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