Improved Ranking in Google Top pages, but traffic reduced for pr 6 site

Discussion in 'Google' started by lindamood1, Mar 29, 2009.

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    i have website call lindamoodbell dot com, its have pr 6 and i have decent ranking it 2 phrase keywords.

    still my traffic is reduced last some of days, can some one review website and guide me how i can move ahead.

    give me valuable suggestion
     
    lindamood1, Mar 29, 2009 IP
  2. jimmy03

    jimmy03 Well-Known Member

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    You should analyze traffic for your website in Google Analytics.
    If there is a reduction in Traffic from Reffering website, them it surely means, that you should work more on building backlinks, and social bookmarking website.
    but if you have lost traffic from search engine, then it means that you have lost position for your keywords in some of data center.That's what i can suggest you.
    Chk Google Analytics for your trafic, then can suggest you rightly.
     
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    eposdirect Peon

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    1 phrase 2 phrase keyword top ranking not important but try to understand visitor thought is important.
     
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    blognbucks Peon

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    i have seen a sudden decrease in my traffic. Just 1-2 hrs before. I was having around 60 people online and now its reduced to 15-16 only. I think my site got sandboxed again. Google sucks.
     
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  5. kevin hemminger

    kevin hemminger Greenhorn

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    Title is the most important factor for ranking for keywords on a website. Your #1 position is "reading help", which you rank about #14 in google for. "Reading help" keyword is about 14800 searches a month according to google keyword tool.

    Your site is PR6 and #14. The current #1 website (readingrockets.com) is also PR6. One of the biggest differences is the fact that they have alot more properly keyworded content than you do.

    Focusing on this "Reading help", for instance ...

    Readingrockets uses the term "reading" on the page 32 times, and in context (within a gramatically correct paragraph) about 20 times

    Readingrockets uses the word "help" 17 times, about 15 of which are in gramatically correct paragraphs.

    compared to lindamoodbell ...

    lindamoodbell.com uses the word "reading" on the page 16 times, and none of them are in gramatically correct paragraphs, all of them are just lobbed as a group of keywords at the bottom all separated by a | character.

    lindamoodbell uses the word "help" on the page 3 times, and none of them are in gramatically correct paragraphs, all of them are just lobbed as a group of keywords at the bottom all separated by a | character.

    The difference between one site ranking #1 and the other #14 has alot to do with content, lindamoodbell just doesn't have that many words on its homepage. You could do with about 5 times more content, and use your keywords sprinkled through the page in gramatically correct paragraphs.

    There's many many other things you could do as well, as far as the title goes you got "reading help" and "reading tutor" good, all the remainder of your title is wasted. You have no chance of ever ranking #1 for "schools" or "fluency". There are hundreds of PR8 and PR9 schools and other types of website that will rank #1 for "schools", you have to pick 2 or 3 keyword combos to rank for.

    For example ...

    with google keyword tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal ...

    phonics gets approximately 500k searches a month, "phonics help" only about 1300 in February. Phonics Practice gets 3600 searches a month. Phonics lesson gets 14,800 searches a month, "phonics for kids" 5400 searches a month. Being PR6, you have a really good chance of ranking top 10 or even #1 for "phonics lesson" which may get you alot of good traffic, but shooting for "phonics" (even though its 500k searches a month) won't get you in the top 10 which will get you no traffic.

    It would be good for you to go to that keyword search tool, hit all your search terms you want to rank for, find out the volume of searches for each particular keyword phrase, and then see who currently ranks #1 for that term. You may find some combos that give you the same volume of searches as "reading help", except instead of competing with another PR6 site you might be up against a PR4 site with less reasons they rank (they don't use the term very much on their page, etc.).

    There's lots of other advice I could give, but to start ... fill your homepage with 5 times more content and use your keywords in the content instead of putting it all at the bottom in a keyword clump, change your title to have 2 or 3 keyword phrases in it (instead of 1 keyword terms).
     
    kevin hemminger, Mar 30, 2009 IP
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    hambels Peon

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    Google removed one of my site from their index. I submitted it for reconsideration and will have to wait for 2-3 weeks. I reached $100 already and up to now, no PIN yet. Can't say that I love Google until I receive that 1st check!
     
    hambels, Mar 30, 2009 IP