Why am I not getting seo traffic?

[namep88]

I have been doing this for years now and I am troubled on why I am not getting any seo traffic.

The site is: sparecard.com

I put it up July 1. I did link submissions. I wrote a blog. I wrote articles and submitted them. I linked the site to my other websites. I pay using adbrite to get some traffic and I have not had one seo referral yet.

If anyone can offer suggestions much appreciated.


Jeff

 

[Philleh]

Because it takes months/years to get any real results from search engines. Plus, credit cards is one of the biggest indsutries..

 

[Keral_Patel]

First of all you don't have proper title structure.

You have a truck full of keywords in the meta tags. Which you will be thinking is a good way to get traffic from all those keywords. But if that was the case I would have put whole dictionaries in my meta tags.

Moreover your site is full of copied content.

The keyword you are targeting is also a tough one. "credit cards offers" I have myself seen and met atleast 100 guys who are trying to be # 1 for this keyword. So you will ofcourse have to do better then all of them and others.

I am sorry to tell you that this site is not going to get what you think will be SEO traffic if you just copy content from other sites and don't optimize the site itself.

Moreover you have just started it on July 1st. I assume it is July first of 2007. So it is just 28 days right now. Assuming that 28 days I can guess how many links you have made and how many articles you have posted. If you hired other people then it is a different story. But as long as I see this site needs much much more effort then which is mentioned above.

 

[enlytend]

Agree 100% with Nick ...

Word to the wise: Don't try to optimize your site for ridiculous terms like "credit card offers" or "poker" or the like - you'll just be competing with hundreds of thousands of spammers trying to rank for the same thing. Go for less competitive terms and you'll have a much better chance of success.

 

[namep88]

Thank you for all the suggestions. Any other suggestions?


Jeff

 

[Keral_Patel]

I don't like to post links in my replies that is why I didn't posted it earlier also and tried to explain it.

But I think you seriously need some help on this one so I will post 2 links from my blog here. It might help you.

The first one is complete onpage seo and the second article describes basic Offpage SEO techniques

Thanks.

 

[bluearrow]

I dont know what you meant by years since you reg'ed the domain was Created on 2007-07-02.

Its a mint domain. your site will be sand boxed for a while before it appears on Google search result.

I think Nick had told everything in simple. Optimize your pages for less competitive keyword phrases.
Don't stuff too much keywords optimize yr pages for one primary keyword and 2-3 secondary keywords. check they have enough density in the page.
exchange links there is no limit for this, simply do it without stopping.

It might take at least 3 months to 1 year to yr site to appearer in search results thats if you are lucky and work hard.

Until you get organic traffic try other methods like , forum signatures , forum advertising , social bookmarking etc.

 

[johnandrews]

I don't believe in sand boxes, but I do believe in competitive markets and this is one. Your site appears to be doing well, for what it is. Without unique page titles, unique content, or parseable URLs you've still got 25 pages indexed in Google and you rank #1 for your site's name (sparecard http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sparecard&btnG=Search). Notice how well Google parses that as spare card (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=spare+card&btnG=Search)

Your problem is you're simply not competitive enough to rank for credit card terms. Not a bad start, but you have alot more work to do.

 

[deep_3657]

and till now according to yahoo siteexplorer you have just 29 backlinks to your site. I wonder if you get any SEO traffic in next 6 months either under such conditions.

I don't want to discourage you. But just to make you feel that some massive changes need to be done from seo point of view in your site, and that results from seos may take upto several months. Whereas you seem to be fedup in just a month or 2

 

[MrCat]

Nick have very good points there. Your niche is indeed densely populated and competition for these keywords are relatively stiff.

I remember I once had a client that needed some mispelled keywords for his casino site years ago. I asked him what's the relevance. He told me that most keywords for that niche will serve him less and wanted to have visibility on the first search result page on Google. I was an employee then so I made the misspelled keywords that he ordered. And fortunately after sometime, he ordered other other sets of misspelled keywords for other niches.

You might want to experiment a bit as what this guy did. Hope it helps out

 

[Keral_Patel]

Nick have very good points there. Your niche is indeed densely populated and competition for these keywords are relatively stiff.

