Why My Website is Still Getting only 2-5 Visitors from search engines?

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Website URL: IGNTimes.com
Website Age: 4 months+
Daily Traffic from Search Engines: 2-5
Number of Articles: 45 (95% of the articles have more than 500+ words, 40% with 1000+ words, 20% with 1500+ words, 10% with 2000+ words)

Total Visitors till now: 14,000 (9k from FB,500 From Stumbleupon, 200 from reddit and others)

So as you can see, my website is Good enough to at least get some amount of traffic from Search Engines, but why, i am getting so less traffic? What is the mistake i am making?

Thanks
#engines #search #visitors #website
  • Profile picture of the author cbpayne
    The search engines got it right.
    Your site is not good enough
    I read several articles - they poorly written with a poor use of the English language, grammar and sentence structure.
    No searcher would be happy with the content in their search results.
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    • Profile picture of the author Douray
      + it's too young.
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  • Profile picture of the author PeterBe
    Your site is good, but it is not a very good site to be compared with professional sites' visitors.
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  • Profile picture of the author seoagnitio
    Your site is not much old. Your site is good. contents are poor. People dosen't like to read poor standard content. You can increase the standard of your content.
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  • Profile picture of the author EelKat
    PROBLEM #1: It's a big one and it's killing your site. This is a high priority fix that MUST be done or you'll never see search engine traffic at all.

    While everyone else commenting had a look AT your site, I went in the backdoor and took a look IN your site. (actually read your code) Primary thing you need to get a search engine to find your site is keywords.

    You have exactly: NONE.

    You should have at least 1 primary keyword, 5 similar keywords, and up to 10 synonymous keywords for EACH page of your site.

    Again...

    You have exactly: NONE.

    You have no page tags and you have no global tags.

    Nothing else matters if you don't have keywords. You could have the best articles under the sun, but without keywords, search engines are just going to treat you like you do not exist.

    To add keywords, go into the header section of your site and add the following snippet to your code:

    Code:
    <meta name="keywords" content=" tag 1, tag 2, tag 3, tag 4 , tag 5, tag 6, tag 7, tag 8 , tag 9, tag 10, tag 11, tag 12 , tag 13, tag 14 , tag 15, tag 16, tag 17, tag 18 , tag 19, tag 20">

    Change TAG 1 to your primary keyword, Tag 2 to your secondary keyword, etc.


    Having keywords on your site is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to getting Google, Bing, and Yahoo bots to notice your site. Without them, they can't even find your site, let alone index it.

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    PROBLEM #2:

    Keep in mind that it can take Google up to SIX MONTHS to index a page of your site unless you contact Google directly and submit your page. If you have not done so, you have to go to Google Analytics, create an account (will have same log in as your AdSence) and make sure that the Google Analytics code is properly inserted on your site. If the code is showing in your Google dashboard as "verified" you're all set and you just have to wait for Google to start indexing.

    If your site is verified, nothing much else you can do but wait for Google's RankBrain to notice you.

    You can speed up the process by manually submitting each link to each page of your site to Bing Analytics. Google does not like Bing indexing a site before they do. Direct pinging Bing, triggered the Google bot to head right for your site within 24 hours.

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    PROBLEM #3:

    No niche.

    You are wide spread and far flung, covering every topic you can get your hands on and saying nothing new of unique about any of them.

    There is no ON PAGE keyword writing happening either.

    Double whammy on the lack of keywords in your meta data and on page in your article.

    HOW TO PLACE KEYWORDS ON YOUR SITE:

    The page's primary keyword should be the FIRST WORD (and preferably ONLY word) of the url. The url mysite.com/SEO is going to outrank mysite.com/the-top-10-best-ways-to-rank-in-seo

    The page's primary keyword should be the FIRST WORD of the title

    The page's primary keyword should be the FIRST WORD of the header <h1>

    The page's primary keyword should be the FIRST WORD of the subheaders <h2>, <h3>, and <h4>

    The page's primary keyword should be in the first 90 word of the first paragraph, preferably in the first 7 words.

    The page's primary keyword should be in the first 100 words of EACH paragraph on the page.

    The page's primary keyword should appear 1 time per 100 words AND there should be synonymous of it 2 to 3 times in every paragraph.

    Google will NEVER index a page with fewer then 400 words and will take longer to index an article of 1,000 words or less. Google is quicker to index pages with 2,000 words or more, giving preference to articles in the 2,500 to 3,400 word count range, indexing them faster and higher ranked.

    A site that focuses all it's articles on ONE primary topic, and has tiered articles with 3 to 5 similar but on focus sub topics, received higher ranking and faster indexing then one with lots of topics and no clear focus (Teir 1 being topic 1, tier 2 being topic 2, tier 3 being topic 3)

    (for example my own site has a primary topic of: how to write fantasy novels; sub topics are writing Yaoi, writing Erotica, and self publishing - 4 separate topics, all closely connected)

    You need to pick a niche, a single topic, with a couple of sub-topics, and focus just on that, targeting one specific keyword for each article, aiming to have 500 different keywords about a single topic, with 500 pages on your site about that one topic, each page 2,000+ word each.... BEFORE Google is going to give your site any sort of high ranking.

    From the few dozen pages I clicked open, most of your site appears to be lists, none of them unique. No different from the millions of other nearly identical lists on millions of other nearly identical websites.

    What are you an expert in? Write about it.

    What is your favorite hobby? Write about it.

    What issues are near and dear to your heart? Gay rights? Animal rights? Speak out. Speak up. Write about it, whatever it is. Feel your passion burn within you and unleash that passion in a firey fury upon the world.

    Be unique. Be you. Let your voice be heard.

    You have the start of a good site, now expand on it. Narrow your focus. Look deep into your heart of hearts, to find the REAL you, the TRUE you, and let that person out to write lots of content for your site. Don't do what everyone else is doing. Break the mold. Be unique. Make Google WANT to send traffic to you.

    Think about it this why: If your site doesn't stand out from the rest, then WHY should Google send traffic to you? Give Google a REASON to send traffic to you and not the other guy.

    Basically you have set up a foundation that needs work to build a strong structure out of. You are off to a great start, but it's just that: A start, you have a long ways to go before you build your tower tall enough to see over the tops of the trees. Your site as it is now is a foundation, now you need to build upon it and make it bigger, better, and stronger.
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