Old Site But No Traffic - Can Anyone Tell Reason ?
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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
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Ok thanks.
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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!
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Thanks for your analysis.
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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.
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