Hit the wall!

Hello Wingman, have you tried submitting your sites to social sites or free high ranking directories like dmoz or listoftheweb? Backlinks are important these days as they have been for a while now. They seem to make your site seem more relevant.

Also it's not hard to get articles on Ezine either. They will get you good ranking on keywords. it seems you've done your homework on keywords but now it's more about competing with other sites and building your competition with backlinks.

Hope this little bit helps!

May I ask how long you have been at rank 2? And are you selling products or what is your intentions? Check your site on other computers and make sure its not listed as an attack site or something. I've seen this case before. Not saying it's true in your case but something to look into.

Chris, thanks for joining in. I am concentrating on getting traffic. My sites all need work but I figure the traffic is everything. Doing responder sequences and pop ups and sizzling squeeze pages all comes after traffic which is the result of keywords and optimization. I am right into analytics...and info junkie but they are all recording low activity. Adsense views about 3000, earnings about $3.17. Amazon affiliate views in the hundreds but no sales. Source of visits global altho mainly US. Trickles from all over from Afghanistan to the Phillipines to UK to Russia to Australia??

You cant unless you ave 15 posts so technically no you cant. Good thinking about the proxy server though. I forget about those tools sometimes.

Chris Kent is absolutely right.

Out line your method for us

How you go about finding keywords, backlinking strategy, content creation etc...

then we can give you proper advise on YOUR particular case.

tell us what you have done in terms of getting traffic, than we here at the forum can give you suggestions and guidelines based from our experience.

good luck.

- azlan

wingman7,

Are you making offers on these pages? Selling affiliate products? Or just relying on adwords? If adwords with WP, which themes?

Finally, at risk of prescribing before full diagnosis, I think you might need to focus in on one site or niche until you reach a goal that you are satisfied with.

My 2 cents.

Keep on!

I believe in you! Just don´t give up man

You must be talking figuratively when you say "I'm not getting any traffic", then. How much are you getting, realistically? Or (if you're not willing to share actual figures) more to the point, how do the traffic numbers you are getting line up with what you were expecting to get?

I've no idea what your article marketing and/or direct-traffic-harnessing approach is like, but certainly from an SEO perspective you should be getting some traffic, if you're ranking well for your chosen keywords - as you say you are - and you've done your keyword research properly.

Which leads me to think either:

1) You haven't done your keyword research properly (or the data you saw was simply inaccurate - it sometimes happens).
2) You aren't really ranked where you think you are.

Feel free to p.m with any info pertaining to your sites, if you're willing, and you want me to take a quick look. (Don't worry, I won't steal your niches/keywords or whatever).

Good luck.

40 years of business experience is very impressive, but I was surprised to hear you say that this one is the hardest for you. Internet marketing can be super-easy if you do the right things. Just find what people are really looking for and give it to them. My best success, though, has been creating unique things that I know people want desperately, but isn't being delivered in the marketplace.

Just don't give up. Have really good friends. You friends is crucial at this time. Go get very positive friends here.

exactly, explain your process more thoroughly so we can help u

I am going to focus on my main money site only so this is meaningful.

The main keyword came from lots of analyses with Market Samurai and adwords keyword suggestion tool.

The criteria used is

SEO Traffic of greater than 80
SEO Competition less than 30,000
Phrase to broad match ratio of greater than 15%
Monthly traffic of 1000 or more.

I registered a .net site with 100% keyword phrase...no extra letters or words.

A search in Adwords keyword tool shows 4400 mth for US mkt 5500 for global
So there should be traffic.

I rank no2 in the US for this search term.

My traffic last month was 188 visitors.
One ezine article attracted 12 visitors who read average of 5 pages spent 14 min on the site and had a 58% bounce rate.
All the other visitors had 100% bounce rate and 1 visit per search term? Are they Bots?

So there is almost no "real" traffic?

Theres a lot more to the story but until I can make the primary keyword "pull" the rest wont work?

Appreciate your comment.

I'm sure you'll be fine as soon as you understand the nature of your problem (or problems) and as long as you remain persistent. Answer these questions as honestly as possible.

how old is your site?

Are you not accounting for your competitor's page rank and number of back links?

How many articles are you producing per week?

are they providing useful and informative content?

How are you titling them?

are they keyword targeted?

How much fresh content are you producing a month for your website?

is your fresh content keyword targeted?

