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What can I do...

by Michael Levanduski
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I bought an established site a few months ago because I liked the domain name. I've been posting a lot of high quality content and promoting in through forums, blog commenting and social media. I'm getting 50-150 visitors per day, 70% from social media sites and 30% direct (people coming back to the site multiple times).

About .1% is from search engines. I can't really figure out why my site isn't ranking hardly at all in the search engines. Also, I've got about a 1% bounce rate, so I know my visitors like what I'm doing and all that.

I'm wondering if possibly the previous owner did something to get the site blacklisted, is there any way I can tell? If that is the case, is there anything I can do other than just keep providing good content and waiting?

I've never had a problem like this in the past, so any advice you can give me would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

Michael
  • Profile picture of the author DBMEDIALLC
    Have you invested in SEO at all? In order for a site to rank, you need links from other, more reputable sites. Unless you're spending money on SEO, it's unlikely that your site will take off in terms of ranking on Google. Adding unique content to the site is great and that's the most important thing of all, but you're going to have to allocate some of your time/money into link building.
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  • Profile picture of the author Luke Corden
    That's an exceptional bounce rate! Well done. May I ask to see your site? I'd love to be producing content of that standard.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by Michael Levanduski View Post

    I'm wondering if possibly the previous owner did something to get the site blacklisted, is there any way I can tell?
    Check Wayback & the backlink sources, If it looks like spam, it's probably spam.
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Levanduski
      Originally Posted by DBMEDIALLC View Post

      Have you invested in SEO at all? In order for a site to rank, you need links from other, more reputable sites. Unless you're spending money on SEO, it's unlikely that your site will take off in terms of ranking on Google. Adding unique content to the site is great and that's the most important thing of all, but you're going to have to allocate some of your time/money into link building.
      I have put out a few guest blogs on other sites in my niche, also did some blog commenting and I have the link in my signature here and a few other forums.

      So, maybe I just haven't done enough yet. I've had other sites rank much faster than this, and without much SEO at all so maybe I just got lucky on those or something.

      THank you!

      Originally Posted by Luke Corden View Post

      That's an exceptional bounce rate! Well done. May I ask to see your site? I'd love to be producing content of that standard.
      The site is in my signature. Write for money online

      I'm a freelance writer, and the site is set up to help other writers. This site is written to be fairly casual and accessable to these other writers. I try to 'talk' to them in a real way, not just listing facts and crap like that.

      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Check Wayback & the backlink sources, If it looks like spam, it's probably spam.
      I have never done that before...I'll have to investigate! Thanks!!

      Michael
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    • Profile picture of the author live2all
      hello, you should to do analysis your content. Not only think for unique content. Now time to write only natural content, I guess you put your all content with for search engine, But you guys should to keep eye for real user. and check if you done any keywords staffing, thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author affilliate-script
    Your SEO on the home page is excellent

    However, the first category I checked:
    writeformoneyonline.com/category/freelance-writing/

    Has no description meta tag

    I'd have got rid of the "category" in the URL as well by using "no category base" plugin (too late now)
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Levanduski
      Originally Posted by live2all View Post

      hello, you should to do analysis your content. Not only think for unique content. Now time to write only natural content, I guess you put your all content with for search engine, But you guys should to keep eye for real user. and check if you done any keywords staffing, thanks
      I'm sorry, I really don't understand what you're saying here. I know the content is unique (I wrote it myself) and high quality as my visitors have told me they like it, plus the bounce rate is so low.

      I haven't done any keyword stuffing or anything like that either.

      Originally Posted by affilliate-script View Post

      Your SEO on the home page is excellent

      However, the first category I checked:
      writeformoneyonline.com/category/freelance-writing/

      Has no description meta tag

      I'd have got rid of the "category" in the URL as well by using "no category base" plugin (too late now)

      I've never been much of an SEO expert. Are you saying I should go in to the categories and add a description meta tag on them?


      Also, to clarify, there aren't any specific keywords I'm looking to rank for. I am just hoping to get SOME traffic from SEO. My primary traffic strategy is social media and guest posting. I am just concerned that I'm getting almost no traffic from the search engines.

      Thanks again to everyone who has helped so far!

      Michael
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