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tags on the home page and antag in the middle of them… I would get someone to clean up the code asap (I don’t know if that’s the source of your troubles, but it won’t hurt)
Dave
Dave, thanks for that info. I’ll start looking for someone since I know zip about html.
I don’t get 450 uniques across all of my sites, so you must be doing something right!!!
Sandbox or no sanbox, that is good IMO.
I would recommend the W3 HTML Validator:
validator.w3.org
I always use an add-in to Firefox which tells me if my page is coded correctly
It’s called the Tidy HTML Validator. If I get the green checkmark, I know I have coded well!One of the problems, though, is that most affiliate programs code their links with & instead of using & amp ; (no spaces of course).
That always throws off the validators.
I agree with kwblue – 450 uniques a day is good.
Some of my sites have been in the google sandbox for nearly 18 months and now that it seems they are out it doessn’t really make much difference as they are not top 10 or 20 for the big money terms.
I think it’s about quality traffic rather than quantity…
I lost my PR from my inner pages on one of my sites the last update, think i did something to the code(like removing the description content, etc), but when i searched “online poker” the other day, my newest site was on page 3, next to Party Poker, wtf, i’ll never figure this out
Bleuze –
If you are getting 450 uniques a day from only being online since February this is great! Most people only aquire that after a few years. Are you sure this is uniques and not page views?
The reason I ask is, if these are actually “uniques” and you aren’t getting many signups, then I would start looking at how long they stay once they get to your site. Maybe you need to do something to keep them there once they get there, know what I mean? Try making some changes to your home page – enticing titles or graphics to perk their interest. Maybe they are not finding what they came there for? Try some experiments.
Thanks for the tips. I think that your correct about the stats and viewers not staying long. I use StatCounter for my stats. Page loads range from 1200 to 300 depending on the day. Higher loads in the beginning of the week. However, time spent is very low – usually 0 to 3 seconds. A few for minutes. Thus, I’ll take your suggestion!
The ones that last 0 seconds are faulty, really.. That means that they did not navigate to another page on the site, actually, but does not mean they did not ‘stay’ at all.
As far as the rest, I certainly have 450 page views per month
I was starting to believe that I really sucked at this if you were getting 450 uniques and I was getting a fraction of that (small fraction).No, StatCounter shows an average of 450 uniques and page loads vary from 300 to 1200 depending on the day. But uniques that show 0 seconds is discouraging.
Is it maybe because I use manual surfing to promote alot?bleuze wrote:But uniques that show 0 seconds is discouraging.Might indicate someone is scraping you somewhere. A PHP script could call your content in with a @file() command and display it on another site, but still register a “visit” as PHP is client-side. Just a guess…may not be.
According to Alexa’s information, your unique visitors are around 30 per day. That’s a guess based on your traffic rank of 430,915. If you are relying on PPC for much of your traffic, that would explain it. PPC for gambling is 90% fake traffic, but AWStats would pick it up as real traffic. This would also explain the large number of people staying on your site for 0 seconds. Like KWBlue said, that stat does require a user to click to another page to register more than 0 seconds, so there is the chance that your site isn’t compelling enough for someone to want to click around (I haven’t really looked at your site, so I don’t know).
To your original question, you most likely are in the sandbox with Google as it seems to take a minimum of 1 year and probably closer to 2 years to rank for gambling related terms. You also don’t have enough backlinks to pull yourself up in the rankings anyway, with 164 being reported by Yahoo. For comparison, we don’t rank on Google either, with a 19 month old site, PR5 and 11,503 backlinks.
My point is that it takes a lot of time and hard work for new sites to get past the sandbox period. We are showing signs of crawling out, but haven’t arrived yet.
Thanks for your response. Now I have 2 questions because of it. They are:
1) should I forget about statcounter – it was recommended that I use it on VIPProfits forum
2) in regard to links, I’m a little confused. First, I thought that you should not have more than 100 links. Secondly, I thought that the links should be meaningful to your site (in other words since I’m a SB & poker site that those are the only links that I should have). By the way, I’ve got less than 100 links since I removed the casino & bingo links.
Finally, I’ve been told that I should avoid Alexa’s info since only webmasters looked at it and it wasn’t correct. Should I look at them and add their tool bar? I now have google’s tool bar and it hasn’t helped!
