Still no visitors...Help

[Shades]

All,

I've been running this site for almost 6 months now www.eastcoastshades.com . I've been putting it in free directories, working on keywords etc. I think the site looks pretty good (def could use your input). Were talking 0-20 visitors a day. When i have my google ads running im usually around 10-20. They turned off for a week and i've been at 2 visitors a day, ( probably me for all i know). Just shows me i'm getting absolutly no traffic. I use 3d cart so everything is done through there. All of the meta tags, keywords, etc. all done through 3d cart. Does anyone else use this that is successful with keywords or high traffic. Can anyone check my site cause i can't figure out what's wrong?

Thanks and sorry if these are stupid questions, i'm just at a loss.

Thanks,
Doug

[amxfan]

Doing a Google search for "East Coast Shades" you are on page 1 but have you looked at what else is on page one for that search?

I would have my keyword as sun glasses.
With this I would put it in my title, description, keywords, header tags and URL's .
Right now you do not have header tags nor do you have descriptions on your product pages. The word sunglasses is found in the title but not at the beginning.

Alt text and title text for your images would not be a bad idea as well.

You may want to ask for a site review for additional ideas.
Also back links, back links, back links with the term sunglasses, aviator sunglasses, kids sunglasses, something of this nature.

[grishamist]

Keyword research and keyword analysis is the key factor to consider. If you will know what keyword frequently use by users, that competitive keyword will be your "target". Just focus on keyword targeting on building links.

[Janna122003]

All,

I've been running this site for almost 6 months now www.eastcoastshades.com . I've been putting it in free directories, working on keywords etc. I think the site looks pretty good (def could use your input). Were talking 0-20 visitors a day. When i have my google ads running im usually around 10-20. They turned off for a week and i've been at 2 visitors a day, ( probably me for all i know). Just shows me i'm getting absolutly no traffic. I use 3d cart so everything is done through there. All of the meta tags, keywords, etc. all done through 3d cart. Does anyone else use this that is successful with keywords or high traffic. Can anyone check my site cause i can't figure out what's wrong?

Thanks and sorry if these are stupid questions, i'm just at a loss.

Thanks,
Doug

You can optimized the content by using the product name as anchor text and put alt attribute of product images.

[2fk]

As what I found checking your site alt text on the images are really missing..they are really important cause robots can read images..by itself you should work on it and then there is no such content describing your products where in you can use in your keywords on it just don't kw stuff...content relevancy is a factor in SE..also you can use content in promoting your site..you should also do more on link building using your targeted keywords by the way the word itself sunglasses do really have a big average on search so you can concentrate first on targeting long tailed keywords..this way you'll be able to stay in the competition..On page review of the site might help and more strategies on promoting your products..

[jabo]

Your site has a nice position for its SERP from Google, how do you do your off page optimization anyways?

[Shades]

Thanks for all of the responses. Currently i'm using 3d cart, which is also how the site is designed and maintained. All meta tags are entered in a meta tag section for each product/page etc... So everything is in template form for entering titles, inserting pictures of product etc. I'm not sure if anyone here has used 3d cart and know what i'm talking about. I'm not sure if this is limiting me or helping me.

As for my off page op. i've been sending email to other sunglasses sites that i'm not neccessarily in competition with , ex. authentic vs. non authentic eyewear. I just seem to be having trouble getting linked. I've submitted to many directories as well but have not seen an increase at all during this time. I tried updating my page everyday for a couple weeks and that wasn't showing any improvement. Google adwords was really my only way of getting traffic and i don't want that. I want people to be able to find it naturally and not only through an ad.

My content is good why aren't the visitors flanking in. I see a lot of people talking about not having good content. I have plenty to help the users on my webpage. 1st i have a pic they can click on them leads them to a full explanation of what sunglasses are right for you face type, hair color etc.. I also have an "easy button", when you click this it just explains that we want you to email us a pic or description of a pair of sunglasses you want (maybe saw a celeb with them), and we will do our best to find then and get them for you. My product pics are good, prices are cheap and cheaper then a competitior that gets around 25k hits a month www.sunglasswarehouse.com. I have some of the same products at almost half the price.

Is my content just good to people but not google bots?

I understand i need to work on product descriptions, image labels and much more. How do i get my site analized as you guys are speaking of?

Thanks again for the responses, keep them coming this is my first time starting a thread.

Thanks,
Doug

[crankydave]

Doug...

Potential customers have to "see" you in order for them to "flank" in. They don't "see" you.

Good content is simply not enough. Takes far more. As so far as your links, this is what Yahoo "sees"...

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.co...&bwmo=d&bwmf=u

They are all from WPW.

For a site review, ask for one on this board if you like...

Submit Your Site For Review - WebProWorld

Dave

[janeth]

Hi Doug,

Getting traffic to a site is not as easy as submitting to a couple directories and adding some alt tags. It’s a lot of time and work.
If it was me I’d do a couple things.

1. I’d come up with 500 long tail keywords and build 500 landing pages for each of those keywords.

2. I’d also play with the design a little to make sure it would convert every visitor that landed on the site.

3. I’d add a blog and a forum.

4. I’d figure out what made me better that everyone else and I’d make sure everyone knew it the second they landed on the site.

5. I’d start playing with the social media sites and find one or two that could drive interested people to the site and I’d set aside a couple hours a day to spend with those people.

Ignore the search engines. Their like a woman, if you spend too much time trying to impress us we get tired of you but If you ignore us we want to find out more about you. Figure out how to drive traffic without the search engines and in turn you’ll see your rankings start to improve.

[sandis.viksna]

This guy has literally no links whatsoever. He haven't even tried it yet properly.

Are you adding at last 20-30 links/day from various sources?

What? No?

Are you crazy?

But Janeth is right - if you're newbie, you better of thinking of other means of getting traffic.

Versache sunglasses alone will take you 100's and 100's of links, posts, article submissions, blog entries, digs, forums, web 2.0 pages etc to rank your site for that term any at all. Also there is little to no content at all.