How many back links are pointing back to your site and where are they coming from?

Are your back links pointing to many pages and posts on your site?

Are your keywords in your anchor text for your back links?

are you registered with Google Webmaster tools?

If so, have you checked the diagnostics section, robots txt, and sitemap to see if there are any problems?

you say your second for your keyword term (good job by the way),

Are the competitors around you targeting your keyword as well , what a mean to say is, is your keyword in the description of your competitors site, is it in the title of your competitors site, and is it in the domain of your competitors site?

Do you see PPC campaigns on the right column of Google?

okay wingman, please answer the questions above. Plus I would like you to take the following keywords I give you and I would like you to tell me according to your criteria if they would be good keywords to go after are not:

dog bite accident lawyer
Cellulean reviews
what to do when bored
meaning of roses
improve eyesight naturally
how to get rid of a hickey

focus on traffic and competition, I would basically like to see which ones you choose and why.

This can turn out to be a very interesting case study I can blog about on my site.

feel free to e-mail me at (aizaku1 AT gmail DOT com) if you have any questions.

Answers to questions. Interesting to see you comments on my answers.


Are your keywords in your anchor text for your back links?

Hmmm article links are from url at end of articles.

are you registered with Google Webmaster tools?

Yes but dont use.

If so, have you checked the diagnostics section, robots txt, and sitemap to see if there are any problems?

This website was not registered. Have registered. Listed sitemap which it says has 40 URLs and is up to date. Says it will take some time for all stats to show but checked all stats and there seems to be no problem so far.

you say your second for your keyword term (good job by the way),

Well I was pleased and thought I should get some business, but I dont!!

Are the competitors around you targeting your keyword as well , what a mean to say is, is your keyword in the description of your competitors site, is it in the title of your competitors site, and is it in the domain of your competitors site?

Generally not. Tends to be coming from somewhere on their site. i.e. not main url...competitors .com and .org competitors not active.

Do you see PPC campaigns on the right column of Google?

There are 6

okay wingman, please answer the questions above. Plus I would like you to take the following keywords I give you and I would like you to tell me according to your criteria if they would be good keywords to go after are not:

dog bite accident lawyer

Adwords say competition very high, searches in US 170/mth, although Traffic Travis says easy to compete for as very little competition optimised.
I wouldnt compete for this because the searches are so small.

Cellulean reviews

Adwords says 720 mth US moderate competition. TT says easy to compete very little optimised.
Again traffic too small...not worth competing for.

what to do when bored

Adwords says 165000 US searches very litle competition. TT says easy to compete....no optimization.
Searches are very high but could be too high for an affiliate site. Probably wouldnt compete.

meaning of roses

Adwords 22200 US searches no competition. TT says average competition but urls target phrase along with sub pages.
I would not have a go at this because searches strong but competition targets phrase directly.

improve eyesight naturally

Adwords 1900 US searches/mth average competition. TT says Medium competition. URLs and articles target phrase.
I would not have a go at this because searches OK but competition targets phrase directly.

how to get rid of a hickey

Adwords traffic US 40,000 month...no competition. TT says very hard to compete because of phrase targetting.
I wouldnt compete because of high competiion and focus on phrase.

focus on traffic and competition, I would basically like to see which ones you choose and why.

This can turn out to be a very interesting case study I can blog about on my site.

I numbered my responses.

Are your keywords in your anchor text for your back links?

Hmmm article links are from url at end of articles.


1. Okay, you need to make your back links hyperlinks; Like this <a href="www.keyword.com">Keyword</a>. Use a keyword that your post is about. So for example; your post is about “Belligerent bottlenose dolphins” then the back link pointing to that post Should also be “belligerent bottlenose dolphins.” But don't overdo it. Try to mix up the keywords that point back to your posts from time to time. You can have a back link with the anchor text (the key word in the hyperlink) “Bottlenose belligerent dolphins.” A good rule of thumb is to have 30% of your back links pointing to your main domain and the other 70% should be pointing to various other posts on your website.

are you registered with Google Webmaster tools?

Yes but dont use.


2. I recommend you start using it and understand how it works.



If so, have you checked the diagnostics section, robots txt, and sitemap to see if there are any problems?

This website was not registered. Have registered. Listed sitemap which it says has 40 URLs and is up to date. Says it will take some time for all stats to show but checked all stats and there seems to be no problem so far.


