Not getting much traffic from search engines anymore

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by ForgottenCreature, May 3, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hello everyone,
    My website, Sweet Online Games used to get about 45,000 hits from search engines every month, but that has since declined to about 500 hits a month.

    What can we do? Everything is optimized, but we haven't been seeking out links.
     
    ForgottenCreature, May 3, 2006 IP
  2. Christine8

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    You have a ton of indexed pages and an ok amount of inbound links. But take a look at your Google PageRank: it averages 2.
    My hunch is that the pages do not have enough content (250+ words).

    Good luck!
     
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  3. neof

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    did you check all link exchange partners to make sure there is no link exchange fraud on your backlink?

    did you check all sites that you are linking to, to ensure they are not banned or have significantly degraded?
     
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  4. BILZ

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    Sounds like you need more incoming links. Look into buying links to get started right away. And start a link exchange program for the long term.

    In a competitive market, on page SEO isnt enough - links make or break you.
     
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  5. ForgottenCreature

    ForgottenCreature Notable Member

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    Nope, haven't checked, but I will.
     
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  6. ForgottenCreature

    ForgottenCreature Notable Member

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    Yup, looks like a lot of sites that were linking in decided to remove my link back, so looks like I'll have to work on that.
     
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  7. lars

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    I have a gaming site in Sweden and here when the spring came (we have 4 months of snow) I saw a dramatic decrease in traffic. You dint think this could be a reason?
     
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  8. KC TAN

    KC TAN Well-Known Member

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    Hi ForgottenCreature,

    Losing those inbound links may decrease your incoming hits like what the others have mentioned. However, to get the majority traffic from the search engine, you need to perform SEO other than just getting incoming links.

    I have done a brief optimisation check on your site and you may want to take a look:

    Pre-optimisation
    1. May I know what are the Keywords you targeting?
    For 'Free online games' and 'online game': You were ranked out of top 100 in all three major search engines.

    'Free online game' is a highly competitive keyword. Your current keyword density for 'Free online game' is 0.57%. Boost that up to somewhere between 3 to 5% for best results.

    Optimisation guide
    The following is some of the suggestions that help you to get into the top 10 of the search engines with your keyword.

    1. The most important factor is to update your content often. The more frequent you update, the more often you will see sipders indexing your site. This will eventually increase your SERPs.

    2. Have a different title description tag every page. I see that you have the same title across many pages.. please refer to the following thread on why there is a need to have different descriptive title tags:
    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=81198

    3. Move your left navigation menu to the right OR use CSS relative positioning to make your content appear before the menu links in HTML script.
    You may have heard that search engine places great focus on the content near the top of the page, this is very true. The only 'content' near the top of your home page is the <script> tag and menu links so it does not help you much in SERP.

    4. Finally, validate your home page. We do not know how search engine treat error pages; do they terminate the index? or they make the page less important? or worse, do they give up..
    Therefore, always make sure that you validate your home page.

    Hope it helps :)
     
    KC TAN, May 5, 2006 IP
  9. neof

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    Getting backlinks usually does the trick. Also watch out for linking to banned sites or others frowned on by google, and do not get hundreds of backlinks simultaneously.

    Manual link exchange incurs such risk and webmasters usually finds out when it's too late. You are welcome to join our automatic link exchange which checks backlinks and link fraud (nofollow/noindex, blocking in robots.txt, etc) and disables any such partner link automatically. That's the automatic part. The not-so-automatic part is you still have to approve the members you link to in the network, but it's more efficient than sending emails asking for a link exchange.
     
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  10. ForgottenCreature

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    @KCgame, excellent post man, I'll work on it all.
    @neof, thanks man, I'll be looking into all sites that we exchanged with.
     
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  11. WebFreedom

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    Off-page factors, such as backlinks, are much, much more important with respect to ranking in the SEs than on-page factors.

    Sam
     
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