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How many visitors do you get to your site, have you got analytics running?
As of now it's not a lot, I do have analytics however it's nothing to post on as of yet. I'm still hard at work building the SEO of the site, once that gets to where I need it and I start ranking on google it will increase. As of now we have just under 2k back links, and I'm getting more and more added every day!
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How are you getting so many backlinks, it seems as if having that many backlinks are probably just low quality / spammy if activity is still low because you should be getting quite a bit of traffic now in theory.
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A lot of your backlinks are low quality (DR/DA of 0-10) and some are even left as IP addresses.
The ones that are a higher DR don't seem to be converting much traffic which, like Puppuccino said, should be bringing in at least something.
I would focus a lot more on raising your sites Domain Authority and content, not just low quality backlinks. But that's just my two cents.
The DR's raising with the back links, it's not high but it is raising (currently 4.7) I'm doing the same thing I did with my 40k member forum, so it should work out in the end. Build SEO/backlinks using specific keywords, the more you have the higher you rank the more members you generate through google. I was bringing in over 500k-1M views a month using this method and had 5 keywords first on google.
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Were there other factors at the with your 40k member forum though? Less competitive landscape? More niche topic etc.?
I just don't see your current keywords or rankings as changing very much - a few higher DA backlinks mean a lot more than a bunch of spammy ones
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As Cumulus has said, I'd focus on actually advertising the forum rather than building backlinks as you've not got very much activity and the stats are still fairly low.
Ultimately, do what you want, but I'd suggest boosting your stats and activity first as I wouldn't join if the forum has no activity from users and minimal content to contribute to. Just my opinion though, that's all.
Ultimately, do what you want, but I'd suggest boosting your stats and activity first as I wouldn't join if the forum has no activity from users and minimal content to contribute to. Just my opinion though, that's all.
The forum's not the only focus with the site, the marketplace and a new feature which will be added here soon will be another huge factor on the website. Getting ranked on google is one of the best ways to advertise, and as you stated you wouldn't join if the forum has no activity from users and minimal content. So advertising won't change that fact either, so might as well continue to build the keywords and getting ranked higher on google to get more daily views and more authentic members that way on top of advertising.
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Google may be the best place to advertise, but it's like advertising a bike with only one wheel. It isn't a fully complete or marketable product yet.
Exposure ≠ Conversion.
When users, if they really do clickthrough from this marketing and backlinking, visit what is there to keep them around? What is being done to ensure conversions?
- You have 553 backlinks to the marketplace which has been inactive since March 7th and only had 18 listings - all with no engagement and very little views (the best had 99 views)
- You only have 83 backlinks pointing at the forum which is the sites most active component
- All 1924 backlinks thus far have led to 0 referral traffic to the site
- Only 42% of site's are offering dofollow backlinks (the higher figure of 72% is total backlinks - with some sites duplicating backlinks multiple times in posts)
- 9/20 forums on the site have had no activity in over 2 months
- 2/20 of the forum's are completely empty
- Of the 24 users of the site, only about 7 seem actively present on the site
You could improve your rankings a bit better through more valuable SEO:
- Your robots.txt file
- Optimising your onpage meta which is quite poor at the moment
- Improving keyword consistency on the main-page (currently the forum)
- Optimising all HTML tags on the homepage and ensuring points 2 & 3 are included
- Better keyword targeting - so far only one keyword (well phrase 'Xenforo license verification') is indexed and its pages 31-100 so not exactly great
- Fixing onsite link structure. 11% are external bound (I'm guessing your footer credits block may be the victim here) and 10% of internal links are nofollow - this is crazy! Make sure you're passing authority to subpages internally
- Friendly URLs for your pages would help with SEO - though I appreciate with XF as the base this can be hard
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