SEO Tycoon

**Italian woman** · 10-26-2008, 12:27 PM

Hi all,

Is it possible that a site like this:

www.myholidayhome.it - Home page

with Alexa ranking 1,638,414 (at this moment), cannot generate any enquiries at all, either from the English speaking countries nor from Germany?

Why, according to you? Are my visitors too few, or are they wrong?

Regards,
I.W.

**usearchme** · 10-26-2008, 01:15 PM

Hi there

Of course its possible, alexa rank means nothing !

And your website is a mess, it has far too many recipricol links onit to get anywhere !

You should know how many visitors your site gets and also be able to work out your conversion rates from these stats also.

Woc

**Niche** · 10-26-2008, 02:28 PM

Why not use google analytics. It's free and easy to use and will tell you exactly how many people are visiting your site and who is refering them

**Brian07002** · 10-26-2008, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Niche

Why not use google analytics. It's free and easy to use and will tell you exactly how many people are visiting your site and who is refering them

Ok,

Just signed up with GA, and going to see how it works...Now, just need the hits and wouldn't hurt to get a customer every now and then as well.

Thanks for that advice!

**Italian woman** · 10-26-2008, 05:23 PM

Hi Woc,

I know my site is kind of a "mess", since it was all done by myself, but please don't judge it so badly. I like it.

According to the Shinystat counter on my homepage, the visitors are about 20 a day. But now that I know it, I'm going to check them with Google Analytics, too.

I knew that reciprocal links were essential to get a good positioning in Google, isn't that true?

Any more good (and kind, and simple) suggestions?... I'm not a professional webmaster.

Thanks,

I.W.

**juliensimon** · 10-26-2008, 07:18 PM

here is my suggestion: hire a professional webmaster

I would also get rid of those nasty keyword stuffing nests at the bottom of your website (under the thousands banners you have there).

Honnestly, do you think your website is user friendly? If yes, good. If not, change it because if you put something on your website that is no use to users, it won't be any use to search engines either.

**Italian woman** · 10-27-2008, 11:51 AM

Dear juliensimon,

You are perfectly right!

I don't like that horrible list of keywords either...just don't know how to include those keywords into my homepage Html code...can you give me some hints where exactly should I put them?

That keywords list is the reason why Google has banned my homepage, I guess. It was there at first, wasn't even positioned so badly for many keywords (!).

As for the "thousands" banners, would you suggest me to delete them all, or only the ones that aren't linking to me? There must be some that aren't linking (how can I check who's linking to me and who's not?).

Ciao,
I.W.

**chrishirst** · 10-27-2008, 12:08 PM

Hmm - Read this thread, clicked to load the page, waited, read a few more posts, answered a couple of threads, came back, wrote this post, still waiting for it to load.

Think you might have more urgent problems than non-converting traffic.

**Italian woman** · 10-27-2008, 12:28 PM

Just one more question for you all:

How much would good webmasters from the Usa or the UK charge a month for fixing my site and optimise it in the search engines?

If I decide to hire someone, do I need to pay him/her each month, and for how long? I guess a commercial website needs constant care...

How many visitors per day would I be able to get that way?

Bye,
I.W.

**Italian woman** · 10-27-2008, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Italian woman

Hi Woc,

According to the Shinystat counter on my homepage, the visitors are about 20 a day.

I.W.

Ahemm... I have just checked my daily visitors with Statbrain and it says: 248 visits per day.

Which one is madder? My Shinystat counter or Statbrain??? The thing gets too complicated for me...

I.W.

**chrishirst** · 10-27-2008, 12:54 PM

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How many visitors per day would I be able to get that way?

Nobody can tell you that, and anyone that does is lying.

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How much would good webmasters from the Usa or the UK charge a month for fixing my site and optimise it in the search engines?

It all depends on what needs doing.

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do I need to pay him/her each month, and for how long

Piece of string question

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I guess a commercial website needs constant care...

Not necessarily

BTW tried loading it again, been loading for almost 10 minutes now and not a single thing has appeared.

**juliensimon** · 10-27-2008, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Italian woman

Dear juliensimon,

You are perfectly right!

I don't like that horrible list of keywords either...just don't know how to include those keywords into my homepage Html code...can you give me some hints where exactly should I put them?

In your content mostly, in your titles...

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Originally Posted by Italian woman

That keywords list is the reason why Google has banned my homepage, I guess. It was there at first, wasn't even positioned so badly for many keywords (!).

