5 month Website hardly getting any organic traffic at all

[link22]

I own a website called 'tennispunt dot com' and it's been active since April this year. At first i used to write articles about ATP and WTA tennis events, things such as previews, my opinions and more etc; but now i focus on WTA tennis as it's what i know best.

Since April there hasn't really been an increase in traffic, and i'm lucky if i get 3 unique visitors a day from Google, even after posting 2-3 5 paragraph or more articles.

My website is hosted on Blogger, and eveytime i post Google crawls my site instantly.

I believe my titles in my articles are just fine, and so are my tags also, but i'm still getting no traffic. A competitor (a website i aspire to be like) called Steve G Tennis words their titles for match previews very similar to mine, so i know that my titles are just fine for my previews etc;, and the tags are clean and organised as well, (these tags are visibility available at the top of each article on the home page).

I love writing about tennis, it's a big passion of mine, but i feel as though my work and writing isn't been noticed, and this sometimes gets to me, and makes me less inclined to post. I have many affiliate bookmakers which i have on my site such as Paddypower, Betfred, Bet365, SBO bet and others, yet had not one single sign up since the launch in April.

At the moment signups from affiliate links aren't my biggest concern, my main concern at the moment is getting my articles out there and getting them noticed, so i can gradually get 100's (hopefully in time, 1,000's) of visitors a day to my site.

I have tried writings articles specifically about top matches as well, ie the matches people are most wanting to bet on, i usually gauge this by looking at betting volumes on Betfair, yet i'm still struggling to pull in visitors. Sometimes i can write an article and not have a single hit on it.

Example:
When i watch tennis matches i like to take notes, things such as how a player is playing, how many chances they had to break, and overall documentation of the event as it unfolds. I did this in the Azarenka match against Doi yesterday, and within 20 minutes of the match finishing i had published an article with a summary of the match in question, talking about how it unfolded etc; and i got not ONE single visitor from a search engine, and only 1 visitor in total which was from Twitter.

What frustrates me is that i shared this article easily within 20 minutes after the match finished on Twiter, probably 15 minutes even, and i was probably one of the first websites online in the world to cover the match analysis in a web post. Tennis.com Asociated Press and Steve G Tennis didn't even have anything on it until around 40 minutes after the match finished.

This was a match many people were betting on, so i know this was a popular game with Azarenka being such a strong favourite.

I also did a postmatch review of Pennetta when she played Goerges and had not one single hit from anywhere, twitter or search engines.

Obviously in this thread you can see my frustration and my desire to want my site to be popular, and i really feel like i have tried so much to make my site work. I feel i even have a great domain name too with a good keyword in the title with .com extension.

Any suggestions, help offered or words of encouragement would be appreciated, as i'm at a wits end.

[Casino Online Rating]

What do you do in terms of SEO for your website? You won't get a lot of organic traffic just by adding content to your site, however good it may be.

[link22]

What do you do in terms of SEO for your website? You won't get a lot of organic traffic just by adding content to your site, however good it may be.

What do you mean specifically? I always make sure i add relevent tags to my articles. Like if i was doing a preview of Sharapova v Williams at the US Open, my tags would be 'Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, US Open, WTA, Betting, Preview' Trying to get in keywords which people are most likely to type in Google etc;

[xecutable]

Five months, is still baby in terms of site years. I know a lot of people can tell you that they've had success in 6 or less, but I'm one of those that struggled nearly 2 years, before I started making decent revenue.

It was combination of a lot of things: lack of knowledge, lack of knowing how to write, lack of knowing how to convert, lack of age on the site itself, lack of authority and popularity. With time everything changes, as long as you are devoted to it. I never did it for the money (entirely), so despite the lack of rewards for my efforts I didn't give it, cause it was fun.

That's my suggestion. Enjoy what you do, and just do it purely for your own entertainment. Keep writing, keep adding quality and let the traffic grow little by little. Test your own theories, see how they work.

Your site looks fine, so in terms of quality and good overall presentation, I think you have it. Just remember that if it was that easy to break-through fast with a baby site, everyone would quit their dayjob and make a website. Stick around here, get an advice or two, build social contacts and soon or later u'd start earning.

[Casino Online Rating]

Well, on-page and off-page SEO revolves around of things, you can look up some guides on google to start you up. To give a quick example, after taking a glance at your site a couple of things that I noticed:

- you have tags in articles, but I don't see any meta keywords in your code (they're not that important nowadays, but it doesn't hurt to add them),
- no H1 heading,
- images have no alt text - you should make sure to always add that,
- content in menu - 3/4 of your menu is external links, you should think of adding something more from yourself - content, content, content...
- do you use Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools? They are two great tools to have when making a website

Of course, I'm not saying that the above things will suddenly bring you traffic, they are just little improvements you can work on. Like xecutable, sometime's when you need is mainly time, so don't get discouraged. You have created a good looking site, so continue to pamper it

[link22]

I'm using Blogger at the moment so i believe it automatically sets the headings on the titles by itself? I haven't changed anything in that area. Again the images are hosted on Blogger and uploaded, i believe the file names are correct, for instance a picture of Aazarenka would be titled victoria-azarenka.jpg, is that not correct?

