What to do apart from content and links?

How do you optimise ethically? Plus some help with Alexa/Google data.

[jeremymgp]

Hi everyone,

I hope someone can offer a few conclusions about what's happening to my site. Firstly I was hoping for a nice boost in visitors this month, but got somewhat fewer than expected. I've added several hundred pages of content since the last deep crawl, and wondered what else I should be doing. It seems that others find ways to get new sites to say 1000 people a day very quickly, in a month or two, and also that every keyword has some sites that have low quality and quantity content, but they have top 10/20 positions.

Also, despite the sluggish progress in Google, my Alexa rating for today has shot up to 30,000, whereas before the update it was more like 300,000, and my "Page Views Rank" is 16,000 with a projected 3 month change of 2,771,150! I know sites with 5000 people a day who get a 30,000 ranking, so why am I so high with just 150 people or so today? All in all Alexa is giving me hope, and Google is rather tempering it. What's up?

I make great content, exchange worthwhile links, and stick at it. What do you make of all this, and what do others do that I don't?

thanks for all your comments,

Jeremy

[korkus2000]

You also need to consider what your market will bare. If you are in a real niche market 200 visitors a day maybe huge, while some markets can get millions of uniques a day. Depends on how in demand the subject matter is. I say you are on the right track though. Content and links are a websites best friend. :)

[jeremymgp]

Hi korkus2000,

Thanks for the boost, I know you're right. I'll get back to it right away. All the best!

Jeremy

[dwilson]

Besides what korkus2000 pointed out, there are also the issues of using your keywords in your headings, titles, file, and directory names.

[korkus2000]

Here is a good thread on weighting
[webmasterworld.com...]

Also if you haven't I would also read:
[webmasterworld.com...]

[skibum]

keywords, keywords, keywords...oh yea, Alexa ratings in the 30-40k range don't mean squat. I have one site that gets about 50 uniques a day in that range, we work with anouther one that gets thousands and its only marginally higher.

[rogerd]

I'll second Skibum's comment on the potential inaccuracy of Alexa rankings - I think you've really got to get into the top 5K or so before the statistics get meaningful, and even then you have to be aware of demographic differences between user populations (could affect toolbar use).