SEO, NO Traffic, Keywords: Expert plz

First of all let me warn of all the incoming "SEO consultants" from India, please take their advice with a grain of salt.

Here's my advice and opinions (you should take everything I say with a grain of salt as well, I'm no guru in SEO)

Domain names don't matter as much as they used to.

Competition in adwords is meant to be used by advertisers, not publishers. The competition is an indication of how many are advertisers are using that certain keyword for their ad.

You should target more than one keyword per post if possible.

You shared your articles on social media, how was it recieved? Did people retweet, like and share the posts?

Some backlinks doesn't say much, where are those backlinks coming from?

Lastly, just how good is your content? Are you providing value to the people visitng your website? There's a chance the things you put out might be low quality and that's the reason why no one visits you website.

If you want visitors, try Reddit. I used to run a tech/gadget site and posted daily to Reddit and it drove me some nice traffic. The best day gave me 106,000 visitors. You should try it.

www.reddit.com/r/gadgets
www.reddit.com/r/technology

technology is the one of the most satured niche right now. i'd suggest you to try a different niche

You can traffic with forum or rank with keyword on website.

Well, thanks MikeMizone . I try always try to provide resource on what people are looking for but maybe I just think that this is quality but my visitor not. all I understand that I should create content that people share or retweet. and there are 20 posts that I am getting retweets on but it didn't give me traffic. please help me with any unique idea for traffic. also trying to post again on reddit, because I already doing this.

That doesn't tell us anything, for all we know you have 100% nofollow backlinks that will never rank a page.

Since you already have visitors to your website, you could start by asking them what they're interested in and start writing or publishing content that matters to them and move forward from that point.

Joel

Nice to see you have methodically gone through the process and that's how most people start. What you do need to remember is there is no secret formula to SEO. There are over 200 different ranking factors and to be honest looking at them case by case and making your site so called 'SEO Friendly' in my experience will just set you up for disappointment. I know this as I have done this on many clients websites before and been left wondering why they are not ranking when I have done everything 'by the book'.

My suggestion to anyone and what has worked well for me is to reverse the process. Think about what product, service or information you are offering. Who are your target customers, what problems do they have and how are you going to solve those solutions. At risk of sounding cliche, content is king. You need to be able to provide your readers will value. Does what you have on your website solve your potential customers problems. If it does then backlinks, social shares and traffic will come. Now of course there are some foundational things to consider:

1. Keyword Research - Remember to take the competition in Adwords with a pinch of salt. That does not always mean the competition in SEO is the same. Be thorough, my keyword research typically takes me between 8 - 16 hours depending on the client / niche. There are some gems out there in the longer tail area where competition is low, buyer intent is high and this is how you get on both Google's radar, potential clients and link partners. Once you hit the low hanging fruit with a nice blog article speaking directly to their needs with the right on page SEO and internal linking structure / website silo structure you will jump up.

2. Website Structure - Remember, blogs are only something to be written if they are timely / topical. If it's content that will be evergreen then make it a page. Think about the general content themes on your website and build the child pages in the right silo under the right parent page. Make these pages specific to solve a problem, not necessarily focusing on one keyword!

3. Competition - What are the guys at the top doing. This is a topic in itself. Obviously do an on-page analysis, basic backlink analysis so you know what your up against and if you are fighting a loosing battle from the start. Assuming you are in with a chance, then given you have done your keyword research look at which pages they have ranking top of Google. Analyse their content and reverse engineer it. If their content is the top 20 things about XYZ, then do the top 30 things about XYZ. Offer more value, make sure the UX is up to scratch. Analyse the backlinks they have to that page alone. Reach out to those websites, say you have seen they are linking to that and you have something that will add even more value to their readers if they are interested in linking to it.

I could go on but that gives you a starting point, remember back to basics, are you solving your customers problems and creating enough value to be put at the top of Google.

P.S. Remember the difference in traffic between position 1 and 4 is huge. Just because there are 2000 searches per month, even in position one doesn't mean you are going to get 2000 visits, even more so in position 4.

who's your competition first, everything else does not matter if your butting heads against big boys

just because you find low search counts means nothing especially since everyone else is doing the same

low search counts does not mean there is low competition

look at the competition on page one before even building any pages this was your biggest mistake to start and forget search counts especially in the technology sector

until something replaces Domain Authority by Moz this is what I use to get a fast idea on who I am going to butt heads against before even attempting to build a page, works for me every time

You have done a great job live4pk because you have ready articles to rank for right now. All you have to do is research for new keywords to rank your site. As far as I know for big G, any domain less than 6 months, and poor backlinks, ranking won't be stable unless you have high PR backlinks pointing to your site or you registered an aged domain will do fine.

This is how I did to my site. I research keywords based upon the keyword search on search engine. In this case, I will take technology news and reviews as my keyword research. It is not I don't trust the keyword planner but I want to be certain that they have enough traffic and worth my time ranking it.

In this example, I searches the keyword and look for the lowest ranking possible. I found Page 3, ranking number 2 [IMAGE 1] are still getting huge amount of organic traffic to this site [IMAGE 2].

IMAGE 1
http://i64.tinypic.com/33ej4ub.jpg


[IMAGE 2]
http://i63.tinypic.com/2lloo0p.jpg


Domain name does play a small part here but if you do it right then everything will go as planned. It will rank as times goes by, that's why they said SEO will take such a long time to rank. In fact, if you test it out you will find ways to short cut everything and it is still ranking on page 1. Backlinks are very important for SEO. Therefore, I have the answer and I will start building my links.

Am I a SEO expert? Nope. I put everything on test....And found solutions. How nice!

I hope this help.


Happy SEOing!