I'm working on changing the menu, and since your post i have changed a few things around.
I'm using webmaster tools and everything seems to be fine on that end. Just signed up to Analaytics.

p.s
one thing i have just noticed is that Google hasn't even index my Stosur / Davis preview from the other day. I just googled it using the site:http:// feature and it returns nothing. Starting to annoy me now, especially considering how Google usually appears to crawl my site after each post i make on the site.

[Casino Online Rating]

I have no experience using Blogger so I can't help you with specifics, but a quick Google search gave me this on headings in Blogger:
http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2013/0...n-blogger.html

As for images, alt text is what shows when the picture can't be loaded and is very important for search engines as it's how they recognize what's on the image (mostly). Here's what Google says on how to do it in Blogger:
https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/2494469?hl=en

[link22]

I believe i have changed the header tags to h1 for the titles. Do you see this as correct now that you visit the site? Thanks for your help

I've also done the alternative text now for the last two blog posts.

[thebookiesoffers]

try and make more from your twitter account, follow tennis players, then tennis fans, some will follow back. then engage them. this will help get followers and traffic

[Casino Online Rating]

I believe i have changed the header tags to h1 for the titles. Do you see this as correct now that you visit the site? Thanks for your help

I've also done the alternative text now for the last two blog posts.

Yeah, the H1 are there now. I've noticed that you added a couple of them - just so you know a popular opinion is that you shouldn't have more than one H1 per page, as it's treated as the main heading for the whole page. Still, some people use more.

When you have time you should go over all of your old images to add alt text too.

Here's what I found about meta keywords in Blogger:
http://allblogsolution.blogspot.de/2...-are-very.html

[link22]

Yeah, the H1 are there now. I've noticed that you added a couple of them - just so you know a popular opinion is that you shouldn't have more than one H1 per page, as it's treated as the main heading for the whole page. Still, some people use more.

When you have time you should go over all of your old images to add alt text too.

Here's what I found about meta keywords in Blogger:
http://allblogsolution.blogspot.de/2...-are-very.html

I just followed that and added the meta tags for the home page of the blog. You should see them now and the keywords too i presume.

The home page which has the list of articles does have more than 1 H1 tag because there is a cluster of articles, but on the article pages themselves i believe there is just the one H1 tag. I just used this tag checker. http://tools.weburlopener.com/header-tag-checker

[RacingJim]

Yep one H1 per page is definitely worth following as I believe Google is getting a bit picky about that one.

[link22]

Yep one H1 per page is definitely worth following as I believe Google is getting a bit picky about that one.

But isn't there just one on my article pages? As far as i can see there is just 1. Obviously on the home page where there are lots of articles there will be more than one, that shouldn't be a problem right?

[Casino Online Rating]

It's weird because it shouldn't add heading tags from articles on the main page, yet it does. No idea if that's standard behavior for Blogger.

[link22]

It's weird because it shouldn't add heading tags from articles on the main page, yet it does. No idea if that's standard behavior for Blogger.

Originally the article titles were <h2>, but since you mentioned about needing to change to <h1>, did change them. It wasn't default for blogger to have them as <h1>

[Casino Online Rating]

I understand that. What I meant is that the heading tag that is on the article page itself shouldn't also appear on the home page where you just list latest articles. However, if that how Blogger does this you might want to change article titles back to h2 and see if you can add one general h1 to the category 'Articles' or something like that.

[link22]

You're right. The link you posted earlier showed something about conditional tags, and following that would allow you to have h1 on the actual posts page, and h2 on the home page, but after following in the instructions i noticed no difference. I presume i did it wrong.

[chaumi]

Some observations....

Try searching that match you mentioned - ''Samantha Stosur vs Lauren Davis Preview'' For me you come up around 40 for that term. So the sites above you are the competition you have to be beating.

Now add on the rest of your page title - ''Samantha Stosur vs Lauren Davis Preview WTA US Open'' You're number 12 in my search

So even if you put in your (near) full title you're still not number 1

But (and I didn't check all of them) the sites above you are ranking for those terms even though they don't have those titles either (and in some cases nowhere even near them, and some of them don't (obviously) have those keywords in the on page article either)...

Which implies that Google trusts them more than it does you to answer the users query

There's nothing inherently wrong with your site. Search tennispunt and you're 1, search tennis punt and you're 2. A good sign.



So the implication is that to rank above the competition you need to:


Gain authority (age and probably some links)
Improve your SEO related structure - titles, descriptions, on page text


Either one might do it - but probably needs both combined.


The first is the most difficult. You cannot force age...but you could get links (although at this stage I personally would advise against it - many may disagree)

The second you can definitely do....and it's possible that by improving your on page structure you could rank higher.

I have some specific ideas on that but limited time to write them up here right now. Feel free to send me a PM if you want some specifics.


(PS I didn't intend half the above to be in italics but for some reason can't turn it off)

[link22]

Yes, any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[RacingJim]

I would recommend some slow and steady link building but only in the correct way and for that I'd say read some decent, recent SEO books and websites.