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    • JasonLancaster
      JasonLancaster last edited by

      We've been doing a little bit of linkbuilding and content development for this site on and off for the last year or so:

      http://www.olsonirstaxattorney.com/

      We're trying to rank her for "Denver tax attorney," but in all honesty we just don't have the budget to hit the first page for that term, so it doesn't surprise me that we're invisible.

      However, my problem is that the site gets almost NO traffic. There are days when Google doesn't send more than 2-3 visitors (yikes). Every site in our portfolio gets at least a few hundred visits a month, so I'm thinking that I'm missing something really obvious on this site.

      I would expect that we'd get some type of traffic considering the amount of content the site has, (about 100 pages of unique content, give or take) and some of the basic linkbuilding work we've done (we just got an infographic published to a few decent quality sites, including a nice placement on the lawyer.com blog).

      However, we're still getting almost no organic traffic from Google or Bing.

      Any ideas as to why? GWMT doesn't show a penalty, doesn't identify any site health issues, etc.

      Other notes:

      • Unbeknownst to me, the client had cut and pasted IRS newsletters as blog posts. I found out about all this duplicate content last November, and we added "noindex" tags to all of those duplicated pages.

      • The site has never been carefully maintained by the client. She's very busy, so adding content has never been a priority, and we don't have a lot of budget to justify blogging on a regular basis AND doing some of the linkbuilding work we've done (guest posts and infographic).

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      • TakeshiYoung
        TakeshiYoung last edited by

        Looks like there are a bunch of tag and category pages indexed in Google, which could be leading to duplicate content issues. I would consider noindexing these using the Yoast plugin you have installed.

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        • JasonLancaster
          JasonLancaster @TakeshiYoung last edited by

          Good idea - I'll adjust it now. Thanks.

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