the first page of 'kids clothes' was denominated by independents like me. Back then content counted - NOT NOW!
If this guy can rank with a blank page, there's obviously a great link profile for that page. Check out what he's using to rank in the number one spot and then do it better. It's the magic formula for ranking - find out what the guys above you are doing and do it better than them.
Yeah your on-page SEO looks good, but on the other hand your off-page SEO could probably use improvement. I do not know much about robots.txt to give you advice on that, but personally I would let Google index all your pages and just build backlinks to your content-rich pages.
I looked at at your website and it's great. I personally like it. It's like the ultimate Naruto source. Try contacting someone from Google who might be a Naruto fan and I'm sure they'll appreciate your hard work.
I used to peak around at that stuff, but then I heard from an overwhelming amount of people that an incredible amount of rich, unique content was THE best thing I could have in order to get traffic. So, I spent thousands of hours trying to do just that, hoping that I WOULDN'T have to do a bunch of research for what I was considering hocus pocus before. It was a content site from the start. I spent about the first 6 months submitted about one 500+ word page per day, but didn't do any link trading or anything. Got about 0-30 hits a day for most of the first year, but I expected that. I actually wasn't planning to add streams, but I figured it would be a good addition to the site. Maybe I should combine the episode stream / review / screen shots / summary all on one page? I tried doing that for a guilty gear episode review that I just did, seen here: http://www.myanimesource.com/guilty...ilty-crown-episode-1-full-review-and-summary/ and although I added the stream on that page, I put a link that would take them to a page that is titled for the stream where they can find more sources, kind of so that I'm not just making duplicate pages for pages that only have the embedded media. I also have added the episode names to the page that has the link to the naruto episodes, hoping that I can get that specific page to rank higher. I'm going back to all the naruto episodes and changing the titles to "Naruto episode xx review and summary" and adding a personal review on top of the summary, same format as the guilty gear review/summary. Thanks man, I would like to think that. A lot of sites have the usual...a few character biographies here and there, maybe a few episode reviews, but if you just count how many total unique pages I have dedicated to Naruto, I just believe mine is one of the best, and it's still far from complete!
or maybe your site just sucks. I would agree with that assessment(Google obviously does too). Also you have a poor attitude and you expect to get any help. Your niche sucks too by the way...
ummm, building a quality site... First and foremost! lmao, probably your problem... Exactly. -- I love the 26k pages -1k rich content ratio. and he swears it's quality and he SHOULD be getting traffic and getting rich. lmao You must be doing the worst out of anybody on the internet to have that big a site and making nothing. Well, obviously that is another correct assumption...
So I'm supposed to respond to people who obviously didn't read the title and are posting random gibberish to increase their post count in a thankful manner? This isn't about whether my NICHE sucks or not or even my site. Tell me how my attitude is poor? I've taken the advice given so far (from the ones that actually gave advice instead of generated sentences to increase post count) so you can unleash your internet warrior rage somewhere else.
Here's a recap... -- asked a question gave true advice. any webmaster will tell you this and to be patient. You unleashed your "internet warrior rage" (lol) for no reason when people are trying to help. Like I said... -- Looking at their accounts I doubt they give a shit about their post count and trying to purposely increase it to gain anything. Hell the one guy been here 4 years and got just under 2,000 post. He don't need to and it looks like he hasn't or he would have 10k post by now... --- but anyway, it looks like you're HERE to unleashed YOUR "internet warrior rage" because of YOUR lack of success - while you're talking about somebody elses internet warrior rage... Hmmm, maybe you should go "unleash your internet warrior rage somewhere else" if you're just going to be a jerk to the people that respond in your thread...
You're not very intelligent are you? But posting that response, I can tell you didn't even read the initial post of this thread. By doing so, you're joining them in the sense that you're posting a response without even reading the original post. You say they are giving advice any webmaster will give. I wrote in my initial post that I have over one thousand content rich pages, and posted a few links to the indexes of several hundred of those content pages. When I get a response like that, I can assume the poster did not read a word of the original post, but instead just took a glimpse at the title and thought of something bland that would be relative to the topic. And for the guy who asked the question...it's like asking a person if they're really going to lose weight by dieting and exercising. It is the same kind of bland questions you get on spam comments for your blogs...something that sounds real because it asks a question, but in reality, it is just another post with another link in their signature with the hope of increasing their SEO. I assume you're also the kind of person that receives the "RE: I haven't talked to you in forever!" kind of spam emails and has a full on conversation with them, aren't you? I admit I have lacked success, but if you take into consideration the leaps the traffic has taken in the last few months, this would be the only point where it has actually tapered off, thus the reason I posted this thread - wanting constructive insight - and for those who have posted advice for some of my silly mistakes, I thank whole heatedly. I'm not here to find some get rich niche, I have this site for the passion of the niche. I work a real job so I'm not to concerned about your comments about that.
