HI, i have running my site since Feb 2007, its asianfood-recipes.com. Until now i have some keywords that rank in top 10 in Google, and also in yahoo. For example the key word of : "asian food recipes", which i think is competitive key words but all the while i only receive traffic from that keyword not more than 5. Same thing happen to yahoo SE. As my site is running ~9 months, with PR2, indexed ~650 pages by googles SE. Is that possible my low traffic from googles caused by i am still in "sandbox" ? I only received overall 50 unique visitors generate from Google per day. 1 strange thing happen on 2 Nov traffic, where yahoo suddenly generate ~280 unique visitor from a keywords (eventually back to normal the next day), which already ranked in top 10. All the while the key word only generate below 5 visitor per day... the sudden increase of traffic surprise me. Is my site still somehow trapped / still not release to 'public traffic' ? Any comments / experience shared will be greatly appreaciated. BRs, Kevin
Kevin, I can't answer half those questions, but on the experience side here is a brief summary of where my site is at for similar metrics. Opened: June 07 PageRank: 2 Indexed pages: 3,210 Avg Google Daily Uniq (last 30 days): 99 Max Unique from Google (last 30 days): 150 Min Unique from Google (last 30 days): 28 We don't rank top 10 in many keywords, as we are in a highly saturated niche, but Google treat us ok. Hope that gives you at least a decent point of comparison.
A friend of mine running his site for 2 years and explain that his site also facing the same problems for the first 12 months, but out of sudden the traffic rocket high ... how can that be?
The answer of this may be you have good page rank for the keywords but people search on those keywords lessly.