What am I doing wrong cannot get traffic

12 years ago

How old are you site? Normally it's just a matter of age really.
500-1000 visitors per day and your complaining? Hope your site is not new.

You can't compare your site traffic to others. Do not expect to get the same amount of traffic, just because your articles is of same quality. It's a matter of authority - the other websites are probably older, have more pages indexed, more backlinks, higher PR (both frontpage and internal pages) and Google problably love them after years of great valuable content.

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hocuspocus32

12 years ago

I dont think its the problem of age of the domain, the topics are short lived, that might be the reason

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Freedom66K

12 years ago

Originally Posted by hocuspocus32

I dont think its the problem of age of the domain, the topics are short lived, that might be the reason

Exactly. That's why I stay away from politics. Content becomes worthless within weeks, unlike most other topics.

OP, what you should do is post on forums. Pretty much every thread on any political forum starts out with a link to an article. Find a current event, write a topic, and post it on every political forum that you can, and you have to do this all fast. If it's a good topic those threads can get long, which means a ton of traffic for you plus a good targeted backlink with a ton of surrounding content.

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imgeek2727

12 years ago

It usually takes some time before you can get 10's of thousands of posts per day, just be patient and keep updating your blog with new content and you should be fine.

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Mickinzie

12 years ago

Originally Posted by imgeek2727

It usually takes some time before you can get 10's of thousands of posts per day, just be patient and keep updating your blog with new content and you should be fine.

you no doubting right..for getting traffic takes some time it is a long term benefit program

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BMartin1776

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Freedom66K

Exactly. That's why I stay away from politics. Content becomes worthless within weeks, unlike most other topics.

OP, what you should do is post on forums. Pretty much every thread on any political forum starts out with a link to an article. Find a current event, write a topic, and post it on every political forum that you can, and you have to do this all fast. If it's a good topic those threads can get long, which means a ton of traffic for you plus a good targeted backlink with a ton of surrounding content.

Heres the problem many forums are heavily moderated now. Many times Ill see a an article or something try to post my two cents then bam "You comment will be posted after it has been reviewed". My comments are ALWAYS G rated too so its not like I said something to trigger moderation.

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Kevin Perry

12 years ago

Originally Posted by BMartin1776

Heres the problem many forums are heavily moderated now. Many times Ill see a an article or something try to post my two cents then bam "You comment will be posted after it has been reviewed". My comments are ALWAYS G rated too so its not like I said something to trigger moderation.

Are you new to these forums you are posting on? Some forums like to moderate the first 5-10 posts of new members to make sure they are not spam. Most likely it has nothing to do with what you are posting.

Blog commenting is the same way. Alot of webmasters will set it so your first few comments always moderated but will automatically post after a certain number.

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BMartin1776

12 years ago

Originally Posted by The Godfather

Are you new to these forums you are posting on? Some forums like to moderate the first 5-10 posts of new members to make sure they are not spam. Most likely it has nothing to do with what you are posting.

Blog commenting is the same way. Alot of webmasters will set it so your first few comments always moderated but will automatically post after a certain number.

Kevin

A few yes others no. I use Disqus login that works over a number of sites and its hit or miss when I post something. I just did a test post on a google forum and got a msg that it has to be approved so I dunno

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Kevin Perry

12 years ago

Originally Posted by BMartin1776

A few yes others no. I use Disqus login that works over a number of sites and its hit or miss when I post something. I just did a test post on a google forum and got a msg that it has to be approved so I dunno

This is quite normal for many sites. Auto-approve sites are open to lots of spam unless they are moderated quite regularly, so that's why most opt to moderate all comments/post that come in.

Go back in a week or so and check the sites that you left comments on. If they were informative and pertained to the post in question, i'm sure they will be approved.

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Kevin

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Paul Dunstan

12 years ago

Do you have a social presence? Have you got a twitter feed and a facebook fan page? Set up a Pinterest page too. There are loads of plugins which will allow you to share that content automatically, so it is no more work for you. But Google wants to see social proof that your site is good. That is the second part of the SEO. The viral effect of social media means that you will pick up way more traffic too. This is probably what they are doing.

Chris Farrell does no SEO at all. It is all social media, and yet he ranks very high for LOADS of stuff.

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Chris Silvey 12 years ago

Welcome to the world of politics. Here SEO isn't the factor. Many Groups push political agenda's, from extreme capitalist, Liberals, socialist, Politicians, lobbyist, etc. They often work out deals, Paying the Author's/Site Owners as well as lending trusted persona's to give credibility thus building traffic and reaching a larger audience. This is how the Political side of the Internet is ran.
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BMartin1776 12 years ago

Yes I have Twitter, Facebook Fan Page and Youtube channel
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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by BMartin1776

500-1000 visits in a day is brutal when I am doing what they are doing and they are getting 10's of thousands of visits. They don't advertise and trolling all the poli sites I can say with confidence they aren't getting a backlinks from big sites. They have had shout outs from time to time from high profile personalities but thats maybe once a month or two if that.

