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6 years ago

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6 years ago

To rank, you need SEO, that is to say, baclinks.

Not the kind you create yourself, the kind site owners give you, preferrably from their home page (usually it is the one with most backlinks).

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Godmother

6 years ago

I've been trying to build backlinks via guest posting and succeeded in getting a few. However, I don't know if this has helped any. My DA keeps rising and falling still, making me feel my efforts might not have achieved much.

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DABK

6 years ago

Unless you want to sell backlinks, the DA of your domain is not relevant.

What is relevant is your pages moving up for your keywords and you making sales.

DA is a guess and it does not correlate directly to anything really...

I have #1 to 3 positions for a website with DA of 13, trust flow of 1.

People call me and I make sales.

Originally Posted by Godmother

I've been trying to build backlinks via guest posting and succeeded in getting a few. However, I don't know if this has helped any. My DA keeps rising and falling still, making me feel my efforts might not have achieved much.

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Jeffery

6 years ago

Originally Posted by DABK

To rank, you need SEO, that is to say, baclinks.

Not the kind you create yourself, the kind site owners give you, preferrably from their home page (usually it is the one with most backlinks).

^This^

Originally Posted by Godmother

A couple of weeks ago, I posted here about my site and how it didn't seem to be ranking no matter what I did.

Most of the guys here gave me some pretty good advice, one of which was to niche down as my site was multi-niched then.

I've seen down down and chose just one niche. However, the site still hardly gets traffic from search engines.

I get right visits on my best days.

Someone mentioned the site might have been blacklisted by Google, and I'm beginning to suspect this to be true.

The site is not blacklisted. You can do a site check here.
The site is indexed by Google and the results look good.

Originally Posted by Godmother

I tried adding Google Adsense code, but the apace came up blank.

This is an old issue and here is a great place to start figuring out what you can do.

Blank AdSense ads typically appear on your website when you have incorrectly implemented your tags. However, if you're certain you've correctly implemented your ad tags, the blank ads could be running because there aren't any paying line items that meet your criteria.

Originally Posted by Godmother

Would anyone be so kind enough and take a look at my site? At this point I don't even know what else to do.

I'll really appreciate this.

My URL is women all around .com

TIA.

Your content (articles, images, etc.) are not unique, so Google will rank other sites over your site that have unique content. Plain and simple.

The header logo and navigation menu use about 1/3rd of the top of the pages (prime space) even though it scrolls out of view when navigating deeper into the site. You should fix it for a better User Experience.

The articles are old. Site visitors want new articles.

All in all, your site is indexed and that is important to YOU, but the content is old and not important to both Google and your site visitors. I magine you have a pretty high bounce rate which is a Google ranking factor.

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Godmother

6 years ago

I checked the link out and it seems to explain the problem of blank ads. Thanks a lot for that.

For my website navigation, I'll ask my developer into look into it and make some corrections. For the posts being old, I would think search engines love old content, although I have a few new ones in there too.

In all, thanks a lot for taking the time and for this in-depth analysis.

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Jeffery

6 years ago

Originally Posted by Godmother

I checked the link out and it seems to explain the problem of blank ads. Thanks a lot for that.

For my website navigation, I'll ask my developer into look into it and make some corrections. For the posts being old, I would think search engines love old content, although I have a few new ones in there too.

In all, thanks a lot for taking the time and for this in-depth analysis.

Your welcome.

For the posts being old, I would think search engines love old content, although I have a few new ones in there too.

Respectfully, that is going to be your downfall. Search engines do not love anything. Search engines only care about a site's content serving the Users Best Interest. Period.

There are plenty of old articles on the internet and have been #1 in the SERPs for years. That is because other sites (both authoritative and non-authoritative) backlink to those sites. Those old articles are unique to the subject matter of the content whereas your content is not unique at all thus those older sites with older content will always outrank your content.

As it stands right now you will have to adjust your "personal mindset" to that of a "search engine mindset" wherein you write for the user and strategize for the search engine(s). The covet is until you create unique content for your users/visitors that external sites will link to your site will never enjoy top ranking in the SERPs.

Question: What do I mean by Unique Content and what does it mean to your site?

Answer:
Unique Content is a term that relates to search engine optimization (SEO). It means content is original and not duplicated anywhere else.

That means even though you have new articles on the site those artices are only filler content if those articles are not unique.

Keep adding filler conent to your site without unique content and no backlinks and your site will fall behind external websites that have unique content and backlinks.

Good luck.

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Jamell

6 years ago

You can perform a site test using ping dom to get an analysis and diagnose the problem .What I will do is take a look at your site and give you some feed back.

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culpetm

6 years ago

You probably need some high quality backlinks.

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Jeffery

6 years ago

Originally Posted by culpetm

You probably need some high quality backlinks.

No, the site needs "natural" high quality backlinks, i.e "not" backlinks that you pay for or backlinks that you can create yourself.

