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