my site has benefited from the recent google panda update My site now ranks page one for these words? Most of them are good right? health news new games latest games upcoming games latest news entertainment news entertainment news uk latest updates probably a few other good ones too, webmaster tools isn't accurate some words saying 1.0, 4.5 ect but not even on page 3 let alone 1. traffic is not good either, less than 300 visits per day, and if i didn't update content it probably would be worse
i do regularly update, sometimes nearly 15 posts a day, the site is in google news also, but i still should be seeing analytics picking up keyword traffic for the above words but nothing. I hate news sites now, i don't have time for it and it's really frustrating and time consuming, espicially, if there's no one to help and you can't hire article writers.
yea, same, anyway, not long left, this time next year, it's going, i can't be bothered anymore, whatever money i make, will be used to build a social networking site
The problem with news sites is that the traffic sucks. Most visitors are just there to read some news article and then leave. So you have to make up for that with volume by being the first to publish news stories, etc to get tons of traffic. Anyway, best of luck with it.
im beginning to believe what your saying is true, if im honest, around 60 percent of the content written on the site, has been re written from other news sites - by time i publish it, thousands have already read the first story and yea, i installed the wiyba tool bar on the site, and i average around 8 - 10 visits every couple minites - half hour or so and i can see what page the visitors are on, they usually there for couple seconds, then leave the site. It's usually the big sites such as the sun, cnn, techcrunch ect can really benefit from visitors, if you cannot report news as soon as it hit's the web, then there's no point in publishing it, if your version can't go on top of those who published it before you. thanks
If I were you I would start building anchor text backlinks for all those keywords and start getting ranked higher for them. If you know they're already bringing in traffic to your site, you will likely get much MORE traffic when you're ranked a little higher for those keywords. You can start doing this by manually building links with free backlinks or using a good link building software or you can outsource.