Seo traffic

ghp · #1 (**permalink**) 02-26-2008, 07:47 PM

I have been working on several of my sites now for quite some time, i believe i have been following most seo guidelines such as:

On site optimization
Free directory submission
Lots of original content
Clean code
Inbound links
Submission of sitemap to the search engines

My Seo score on Whois lookup and Domain name search is 91%

I have seen spikes in traffic of up to 150 uniques a day, and now it has dropped to under 10 a day, what am I doing wrong?

One of the sites is Latin American Real Estate, Vacationing and Investing which is a latin american portal, i am using subdomains for each country
any feedback would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

amxfan · #2 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 07:57 AM

Well from looking at your site I believe you still have some work to do and somethings you need to think about.

1. Your page rank is 0. Try and get some good relevant IBL that has good anchor text for your keywords. This will greatly help you in ranking for your keywords.
2. You have 15 pages in the main index of Google and you have 185 in the supplemental index. This need to be fixed
3. Doing a quick keyword density check on your site. None of your keyword rank at all.
4. While looking at your keywords. real estate (88.63), investing (79.44). As seen they have a fairly high keyword difficulty factor, While vacationing (56.73) was about middle of the road. You may want to adjust the placement of your keywords in your meta tag and put the lower difficulty ones first. Also you need to make sure you have a good keyword density for those keywords in your body content. I would also recommend trying to go after some different less difficult keywords to start.
5. You may want to rethink your Description Tag as well and try and use some of your keywords in the tag. It's also important to try and place them as close to the beginning of the tag as possible as the farther back they are the less important they are.
6. You may want to rethink your title tags in the text links of your body content. "Resource Guide - Vaction, Invest or Move to Mexico" None of these are your keywords.
7. Your NEWS column was blank and is a wast of space.
8. You may want to move the search box and language selector down to move your content up and display more in the 'above the fold' area.
9. Your Contact Us page consisted of " Content of page #49 (English)" Not good. Where is your contact info?
10. Your Help/FAQ page consisted of " Content of page #51 (English)" same thing where is this info?
11. Your site map should list every page on your site that you want indexed.
12. You need to work on your site links. Your use of sub-domains for each country is not helping as they make your navigation confusing. Example Argentina Real Estate, Vacationing and Investing when the home button is clicked on your top nav bar it does not take you to rica24.com but to the root of the sub-domain. I appears you set up the sub-domains to help with your IBL to rica24.com. I feel the use of good inter page site linking would do a better job and the use of sub-domains would only be for the different versions/languages. One sub-domain for each language.

ghp · #3 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 11:43 AM

Hi,

I really appreciate your valuable feedback, regarding he supplemental index, how can that be fixed?
you believe that it would be better to use subfolders that subdomains, my logic behind the subdomains is that one day i would move each country subdomains to a server in that country, do you think this is wise?

Thank you so much

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Originally Posted by amxfan

Well from looking at your site I believe you still have some work to do and somethings you need to think about.

1. Your page rank is 0. Try and get some good relevant IBL that has good anchor text for your keywords. This will greatly help you in ranking for your keywords.
2. You have 15 pages in the main index of Google and you have 185 in the supplemental index. This need to be fixed
3. Doing a quick keyword density check on your site. None of your keyword rank at all.
4. While looking at your keywords. real estate (88.63), investing (79.44). As seen they have a fairly high keyword difficulty factor, While vacationing (56.73) was about middle of the road. You may want to adjust the placement of your keywords in your meta tag and put the lower difficulty ones first. Also you need to make sure you have a good keyword density for those keywords in your body content. I would also recommend trying to go after some different less difficult keywords to start.
5. You may want to rethink your Description Tag as well and try and use some of your keywords in the tag. It's also important to try and place them as close to the beginning of the tag as possible as the farther back they are the less important they are.
6. You may want to rethink your title tags in the text links of your body content. "Resource Guide - Vaction, Invest or Move to Mexico" None of these are your keywords.
7. Your NEWS column was blank and is a wast of space.
8. You may want to move the search box and language selector down to move your content up and display more in the 'above the fold' area.
9. Your Contact Us page consisted of " Content of page #49 (English)" Not good. Where is your contact info?
10. Your Help/FAQ page consisted of " Content of page #51 (English)" same thing where is this info?
11. Your site map should list every page on your site that you want indexed.
12. You need to work on your site links. Your use of sub-domains for each country is not helping as they make your navigation confusing. Example Argentina Real Estate, Vacationing and Investing when the home button is clicked on your top nav bar it does not take you to rica24.com but to the root of the sub-domain. I appears you set up the sub-domains to help with your IBL to rica24.com. I feel the use of good inter page site linking would do a better job and the use of sub-domains would only be for the different versions/languages. One sub-domain for each language.

redspace · #4 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 01:22 PM

I don't think spike traffic traffic come from search engine. the likely source of spike traffic is probably from social site or blogs. you should analyze where the traffic comes from to get better picture. if from search engine whihc search traffic has gone down, things like that.

amxfan · #5 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 01:31 PM

As far as your supplemental index is concerned, this is the site that I used to calculate your percentages Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator . It also gives you tips on how to correct it.

To your second question, I do not think this is wise on many different stand points. Let me just elaborate on a few of them.
1. By putting bits and pieces of your site on multiple servers, you will create different load times of your pages due to the number of hops to the different servers. All it takes is one page not to load, or to load slowly, and your visitor is leaving.
2. You will create confusion amongst your visitors because it will be jumping to many different sites and back again.
3. Due to linking back and forth from site to site, it would be classified as reciprocal links in Google, not totally helping your PR.
4. Each domain would be its own site. This means you would have to get backlinks to establish PR for every site.
5. You would be paying numerous hosting companies to host what is in essence 1 site.

If you must host parts of your site on different servers in that country for that particular country, then I would create stand alone sites that have relevant and maybe even close to the same content, but not duplicate content, for each country. Then I would put a one way link from the country's page back to your main site. This would increase your page rank because of the one way links and since you run the sites, you can control what anchor text is used in that link. As your country sites gain PR, the more link juice will be passed to your main site. But I would not do that now. I would fix the issues with your one site and only add the other sites once the first site was running ok. But I am still not sure that I would host them in the different countries, and if for no other reason, calculating the currency exchange rate.

As it stands right now, I would put each country in a subdirectory on your main domain. I would use the subdomains for the different languages for your site.

For everyone that is thinking right now that using subdomains for the different languages is going to cause a duplicate content issue, please follow this link .

I hope I did not confuse you with my answer. If I did, please let me know and I will try to clarify.

ghp · #6 (**permalink**) 02-28-2008, 01:41 PM

I am not confused, and you actually have given me some great feedback that I will be working on right away. Your point regarding putting the languages in subdomains is going to be the only real problem as the way we designed our CMS, there is a mod-rewrite rule for the languages and to mod rewrite to a subdomain is not possible as far as I know. Having all the countries in subdirectories is fine since that will also make my sitemap management much easier.

Thanks once again for your precious input and time

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