What am I Doing Wrong?
WayneBam wrote:
I have been doing these courses since the start of March and at the moment i have invited 7 people to the site. No one as gone premium yet but in my eyes if they was serious then it should be a no brainer!. When i got the referrals i was`nt Premium.. I have had nothing at the moment since upgrading!. Can anyone give me any pointers to what may be going wrong?
Regards
Wayne
Founder of http://www.sport-reviews.com
http://www.home-based-money-making-opportunity.siterubix.com/wealthy-affiliate-university-2015-review
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I responded:
I looked at your "home-based-money-making" site and it looks great as does your sports site. I'm impressed. Very nice theme and uncluttered layout.
"Rome wasn't built in a day," they say. Top ranking websites don't get to the top quickly unless using keywords that are so unique no one searches for them. You sites are very attractive so I would guess that they will be indexed well in time. Sites that have been operating for a long time tend to be indexed higher in search results. Sites need to age and mature like fine wine.
I suspect both niches' have stiff competition so getting seen by the search engine results may be difficult. You may want to consider using social media to get attention. Google isn't the only game in town.
There are a lot of sports and make money online sites to compete with. I recommend taking a look at your top 5 competitors and see what they are doing right. Your top competitors make good mentors even though they didn't intend to.
Your keywords/phrases for your money making site are: wealthy affiliate learning, wealthy affiliate, why is online learning killing it, kill it with online learning, free learning is killing it, wealthy affiliate is killing it, home business killing it ... I tried doing a search for "wealthy affiliate learning" and your number 1 competitor is Wealthy Affiliate. That's pretty tough to compete with in the first place. Your second and third competitors are sites I think you can beat in time.
I did not see a meta-description for your money making site. Don't forget that search engines use your meta tags to index your site. Visitors who decide to click through to your site are often enticed by a good meta description.
Your sports site uses the key-phrases premiership football reviews, football reviews, sporting reviews, premier league reviews, big match reviews, champion league reviews, boxing reviews ... good grief, you are competing against Sky Sports, The Guardian, premierleage.com, The Telegraph. Those are big league competitors. I only searched premiership football reviews.
The one competitor you may challenge is ranked #7 when searching "premiership football reviews." Now compare your keywords with their keywords which are; football news, football reviews, soccer quizzes, soccer blog, football blog, football quizzes. Can you see a difference?
I gained top 10 Google results by using short key-phrases. For example here is an illustration of my use of "pacemaker candidate" (only key-phrase I use on this page) which ranks #7 as of 4/30/15
http://www.healthtopics4you.info/pacemaker-candidates-why-me.html
You may be able to get better search engine results with a more refined keyword or phrase by looking at what your top competitors are doing.
Something that Google might ding you for on your sports site is a page with a lot of banner links:
http://sport-reviews.com/new-customer-bookmaker-promotions
Google frowns upon sites that are just a bunch of affiliate links. They reward sites with a lot of useful and unique posts and unique information. Content you individually write is the key to getting good rankings. My pacemaker candidate page is a good example.
Sites Google rates as just a bunch of affiliate links suffers. You can off-set the sport banner page with a bunch of quality and useful content you author.
Keep an eye on your site statistics which should tell you what keywords folks are using to find your site.
Finally, ask yourself the question, "would the average person really use this keyword to find me," when determining which keywords to use.
Sheesh, I'm tired. Think I'll go have some dinner ... GrampaMike
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He has a HUGE problem with his website. It does NOT look that nice and Google will see it as a Spam website. He has affiliate links on every page and post! He cannot do that and expect to get ranked! It's painful to read his content with all of the Jaaxy and Site Rubix widgets and the banner ads within the text.
As Kyle says in the training, all affiliate links should be centralized on the WA Review page and not on any of the other pages. Google absolutely hates websites that have affiliate links on every page.
Plus Google will not start to take interest in a website to start ranking it until it has at least a combined amount of 12-15 pages and posts, he has only 10 (Privacy Policy doesn't count).
Another thing he needs to do is get his own domain name, it will rank better and faster than a siterubix sub domain. And he has only been at this for about two months. It's way too early to see any major results.
Lastly, many referrals join and never go premium because they either join as curiosity seekers, or they join out of desperate times for themselves, or they join and take action at a later date. You cannot expect every referral to follow though, it doesn't work like that.
Shame on me. I missed the sub-domain issue. It is so obvious to me that you can't do well with a sub-domain. I never bother using them.
All your additional critiques were spot on. This fellow has a lot of problems to deal with SEO and site design wise.
I focused on keywords and you gave an excellent shot across the bow about insufficient content, too many affiliate links and inappropriate placement.
The good news is that this fellow may have just learned how not to make an effective website.
Thank you for adding information I didn't in my original response.
