Website Progress with time

site traffic, aging, analytics

[bornlsr]

I have a website which is just over an year now. Have less than 20 link exchanges with not so popular websites, as webmasters of good sites rarely exchange links with new sites like mine. The site is on highly competitive keywords, so a tough competition. The site has a neat look, good SEO optimized, nice navigation, no paid links, following google principles, has over 20k pages in google index.

I get on the average of 30 unique visitors per day.

My question is, is it natural, or am I lagging somewhere ?
If I am not yet into google trust, what is the average time a website needs to gain trust, when they deal with highly competitive keywords ?

I have read age definitely matters for websites. What is the age they are talking about ?

[simonuk]

My 6 year and older sites do very well on search engines and they get a lot of extra weight compared to my newer ones. The ones I setup pre 2000 fair even better.

30 a day does seem low for a 20k page site. If I were you my first stop would be googles webmaster tools and see if anything obvious is being flagged there.

[Asia_Expat]

20 thousand pages in a year... you HAVE been typing hard...

... or have you?

[JohnRoy]

> 20 thousand pages in a year... typing hard

How many words per page? If it's 25 per page, it may be some of the reason for 30 uniques a day.

In addition to webmaster tools, you may look again at the optimization made to the site.
You said it's on highly competitive keywords.
That's already taken. And you target these (and not other) keywords only. Maybe switch to less competitive KWs where you can gain more traffic.

[edited by: JohnRoy at 7:45 pm (utc) on Feb. 10, 2009]

[HugeNerd]

I second (errr...third) the call for Webmaster Tools [google.com]:

Even without having your site set-up with the Webmaster Tools code, you can go to Google and type site:www.whateveryourwebsiteis.com and it will show you all of the pages Google has indexed. That will give you a clear idea of just how many of your 20,000+ pages Google has even visited. If you don't see a big number there, Google barely knows you exist. That means signing up for the Webmaster Tools is even more important as this will give you an easy way to request a higher crawl rate and also to submit a site map for their spiders.