Problem is the site will never obtain "natural" high quality backlinks in the state it is now.

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culpetm

6 years ago

Originally Posted by Jeffery

No, the site needs "natural" high quality backlinks, i.e "not" backlinks that you pay for or backlinks that you can create yourself.

Problem is the site will never obtain "natural" high quality backlinks in the state it is now.

That's true. This is an important distinction.

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Elise Berg

6 years ago

Maybe you should pay to SEO specialist?

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diyakapoor

6 years ago

I am also facing issue in placing Google Adsense code. Hope I could get some help here.

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6 years ago

Originally Posted by Godmother

A couple of weeks ago, I posted here about my site and how it didn't seem to be ranking no matter what I did.

Sure thing, blame Warrior Forum.

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lucaswilliam123

6 years ago

to get traffic for your site. you need to get some solids back links for your sites

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J. P.

6 years ago

I realize that you're looking for organic traffic. We all are.

I would suggest FB ads to begin to stir things up. Also some sort of a squeeze page to build your list. Your target is women. The lead magnet that jumps out at me is your article regarding 13 ways to tell your man is cheating.

John

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Vincentbre

6 years ago

hmm, if your site has only been around for a while, maybe give it some more time? tweak your SEO, get some good backlinks, and even some guest posts with links.. those are only for search engines though.... unless you are doing something explicitly wrong, Google should not have blacklisted you either.. so go ahead and wait a little more

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chrispr

6 years ago

I agree with Vicentbre. But I also think you've chosen a highly competitive niche.

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DABK

6 years ago

Waiting is not a good strategy.

And she has not done any, really.

OP. For most websites, the homepage gets the most links and is the one Google chooses to show, if it chooses to show something.

I looked at your homepage and the marriage page only.

Both of them are set up to show the latest posts.

Which means, every time you post something new, you're changing the content.

The content tells Google what you want to rank for.

If you post often, you change the content often, you get Google to start from scratch almost every time.

If I were you, I'd add an article at the bottom of each page that is focused on your main keyword and stays put. I'd also reduce the number of posts each page allows... so as to reduce the impact of changes.

Better yet, I'd make a page for each keyword that had content that did not change and I'd get backlinks to those pages. and have those pages link to the mutable content pages.

And I'd get backlinks from pages of sites that do not allow visitors to add their link...

Either create a couple dozen sites as satellite sites (and do a good job so Google thinks they exist on their own right) or go the broken link route or the skyscraper (visit backlinko.com for how to set those up).

Also, I'd set up my pages as silos (I like Bruce Clay's explanation https://www.bruceclay.com/seo/silo/) but you can just Google it and watch a couple of videos.

Your h1 tag on the marriage category page is "marriage" which means, you have done no keyword research or do not understand how to use keywords.

I assume you're targeting women... And I know, without doing any research, that some of them are interested in how to make a marriage work better, what property rights laws are, ending one, etc... I would make pages for a keyword in for each of these areas... And a silo structure.

I looked at your "We went to marriage counseling" page. Your h1 and title have marriage counseling in the (which is a broad keyword and hard to rank for comparatively speaking). You had 2 h2 tags: one had the keyword, the other one had 'all a woman needs'. 'All a woman needs' does not help you rank... Your 2nd and third h2, and your h3's should have related keywords.

Marriage counselors, best marriage counseling, couples therapy... variations based on your keyword research.

Do yourself a favor, run your marriage counseling in Google keyword finder tool.

You know, where you get the option to discover more keywords based on a web page.

Google will give you what it thinks your page is about by giving you a few to a few hundred keywords it found on the page in the order of importance.

This does two things for yo:
1. Tells you how google understands your page and
2. if you've done a good job at onpage SEO, gives you closely related keywords you can explore further.... Pick some of those keywords and analyze them, choose some of the easy ones for new articles. And have those articles set up Silo-style...

PS try to get your keywords in the alt text... On this page, you have an image of Michelle and Barrack Obama with the alt=text Michelle Obama.

Your goal with alt text is not to merely describe the image but to use your main keyword and related keywords.

If you are not creative or don't like using a keyword that doesn't fully and accurately describe the image, look for images that represent your keyword.

This one, instead of Michelle Obama, could have been Michelle and Barack Obama after marriage counseling (if the photo was taken after)... Or marriage counseling therapy survivors Michelle and Barack Obama...

Originally Posted by Vincentbre

hmm, if your site has only been around for a while, maybe give it some more time? tweak your SEO, get some good backlinks, and even some guest posts with links.. those are only for search engines though.... unless you are doing something explicitly wrong, Google should not have blacklisted you either.. so go ahead and wait a little more

Originally Posted by chrispr

I agree with Vicentbre. But I also think you've chosen a highly competitive niche.

