Old Site But No Traffic - Can Anyone Tell Reason ?

[kywebsol]

Hi ,

Can anyone please tell me why this site http://www.travelscience.com is not getting any traffic?

Its 13 years old domain having 2340 indexed pages and Its Alexa rank is  6186158

Can anyone please identity the problems with it.

I found it from Google doing the keyword research on the Travel topics.

I am curious to know the potential problem with this site.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Regards

[kywebsol]

Ok thanks.

[MichaelC-15022]

Please post this as a new question.  I won't have time to analyze it myself, but if it's a private question, one of the other experts will take a look in the next week or so.

Thanks!

[kywebsol]

Thanks for your analysis.

[MichaelC-15022]

It doesn't look like it's penalized, and looking at its anchor text on backlinks, it doesn't look like it's running any risks there.

It does rank #1 for its domain name.  I see over 12,000 pages on it, with only a handful of broken links.  But that's probably an indication that the content on most pages isn't very unique, or be well interlinked, since Google is only indexing maybe 20% of the site.

It has a very, very weak link profile (only 14 domains linking), and it's in a very competitive space.

Some problems with the site:

• it seems to be a complete duplicate of http://www.explorelanguages.com/ (which it links to)
• what should be its homepage header link (top left) actually links to http://travelscience.com/Framesets/About/About_Travel_Science_frameset.htm, which is very strange
• it's got the multiple subdomain problem as well

So its lack of traffic is combination of a bunch of little SEO mistakes and a really weak link profile--that's all.