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A 400-page site is being sold on one of the message board marketplaces, but it's only generating "200 visitors, 160 unique visitors, and over 400 page views a day." What could be wrong with this picture?
It's an eight month old site. According to Google, he has 408 original articles and 130 links to it.
Alexa ranks him at 400,#*$!, which of course shouldn't be the be-all-end-all factor--but it does paint a rough illustration.
I googled his pages, and he has many keyword-rich content pages. Some are duplicates (from him posting on ezines, others are plainly plagiarized), about half are originals. I've seen other webpages that's only 150 pages long, but generating thousands of uniques per day. (His theme is home based business.)
What could be wrong with his site? Is the webmaster above doing something wrong that can't generate him loads of traffic?
(BTW, I'm worried because I'm in the process of writing a lot of articles already. I've done about 100, and shooting for Brett's recommended 400 for the year. My goal is to hit the "500 [to] 2000 referrals a day from search engines" with "10-15K page views" per day.
I'm worried about creating 400 pages, but getting the same subpar results as the guy above. I'm not doing this for Adsense revenues, but I am shooting for a popular site on search engines. What good is there if you can't share your passion to the world? =)
I appreciate any answers to the questions above. Thank you so much for helping a new guy learn the ropes in this vicious SEO world.
1) Link structure. You see many links to the home page - how many pages link to pages deeper in the site?
2) Interesting content. how many people actually care for the content being written - even if it is unique?
3) Competition. If there are 200 better articles web for each article on the site, then they deserve to rank higher.
4) 8 months is young. I've been at this for nearly 8 years with my older sites. 8 months is plenty to get indexed well by Yahoo, but not long to get more (and more quality) links to your site than the sites that have come before it.
