Q and A: Why can't I get traffic from search engines?
Dear Kalena...
My site http://www.wanginternet.com has been in operation for almost 4 months and it has a page rank of 4/10. However, my site mainly consists of articles I got from ezinearticles which allows us to republish their articles as long as the content and links aren't changed.
Appreciate if you could help with several of my questions:
1. Why can't I get any traffic from the search engines? I know this fact from the SiteMeter I've implemented.
2. Is it because the articles are duplicates from ezinearticles?
3. If I add news feeds on the pages, would this make the search engines think that the content is fresh and new?
4. What can I do to get more traffic from search engines?
Thanks for your time Kalena.
stress X
Kalena's Answer:
Dear stress X
1) Not sure about the other search engines, but according to Google, your domain www.wanginternet.com doesn't exist. Google considers your site address to be http://earncash.50webs.com/ because you've obviously built the site on a free server and then set up your domain to point to the free site. I suggest you ditch the free site and pay for proper domain hosting if you want the domain-based site taken seriously. Until you fix it, all your hard-earned link popularity will be attributed to 50webs.com rather than your own domain.
2) Nope. See 1)
3) Probably not. See 1)
4) See 1)
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My site http://www.wanginternet.com has been in operation for almost 4 months and it has a page rank of 4/10. However, my site mainly consists of articles I got from ezinearticles which allows us to republish their articles as long as the content and links aren't changed.
Appreciate if you could help with several of my questions:
1. Why can't I get any traffic from the search engines? I know this fact from the SiteMeter I've implemented.
2. Is it because the articles are duplicates from ezinearticles?
3. If I add news feeds on the pages, would this make the search engines think that the content is fresh and new?
4. What can I do to get more traffic from search engines?
Thanks for your time Kalena.
stress X
Kalena's Answer:
Dear stress X
1) Not sure about the other search engines, but according to Google, your domain www.wanginternet.com doesn't exist. Google considers your site address to be http://earncash.50webs.com/ because you've obviously built the site on a free server and then set up your domain to point to the free site. I suggest you ditch the free site and pay for proper domain hosting if you want the domain-based site taken seriously. Until you fix it, all your hard-earned link popularity will be attributed to 50webs.com rather than your own domain.
2) Nope. See 1)
3) Probably not. See 1)
4) See 1)
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3 Comments:
Pages need to be optimized. Articles are not optimized. They will bring in un-targeted traffic. research your keywords and create content based on them. You need to control your traffic coming into you.
Hi Kalena,
Thanks for your response to my question. I followed your advice which is to ditch the site http://earncash.50webs.com and to focus entirely on the domain based site http://www.wanginternet.com I basically revamped and redesigned the site entirely. However, it has been over a week but Google still caches my older site. Is there anything that I can do to let Google know that I have ditched the older site?
If possible, place a 301 redirect on the old site pointing to the new site. Your hosting firm should be able to set this up for you.
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