2002 Website - Google SE Never Increases

[rannans]

I've had my website for years now, offering free website templates, and whilst my backlinks increase each month, my SE visitors decrease or stay the same !

i do have google analytics running as well.

my concern is a possible google SE V real visitors being controlled by google !

as they have all my stats, is my site possibly being throttled in some way ?

i only say this as the users of my designs have of course been snowballing over the years, but even though i'm getting more hits from the sites that use my designs, the google SE hits havent climbed along with it

apart from the above, i'm stumped for any reason why my overall unique hits hasn't gone up ?

BTW for those that like the PR rankings, i've been PR7 main page (12 months) , PR6 for the 10 other main pages, plus a lowering assortment as you travel in the site

given i've doing this site for 4 years now, im really looking to see the problem, as if there is some connection with the google + analaytics reducing my traffic , i want to know now ;)

cheers
mikey

[canadafred]

The major search engines cannot bear the legal brunt that would result from manipulating individual webpage rankings. They have to rank evrything using the same formulas; making it a fair playing field. They have rules, some of which they enforce. They add value to web pages under certain circumstances, they devalue under others. How and when they apply their rules depends mostly on how it affects them economically, legally and how if affects their efforts to offer searchers the best webpages for a keyphrase query.

You'll notice amongst your keyphrase competitors that their PR values vary. Unless all your keyphrases are in the top two or three positions, chances are there'll be some ahead of you with much less PR value. Your PR value is not an accurate indicator as to the importance of your webpage. Your optimized web page; its optimizable components, and the web site's internal linking structure are the best assets to value. Off-site factors can have an additional effect but secondarily to your internal linking structure. If you have a pitiful internal linking structure then the off-site factors could appear to have more effect. Fix the internal and it becomes more important than the external.

Having high PR usually means a larger volume of traffic, but it is more random than the qualified traffic directed from the search engine results pages.

Also, high PR sites often have a large volume of low quality web links from low quality sources. Places, especially the link farms now being considered as directories, harbour and attract every conceivable type of crawler, bot, spider, miner, replicator ... often intentionally made to appear like normal, human traffic. These automated robots love the dumpster directories because they are loaded with links to follow. A good traffic monitor, such as Analytics, is sophisticated enough to differentiate the real from the seemingly real (because of experience and technology) and report more accurately than standard hit counters. I would say that the Analytics is the more accurate figure.