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    • kywebsol
      kywebsol last edited by

      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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      • MichaelC-15022
        MichaelC-15022 last edited by

        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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        • kywebsol
          kywebsol @MichaelC-15022 last edited by

          Thanks for your analysis.

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            kywebsol @MichaelC-15022 last edited by

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            • MichaelC-15022
              MichaelC-15022 @kywebsol last edited by

              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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              • kywebsol
                kywebsol @kywebsol last edited by

                Ok thanks.

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