Comments on: The Secret Reason Your Website Gets So Little Traffic

By: Traffic

Traffic — Sat, 14 May 2011 09:26:45 +0000

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By: DaveF

DaveF — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:20:57 +0000

I have just launched a new blog and I have been hunting the Internet on this topic and every site I see is the same. Content is truly king. My new site has a few writers so new content comes a few times a day. I still find it hard to focus on topics to write about as I feel I should be pumping out the articles to get the brand name flowing. I guess it will take time. Sorry for digging up an older article there Chris but it still is very relovent. Thanks for a good read.

By: surbas

surbas — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:51:46 +0000

thanks for this article..

By: Bill Edwards

Bill Edwards — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:52:08 +0000

Yes I know content is king, but you still have to find a way to get people to look at the content in the first place. So I try to do both, improve my SEO and add content.

Bill
Flagstaff web design

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:59:13 +0000

You make a good point, Harvey. I know I nearly started drooling when I went to your site. Yours is a very simple design but it incorporates your food theme beautifully.

Think about what Doc said above, though. He’s not chasing traffic. Granted he’s got enough prestige that he’ll attract it anyway just because of who he is. But he’s focusing on his audience and providing content worth reading for them, which keeps the vast majority of them coming back.

I’m sure many read his blog in their feed readers which can overcome his design problems.

I agree with you that good design will help improve traffic. The trouble is to way too many folks “good design” equals “pretty”. And pretty alone isn’t enough to bring traffic.

By: Harvey

Harvey — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:23:52 +0000

Hi Chris / Doc,

I’d say Doc’s site would definitely perform better with some improved visual design.

I followed the link, after reading from this blog how amazing the content was. But I didn’t bother to stay and read anything because the page was vastly long and chock full of links – I didn’t know where to start, and I couldn’t quickly figure out the theme of the blog so I left.

I’d say some nice visual design combined with some usability would be vastly beneficial to the Doc’s blog. All it would have taken to keep me there would have been a shorter homepage, a main navigation bar, and a couple of pics which give me a visual clue as to what the blog is about.

Web design is that special mix of content, visual design, marketing, usability and everything else. Any site that ignores a fundamental element of web design is not going to be performing at it’s best, Craigslist and MySpace included.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:45:19 +0000

Char, I think it is a drum we’ll have to keep beating on for some time to come. New content takes effort, something many businesses are loathe to invest in their web presence.

By: Char

Char — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:11:39 +0000

Thanks for driving home a point I have been making to my clients for years! I have had to work very hard at convincing many of them that their “news and announcements” need to be front and center – not on a page deep within the navigation.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:57:30 +0000

Doc, Thanks so much for stopping by. And for reinforcing that sites worth visiting are those that have engaging content! In spite of your protests I’m confident that your traffic levels would be the envy of most small business web site owners!

Karin, that’s a great philosophy and is pretty much true with anything. Without work there is no miracle.

By: Karin H.

Karin H. — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:51:14 +0000

Hi Chris

I live by the credo: If you want your website to work – you have to work on your website!

(But hey, I had an excellent webmarketing teacher who set-up my first static website, which I took over from him 6 months later). Daily traffic: over 250 pages visited, 70% of any searches we end up on page 1 of the search results – 70% of our customers first get to know us from our website

Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)