But they're comparatively long-established and well known, perhaps? Don't imagine that their 10's of thousands of visits are necessarily from search engines. Probably they're mostly just "returning visitors who like the sites", aren't they? I have a little list of blogs I visit a few times a week because of the quality/interest of their content ... many people do.

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johan_malmo

12 years ago

I recently started a comedy website in my own language and I'm also struggling to get some traffic to it. But since I started I have continually updated the website at least twice per day with new jokes and pictures.

I'm doing some "Penguin Safe" SEO, building a few backlinks daily with various anchor texts, not all necessarily topic related.

In 2 weeks+ I am ranking on page 1 fpr my main keyword and climbing on 2 other traffic heavy ones. Today I'm not even getting 100 visitors per day but I can see that they are coming in and my rankings are going up. I have no monetization yet what so ever and I won't add it untill I rank top 3 for atleast 1 month with 1 keyword.

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JOSourcing

Banned 12 years ago

Hmm... how about a little flame war? Believe it or not, those things can and will bring traffic to your site if you can stand the heat.

Get a signature file ready and try these newsgroups on for size:

soc.politics
alt.politics.elections
alt.politics.org.misc
alt.politics.usa.congress
alt.politics.usa.misc
alt.politics.usa.newt-gingrich
alt.politics.usa.republican
alt.politics.democrats.d

Or

http://groups.google.com/forum/?from...m/soc.politics
http://groups.google.com/forum/?from...tics.elections
http://groups.google.com/forum/?from...itics.org.misc
http://groups.google.com/forum/?from...s.usa.congress
http://groups.google.com/forum/?from...itics.usa.misc
http://groups.google.com/forum/?from....newt-gingrich
http://groups.google.com/forum/?from...usa.republican
http://groups.google.com/forum/?from...cs.democrats.d

(You can find more relevant groups by checking post headers.)

Should you try this route, I suggest you get ready for web hits and hell.

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BMartin1776

12 years ago

Originally Posted by JOSourcing

Hmm... how about a little flame war? Believe it or not, those things can and will bring traffic to your site if you can stand the heat.

Get a signature file ready and try these newsgroups on for size:

soc.politics
alt.politics.elections
alt.politics.org.misc
alt.politics.usa.congress
alt.politics.usa.misc
alt.politics.usa.newt-gingrich
alt.politics.usa.republican
alt.politics.democrats.d

Or....

Should you try this route, I suggest you get ready for web hits and hell.

I havent seen these I have focused more on well known sites like Breitbart etc. Do these get a lot of traffic? As for wars I have been in plenty! It all started for me years ago on a mortgage site that had a political section... its where part of STR grew from actually. I can handle the heat but in a way Im passed that Ive learned you cannot waste time trying to convert people, but I do get what you are saying if I start something and ppl like what Im saying they are more than likely to go to my site.

Id love to find some heavily trafficked sites that I could post on but asI said many are HEAVILY moderated now.

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Campaignmarket 12 years ago

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JOSourcing

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by BMartin1776

I havent seen these I have focused more on well known sites like Breitbart etc. Do these get a lot of traffic? As for wars I have been in plenty! It all started for me years ago on a mortgage site that had a political section... its where part of STR grew from actually. I can handle the heat but in a way Im passed that Ive learned you cannot waste time trying to convert people, but I do get what you are saying if I start something and ppl like what Im saying they are more than likely to go to my site.

Id love to find some heavily trafficked sites that I could post on but asI said many are HEAVILY moderated now.

Yeah... they're newsgroups (discussion groups) more than websites and the traffic in some of them is beyond belief. If you access them through those Google links, you might see a message that says something like, "What you see may not be the most freshest content." Google simply can't keep up with the conversations.

If I were you, I wouldn't bother trying to convert people. I'd simply make sure the links in my signature/posts kowtowed to the flame of the day. The good news (for you) is that almost none of those groups are moderated. So flame away, my friend. Flame away.

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BMartin1776

12 years ago

Originally Posted by JOSourcing

Yeah... they're newsgroups (discussion groups) more than websites and the traffic in some of them is beyond belief. If you access them through those Google links, you might see a message that says something like, "What you see may not be the most freshest content." Google simply can't keep up with the conversations.

If I were you, I wouldn't bother trying to convert people. I'd simply make sure the links in my signature/posts kowtowed to the flame of the day. The good news (for you) is that almost none of those groups are moderated. So flame away, my friend. Flame away.

NO Im done trying to convert ppl thats for sure. Im about empowering those who feel helpless at this point. Through my site they get informed on the news and if they have had enough my other content is there... content on what they can do!

How can I ID the more heavily viewed topics? IYO or anyone else can I just take posts from my blog and post them in these groups? Not all of them but selected ones?

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JOSourcing Banned 12 years ago
Originally Posted by BMartin1776

How can I ID the more heavily viewed topics?

