My site has no traffic

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I used to have a blog writer compose blogs and we would promote them through social media, do on page SEO and nothing. So we've tried writing my own (with videos) promoting the video through traffic geyser, spinning the articles and posting them through TG, using onlywire, tribe pro, social monkee and posting in LI groups.

I've done keyword research and try to optimize each article using seopressor.

Yesterday starting posting my blogs on a blogger and wordpress.com site (spun versions).

So far in two weeks no difference. Slight drop in Alexa, one more backlink.

Even been using tubetoolbox to send out notifications when I get upload new videos. More views (slightly) on videos but nothing to get excited about.

I'm at about 1000 hits to my website monthly. Need to be more about 50k!

I really am confused- what am I doing wrong.

I've always heard content is king, but even though I think I'm making decent content nothing matters.
#main internet marketing discussion forum #site #traffic
  • Buy some banner space or PPC and you'll get more traffic.

    If you want free traffic then you better build some backlinks to your content. Put them on related sites and keep doing this every day. Only persistence will win in the end as it always does..
  • Two weeks isn't enough time, especially given your target market. If you're anxious to start testing, why not buy traffic?
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    • I guess more than anything I want to know if what I'm doing are the right things. I don't mind waiting and I'd rather get free traffic than pay for it. If I need to just keep doing what I'm doing and wait I'm fine with that. Just want feedback.
  • Buy some traffic : ) Media buying is key to creating a blog. Also building a list in any niche is extremely powerful because you will have traffic on demand, and this gives you so many different ways to use it. Like building hype, creating social proof and on and on. I am sure you get it solos are a great way to do this.

    A simple way to do this if you are not in the MMO niche. Contact a webmaster directly and ask to rent an add to their email list. A lot of these people don't even know that this is possible. So your price point will be low and allow you some time to learn good email copy : )
    Hope I helped a bit
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    • Media buying? MMO? Sorry I don't know what those are. How do you do the webmaster renting? I've never heard of that.
  • Hi, I just check your site and spy it with Seoquake browser tool.
    It says that you don´t have any meta keywords?
    Check your seo settings again. It might help a bit.
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    • Thanks. I've optimized but still seems to have that not showing up and need to figure out why. I'll look into that!
    • Really?...nobody uses meta keywords anymore, even more so because it allows your competitors to know exactly what keywords you are targetting and google totally ignores them..meta keywords went out when metasearch engines died
  • 2 weeks is nowhere near enough time to get organic traffic! Keep posting regular content and publishing it across your social networks as well as social bookmarking sites. Are you sharing your stuff on LinkedIn Groups? I've found that LinkedIn drives a good amount of targeted traffic back to blogs, especially if you're B2B. Do you have an email newsletter list? You can use your blog posts as content for the newsletter. Or do you have relationships with other bloggers that would be willing to help promote your content?

    I would avoid spinning your posts though, as this could have you run afoul of Google Panda.
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    • Awesome advice. Can you give me an idea on how long it normally takes? Just on average are we talking weeks? Months? Years?
  • What i would like to advise is to build some quality content and focus on few keywords first try them to rank well and then when your site gets power with those keyword then you will find easy to rank other keywords.

    If you are having 20-30 keywords ranking with good amount of searches then you will get good amount of traffic.

    Always use legit ways.

    also get some backlinks from web 2.0 profiles , wiki and .edu and try to get backlink from a site that is higher in position than yours and related to the niche.

    I have been using this only and have a 57K+ UV a day on my blog.

    Best of luck
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  • You mentioned you are not building any backlinks to your blog posts or the main site. I will suggest you to try building some quality backlinks. It will not take much time from your part. Even if you are too reluctant to build backlink, you can try commenting on other blogs with your website as source. It will give you some traffic as well as decent backlinks.

    Everything other you are doing is fine.
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  • Have your tried internal linking? It can be powerful as well. It has its own effectiveness to depend on!
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  • Ya seems like you are pretty inpatient with your SEO efforts. If you have a relatively new domain getting indexed in google and getting organic traffic normally takes a few weeks if you are really good and can take months if you're not expert...

    I would suggest buying traffic on a small scale to test... Or you can drive some free traffic by creating Youtube videos and SEO'ing them because Youtube vids rank much easier than a domain in most cases
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    Hi, have you tried to focus ONLY on your blog instead of the other tactics you mention?
    Simply have a hosted wordpress blog and for each article, switch on your webcam, talk about the article for about 3 to 5 minutes without editing, then add your blog url as overlay and upload it to one youtube account, the same one, then embed it at the top of your article page. Fill in title and description in youtube with a link back to your article.
    Then do only that as many times as you can with all the free time you've got from not doing anything else.
    In my opinion you'll see great increase in traffic after a few weeks only, simply keep on doing that exact thing.
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  • Getting 50K traffic in two weeks is pretty hard. 1K/month is already pretty decent if you just recently created your website.

    Also, I'm not really sure if this applies to you, but you might have a misconception of "on-page SEO". This helps rank your website higher on keywords, doesn't mean that this is the only variable that ranks your website. Sometimes, if you're lucky, this could be the sole cause but have you tried off-page SEO as well? This also goes for your YouTube videos, since you're using a software to get views, how many of your views are actually organic? Are your videos ranked for any of your keywords?

