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I feel your frustration. To be honest the online casino industry has become extremely difficult and competitive of late even for established affiliates like ourselves.
First of all hang in there. I know it’s easier said than done but 2013 I think will be a good year for us. Hopefully online gambling will be legalized in the US next year. If this happens it will level the playing field considerably and most affiliates won’t even bother marketing to the rest of the world but will focus on the US market instead.
Most SEO recommendations are that you ignore the keywords meta. I see you have the following keywords in your keyword meta on xxtp://www.heaven4casinos.com/
“online casino,video slots,casino software,NetEnt,Microgaming,Playtech,top 10 casinos”You won’t get very far if you are using generic keywords like those.
Hi,
Meta keywords are one of them things that divide SEO’s. Some believe in them and some don’t.
I guess it’s a personal choice if you wish to use them or not, but if you do, make them relevant to the page rather than generic.
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I just watched a matt cuffs video the other night that says Google doesn’t use the kw meta tag and he also said he didn’t know of any SE that still does.
Whenever I update a page I remove most of them and leave 1 or 2 in there.
Its the description meta you need to pay attention to and it should be about 155 characters. (including spaces)
title tag should be no more than 70 characters. (including spaces)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 themNext 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.Backlinks and reputation in Google ranking will effect your website. Increase your keywords ranking in Search Engines and you will increase traffic.
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 themNext 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.@byebyebaby 248051 wrote:
But does the nofollow help with traffic? Or is just that I don’t help other sites with it?
There is a big debate about nofollow Vs dofollow but the short answer to what you are asking is yes. Theoretically it should help with your traffic, it’s only a very small thing though so don’t expect a big or even particularly noticeable increase after doing it
@Caseym 248052 wrote:
There is a big debate about nofollow Vs dofollow but the short answer to what you are asking is yes. Theoretically it should help with your traffic, it’s only a very small thing though so don’t expect a big or even particularly noticeable increase after doing it
That doesn’t matter, every small thing will help in my case
@byebyebaby 247956 wrote:
I have been at this online gambling business for almost 3 years now and still no success, not really anyways.
I know my 2 gamblers and gambling sites are too general. But my casinos site is up-to-date, unique, all meta’s, enough pages, I think a fine website.
Still no success, only a couple of signups a month, mostly not playing at all
I am really beginning to doubt if I am doing everything wrong?
What do you guys think? I know I can be a handfull
Well I dunno if it’s just me or what,
but December has been lousy, both for signups and player activity
So if you are going to feel bad, at least wait until the spring… wait and see how Jan and Feb are.
But also take the seo advice that people are giving you.Regarding www heaven4casinos com (and other sites most likely):
Your domainname is heaven4casinos and first thing I noticed when visited your sites homepage is Top 10 online casinos section (this is OK), but why in the heck is this your homepage title “Video slot reviews Video slot bonuses online slot casinos and casino software”. Especially when you have dedicated video slots section on “www heaven4casinos.com/slots-a-z” and homepage contains nothing about slots reviews except in recent post module. Also you can’t target all this high competitive keywords (video slots reviews, video slots bonuses, online slot casinos, casino software) with one page.You have duplicated titles so I suggest to change homepage in something like top online casinos or even longer phrase.
Sorry for my bad english@byebyebaby 248031 wrote:
But should I just don’t fill in any keywords at all, or should I put in more specific ones?
I don’t think small details like this will make any difference to your rankings. Ranking in Google is all about unique content, and lots of quality backlinks. I can’t really say much more than this because I’m not doing much better myself. I feel your frustration, this industry is pretty tough at the moment. I’ve got my fingers crossed for a much better 2013, for both of us
