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Advice needed, feeling frustrated!

by Razvan Rovinaru
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Hello dear friends, I would like to kindly ask your opinion regarding the results I got promoting one on my websites.

I'll get straight to the point, as our time is extremely valuable.

Several months ago I created a website in the extremely competitive "repair credit" niche, as I don't get discouraged by high competition. Top rankings for keywords that receive decent traffic in this niche are insanely valuable as you may know so I decided to go for it and see if I could achieve the desired results.

So I invested in link building using several of the popular methods, article marketing, link exchanges, bought some one way links etc and waited for the results.

Here's how I stand after six months:

- I'm on the first page of Google's results for the term "fix credit" - searched for 4.400 times/ month, estimates Google's keyword tool(exact match), with 282,000 competing sites using the exact (quotes) search.

- I'm also on the first page of Google's results for the term "credit fix" - searched for 2.400 times/ month, estimates Google's keyword tool(exact match), with 205,000 competing sites using the exact (quotes) search.

I also have several other top rankings, I won't detail further, these 2 are the best keywords for which I'm appearing on the first page of Google.

Now here's my problem. The site get's about 30-40 visitors per day, and in the month of September it has received exactly 4 visitors from "credit fix" and 1 visitor for "fix credit" from Google.

Needless to say, I find this extremely frustrating. I know how things work, the keyword tool provides only estimates, results fluctuate, the title and description that appears in Google's results is very important in term of getting clicks etc .... but 5 visitors from these 2 keyphrases? I simply can't explain that ... 5 visitors from fix credit and credit fix. 2 word phrases in the repair credit niche that receive good amounts of traffic every month according to every keyword tool and common sense. I have never received such low stats for keywords that receive that much traffic.

The site does generate average to low income each and every month(considering the small amounts of traffic), it's not bad, but it definitely isn't great. I want to take it to the next level, I want to improve, I want to get the kind of traffic I should be receiving for those keywords, I would like to know what you recommend I should do in this situation.

At the moment, I'm thinking of continuing promotion on those 2 keywords to force a #1 or #2 ranking as those get about %80 of the traffic anyway, and see how the stats change.

What is your opinion on this matter, what would you do in my shoes, where did I do wrong?

Thank for reading!
#advice #promotion
  • Profile picture of the author Killer Joe
    Keep in mind that a large part of the equation is what searchers see in the SERPS for your links.

    If what you have displayed is not very appealing to their curiousity/needs/fears/desires they read your description without clicking on it.

    You need to start the enticing process in your description. Rank means little without a decent hook.

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  • Profile picture of the author radhika
    Why can't you sell textlinks and post reviews on products. People pay for these to be posted on well ranked sites.

    Do a search on Google for - 'get paid for blogging'.

    Change the sites to blogs and put permanent redirects to new blog pages.

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  • Profile picture of the author Razvan Rovinaru
    yep, I know that very well trust me, I even mentioned it in the post:

    Needless to say, I find this extremely frustrating. I know how things work, the keyword tool provides only estimates, results fluctuate, the title and description that appears in Google's results is very important in term of getting clicks etc .... but 5 visitors from these 2 keyphrases? I simply can't explain that ...
    I still believe that 5 visitors is insanely little for those rankings, and consider the title and description to be good even though they could probably be better.

    These things happen though, I may very well be aware of the problem, I might have mentioned the solution in the original post but I wanted to hear your opinions also, to make a better idea.

    Thanks for your input Killer Joe.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
    Which position are you in on the first page? Almost all traffic goes to the first position, then the next few. If you are past 3, that's why you aren't getting visitors.
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  • Profile picture of the author SurviveUnemployment
    Killer Joe hit it right on the head. The META description tag is very important, as is the title. Write an appealing, keyword-rich meta description tag, and you will get clicks, assuming that people are actually searching for that term.
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  • Profile picture of the author davidomni
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    Well, if traffic is the problem. There are a ton of good WSO's regarding your issue.

    Cheers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Catalin Ionescu
    Razvan,

    You have received some very valuable advice regarding the importance of the meta description and title tags in your page.

    I'll try to chime in with something that I believe to be very important, and maybe the reason you're not seeing the kind of results you expect...

    You say that you hold positions #2 and respectively #3 for very competitive search terms, when you search them in double quotes.

    Herein lies the problem...

    Most of your typical prospects aren't going to search using exact match (double quoted keywords). They will simply type whatever they're interested in, and go to perhaps the first 10 or 20 results they see.

    It is mostly professionals like webmasters and search engine specialists, not to mention automated tools, that search using double quotes. So from those 4,500 searches you see mentioned in the keyword tool, most of them aren't your prospects but in fact your competition.

    When your site will rank well for the same keywords, but without enclosing them in double quotes like regular users do, you will start to see people that are interested in your offer coming to your site.

    Hope this helps.

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  • Profile picture of the author Razvan Rovinaru
    Catalin, you got it wrong my friend. I actually rank on the first page for those 2 keywords without a quotes search. If you go to Google and enter "fix credit" or "credit fix" without quotes, my site is right there, in the top 10 results.

    I only said that the competition in quotes for those keywords is 282,000 and 205,000 respectively :-)

    I wouldn't be asking for advice if I just ranked high for a quotes search, it's obvious that it doesn't receive traffic.

    Thank for trying to help though.
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