I have launched my newspaper based website on 2014/12/06. I was expecting traffic to be low at start due to the fresh domain. However 7 months later I see 24 (!) clicks per month on Google Webmaster Tools.
My website is http://www.wordpressinside.info
My other website (that I started on december 2013) is http://www.gameplayinside.com which has 62,161 Google clicks per month.
They are on the same server and have about the same google pagespeed score. Content quality/seo should be just as good. Both lack proper back links. The only differences are the topic and the theme.
Any thoughts? I would really like to continue developping my website but with 24 clicks per month I cannot afford to do that.
Hi i do not think Newspaper is the problem here.
My website sees over 500K unique hits per month, and we have experienced no problems with indexing.
We have been using newspaper since April 1st 2014 when we launched our website.
do you use SEO on your website? my website is mainly driven by our use of social media which has over 75K people following over the four main social media networks.
also do you have the search index option turned off within your settings of wordpress?
Do you use google webmaster tools? also what are you publishing? have you considered changing the content or adapting it, my content is adapted and the style is adapted as the market changes.
I have just had a look at your website, which answered most of the questions in my post.
i also noticed you use webmaster tools.
however a quick look at the website, you are publishing content for wordpress. as wordpress is a massive brand there is no way you would get a good rating in google.
I do not mean to sound offensive, however it is not meant in that way, i think people will visit wordpress help rather than your website for the content you are publishing.
Try and be more creative and you may increase the likes, however the content your are publishing is already out there.
Hi there.
Yes I am using Google Webmaster Tools and indexing is not disabled. According to Google 22 of 23 pages are indexed but my average position is 35.7 where on my more successful website has 7.9. Using the Yoast SEO plugin, all articles are “green”.
Purpose of this site was to produce high quality word press tutorials (because I want to share the stuff I learned). I guess there is a lot of competition there but rank 35, really? I just did not like what is already out there. I always had to combine multiple resources.
Your 500K Visitors since april 2014 sounds quite impressive to me. Could you post your url? Maybe I can learn something from it:P.
I must admit that I never really do social media sounds like something worth reconsidering. Do you just “spam” twitter and facebook when you post something?
Hi There
I have no idea what my web rank is, i don’t think i have ever checked and i do not think i would know how.
We run policehour.uk, our traffic ranges from 300 – 500k per month we never drop below 300k.
Social media is something you should engage with, see facebook.com/policehour or twitter.com/policehour.
I have had a look at your other website and i can see why it is more popular straight away the content is current, great job.
Ok thanks for sharing:).
ps
The average rank you can pull from Google Webmaster Tools>Search Analytics>Position
Average Position 22.2 is that good or bad?
Our website name comes up as 1.0
Mine comes up position 9 🙂
Note that Google rolled out new version of PANDA recently. They continue to refine placement, and are putting emphasis on mobile friendly, ORIGINAL CONTENT, “answers to questions,” https capability, pagespeed insights, sitemaps, and the usual stuff still relevant:
a) inbound links from organic sites, not paid text links or text ads, help placement
b) blocking bad links from “bad sites” such as low quality scrapers – you can disavow bad sites (we do this with sites like ‘searchnaked’ which had thousands of links to us)
c) proper schema markup
d) limit junk posts (e.g., youtube video and one sentence — is not original content)
e) limit content you “steal” from other sites then link to them as source — write your own version, get your own photo; that helps your ranking
f) site structure matters; good navigation, prioritize the POST over categories, tags, etc.
g) don’t sell text links, avoid popups, interstitials that block content loading for Google bot
h) READ the free Google guide to best practices for SEO
i) write original headlines – check your headline to see if it already exists; do something different!
j) posts should have at least 5 paragraphs so it looks like original post and not excerpt of another post
k) don’t use “next page” for home page; conflicts with your category indexes
l) update site regularly — updates every 6 weeks shows lack of new content
m) create your own images where possible, vs copying somebody else’s
n) learn to use your Google webmaster tools (now “console”) properly
o) don’t overload pages with too many ad modules from adsense, amazon, other ad system, etc. — too many ads pollutes your pages
p) use h tags for your relevant subheads in your posts, not just bold sub heads — couch your subheads as answers to questions people might ask “The right way to boil spaghetti” … etc.
q) make sure guest posts are not also being posted on other sites (!!)
r) share the heck out of your posts to social media, but use the social media worth sharing to and ignore the stuff nobody uses anymore (sorry, delicious, diigo, Technorati, etc.)
s) don’t use sock puppets for clicking your ads; paid likes on social media; or similar
t) answer comments on your posts to create dialog
u) make backups of your site often and carefully (!) — if your system crashes, and you’re off the web for prolonged period of time — very bad for SEO after xx days
v) do you have a backup plan if your host goes out of business, or GoDaddy DNS crashes again and your site is down?
w) consider spending a small amount on Google ads to promote your best posts or site on the topic you most want to be found under, like “horse breeding” or whatever
x) make sure your site is verified with all the top search engines
y) ignore stupid things like so called “ranking sites” like Alexa which are completely wrong on traffic, including their inability to track shortcode use
z) check your site regularly to ensure it’s secure ! Make sure you have security plan. Make sure you have privacy policy on your site.
Share and enjoy! 🙂
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Great tips Chris! Thanks, following many of those already.
Are you using Newspaper 6 yet? If so, how are you finding it’s SEO practices? I’m still on Newspaper 4 at the moment.
Regards,
Woah that’s a comprehensive list Chris S! Thanks for taking the effort :).
