Not Getting Enough Traffic Love from Google?
Search engines are probably the single most effective way to generate traffic to your web page. Because of this, web owners will inevitably complete with each other in order to get a higher ranking. But how would then do this? Well, a lot of e-books, blogs, websites, podcasts, and other kinds of content are dedicated to this topic. But there will always be web masters who complain that they are not getting visitors from search engines. This can be due to different factors but some of the most common reasons I know of include:
- New Website – when your site is new, you should expect that it will not perform that well with search engines. Take note that there are over 30 billion pages on the internet and a lot of these can be categorized as “spam”. Before search engines start to give your site a good ranking, they need to achieve a certain level of trust with you and this will grow over time as you build your content, traffic, and one way links.
- Black Hat SEO Techniques – very few people want to be called a black hat marketer; or in layman’s term, a spammer. But no one can deny that being a black hat marketer does have its own appeal because of its immediate results. If you decide to take this route, you should realize that you can be hit by a penalty or in some cases, banned altogether.
- Useless Content – even if you invest a lot in creating your website, it would not matter if you don’t have good content. Searchers are exactly that, they search for information that is relevant to their needs over the internet. In addition, good content will generate a lot of links which are “votes” for your website.
- Duplicate Content – some people debate on the impact of using duplicate content on their websites. But as far as I’m concerned, search engines love fresh content and it will reward websites and blogs that frequently posts new and original articles.
Comments
Andy - Mr MultiVar July 9th, 2008
I would say the #1 reason for lack of free traffic is failure to contribute to other sites by commenting on blogs and writing forum posts etc.
cara bina website July 10th, 2008
I agree with Andy, there a bunch of blogger that still hoping somebody will visit their blog but didn’t do the first move itself.
Debbie July 13th, 2008
I started a webiste, weekendsisters.com, awhile ago and now have a blog set up as well at weekendsisters.blogspot.com. So far there has been minimal traffic on each site other than who I told about it. I am still in the processe ther of refining content, setting up feeburner, etc. I realize this is going to be a bigger challenge than I thought in getting traffic to my site.
Neo July 18th, 2008
Yes, the duplicate content seems to be a growing issue now so it will be interesting to see how the article directory sites deal with this. I wonder if they will fade away like Free For All pages. The big question that always comes to my mind is how come DrudgeReport is so popular with billions of hits and nothing original?
Marketing September 16th, 2008
A website is like any business it takes hard clever work in order to achieve the key objective traffic. There is no need to crook the system to do so.
halim@guitars blog December 26th, 2008
It’s kind of hard to write good content that totally unique. I’m still trying to write better English because my weakness was grammar.
paranormity blog February 5th, 2009
I was frustrated at first at google not giving me enough traffic “love” but after a couple months I see it steadily increasing as more and more people come to my website. So all in all I can attest to what you have to say, great article.
Gadhadhraya March 5th, 2009
Hello, I found your blog in a new directory of blogs. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, Your blog looks good. Have a nice day.
Read and write articles May 16th, 2009
Many factors make your site suck, which are as follows:
1- Duplicate content
2- Not user friendly
3- Not appealing design
4- Too many ads
5- Errors in coding
6- Not well optimized
7- Too few links
Rocket Spanish August 9th, 2009
It’s refreshing to see that when you follow the “proven” methods, you start to see real results.
GetWebTrafficFree September 17th, 2009
Great topic. Everyone wants to know but few want to learn. You did however hit most of the main points. Patience and actual work are two keys to this.
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wowitsalightbulb January 15th, 2010
I just tend to write content that I myself would want to read or enjoy writing and I think over time the more passionate I get into my writing, the better my blog will become. So in essence I will just keep on keepin’ on =)
Sushie March 13th, 2010
A must read for all new bloggers/sites, thanks for sharing this mini guide. ^^