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spartan14

6 years ago

Seo its a dificult game this days and you need to have a lot of patience until you rank .I would advise you to stop focusing so much on ranking and instead focus more on creating more content and getting visits to your website from diferent sources and if you stop so much worring so much about seo then you will rank also .You can search for every posible keyword on your niche and start writing an article on your blog .You can also register on forums on your niche and put your blog in signature ,then be active in forums and people will check your signature ,you can also use quora ,youtube etc Be creative

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Nagagopal

6 years ago

For getting traffic to your site, you need to do SEO properly, use white hat seo method. if your site is about blogging, invite some guest bloggers, generate baclinks in high DA sites and do other SEO techniques. SEO takes time, So do the things consistently.

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dsimms

6 years ago

Your niche about women is too broad...
Making money via AdSense is a dead end
Your design is not appealing at all

If you expect to make any money with adsense, then you will need ALOT of high-quality content and I feel this will be a never-ending battle going nowhere.

with a lot less effort and content, I suggest you focus on a single niche ie: how to solve yeast infection for women or something like that and build content around a single topic, and for this, you would need some type of ebook and funnel to boot.

and keep this in mind, if you can easily obtain a backlink, then it probably will not help you a great deal, and that is because Google does not focus on just backlinks anymore, they focus on more than 200 other signals.

and if you get it wrong, no amount of quality backlinks will save you.

IMO, since your site is appearing in index, then I bet your site is not banned

If you want me to get more technical

you got your first 2 backlinks Jan 22 2020
to-date, you have 44 backlinks on 28 domains
Your last backlink was Aug 27 2020
29.5% are dofollow via 33 IPs 97% cblocks
last 3 backlinks were spam related ie: coupon sites, etc
your branding efforts are next to nothing...
and without branding, you may as well be dead to google.

If you continue down this road without knowing how to read your analytics, then it will be like throwing darts without ever hitting a bullseye....

In other words, I think you need a better business plan....

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JokestJ

5 years ago

Hello!
I would like to join the conversation, because I am facing with a similar problem.
I would like to attract more visitors to my joke website.

My site is a quality website, in its category I think it is outstanding (you can rate the jokes, there are many categories, there are new jokes regularly, I have newsletter, Joke of the day,...)

But there are no visitors, only a few wanderers.

I read the thread, I've tried backlinks, reached out to websites, bloggers..

Something definitely should be done in an other way, but I just cannot find out what... and how

Could you please help me out with your advice?
Are there general mistakes which I might have made?

Thank you very much in advance!

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DABK

5 years ago

What keywords have you chosen?

What internal backlinking have you done?

What structure do you have in place (look at Silos)?

Get backlinks.

Originally Posted by JokestJ

Hello!
I would like to join the conversation, because I am facing with a similar problem.
I would like to attract more visitors to my joke website.

My site is a quality website, in its category I think it is outstanding (you can rate the jokes, there are many categories, there are new jokes regularly, I have newsletter, Joke of the day,...)

But there are no visitors, only a few wanderers.

I read the thread, I've tried backlinks, reached out to websites, bloggers..

Something definitely should be done in an other way, but I just cannot find out what... and how

Could you please help me out with your advice?
Are there general mistakes which I might have made?

Thank you very much in advance!

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JokestJ

5 years ago

Hi,
thanks for commenting!

1, Since mine is a joke website, the keywords are in the jokes (title and text). And joke, jokes, of course.

2, internal backlinks are structured, relevant and correct.

These part was not done by me.

I will check this Silos. But the site itself is done, I think that doesn't need correction.

However, this backlinking is kind of difficult.
I don't get responses from websites after emailing them,
and forums take only time and don't give traffic.

I welcome your thoughts on this.

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DABK

5 years ago

I do not know what you mean by structured, relevant and correct.

From an SEO point view, they must direct the juice flow to the pages you want to rank.

"Jokes" is not a good keyword. You need longer:

family-friendly jokes about school
jokes about blondes

That kind of thing.

Look up backinko's article on keywords.

Originally Posted by JokestJ

Hi,
thanks for commenting!

1, Since mine is a joke website, the keywords are in the jokes (title and text). And joke, jokes, of course.

2, internal backlinks are structured, relevant and correct.

These part was not done by me.

I will check this Silos. But the site itself is done, I think that doesn't need correction.

However, this backlinking is kind of difficult.
I don't get responses from websites after emailing them,
and forums take only time and don't give traffic.

I welcome your thoughts on this.

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albatros2000

5 years ago

Dozens of links from top authority websites will not rank content about "training dogs" for the keyword "best laptops".

Everything starts with keyword research to build a keyword strategy.

You must know exactly what is the user intent, and find out what keywords and words Google expects to see in your content in order to qualify it as valuable and answer the user intent.

For example, if someone looks for "ps4 wireless headset", what other keywords/words most likely he will expect to see in the content? Doing keyword research the right way will discover these words, a quick research I just did found the words "mic", "best", "pc", "xbox", etc...

pc and xbox may be quite surprising. But this is exactly what the outcome of keyword research should be.

and then create content based on that.

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