Focus on guest blogging not working; what's the best quick fix?
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I have always used strictly white-hat SEO tactics, targeting long-term results, my main focus being on quality guest blogging.
I have been working on a site for around 6 months, and I started out with my keywords ranking very well, but very little traffic was coming to the site. 2 weeks ago I expanded my keyword list considerably in an effort to drive more traffic, but last week my keywords all took a nosedive. My client wants an answer by Thursday.
I know there's no quick fix, but what's the best way to quickly get my rankings back up and serious traffic to the site?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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Check your inbox!
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As you can see I am a fairly new SEO. (I worked for someone else for a year before starting on my own.) I know that I still have a lot to learn in the technical aspects of the site, but I was always good with link building, and so far I am learning on the job, and it's worked for me.
I have 3 clients. 2 are profitable, this site, so far, is not.
No, I am not able to build a site myself; I do have a trusted developer and I discussed redoing the site with my client way in the beginning, but at the time he didn't want to spend so much, and it's too late now. The site has to be profitable before he'll invest in redoing it.
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4. No. Flash is dead! Deal with it and move on to jquery.
I have some questions.... please bare with me...
1. How many clients do you have?
2. Are they a profitable client?
3. Are you able to build websites yourself?
4. Do you know or have a trusted developer (if you can not do it yourself)
5. Does the client have a bit of a budget to justify getting the site built on a CMS like Joomla.
Please get back to me....
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Thank you for your response!
1. There is an xml sitemap, no html sitemap.
2. Page titles, meta descriptions, and content were all optimized, but yes, there still is some work to be done.
4. Is there any way to optimize flash?
I know about the on site issues, the problem is that there is no backend and the developer is being obnoxious, so every time I want to change something on the site I have to pull teeth.
Any other advice? Thank you so much for your time!
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Just checked some of your links. You have some bad links i.e. http://www.twipit.com/ (a malware infected site) - http://www.juicyworm.com/tag/wireless/ - http://www.dokisoft.com/inbuilding-wireless-solutions-the-future-of-communication/
These are just a few. You need to work on the quality of the blogs you are posting to. Why not try some better known ones like read, write, web, lifehacker etc.... You do have some good ones though i.e. http://www.cleverdude.com/ is a good to have.
But I stand by what I say ON SITE IS MOST IMPORTANT!
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Just to clarify. You did not build the site? The client who owns the site is employing you for SEO? Correct.
It might be me but it appears a lot of the "blogs" you have posted on are not showing back links let using the SEO Moz tools. (I will look elsewhere when I have some time to look into this). Can you list so sample posts so I check the quality of the blogs.
Seriously though you need to focus on the on site problems or you will get no where. Off site should be focused on AFTER on site problems are fixed.
Basics.
1. Is it me or is there NO SITEMAP? BIG ISSUE.
2. Page titles, meta descriptions and content correct for each page/keyword
3. Header 1 tags used on right pages with right keywords.
4. Remove Flash.
LOADS MORE but not got time to go into it.... (the priority might be a bit off)
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The url is http://www.cellsignalsolutions.com
I know that the site still has some issues; I have to ignore them for now because the developer is making it difficult for me to access the backend.
Some of my main keywords from the original list:
wireless building
inbuilding wireless
wireless DAS
inbuilding wireless solution/s
in building wireless solution/s
building to building wireless solution/s
in-building wireless networks
Some keywords from the new list: (It includes around 65 keywords)
das in building wireless solution/s
in building das New York
in building das solution/s
in-building das solution/s
Thank you in advance!
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Also please identify which keywords were the original keywords and which keywords are the new keywords.
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Whats the url and keywords?
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