3. Okay cool, go back there later and check the diagnostics section to see if Google webmasters is reporting some problems

you say your second for your keyword term (good job by the way),

Well I was pleased and thought I should get some business, but I dont!!

4. Yeah, I have more faith in exact search, but others might disagree. Your situation is a good example of this. You Rank Second for keywords that look excellent in terms of broad search But yield very few unique visits.

Are the competitors around you targeting your keyword as well , what a mean to say is, is your keyword in the description of your competitors site, is it in the title of your competitors site, and is it in the domain of your competitors site?

Generally not. Tends to be coming from somewhere on their site. i.e. not main url...competitors .com and .org competitors not active.


5. Cool, that's good news for you

Do you see PPC campaigns on the right column of Google?

There are 6


6. That's even Better news for you

I deleted all the keywords, That I agree with you on

meaning of roses

Adwords 22200 US searches no competition. TT says average competition but urls target phrase along with sub pages.
I would not have a go at this because searches strong but competition targets phrase directly.

7. I don't know, I think you can flip the market with this one. Provide the user with free content and information about roses and poems and things of that nature. And stick some dating affiliate sites with some fat juicy payouts. And let's not forget Valentine's Day. I'm just saying there are a lot of affiliates that are in the romance department. But the competition is a little steep

Cellulean reviews

Adwords says 720 mth US moderate competition. TT says easy to compete very little optimised.
Again traffic too small...not worth competing for.

8. I wouldn't go for it either but for different reasons. Because it has a brand in the domain. Actually ,so far, my only successes come from SuperTargeted little keywords like these, I put up domains that have relevant terms then I create posts on brand names and reviews. This is all after I consult Google's keyword tool to see which keywords have a small but respectable search Volume.


My other sites that target keywords with higher search volume haven't made it to the first page yet. It's still early though ,only five months in.


10. There are still two questions you haven't answered; how many back links are pointing to your site?
And how many times per month Do you produce fresh content for your site?


Talk to you soon, be good

Been a while since your posted reply. Sorry, life got in the way.

Appreciate your interest, following comments on your points.

1. Back links hyperlinks;

In other words change the URL link to anchor words and link those?
I tried doing this in the article body but Ezine wouldnt allow. Will do in signature.


2. I recommend you start using Webmaster tools.
Have done and will do.

4. Yeah, I have more faith in exact search,
Changed my method to "exact search"

5. Backlinks
Well I'm not sure I know my backlinks. SEO Quake reports internal and external but doesnt seem accurate because it doesnt include Ezine articles which refers readers..I know by looking at source in analytics. Can you suggest another way of checking Backlinks.

6. Fresh articles.
The bottom line is I dont think this main site will ever work if the traffic to the main keyword is so poor.

I am looking around for some more niches to build sites in using more effective criteria.

I second using social networking sites to get your site further out there. It's totally worth a try, especially when these sites actually work.

Are you doing your keywords research properly?

Are you looking at the "exact phrase" number of people searching for these keywords in a month?

Are your keywords the kind of words people wanting to buy something would use?
These are some of the questions you need to ask yourself.
Get a good keyword tool to discover those keywords that will bring in the sales.

Hey Wingman

Try to Do this:

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...d-traffic.html

That ought to answer your questions as far as social bookmarking is concerned. Make sure to thank Travis Petelle. That thread will really open your eyes in terms of getting quality traffic.

Agreed. Can you be more specific about what you have and haven't tried. It might make it easier for a person to figure out how they can help you.

But whatever you do - DON'T GIVE UP! Sleep on it, fish on it, forget about it for awhile, but don't stop.

Been away from this forum for a while...christmas, family and work took over. Back again and wonder if anyone is still here to continue the discussion?

You are doing too many things at the same time and for this
reason you achieve poor results...

Pick just one method, the method that have work better for
you so far, and stick to it for at least 21 days. I mean,
put all your effort and work into it, just after that you
will be able to know if it really works.


Thanks!
^PV Reymond

make sure that the keyword is getting traffic first use google keyword tool and use exact match on the keyword and if it is start submitting to article directories and building backlinks the better page rank the better and keep doing this for a while on a consistent basis until you see your site on the first page you should slowly start to see traffic , if then there is no sales you have to look at your product . I hope this helps Cheers

Devid,

I tend to agree but I dont want to spend a lot of time doing content when my purpose is commercial. After all I am looking for a living here!