My site traffic down these days and key words didn’t rank high after doing SEO for the last 4 months. Anyone can advise me how to do it?
My site is www.hackneyart.com
Thanks,
Pius.
One problem you’ve got is that your document structure is all shot to pieces. You should use <h1> for your main page heading, <h2> for top-level sub-headings, <h3> for smaller sub-headings. You’re slapping them on everything like there’s no tomorrow, so it’s no wonder that search engines are struggling to know what your site is about. Your alt text is the same on all images, which looks like keyword stuffing to search engines.
And, while not directly relevant, you’ve got tons of inline scripts and styles that shouldn’t be there - some of them should be in external .js and .css files, but lots of them are badly written or completely unnecessary.
What’s your inbound link profile like?
A couple of searches I did on google for text that I found on your website brought up the exact same text on other websites.
Text that is duplicate content is unlikely to be indexed, let alone ranked, on google. You have to be the originator of the content.
If you haven’t already done so, you need to create your own, unique, relevant, interesting, keyword targeted text - about 300 words minimum for each page/keyword target.
I can’t see any google analytics script on you webpages either.
If you have not already done so, here are a few things you might consider:
- Register for google webmaster tools and google analytics. Put the analytics code on all your webpages. These two aids from google will give you plenty of information of just how google is viewing and indexing your website.
- Get SenSEO, a free firefox extension (you will need to have the firebug extension enabled first). It gives basic feedback on your webpage SEO.
- Have a look at some software utilities, something like Traffic Travis version 3, this is a free to use SEO tool - no need to buy the PRO version, the free version will give your plenty of data to help you optimize you website.
- Create an image sitemap and submit it to your google webmaster tools account. This should help bring in visitors using google image search.
I guess there are plenty of other things you should then look at doing, but the above list has, I think, the basics that you should look into first.
Good luck!
Apparently if you add at least 1 new page of high quality, original content to your site every day, it plays a factor in Page Rank.
How true that really is, is anybody’s guess.
This is an interesting discussion and I couldn’t resist myself jumping on it. well about duplicate text , what if some one copies your test via feed etc who will rank for that text in google. I am assuming google will take sometime once you publish your post and in the meantime some one also post the same thing.
Another important thing is backlinks from high PR site which helps but difficult to get 
Not true. PageRank is a specific feature that looks at the number of inbound links to a page and the reputation of the site giving those links. PageRank is calculated on a per-page basis, not a per-site basis. Adding new content won’t affect your PageRank at all.
What it will do is to feed into your overall Google score. Google takes into account something like 200+ different factors; PageRank is one of them, but there are plenty more. One of those other factors is “freshness”, how often you add new content. Sites that are adding new content regularly will be considered to be active and current, which will give them a boost compared with sites that are no longer maintained and so may be out of date.
It isn’t a silver bullet, but it’s just one little thing that can give a little bit of help.
Thanks Stevie D , getting reply from an expert is what this forum provides. just to clarify does backlinks which comes from comment from blogger or wordpress blogs has any value since those blogs may not have any page rank.
Many sites have links in comments or other user-generated content set to “nofollow”, particularly if they are ‘open access’ and don’t require registration or authentification of any kind. This means they will be worthless for SEO, as search engines won’t even look at them.
Even where links are not "nofollow"ed, all that means is that search engines will look at the links. Generally, content pages where other users can add comments are not going to have any great PageRank, and are likely to have a lot of outbound links, so what little PR there is will be spread very thinly between them. So while those links might help your site to get indexed and understood, they won’t confer much in terms of reputation.
For example - here on Sitepoint Forums, links in the message body allow search spiders to follow them (and we have a large team of staff who monitor the forums assiduously and delete any spurious links that are not relevant to the debate), but any links in people’s signatures are automatically set to “nofollow”.
Thanks Stevie D. your explanations are quite logical and convincing. Just to add How about social bookmarking site I know some of them have high PR at least PR 2 and PR 3 and also allows Dofollow , will that add any value to get your blogpost rank higher in google ? I see commenting, bookmarking and forum posting these are the three free option available to any new blogger but I see these are not something which helps in SEO , let me know if something else can also be done apart form these.
Thanks again.
Although Facebook and Twitter links are “nofollow”, I’ve heard many people saying that Google has begun to take them into consideration given the ever-increasing importance of social media.
I’ve also heard that the number of likes or shares associated with your link plays a significant role in this.
Perhaps the experts here can clarify this issue further.
I had experienced before; If your backlink building rate (or speed) were not high a quality link can do much in the short time period.
You should focus on building your quality backlinks. just I am talking about quality backlinks not only backlinks so try to find high PR dofollow blogs which are related to your niche and leave your URL there and the other thing is that try to put your links in high alexa and PR directories it will give you one-way backlinks and also your newly added content will crawled by search engine fast than before. so I have some high alexa and PR directories just go to my blog through my signature and see on footer links and submit your blog one by one.
Best Regards!
That’s a bit of a contradiction in terms. The chance of finding a relevant blog that has high PR on comments pages (remember, PR is done page-by-page, it doesn’t matter what the PR of the home page is if your link is somewhere else), accepts external links in the UGC and would count as ‘high quality’.
When you’re looking for quality, you’re likely to have more success getting ‘editorial’ links - ie, those added by the website owner/author - these usually have more credibility in the eyes of search engines.
I don’t know how you doing off page but i find a on page error in your site that is conical tag missing means you site is opening as
www.hackneyart.com/index.php
but it should be
www.hackneyart.com/
It also effect to your site because Google consider these are two sites.
I didn’t understand, will you explain…? thx in advance…
Both www.hackneyart.com/index.php and www.hackneyart.com/ should lead to the same page, but unless you redirect one to the other, use a canonical tag, Google won’t necessarily realise they are two routes to the same page, and so might index both of them separately.
You can get around this by putting
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.hackneyart.com/">
in the <head> of the page, and then Google will know that that is the correct URL to use for the page, no matter what URL it has hit on.
Many webmasters have reported lower traffic after recent Panda update of Google. The reasons may be internal link structure, external links pointing to this page, or keyword (anchor text) density.
Check out this thread: h??p://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4302355.htm (Recovered from Panda)
Replace h??p with http
Page rank depend upon number of back link of your site and domain age of your site. So try to increase backlinks of your site.
Try to Use xml sitemap and always write a quality content…
This will increase your Traffic.
I read about submitting link to SEO friendly web directories, I saw a huge list of such site in internet and some of them have high PR as well upto 4 or 5. This looks me a very easy way of backlink building and that’s why I am worried, what’s the catch here. why there are so many dofollow directory why they are giving backlink for free from there PR4 or PR5 ?