Traffic lights stuck on red!
So, my website is almost 6 months old now and I have worked hard getting it how I want it to look. I've joined all the affiliate programs I wanted to join, have added sound, video and a forum. I've spent many many hours searching/researching keywords with high traffic/low competition. I think I've done everything I have been taught to do, and yet, there's still no traffic!
I'm only getting around 70 visitors per month! Obviously this is really disheartening. I am aware that I'm in an extremely competitive niche but surely I should be getting more traffic that this? I really need to start making money but I just don't know what else I can do?
It's like the traffic lights are stuck on red!
I'm going to add my website to my profile now so if anyone would be kind enough to take a look and maybe give me some pointers to where I'm going wrong, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to take a look and offer any solutions. I'm feeling really down because of this : (
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There's a lot of comments about the niche being competitive here - I agree the niche is competitive, but don't fall into the trap of thinking competition makes it harder to succeed... The reason a niche has more competition is because there's more money to be made in it, therefore with lower traffic in a high competition niche you'd likely be making the same level of income as a site with high traffic in a low competition niche. It's almost proportional.
Hope that makes some sense.
Anyway, I've just took a look at the site. First plus point is that it looks awesome. Ease of use great, monetization great... All good!
The problem here is that you are targeting high-level keywords. For example, you have a page targeted the keyword "US Casino Sites"... This all fair and well, but then on it you have 2 different casinos listed here with direct affiliate links to their site.
What you should be doing here is taking the opportunity to branch out to lower level keywords, so for each of those casinos you should be creating a post, see below for an example...
US Casino Sites page
-> links to -> Winaday Casino Review
-> links to -> Slotland Casino Review
Then place your affiliate links in the reviews.
This way you have now created much more opportunity for people to land on your site. Maybe they looking for US casino sites, maybe they are looking specifically for more information on Winaday etc...
Your content is your speed - if you widen your site (without reducing content quality) you will give people much more chance of landing on your site... Thus generating much more traffic :)
Hey I just looked at your site. There’s good advice below!
All I would say is the site looks good. I looked at setting up a poker site but there is so much competition out there, it’s quite possibly the same in your niche?
See what technical advice the guys below have.
Don’t give up!
Wayne
James is right. This is a super-competitive niche. I expect that the "big boys" have huge teams of people working day and night on their sites to get them ranking highly.
...and there are a lot of them.
Hi there,
I am just on my way home but I saw your post so I thought I would offer some quick advice. I will take a longer look at your site later if I get the time.
Try running the site through GT Metrix and Pingdom.
https://gtmetrix.com
https://tools.pingdom.com
They will analyze your site for you and highlight any errors.
I did a quick check and your homepage is very "heavy"...there's a lot going on there. It takes a long time to load and Google/Bing don't really like that.
If the rest of your site is the same, you may want to address that.
Search engines tend not to rank sites that keep people waiting...especially in a popular niche. Therefore no traffic.
Hope that helps a little but don't despair and don't give up. You have worked hard on that site so keep at it.
Cheers,
Nick
Gaming is an extremely difficult niche to break into. Let me have a proper look later on as I'm on my mobile at the moment.
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Every one tells me at least 6 months before you see any traffic and year before your generate any real money?