Having Trouble Getting Search Engine Traffic

[jimmo]

Hi Guys,

I've been trying to figure this out for quite a while now and am spending wwaayy too much time on the computer trying get traffic to my website.

I have a few sites on the go but the main one I'll refer you to is refinishnetwork.com . It has been around since feb 2008 and i've added several original articles, many youtube how-to video's and it has an active forum because I do have quite a few dedicated members.

I am currently getting about 50 referals (per day) from search engines (95% google) and about 10-15 search terms are "refinishnetwork.com" if that makes any difference. I get a good amount of traffic from other forums I participate on & a bit from youtube but not a ton. My total is usually 150 / day unique visitors on average.

I am just loosing my mind now. I've tried article directories, have a few bigger sites linking to me to get a PR 2 but still seems nothing is comming from the engines. I was hoping some of the more experienced here could have a quick look and let me know what jumps out at you. Thanks!

[Voasi]

I'd use ForumBooster - The Best Paid Forum Posting Service & Content Writing to help jumpstart the site with users, threads and posts. Continue to do that for 3-4 months.

Hold a contest. Give away t-shirts, bumper stickers or something else small for people that make X amount of posts. I had a forum about Incubus (band) and I gave away free tickets to the person who posted the most. It became a real active forum fairly quickly.

You could buy keywords from PPC. Keywords that are $.05 and that's it to help gain traction for the forum.

There are lots of ways, just think "give stuff away" to people and they'll continue to come and participate.

[peteinoz]

from your title

this looks like the term you are targeting in google

auto body repair - Google Search

sure its big numbers, though no overly strong domains at the top of that list..

I checked the first 5 pages and didn't see your site..

Using my LL software (see the wso) I cannot see any reason why you wouldnt get first page in 3 to 6 weeks and high up on the first page after a little longer with your existing site with no changes at all..

I would have thought the competition would be stronger for that term

but with a global search volume of
auto body repair1 - 3$2.39

246,000
its very much worth ranking for etc..

consider these terms below aswell.. from the free google keyword tool

auto body repair estimate 1 - 3 $2.54 2,900
auto body repair estimates 1 - 3 $3.04 1,300
auto body repairs 1 - 3 $2.24 8,100
auto body repair parts 1 - 3 $1.80 1,300
auto body repair tools 1 - 3 $1.87 1,900
auto body repair cost 1 - 3 $1.51 720
auto body repair shops 1 - 3 $2.97 12,100
auto body repair services 1 - 3 $0.09

consider reworking your sites title as described here in my PDF

hth's

cheers

Pete