Great website with unique interactive content BUT...It's not competitive enough
For the last year, I've been dedicating myself to a new site I've created. I've been creating great unique content, not regularly, but I have about 80 articles (500+ words each) and I've picked the rhythm as for the last month. My new site, as of one year, barely scratches 200 visitors per day, which is peanuts compared to the competition. My competition is made up of spammy sites with articles written by poor guys who get paid 5 dollars to write each article. The articles are bad quality and full of amazon affiliate links, chiquita ads and CPA.
My competitors are pulling in over 1000 unique visitors per day, and their sites were created in a 6-month span (lots of sniper sites too, it's crazy). The difference between them and I? The backlink profile. My competitors all have blackhatted links, all of them. Me, I only have a few links from my other 2 sites and a couple of links from people who enjoyed my content and linked it. I also have some good social media traction but twitter links serve very little purpose for ranking.
My dilemna is what to do with my backlinking profile, as I know that's where I'm tanking. It's a shame because I actually poured a lot of effort into my articles and the content is highly relevant, unlike my competitors which essentially rewrite my articles and spam it with links LOL I actually had one of the guys who was outsourced telling me what he's doing and telling me he will rewrite articles for me for 6 dollars
I've looked into the darkside but I'm not convinced. I wanted to have this site as whitehat as possible, but it is just not keeping up with the competition and I may have to kill this site as it is failing to provide enough income to even cover the site's costs.
Should I grab a BH tool and spam my site with shady backlinks (regardless of what G says, this still works to an extent)? Should I buy high PR links from private netwoks? What can I do to remain competitive?
Thanks.
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