Credit Cards Site

doesn't get any traffic

[photonstudios]

Hi all,

About six months ago I launched a site filled with content pages, optimized for highly demanded credit cards keywords which promotes credit cards. I knew the topic was very competitive but I still thought if I could make a content rich site with lots of pages, my site could receive decent traffic. So I wrote 150 of content pages which are optimized. I submitted to all engines and directories and Inktomi PFI. So it's been six months and my site only gets 50 unique visitors a day.....which is basically nothing. Did I make a huge mistake by making another credit cards site? Or should there be more pages and more content? I also noticed that my competitors (less pages) that score in top #10 for credit cards keywords have a lot of sites linking to them.... 10,000+ does that explain it? Any comments anybody?

Thanks

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[edited by: tedster at 5:04 am (utc) on Jan. 26, 2004]

[txbakers]

Unfortunately there are about a million websites promoting credit cards.

People think that building a great site will attract attention. Not so. Building word-of-mouth buzz will attract attention to even a crummy site.

6 months is hardly enough time to develop a business, and developing a business is what you are doing.

[thehittmann]

you need some heavy incomming linkage. promotion needs to be done to increase traffic. SE's dont promote websites thats something that you need to work on yourself. try something like adwords and maybe get visits from other peoples pages.
I have a site thats #1 of 1,9 million others I dont believe that it's because it's filled with great content on every page but I think its because I work everyday on finding more sites to link to mine.