Your site isn't banned.
Google Search

It is just fluctuating.

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Originally Posted by Italian woman

As for the "thousands" banners, would you suggest me to delete them all, or only the ones that aren't linking to me? There must be some that aren't linking (how can I check who's linking to me and who's not?).
I.W.

Yes, delete them all. They make your website look spammy and very unprofessional. If you really want those links, create a page "links" and put them there.

Honestly, you need your website "re" designed. I would never buy anything from a website like yours. The optimization is very spammy and you missed on main points. All you will get with an optimization like this one is trouble. Instead of spending $5,000 worth of your time, hire someone to do it for you and work on what you are good at. That would be my advice.

By the way, Foto is spelled Photo in English. It comes from Photography.

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

BTW tried loading it again, been loading for almost 10 minutes now and not a single thing has appeared.

I tried to load the page twice (last week and today), it loaded fine here

**Learning Newbie** · 10-27-2008, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by juliensimon

Yes, delete them all. They make your website look spammy and very unprofessional. If you really want those links, create a page "links" and put them there.

Honestly, you need your website "re" designed. I would never buy anything from a website like yours. The optimization is very spammy and you missed on main points.

I've been trying to think of the right way to say the same thing. What Julien wrote is perfect.

When I see this kind of stuff, and maybe it's because I know a little bit about SEO, the first thing that runs through my mind is "Here's a company taking every short cut there is". That makes me wonder if anything I order is going to take 6 months to be shipped, or might be broken, or if they'll hold onto a copy of my credit card, or not have good security (because that takes money!) and let a hacker get my credit card numbers or - well, there's a whole list.

I'm not trying to insult your integrity or call you dishonest, but you're asking how to improve your web site, and I feel like I should tell you that in a lot of people's minds, having too many banners, spammy keyword stuffing, lots of irrelevant links, and all of that bring up all kinds of trust questions.

**chrishirst** · 10-28-2008, 04:29 AM

I had to get to the site via one of our servers using terminal services. It won't open from my location, UK North west using O2 broadband and won't open from a colleagues location, UK North west using Blueyonder cable. The server is in the UK South East and is 1 hop off the UK backbone.
I get a better ping response, 60ms avg. server 147ms avg. traceroute 12 hops for me server 8 hops.

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I'll be blunt.

Get rid of your host, I would suggest the loading problems are not limited to myself and one other person.

Get rid of your programmer and/or the CMS you are using. 7 yep SEVEN querystring parameters (mostly empty) AND this invalid code "?&set=102&" which would actually make it 8. You will have major problems with SEs and indexing at some point.

Page titles are abysmal and the least said about the ridiculous bunch of "keywords" in the page the better GET RID OF THEM!! and the links and banners AND the stupid PR checker crap.

Apart from that the site design looks quite nice, just a shame the "optimising" and technical issues let it down so badly.

**Italian woman** · 11-04-2008, 12:31 PM

Thanks to you all for the precious and wise advice!

Do you know where I can find a reliable instant visitors counter for my site?

I'd like to see which countries are my visitors from and anything else of that kind. The more information the counter will be able to provide, the better.

I will consider each and everyone of your pieces of advice and take some decisions on what to do with them in the next few days.

Thanks again for your time.

Bye for now from Italy,

I.W.

**juliensimon** · 11-04-2008, 12:44 PM

check your log, Google Analytics, stat counter etc...

**Italian woman** · 11-05-2008, 04:04 PM

Hi Julien,

I think you mean this one: http://www.statcounter.com?

Can I put more than one stat counter on my homepage? Could I put this counter on the last page of my site named "Varie" (keeping the two I already have on my homepage)?

By the way...why are the results so different using Histats and Shinystat? Are they incompatible, maybe? Take a look at the statistics on my homepage...how can I believe they are reliable?

Bye,
I.W.

**Learning Newbie** · 11-06-2008, 07:15 PM

Why would you want visitor counts on your home page? That's like going to the market with no clothes on.

**Tanti** · 11-27-2008, 09:24 AM

Having visited your site I've read "Lucca and its surroundings: a view of the Versilian rivieraThe long sandy beaches and their bathing establishments are a typical feature of the Versilian coast near Lucca."
So here is my question: why don't you add more photos to your homepage? Why don't you show people how nice it could be in your city?
And of course you should rank well for good keywords. Think what would you search for if you need to go to Lucca.