... GrampaMike
Great advice. I would add a couple of points. As a journalist, I cringe when I see poor grammar and spelling errors. Using the lower case i does not make it. Run your content, anything you write, through an editing software. Word has it included as do others. There is a free software called Grammarly which is even editing me now as I type this. I have an advantage as I am educated in English, but for most people they need editing help. As to your websites, pictures and videos are a plus. Last, add Yoast or some other SEO plugin to make sure you are up to snuff. Good Luck!
Amen, amen, amen ... poor grammar and spelling is so unprofessional.
I was talking with my caregiver yesterday about that same subject. Her opinion was a revelation. She explained that when she encounters a website with poor spelling, she views the site as non-credible and unprofessional. She simply "walks" away and looks for other trustworthy websites.
It's a lot like car hunting. We have two car lots side by side. One is Honest Joe's Used Cars with scruffy pavement and ornamental lawn that needs mowing. Next door is Ford Certified Used Cars with freshly washed and shiny cars, swept pavement, and well trimmed ornamental lawn. Honest Joe might be the more trustworthy but I would be drawn to Ford even though they may be dishonest and insincere.
Thank you for mentioning speling and gramar. (lol)
... GrampaMike
Great solid, accurate, informative, sensible, and helpful advice Mike, its probably the best reply I have seen here on WA.
You are an asset to the community, and I will share this post to my WA followers, as I am sure this will help many others.
Paul
Paul I agree this is solid and accurate information. This has given me a new look at keywords and competing with the big guys. Thanks to you and Mike for sharing this. You and Mike are credits to the Wa community, and information like this helps the rest of us keep moving in the right direction.
Keep the information coming, you guys help more than you may know.
Yes, I give great advice, am a huge asset to the WA community, and I'm humble too !!! (LOL)
Seriously, I have learned so much since my totally novice, self-taught beginnings in 2004. I'm no expert but I seemed to have learned a few tricks of the trade along the way. It's my pleasure to share what I have learned.
Thank you for your super kind words.
... GrampaMike
The multiple affiliate links problem is why Kyle recommends a page for each product review with not more that two links to the affiliate page you are reviewing. I set my reviews up with a summary page for all of the products I review. The page has a very short description of the affiliate and an internal link to the page that has the complete review. The complete review page links to the appropriate affiliate signup page. The review pages are children of the review summary page.
Well said. That's the format I would tend to use too.
So many webmasters blast readers with too many ads on their web pages. The ads tend to annoy me and distract my eye from the content. I prefer to be subtle and carefully salt my affiliate link or two within the content. I don't want to come across as that car salesman on TV long ago, what was his name? I think it was Cal and his dog Spot.
The only exception is that I'm still fond of a small square banner in the upper right hand corner of my post.
Too many affiliate links can also slow page loading which is another visitor annoyance.
Thank you for your insight ... GrampaMike
That's what we are talking about! The support and the unselfish sharing from the gurus here in WA! Thanks, Mike! Best!
Guru, LOL. Holy cow, if I ever thought of myself as a guru then I would lose the halo above my head.
I just happened to have picked up a few tricks of the trade along my journey over the past 10 years. Site design and SEO aren't a problem. However, doing effective affiliate marketing and passive income development is the "final frontier" for me and I have a lot to learn.
Thank you for your kind words ... GrampaMike
For us newbies, Mike, we look up to you for your lengthy experience which translates to expertise! Longevity in this business is the key, in my opinion. Ultimately that is the true criteria for being a "guru", sir.
My 2 cents! Cheers!
Thanks GrampaMike! This helped me a lot! I am in the content creation stages and setting up Metadata. So this helped a lot. I am going to put some though and research into keywords to use. Glad your in my network!~Amy
Hi Amy,
Meta tags (keywords & page descriptions) were not a priority for me in the beginning until I wrote my heart pacemaker articles.
see: http://www.healthtopics4you.info/an-introduction-to-my-heart-pacemaker-story.html
This is where I learned the huge importance of using quality meta tags. My pages zoomed to the top 10 of Google's search results and I was flabbergasted. I had no idea I could compete with the big guys until then.
I often work backwards. I write my content then decide what keywords to use by utilizing a keyword analyzer. You may find this tool helpful:
http://www.webseoanalytics.com/free/seo-tools/page-analyzer-keyword-density-tool.php
Here is a free tool you may be interested in too:
http://www.freewebsubmission.com/web-page-analyzer.html
This tool will help you see your web pages through the eyes of the search engines. I use it to help refine my meta tags and descriptions.
Good meta tags and quality, personally authored content packs a powerful punch in the search engine wars.
... GrampaMike
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I think Wayne will be glad, when so many members commented and gave practical advices what is wrong.
That's the thing I like about WA is that folks are great at helping when they can ... GrampaMike