Ok, WAer friends, I've taken a couple of days to pout and now I'm back strong - going through all the keyword training again and also a cool law of attraction course at Udemy (got it on sale for $9.99). I've been going back through the posts on my boot camp site and rewriting some of them for better keyword use - I think I'm figuring it out now. And I have my drive back. Thanks for all the suggestions, many that I've already taken and implemented. Thanks for the kick in the booty too. - Shirley

Hi Shirley,
I'm in the same boat with life getting in the way. Every time I sit down to write a blog post something else requires my attention. So, believe me. I understand.

However, as a content writer who gets more than 1,000 visitors a week to my posts on the residual income site I write for and earning money from them- I might be able to point you in the right direction.

In order to attract organic traffic, you have to get into the mind of the average retired person. You could even narrow it down to retired women over 50 - there are lots of those.

What are her concerns? That alphabet soup method that Kyle teaches is very helpful in getting into the mind of your potential audience.

You are a retired woman. What do you struggle with? How do you cope with these struggles? Chances are there are many things you can write about to offer direction to someone who has counted on a stable retirement and suddenly finds themselves with not enough money, and health problems that come with age.

It's a scary place to be, and more and more people are finding themselves in this situation because they didn't save enough for retirement, or they lost money in their portfolio after the crash in 2007.

What skills would this person need to succeed online?

What free resources are out there to help them upgrade their skills? What skills will they need to run a website? What about outsourcing? How would they do that if they don't have time to do all the writing?

How about their writing. How will they build good writing skills if they are lacking? What blogs or books could you recommend that discuss writing?

What about social media? What social media sites are the best to attract visitors (Pinterest is my personal favorite). You get the idea.

Each question could generate several posts. You can not only promote WA but gain credibility by linking to resource sites.

So stop and think about the person coming to your site looking for help, and write just for that person. Keep everything directed at them.

What information can you provide to them to help them out of their scary situation? Nobody wants to live out their Golden Years in poverty.

You are building an authority site, so every post does not have to be about WA.

Write what you think will help people, and then you can tweak the headings, etc. to include good keywords that will rank.

You will get there. This requires some rethinking and tweaking that's all. Your writing is very good and that's half the battle.

BTW, keep those paragraphs really short. No more than four sentences in a paragraph - three is optimal. Use the white space. Just like I did in this response. :-)

Wendy

Well you are getting more traffic than me so I'm not sure I can comment anything helpful.

One thought I had would be to contact Steve who referred you for some help. Also, would it make sense to revisit the training to see if you could improve in any area? Sometimes when it's been a while and we think we know, we've actually forgotten Haha.

How many articles do you write per week? Do you make sure they get indexed?

Just a couple things I could think of. Hope it helps!

Hi Shirley,
I have taken a quick look at your website and - simply as a visitor - could point out lots and lots of things. But I'll just mention a few.

You have a very nice writing style, but, in my opinion, a lot of the information on your Home page should go on your 'About' page. A visitor is interested in 'What's in it for me', not in your life story.

Do you really need an Amazon affiliate link on a Bootcamp site - especially when it becomes the reason for a huge Affiliate disclosure box right at the top (when there is a second large Affiliate disclosure box straight underneath)? And what do special offers of children's clothes have to do with 'Making money in retirement'? Especially since we are 6 months past the 'holiday period'. (Google is likely confused what your site is about, so you aren't likely to get much organic traffic.)

Also on your homepage you mention 'Earning Money in Retirement' and immediately show a picture of a young(ish) lady followed by 'Maybe you are a stay at home mom or dad', 'Maybe you are a college student'. As a retired person myself, I would no longer feel that you are really interested in the problems of the retired person. I also dislike the red text - it would make me click away pretty quickly. And what has the image of a tablet computer got to do with anything? A picture should tie in with the text and enhance it, not create a distraction.

There are also careless misprints and text that clearly got left behind when you copied and pasted something, so I would suggest you look at your site critically. And, as others have said, have better keywords (and miss out all those question marks in the tabs on the top... why question marks?? Use a good keyword phrase instead.)

You may also want to ask for feedback in the Site Feedback section.

Hope this helps at least a bit to see your site with 'different eyes'.
And if you are pushed for time, don't worry about all the SWAG tasks like spending time on Live Chat, writing WA posts etc. Just concentrate on your website.

Shirley, is your target market senior citizens? If so, you may want to consider using a larger text font to make your site easier to read for us seniors.

Hi Shirley, I agree with J-KWest's comments about your keywords. It appears that you need to focus on keywords as explained in the training.

Here are your 3 keywords that rank in Google according to SEMrush.I also show my SEMrush data for my website which only has 6 pages and 11 blog posts with 270 comments with 42 keywords that rank. This shows how valuable high ranking keywords are to traffic generation.

Shirley, would love to give you some feedback on your site, can you confirm which one it is on the profile you have please : )

I'm new but I love to take look at your site. Is there a link to it, I read many of wealthy websites before I joined. also I keep hearing Pinterest is great for building traffic,
Sandy

Hi Shirley,
I have taken a quick look at your website and the first thing that smacks me right in the face, is the fact that you do not have a WA banner at the top right of your sidebar. People will only find it if they scroll to the very bottom and that is only on the Home Page post. So, if you are promoting individual posts, then nobody is seeing a banner for WA.

I appreciate that you have your WA review in the top navi bar but people judge whether they will read whats on your website within the first few seconds, so visually appealing or inquisitive images are paramount and above the fold. If you are not sure about 'above the fold' type above the fold in the top WA search bar.

Also, you could do with taking the affiliate disclosure notices down the page. Whilst, we must have something on our websites that gives people full disclosure, it doesn't do well to make it the first thing they see.

Maybe add a couple of other banners - Adsense maybe and 1 other - to go below your new WA banner at the top right of the sidebar before they get to the disclosures.

As for your traffic, it is difficult to answer without knowing how you promote at the moment.

Hope that helps

Hi Shirley, I just a had a quick peak and I think your site looks great. The first thing I noticed though is that your articles don't appear to be targeting any specific keywords. Out of curiosity, are you writing your articles for search traffic or primarily for social sharing? Also, are you tracking your rankings at all?