This video has made me take a fresh look at my SEO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=nE3cr9kZJrg#. I am now focusing on what will make my viewers stay on my site and what will make them Like, Share etc.
I actually registered just to reply to this thread!! I agree with most that the OPs attitude is pretty rough. He has a legit question and was given legit advice. DarkSpring- I would say this- Your site has been up for a year and your forum has about 10 posts. Thats a bad sign. I know Anime Fans and if you provide content they will want to blabber on and on about it all day. But they dont. So although your site is "content rich" Im not sure who needs an episode by episode recap of every episode. I mean- They have seen it, they probably have it on DVD or stored on some huge ANIME Harddrive. You should check with Amazon and get some affiliate links to DVD sets for your Niche and others in the same category. You should create a signature with a small banner or link if its allowed and sign up to as many Anime Forums as you can stand. Trust me, there are thousands. Post relevant things, start conversations. People will ALWAYS click your link to see another Anime Site. Do this and your hits will increase in a HUGE WAY. Get some members to YOUR forum by posting open ended questions about the sites content, the genre or anything to get someone ( like me) to create and account to reply. Keep that going. Get a newsletter set up, add a sample review or whatnot and send that out once a month to those members youve worked hard to gain. BAM! Instant traffic once a month. Hopefully you get the idea. If you have Google analytics installed I would think you have an extremely high bounce rate and a very low time spent on site. Your content is there, but Im not sure how long I could read it.. even if I liked the topic.In the end all the tips above pertain to your Niche. Its a sound strategy but if you read through it- Its work. Its searching, posting, creating relationships, maybe a link exchange or two.. But put the work in now and in a few months that site and its traffic and membership will be on autopilot. I have probably one of the smallest niches on the net. I make about $2.00 a day after creating my adsense account two weeks ago. I optimized a bit and tweaked a bit and my adviews went from 200 or so the first few days to 1500, 2,000 a day. Im not even in it to make money. Its a fun twist to my site that gets me to update content for my members. It keeps me more interested in my site. Best of luck.
Thank you for the advice, I'll take all of it into consideration. I am thankful for the legit advice..I was not thankful, however, for the two posts that (without a doubt) were simply spam. You elaborated about what I need to improve and I can see you actually read my posts, so that's a whole other story, and I thank you for that. I guess you're right about the reviews, but I'm not sure what sort of content would make an anime site excel. I figured since there are a million other sites with streams, adding some sort of content that would outline the Anime's would generally make everything rank higher, simply because there is a lot of content. I'm thinking more and more that my site has been deemed somewhat spammy, because believe it or not, I had a similar amount of views a few months ago which were all from queries asking about what happened in a certain episode of Naruto, which some sort of combination of words from my reviews lead them there. Now I don't get those queries as often, so I guess the SEO route (such as posting signature links) is going to be the top priority. Again, thanks to all of those who provided constructive criticism and advice towards my issue.
Wow, talk about someone else not reading something... I'm not going to explain it all again. If you don't get it, you don't get it I guess... Conversations in spam emails lol though not true, I even had to laugh at that one . lol and your not the only one with a REAL job lol and yes I did read your first cry baby post BTW... Oh and your definition of spam is WRONG... and see, I'm not the only one that noticed your attitude but I'm wrong...? ya... But anyway, have fun in your thread and with that crappy site... I'll be unsubscribing now...
Peace. And also, forgot to mention to PopCulture that the Forum, while I know it still wouldn't be as populated, has only been up for 2 weeks.
Sorry, didnt look around too long. Everything looks good. Site looks good, forum looks good. You just need to get some interactivity and a reason for someone to sit on the site a little longer. With a niche like Anime though.. it shouldnt be too hard. Anime lovers are HARDCORE. Give them a good site and get them there.. you are good to go!
I'll take that into consideration...we have now changed our priority to get our link out on the internet...forum posting, blog posting, etc. That is much more important to us right now, so hopefully it will help us rank better.
Actually its quite useful, if you want to see the episode where Naruto does blah blah blah and there's a billion episodes so you do a quick google for something you remember and you'll hit this kind of recap. THEN you go to your huge ANIME hdd Do it all the time to work out which Mythbusters episode is which.