I remember I once had a client that needed some mispelled keywords for his casino site years ago. I asked him what's the relevance. He told me that most keywords for that niche will serve him less and wanted to have visibility on the first search result page on Google. I was an employee then so I made the misspelled keywords that he ordered. And fortunately after sometime, he ordered other other sets of misspelled keywords for other niches.

You might want to experiment a bit as what this guy did. Hope it helps out

Yes mispelled keywords does have a Huge market for the webmasters who go with them as there are not many who does go with them. Sometimes when we have user generated content like Namepros itself then this does brings in nice traffic as many users are posting and they are sometimes making mistakes [Like me ] in spellings and that does brings in quite good traffic when counted overall.

Just one advice though don't use excess of mis-spellings because that would not help much. But some here and there will do. Like I do on my own blog. I use website and web site both just within one sentence I use both the spellings different way and I have asked 10 people to find spelling mistakes and no one found that web site spelling was wrong.

BTW I am most happy that Mixcat representative took some time off and did came here to share their knowledge with us. Welcome MrCat. How are the things going.

 

[Steven_D]

and till now according to yahoo siteexplorer you have just 29 backlinks to your site. I wonder if you get any SEO traffic in next 6 months either under such conditions.

I don't want to discourage you. But just to make you feel that some massive changes need to be done from seo point of view in your site, and that results from seos may take upto several months. Whereas you seem to be fedup in just a month or 2

I think you were looking at the number of indexed pages not the number of back links.

Hes got a whopping 556 back links, but heaps of them are from the same place.

http://www.smartpagerank.com/result.php?domain=www.sparecard.com

check this out.

http://www.smartpagerank.com/pagera...card.com&results=50&showNofollow=&showAnchor=

For a site that is only 2 months old, you could be doing better, re number of pages getting crawled.

But from a close inspection of the links on your main page, they are all redirect.aspx?paramaters etc

so if your prodomintly a linking site, you wont get very far. You need fresh and interesting content for spiders to get excited.

And yahoo etc havnt crawled your blog, which should have happend ages ago.

And if you count up the number of outbound links on your creditcardoffers.html and businesscreditcardoffers.html and links page, you probably have about 10x more outgoing links than you have incomming links from different domains. So to a bot this would look like a link farm

You should also get into DMOZ as fast as you can, so you get slaped on alexa etc + your alexa rank is 7,69575,675 but you have no photo of your site, go to http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=www.sparecard.com/ click on overview, and request a photo of your site (Doesnt help but it should have been done already)

And if you go here
http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/diagnostic.go?www.sparecard.com/

this is a web spiders view of your site, and you can see there is like no info on the main page, but when you click the first link you get taken to a page with hundreds of outgoing links.

To be fair, if your just linking people to credit card sites to get a commission, or skim the cream as we like to call it, have a quick think about this.

Most businesses fail, not because of a lack of skill, or a lack of knowlege, but a lack of potential. If there are 3 hardware shops in a town, and 1 has 70% of the market, and the other two are fighting over 30% and barely surviving, what makes you think that a 4th store will have a chance.

You are competing with two things, Heavily entrenched affiliate companies and networks, whos product is higher PR and back links for websites. They have link farms

And you are competing with every finance adviser, bank, credit card company, supermarket (yes they offer credit cards to) and person involved with finance.

So either you are going to need a marketing budget of around $1,000,000 or you are going to need 3 + years getting links to your site, or you are going to be poor, and sick of trying after 3 months and you will go and do something else, which is perhaps what you should do now instead of wasting 3 months.

Only thing I could think that would help. Go any buy some domains that already have high PR and high incoming traffic (Not typos) and hope that the people will stick around long enough to go and fill out a form somewhere even thou they can see that yours isnt the site that they wanted in the first place.

And also, you are going to need a decent call to action on your site because even if you did spend $1,000,000 and got 1000 people a day to your site, they are going to see your headline,

"Apply for a credit card today at sparecard.com"

and say, why should I, whats in it for me.

and also, more to the point, whats the process for collecting their card. And more, why would they want a spare card, surely they would want your amazing rates on their original card not on a spare card they would never use? needs more thought FYI.