Why Your Blog may not be Getting Traffic

I started a "Self Employment" blog a little bit over a year ago. I wrote a couple of post, and left it alone for about 4 months. I then came back to the blog and started adding content on a regular basis for the past year. I always social bookmark all of my post and ping them to get backlinks. I was getting decent traffic, then everything slowed down. I update my blog everday with quality content, yet Google has not rewarded my site with backlinks or a page rank.

I have been scratching my head over the issue until I found out the main reason why I wasn't getting any play from the search engines. Here are some reasons why your blog may not be getting any traffic.

You have a Blogger Blog - If you look in the SEO forums, all experts will tell you to never create a blog on blogger. Especially if you want to make money with the site for long term purposes. Blogger blogs are owned by Google, therefore, they will be watching your every move. If you are banned by another site for any reason, you can never recover from it. Google watches Blogspot blogs to see if any other social bookmarking sites has banned your blog. Once you are banned, then Google will start deleting any of your backlinks in the search engines. Sometimes, they will just totally ban your blog. Most of the time, for me, I would write an article on Ezinearticles, and the next day my blog would go up in rankings. Then, like 8 hours later, the ranking would drop all of sudden. That is when I noticed that Google was either deleting or not counting my backlinks as soon as they got them! No wonder I wasn't getting any traffic. If you can, try to avoid getting a blog with Blogger.

Social bookmarking site banned - As briefly explained above, when you are banned by a social bookmarking site, it can really hurt you. Some members don't even know they are banned because their website url is banned, but they still allow them to login and participate. Also, as mentioned above, if you have a blog with Blogger (which is owned by Google), they keep each other updated on what you are doing with your blog.

Website Penalty - This is when your blog isn't completely banned, but it will have a hard time gaining backlinks, as Google keeps banning them as soon as one is created. A penalty is usually on a website after it has been banned. Of course, when most Internet marketers find their site banned, they fix the problem and then re-submit it to the Google search engines. Even though your blog will be back in the search engines, you will still have a penalty. No one knows how long this 'penalty' last. But some say it is a probation period in which your website is monitered for a period of time before you can start gaining backlinks again.

Duplicate content - What some people don't know is, Google has a new spam filter that was put into use over 3 months ago. So, let us say you write one article and submit it to multiple article directories, hoping to gain a bunch of backlinks. Google will then determine which source is the original publisher (whichever article directory published the article first) and then filter out the rest or delete them from the search engines if they happened to get indexed. The filtering process is pretty quick, as it takes less than a week to find. Some internet marketers still use duplicate content to get quick traffic, but the results are pointless as their page rank will decrease.

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