How to increase the traffic and keywords ranking

[PrasanthMohanachandran]

Am working on a website http://www.greavescotton.com. A month ago most of the keywords were in first page. This month I have noticed the fall of keyword rankings. I have checked the webmaster tools for any mails and messages but I did not find any. So can anyone please visit the site and check it and please give me the suggestions accordingly to increase the traffic and keywords. Also I would like to know the advantages of commenting in Youtube.com.

[HealthLotteryMan]

If it's not manual (from Google Webmaster Tools) and the website remains unchanged and the drop was sudden then this will be an algorithm punishment. Or the industry has become more saturated, how did you generate backlinks to the website? was there any on going SEO efforts?  what time did it drop?

[Gordon_Hall]

Health Lottery Man has pointed out a few places to start - all good ideas.

Look at the time of the drop - what have you done around that time. Can you see a cause and effect going on here?

However, my other question is whether the work you are doing on the site is just recent. I've often seen results start out well, but then seem to sink over the following weeks and months. In reality they are just finding their natural place on the web, and it's from this point that you need to start the hard work.

Have you done keyword analysis on your keywords? Do you know their difficulty? Have you used the on page grader to give you an indication of how each keyword is working on any particular page. How does this stack up against the competition who are now ahead of you.

Also use the open site explorer to check not only your back links, but your competitors. it's a long, slow process, and whilst it's discouraging to see your results slide, there is a certain satisfaction watching them rise again!

Enjoy!

[PrasanthMohanachandran]

Thank you HealthLotteryMan.

Thank you Gordon.

The drop is from past 2-3 months.

I have been doing the SEO activity from past two years. Regularly I do blog commenting, directories, social book marking, classifieds. But from past two months I stopped submitting in blogs as am unable to find new blogs related to my website. Instead I submitted in more number of directories. So I have seen the fall of keywords rankings after I have stopped the blogs. I tried press releases too but did not find much difference.