IanKelley - 11:56 pm on Dec 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

I also took a quick look at your site and I disagree with the people that are suggesting you're in the wrong topic.

Your site offers real, personal, guides and there's a lot of value in that. Not to mention all the work that has already gone into it.

Some suggestions...

- Add a discussion forum, this was a great suggestion someone made earlier in the thread, you need to get your visitors involved, that's how underground sites work.

- Monitize your traffic now. I didn't see any context ads or affiliate links. Unless I missed them this is something you want to do soon (unobtrusively) so that you can use the income to re-invest in new traffic.

- Rethink your navigation. You want idiot proof, redundant, navigation combined with a clean site map. Also consider more inter-linking between articles/topics.

- Re-edit your articles, the typo % is way too high :-)

Because there's so much competition you can't really expect to fight the big sites on major keywords, don't even try. Keep creating unique content and take the top listings as providence when they happen.

What you should be looking for is buzz traffic. This has been mentioned already (blog links, news articles, etc..).

And of course you can supplement that with PPC traffic assuming the site can pay for that itself.