Reply To: Beginning to doubt myself

But does the nofollow help with traffic? Or is just that I don’t help other sites with it?

@fonzi 248042 wrote:

Let’s start with the easy stuff and take your homepage as an example.

you have 42 outbound links OBL
of the 42 only 6 have a nofollow tag which means you’re pissing away google juice to 36 OTHER sites.
some of those look like link sales, if they are then leave them as is until they expire.
As for the links to casinos, add rel=”nofollow” to them

Next up is to pay attention to the small details, you still have your copy write as 2011 and we’re almost in 2013. Every little thing matters and this may be why you’re struggling with traffic.

After you’ve cleaned some of these things up you need to link build, there are several ways of doing this, you can buy links (diversify the anchor text), do guest blogging, do blog commenting, etc.

Spend a week setting up all your social networking, you can create 1 account at the major social sites (FB, twitter, G+, Pinterest and more) and use it for all 3 of your websites. My facebook and twitter traffic has been a pleasant surprise and I thank JillO for pushing me to do it.

Get all this done and come 2013 take a fresh approach to everything you do.
Diversify everything. Anchor text, traffic sources, inbound links, marketing and most importantly how you see things.

This won’t help with traffic but should improve user experience.
As for web design, I like building clean sites, meaning not many moving parts. The banners on your site distract me, I would replace them with icons or logos. Icons would make the white space disappear. The ADD in me comes out when I see too many things flashing. I would also remove the vertical lines in that table, all you need is one line at the bottom of each row to seperate like you have in you sidebar.