If you access Usenet through a newsreader, you can get a post count of each newsgroup. At Google, you've got to jump through a few hoops to see the subscriber number:
1. Use the old interface. (Google will ask what to use, choose Revert to old.)
2. Access the group you're interested in.
3. Click the first link under "Group categories" in the "Group Info" box.
You'll see something like this:

https://groups.google.com/groups/dir...%3D46463.46410

Personally, I find a newsgroup reader much easier to maneuver, but that's probably because I'm old school.

Originally Posted by BMartin1776

IYO or anyone else can I just take posts from my blog and post them in these groups? Not all of them but selected ones?

Well... normally that would be considered spamming. Confusion abounds, however, because I've seen plenty of people do what you're describing in those types of groups, so even though you might get some flack for it, submitting entire posts might be acceptable up to a point. Don't overdo it and you may survive. Just make sure your posts are controversial enough to boil some blood, else the majority of people will simply ignore it.

Here's a list of a bunch of political heads you can rile up:

alt.politics newsgroups

Although those links don't point to the groups at Google, and they link to the groups through your preferred newsgroup reader instead, you can still access them at Google by copying and pasting the name of a group to the end of a typical Googlized-newsgroup URL, like this:

https://groups.google.com/group/{REPLACE WITH FAVORITE NEWSGROUP}/topics?hl=en&noredirect=true

A real working example:

https://groups.google.com/group/alt....oredirect=true
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riyadsouza

12 years ago

Completely agree with imgeek2727, you have to be patient because you can't tons of organic traffic overnight!! So just sit back and relax...and keep updating quality content.

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linkpacts

12 years ago

I think you are doing a great job consistently providing quality content. In time, you will see the results. Just make sure to follow the rules when creating backlinks. Do not link to low ranking and unrelated websites. Social media marketing is becoming a powerful SEO method of creating traffic. I advice you learn more about it.

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BMartin1776

12 years ago

Originally Posted by linkpacts

I think you are doing a great job consistently providing quality content. In time, you will see the results. Just make sure to follow the rules when creating backlinks. Do not link to low ranking and unrelated websites. Social media marketing is becoming a powerful SEO method of creating traffic. I advice you learn more about it.

In what way Facebook is not becoming what I thought it would be. I have already been banned for spam on it too. Apparently posting links of legit news is considered spam... I know is really about trolls but fact is I cannot capitalize off of pages with similar interests b/c of trolls who will just reports you for the heck of it!

If you have reviewed my site where else should I be linking my posts as far as social media goes?

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Ettienne

12 years ago

A big Adwords budget perhaps? Banner advertising? etc.

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Sitestomp

12 years ago

Just keep adding content, content, and more CONTENT while promoting your site via social avenues (facebook, twitter, etc).

One thing I always tell my clients when they have trouble getting traffic or retaining traffic is that you have to create value. You have to give your users a reason to want to keep coming back for more. Have you done any viral linkbait type articles? Have you considered adding a forum? Maybe run a contest of some sort? Anything you can do to make users come back is a GOOD thing.

How does your site stand out against other sites in your niche? What makes your site unique? If it wasn't your site, would you want to visit it daily? If so, why? If not, why not?

You have to start small and build up slowly. And most importantly, you need to create value for your users. That's more important than any hokey traffic promotion.

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BMartin1776

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Sitestomp

Just keep adding content, content, and more CONTENT while promoting your site via social avenues (facebook, twitter, etc).

One thing I always tell my clients when they have trouble getting traffic or retaining traffic is that you have to create value. You have to give your users a reason to want to keep coming back for more. Have you done any viral linkbait type articles? Have you considered adding a forum? Maybe run a contest of some sort? Anything you can do to make users come back is a GOOD thing.

How does your site stand out against other sites in your niche? What makes your site unique? If it wasn't your site, would you want to visit it daily? If so, why? If not, why not?

You have to start small and build up slowly. And most importantly, you need to create value for your users. That's more important than any hokey traffic promotion.

My answer is yes I an upping new content everyday. My site serves in two areas 1) to inform about whats up, things not covered in MSM 2) my other content, my unique content is in place for those tired of status quo wanting to do something. One of the reasons I created the site was in response to ppl saying "what more can I do?" I offer solutions and frankly am calling visitors bluff as to what they are prepared to do. Just cant get the attention the site deserves and to those looking for solution.

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mollymarkiewicz

12 years ago

Be patient and keep social networking, try something simiple to like AdF.ly.com to get some triffic comming your way. Intergrade as mush as possible.

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BMartin1776

12 years ago

Hey I got several pingback msgs from amazon related pages etc... is that you guys??? If so thank you for helping..

Noob question: pingbacks are the same as backlinks right?

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BMartin1776

12 years ago

looks like i spoke too soon... my traffic has plummeted for about a good week. I havent changed anything and am posting the same type & amt of conttent