    Just having good content isn't enough. It's one of the most crucial things you need, yes, but you also need many other things as well to act as a supplementary to actually get your content read
  • BTW, I find it rather ironic that you're here asking for help with traffic, and yet you're promoting this book.

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    • This is something out of the way hahhaha
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      Probably he's just promoting, not reading this book.
  • Try get a few paid campaigns on the go, if you can return a positive ROI use the funds to ramp up SEO for on-going success

    Easier said than done mind you!
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    • never tried traffic masters....does it convert well? and can it be driven directly to cpa offers?
  • Try signing up to Google alerts, add any keywords related to your niche and when something pops up try to leave a relevant and helpful comment on the site/blog/forum. It's a pretty good way to get targetted traffic
  • You should try finding related blogs, to do some guest posting. This will help your traffic stats and reputation much more than posting spun articles on different sites.
  • Is that original content? That looks like an auto blog to me.
  • Run some ads and use a variety of different free techniques. Don't skimp on free techniques because methods like forum marketing, blogging, and youtube can bring you endless traffic.
  • You are going to want to wait at least 3 months to start seeing the fruits of your labour. Blog consistently, keeping doing what you do. Don't give up, 2 weeks is nada.

    B
  • Focus on quality posts.

    Like... post stuff that people literally feel obligated to link/tweet/etc.

    Don't post a single article unless it is so amazing that 100% of people who see it, read the post, and think--"What am I doing with my life, I need to read more of these articles."

    I'm exaggerating, but basically the moment when I stopped posting articles for Google, cut back on how often I post (therefore, putting more time into each article), my SEO started to really grow.

    It's almost like an oxymoron, but the higher quality of your posts, the more natural traffic will come your way.

    Don't worry.
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  • Banned


    Your crowding the web with junk, that is what you are doing wrong.
  • I am also think you have to give your sel a little more time or use some paid traffic to help your SEO traffic. Also try social media like Google+ it helps on your ranking and traffic.
  • Yeah I was just explaining that the signature link doesn't really mean anything for SEO.

    Honestly if people would start doing what you/me do, and focus less on ranking, they would realize SEO will work itself out overtime.
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    • You're right.

      But unfortunately with so much emphasis being placed on "keywords", and "rankings", and "SEO", its a trap that many fall into.

      I did it too.

      I lost my way and became a Google zombie. I lost 80% of my income overnight. I've learned my lesson. NEVER again.

      In order to succeed, you just gotta get back to the basics.

      There is no "magical answer"
  • Some people seem to post more here than they do on their own sites. If they posted as much content there, they wouldn't be asking this question.
  • Posting high quality content on your website's is the most important thing that you can do for your website's long term success.

    I would actually advise most newbies to not even worry about any SEO because it can actually distract you from writing for HUMANS and NOT search engines.
  • Don't "work on backlinks", work on providing interesting content. The Internet is full of rubbish made popular by the owner's own backlinking and social media tricks. I'm not a fan of Google, but I have to say that Internet Marketers (myself included) are to blame for the way things have turned out.
    We see an opportunity and we all jump on board the wrecking train and do exactly that - WRECK IT.
  • Two weeks is nothing. Do it for 6 months (backlinking - google friendly) and you see results provided your content is really good.

    Give squidoo a try. They are an authority site and the linkjuice is great.
  • You don't sound like you're doing anything wrong, so long as the content is good content.

    Spinning results - they're really going to depend on how well spun they are - they need to at least look different, but also make sense. In a lot of cases spinning just makes things sound like they're written in pigeon english. I don't use spinning much any more, it's really noticeable and the results are probably not really worth the effort.

    You have to be careful with over optimisation too - so things like natural looking anchor text.

    What sorts of social proof are you getting? Are you getting a lot of likes, g+, (re)tweets? Your ranking will depend massively on that.

    I found with new sites when I did that, that it can take a few months before the site gets any velocity, at least doing things the way that you are...

    For traffic - buy it - PPC. That traffic will also help to reinforce your sites popularity, but of course, it costs you to do so.
  • I think the best way to gain traffic ultimately via keyword. I have a blog which PR 3 and Im not very expert in SEO. However, my post are about 19,000++. Make a post every day estimately 1 - 5 post every day. Of course its a hard woprk for part timers, but it worth it in time. Plus, you can create a article writing competition to get more articles. Give credits to writer to promote their link (affiliates) during competition.
  • Hey, sorry to hear that, It is really suck when it happen. Been there, done that. I change my terrible problem with slightly gamble method. one word : adfly. That service will pass your site to a random internet user around the world, before downloading, before open a page, before view certain content, etc. with various keywords you can decide before applying. It really save my ass, but I admit it won't last forever. Next thing I have my confidence up, I try boosting my page trough SEO method. Good luck finding a good promotion method!
  • Free traffic techniques are still works best.I use free methods to drive traffic to my website..........
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    My site has no traffic

    I used to have a blog writer compose blogs and we would promote them through social media, do on page SEO and nothing. So we've tried writing my own (with videos) promoting the video through traffic geyser, spinning the articles and posting them through TG, using onlywire, tribe pro, social monkee and posting in LI groups. I've done keyword research and try to optimize each article using seopressor.