Top 5 Reasons Why You're Not Getting Enough Search Engine Traffic

There are many reasons as to why a website or blog may not be getting enough traffic. Things like the age of the domain, the reputation of the author, number and type of references (incoming links), social media strategy and content freshness play their role but for the average website the problem may lie in other areas.

What you will read below are 5 areas that are often neglected by website owners either because they don’t understand their importance or because they are not sure how to handle them. Along with each area we will also suggest ways to improve the situation. Don’t forget though that when you make a change it may take a couple of months (or more) before you see any positive or negative result so you need to have patience before you decide if something worked or not.


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Your Site Isn’t Indexed

If your site isn’t indexed, they can’t send you traffic. So, how do you get indexed?Google (and other search engines) will index your site automatically, but here are a few steps to speed up the process:

1. Create an XML sitemap with the Google XML Sitemaps plugin.
2. Submit your sitemap to Google through Google Webmaster Tools.

As your site becomes more popular, Google’s spiders will visit more frequently and index your content more rapidly.

Not Focusing On Building Incoming Links

Quality links are given high priority by Google bots. If you want to increase your search rankings for any keyword, you need to build links.By having quality and authority links, it becomes much easier for you to rank for almost any keyword. Most people don’t get any search traffic because they don’t focus on building links.If you are doing the same mistake, you will probably never see any traffic growth on your websites. Make sure to build incoming links to your sites if you want to boost your organic traffic.

Keyword Research Is Missing

Most beginners don’t get any search traffic to their blogs because they don’t use any keywords on their posts. They always end up writing posts that don’t contain any primary keywords.What’s the point of writing contents day in and day out if search engines don’t find your web pages? If you are not using keywords on your blog posts, you will never get organic traffic. By creating keyword rich contents you will attract more visitors from search engines.Keyword research is perhaps the only way to increase your site traffic. Find and start using “buyer keywords” aka long tail keywords on your posts to increase your website search traffic.

You’re Not Writing Something that People are Searching For

The first step in writing a blog post is figuring out what people want to know about. Ignoring this step is like starting a business without researching what people want to buy.If you want search traffic, you need to conduct keyword research. So being honest with yourself, how often do you actually do it?It’s your job to create content around the keywords that people are actually searching. To help you figure out which words they search, use the Google Keyword Tool.

Your Site Isn’t Responsive

 Search engines, especially Google, prefers responsive web design because all your content lives on one URL, which is not only easier for you, but most importantly, easier for users. More importantly, it renders well on all types of devices, enhancing user-experience. Of course, this is not something that is easy to fix, you can’t just flip a switch and make your site responsive, but it is necessary these days. It is also known that because of the high levels of mobile web searches today, search engines are going to begin listing more mobile-friendly (responsive) websites in search results higher than their non-mobile counterparts.


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Hopefully by reading this post up to this point you have a better idea of what you might be doing wrong and more importantly you have some thoughts on how to reverse the situation.Happy blogging guys.

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