OK, I have had my site (www.bigmoneyforum.com) running for the past 6 months. I have been adding a lot of good quality content as you can see from my articles. I have plenty of back links, yet my traffic from Google has slowly been declining even though I have written tons of content. What the hell is going on here? You would think that with more content there would be more traffic and more index pages, especially with the back links to support the site. I have another site with no where near as many pages and back links getting more traffic than the site in question. I can see if my content is very common to other websites, but why would my traffic go from very nice to slowly diminishing? That's what I don't understand, there was good traffic at one time, now it's like the more articles and backlinks I get, the less traffic comes in.
I haven't visited your website. But the simple answer to your question is this: You're not holding on to your visitors. They're either not returning at a high percentage, or they're not telling others about your website. It might even be both of those. And if your visitors aren't returning, there's a problem with your website. If your website were effective at bringing visitors back, your traffic would continue to increase, not decrease. Dale King
what I meant in this post is traffic from SEARCH ENGINES are declining, I actually have most of my traffic as returning visitors, but I'm trying to figure out what the problem is with traffic coming into the site from Google. I've been keeping track of search engine referrals for a long time, my site should be growing in terms of search engine traffic with all the articles I've put in and the growing back links, not declining.
volume of traffic actually cannot be controlled. it all depends on the topic of your site, your way of promoting it, your way of providing content in it, and many more...gaining lots of traffic I can say is about a matter of luck...
yeah it probably has to do with luck..... The quality of my content is great, none of it is duplicate, ALL of my articles (over 20 of them) are between 500 and 2000 words. You would think the search engines would bring in more than 10 hits a day... It used to be much higher than that. All of my pages are out of the supplemental index as well and Google visits my site very often too. Now, I've had days where I lose everything on 1 day and it comes back again within a week, but this has been a slow decline over a period of a month.
If you guys really think getting traffic is luck, I see no point in wasting any more time on this topic. Good "luck!" Dale King
Well dale, if you can give a better explanation, I would be happy to hear about it. So far luck seems to be the only explanation but I don't know. Maybe someone else can find something I can't see and I would really appreciate it if someone could let me know. Best
Does anyone think the DOC-type might have something to do with compatibility with Googlebot? I noticed I have a DOC-type in here (I just deleted the tag off all of my articles) but not on my separate site that is doing great in traffic. Note that this separate site doesn't have as many articles as this site either and it's getting 100s of hits per day from Google.
Guys, I think I may have made a HUGE breakthrough. I noticed that when I added a "content-type" meta tag and deleted the DOG-type (as it is on my high traffic site), then my "Copyright" symbol appeared correctly and I always thought it was my browser that was screwing it up and putting up a "?" instead of a "©", it's possible that Google was seeing an alien language and that could be the problem. We'll just have to wait a week or so until Google re-indexes those pages. I would like to hear your suggestions on this. Also take a look at my site and see if you can find anything else. Best