I am new to SEO. Would appreciate anyone share with me how can i further optimize my website to attract more visitors based on this scenario?

[andrewsoh07]

Hi all,

Thanks and really appreciate for your time helping me out here, and i am very new to SEO.

Just a brief introduction, our team have been developing a gaming review website (specifically targeting MMO game, facebook game, and browser-based game) since September 2011, and the website show significant improvement for the 1st month, and we got daily UV spiking up to  2k in November.

The issue here is that the visitors start to become very stagnant, and even dropping now. Even though we try hard to publish more game reviews and there is NO IMPROVEMENT AT ALL for past 2 months in terms of number of visitors, and we have no idea how should we further proceed to attract more visitors...We have about 7 k site pages (however not all are with content). For the past 2 months it seems like there is nothing going on that proportionate to the effort we put in. Pretty discouraging, so we decided to sign up SEOMOZ to get SEO help from the community here.

Some general questions we have:

1. Is it because of the the quality of the content we write ? (not enough keyword density, review too short, etc).

2. Is it because of the website designed not user friendly and not optimized?

3. Is it because of the general gaming trend, or other competitors?

4. Are we penalized by google by any chance? Are we spamming or anything wrong that deter our improvement?

5. Our main revenue source is on advertising, and currently we are using adsense. Would the ads placement affect anything?

6. Based on your knowledge and expertise, any advice would you give us?

Would appreciate if you can take a kind look at the website to understand the scenario better: www.gameonline2.com,  with 3 subdomain of: wiki.gameonline2; gameplay.gameonline2; cheats.gameonline2.

For your reference, example our competitors are: www.onrpg.com; www.bbgsite.com; www.mmohut.com

I would be happy to share with you any further information including google analytics if needed. I have report generated from SEOMOZ but i would appreciate the pros to help me take a look to give me a more complete ideas of how can i further improve to gain at least 10k visitors per day.

Thanks again for your kind help and time.

Andrew

[EGOL]

We have about 7 k site pages (however not all are with content).

The advice that I believe that you most need to hear....... dump the pages that have no content.  Do not publish a page until you have substantive, original content.

....we try hard to publish more game reviews...

Where are these coming from?  Are they grabbed from other websites?  Are they spun from other websites?  Are you writing them yourself?

Your content targets the English language speaker but some native speakers of that language might not understand your message because there are many grammar, word selection and punctuation errors.

5. Our main revenue source is on advertising, and currently we are using adsense. Would the ads placement affect anything?

Google currently does not like sites that slap the visitors face with advertising and that have more ads than content in the first view of a page.  The pages that I visited had three big ads in my face and the content was a trivial, below the fold and not worth a visit to the page.

...we have no idea how should we further proceed to attract more visitors...

I believe that you must get more concerned about the visitors who are visiting your site rather than concerned about how to attract more.

What can you do that will make visitors...

...bookmark your site?

....email the URL to a friend?

.... visit again tomorrow?

.... share on facebook?

If you can do these things you will have repeat visitors and they will promote your site for you.

I would put huge effort into pleasing visitors.