I have been developing good fresh content sites for almost a year now and as it go me anywhere? As it poo. I work on both link building and content for these sites on a regular basis making them unique and fresh and nothing is happening no increase in traffic BUT my pr has increased slowly on all but I think were all waking up to how much relevancy PR has nowadays zilch. I'm tired of it all now and feel like chucking the towel in with my content sites and being a webmaster full stop its too hard and requires far to much time and effort to make a buck I should put more time and effort into my real business Window Cleaning (too much ;like hard work though lol) lol Google states that it likes new content and does rank sites on such. I have targeted 4 niches that I think would pay well using adsense and made my sites better than the competition with constant fresh content STILL no joy I think if you get in there first build the links then your SET I kick myself at why I never got into the web game earlier with some of these static sites that are shite but maintain high rankings because of their age and the fact that they were here first and have LOTS and LOTS of backlinks that put them where they are NOT content. Hardly a good guideline then Google you suck. Us small fry don't stand a chance.
You might find your sites get a boost once they're a year old. 2 of ours did. Don't lose heart just yet.
Yes with seo you sometimes have to be very patient. Google is not going to trust your website right away. You need to build up a good track record of getting quality links and adding good content.
You are confusing PR with Search Engine Rankings or SERPs. Good and regular content will help a long with other SEO work to boost your ranks in the index. Age and the amount and quality of your back links are what affects PR. I have seen sites with pure crap achieve higher PR than quality sites with less quality back links.
Try adding some links to your content pages to raise their pr which will make you rank little higher for those pages and you might generate more traffic.
Yup .... thank the spammers for this AGAIN .... it would be a simple exploit to keep pumping out new sites - just to get new links to your sites - if you know what I mean .... this is why the sand box was introduced by Google and more of an importance on a sites age - or more importantly a pages age. Yes it sucks .... another way is to buy a aged domain with content on it .... you can find them in BST section here at DP ....
I have found fresh content- not rehashed crap works best for me- I was first to post a news story on one of my blogs and saw my average adsense click double and my traffic rise - next day all went back to normal. this is not the first time it happened.
BINGO !! You are dead correct, you hit a hot topic and blogged it .... exactly what is required .... I just wrote a post about this on DP. And another factor is the traffic associated and the interest on your topic .... for instance you could have written about the new Double Flush Toilet with sweet Smelling Disinfectant and have the best article on the internet - but if no one's interested and there's no searches in Google for that topic - it means jack shit .... no one will visit the site.
Maybe you're a victim of stealing contents where other's probably copied and indexed well than your site.
It sounds like you are on the right path by adding fresh content to your sites. Start working a long term link building strategy that involves articles, blog commenting, social bookmarking, press releases, forum posting. Don't give up because you may only be a week away from striking it rich Jason
That's debatable .... why write for others ? as in articles, press releases, forum posting and even blog commenting ? Keep the unique content on your site, natural links do come to your site Naturally. The things mentioned above - bar one social submissions to Digg etc. - are all things Google are starting to frown upon and hence the value is very little and by doing all of these you are helping just one person and that's the original site owner and not yourself.
If you've been adding fresh content everyday for a year and you haven't seen an increase in traffic, then you are doing something wrong. Let me explain - Google loves fresh content, people like useful information, so you need to combine the two to get the best results. Having new content will help Google index most if not all of your pages, and by having useful information, this will lead to having more traffic to your site.
I don't think so, before writing research what peoples are searching,write what peoples wants you'll sure get good search engine traffic. i have been writting contents on one of my blogs and its been 2 months and i'm getting around 200+ unique per day and all are from different search engines. Don't target high volume keywords work on long tail keywords.
Google works diff for diff sector .. Like for a travel website you are supposed to be old For a news site your website is supposed to have good backlinks ..etc