5 Common Reasons you Don’t Get Traffic Love
Posted on June 2, 2008 by
Rosanne Lim 
SEO 
6 Comments
Everyone knows that search engines are a great and effective way to drive traffic to your site. Thus, a lot of websites, blogs, e-books, podcasts, and what-not are all dedicated to this topic. But there inevitably will be web masters who will complain that they are not getting any visitors from search engines. This can be caused by a variety of factors but some of the common reasons I observed include:
1. Newly Launched Website – new websites will initially not perform will with search engines. This is most likely because most of the 30 billion+ web pages on the internet are comprised of spam. Before search engines start to rank your site well, they need to establish a certain level of trust which can only grow over time as you build content, links, and traffic.
2. Content Unworthy of Attention – it does not matter if you have a great website; it won’t do you much good if you don’t have high quality and informative content that site visitors are looking for. If a rival site is getting references and links and yours remain stagnant, search engines will most likely not give you “traffic love”.
3. Duplicate Problems – search engines love original content so you are bound to encounter ranking problems in your site has duplicate content all over it. Duplicates forces search engines to choose between the original version and the copy.
4. You’re Used Black-Hat SEO Techniques – if you’ve participated in reciprocal linking techniques, bought links from large networks, have hidden texts on your web pages, and sold links to supplement your income, it would not be surprising if you are suddenly hit by a penalty.
5. Improper Keyword Target – searchers are not using the keywords you’ve targeted because you did not do sufficient research for your site.
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You are absolutelly right. I can not argue with you. What kind of research are talking about?
Tudor Ciurescu
I think if you have quality unique content and a reasonable ability in marketing then you will get traffic love.
This is what guest article means? To have unique content?
I totally agree, especially when it comes to using private lable rights. Though I am not against using them, it has its place, but using them word for word diminish the effectiveness and the purpose of what it’s suppose to do.
Duplicate content is only a myth. If you read Google’s blog you see that they say very clear that duplicate content is NOT penalized.
If this is not enough, you can search on Google for the name of an ezine article that is quite popular. The result you get will always be this: there are listed many different websites containing exactly the SAME article.
Marvelous article. Like what everybody says, “Content is King”