Should I continue?

[vikash_kumar]

Hi Warriors...
I am on the verge of a decision...I need your help to take decision.
I had made one wordpress site with articles from a article distribution service.It was made just one year back. All articles were personally reviewed by me before publishing that on the site itself.
But I never tried to promote it as I was busy in another project. But from last 2 month or so. I am putting lots of effort into it and now I have accumulated lots of backlinks as well as lots of articles pointing towards that site.
However, not seen any difference in the traffic. I had a website on similar lines and created a healthy income from that and then sold that site in good terms. But may be due the niche this site is not picking up.
Should I stay promoted this site or drop it now. As I am expecting PR2 atleast in the next upgradation or page ranks.

Help me please.

[Kael41]

Your PR has no bearing on how much traffic you're going to get..nor does it give you an indicator of profitability..so forget that line of reasoning. If anything, you may have a dud site and be able to sell your site based on PR alone (hey, someone might buy a pr2 site )

What you need to look at, from my perspective, is the following:
Where are you in the serps? Are you even close to cracking top 10 for any of your money keywords?
How good is your domain name? Does it contain your keywords? How varied is your backlink building? Is it just articles, or is it a combination of other offsite locations like web 2.0, directories, forums, etc?

[vikash_kumar]

Originally Posted by Kael41

Your PR has no bearing on how much traffic you're going to get..nor does it give you an indicator of profitability..so forget that line of reasoning. If anything, you may have a dud site and be able to sell your site based on PR alone (hey, someone might buy a pr2 site )

What you need to look at, from my perspective, is the following:
Where are you in the serps? Are you even close to cracking top 10 for any of your money keywords?
How good is your domain name? Does it contain your keywords? How varied is your backlink building? Is it just articles, or is it a combination of other offsite locations like web 2.0, directories, forums, etc?

Thanks for your response...
I agree that PR does not have any effect on profitability. I have more than 5 keywords for which one of my articles submitted in EZA is ranking within top 10.
My domain name contains my niche keyword.
Backlinks are really from various sources...of good quality.
The only problem I see is "Duplicate content". Does it matter a lot for getting even 100 visitors per day? I can leave this site on it course..If I can achieve a traffic level near 100 visitors a day. What should I do?

Thanks,

[dburk]

Hi vikash_kumar,

There are a number of ways to get traffic to your website. If you are getting backlinks on related websites, that have targeted traffic, then you should get plenty of direct traffic from those links. If you are not getting direct traffic, then there is a problem in where you are placing your links.

Using duplicate content means you will need to outrank all of the other pages with the same content before you will begin to show anywhere in the SERP. Research your keywords and pick one that you think you can beat the competition on, and focus on that single keyword and link to that post on your website. Don't spread your effort, instead focus it on a single goal, getting that single page onto the SERP.

Once you have one page listed on the first page of SERP for your targeted keyword, select the next keyword/article and repeat the process. You won't get traffic from the search engines unless your page is listed near the top of the SERPs, so push on one article until you reach it, then move to the next. Choose carefully which keywords you are targeting and make sure you can afford the resources needed to push it up the rankings.