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SEO advice

by tdops
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Hello All,

I am a newbie, so go soft...

I started a website about 8 weeks ago and I am having an average of 200 visitors a day with each visitor viewing an average of 6 pages and spending over 5 minutes on the website. Till date, I have served over 60,000 pages without any ads from 8,000 unique visitors, 40% returning. I can provide a Quantcast link to the website for verification, if anyone is interested. Now I noticed that most of the traffic is coming from Facebook and Pintrest as visitors usually share the content.

So I need a couple of advice from you warriors -

Firstly, I want to increase traffic from Google search to attract new visitors. Apparently my site is not SEO optimised and I have been working on that with someone from India on Freelancer coughing out $80 per week over the last 3 weeks without any significant results. For example, the first week was for optimising the URL and the last 2 weeks has been for "Off-page" SEO. Should I be worried? Are there faster/better/cheaper ways of doing this without being penalised by Google.

Secondly, I am thinking of running ads on the website. Any suggestions on the best way to go? Ad Networks, Google, ???

Thanks a lot.
#advice #seo
  • Profile picture of the author aureusb
    Let's start from the bottom up. You don't have to worry about ads unless your page is loaded with tons of ads. Keep the ads at the side and most preferably below the fold of the page. Ads that are seen before the content is seen will lower the quality of user experience. http://www.ecreativeim.com/google-panda-recovery

    What you should be concerned about isn't rankings, it's the quality of the traffic you receive. I'd advice you to install Google Analytics to track conversions. See which keywords are driving the traffic and monitor whether the keywords are driving conversions. If you need more help on this, visit https://support.google.com/analytics.../1032415?hl=en

    You should be optimising for keywords that drive quality traffic. Note that the highest click thru rate on the search results pages do not always result from being on the 1st position. See using rich snippets https://support.google.com/webmaster.../2722261?hl=en
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