SEO Tycoon

**amyangel** · 12-06-2006, 09:26 PM

After my 2 month hard work, there was not any use. I am so sad!

I will lose my job !

**amyangel** · 12-06-2006, 09:35 PM

PLS review my site, is there any hope any value with it?

**hhheng** · 12-06-2006, 10:02 PM

What's kind of site finally make you lose job? Could you post the domain?

**amyangel** · 12-07-2006, 12:45 AM

http://www.filesforfree.com my work is in charge of all of it!

**TubHosting** · 12-07-2006, 01:08 AM

Hmm, the site looks ok. Your website are in a very competitive category. There are alot of other site that offer the same contents as yours.

Having a succeful website does take times. The good thing about the internet is it will reach out to alot of people but the problem is getting people to visit what you have to offer as the internet is way too big and litter with too many duplicate contents.

Being unique is always good but it will not guarantee success too.

I wish all the best, but patience, perseverance and lots of work is key.

**amyangel** · 12-07-2006, 01:23 AM

Thank you! There are poor traffic, few visitor, I lost my belief to work it well !

How to do !

**TubHosting** · 12-07-2006, 02:01 AM

I'm not too sure what you have try, but here's a suggestion: start posting on forums that is related or there is demand to your industry.

Backlinks alone will not bring you traffic

**ADAM Web Design** · 12-07-2006, 02:02 AM

I'm going to be frank...and by frank, I mean completely devastating. So hang onto your hat, and trust me when I tell you there's a reason behind all this.

You made one major mistake, and it's the mistake that 99.99999% of sites make, especially in the genre that you've targeted:

YOU FOLLOWED.

What did you follow?

You followed the Tucows and the Download.coms of the world, except your "twist" was to offer only free software. Well guess what? That's been done about a million times too.

You followed the prevailing SEO logic (and I use that word loosely) of "link exchange and everyone wins." I got news for you there...IT DOESN'T WORK, AND HASN'T FOR QUITE SOME TIME. A user that would stumble upon your site isn't going to want to be sent away to a travel agency or to an SEO site or whatever you're linking to, and search engines have clued into this little stunt as well.

You followed the path that millions of sites in the free files field did: "let's put as much software up as possible with little or no thought as to the descriptions or what it actually is and does, and let's copy and paste from other sites, and let's make it unique in no way whatsoever." Both search engines and users are aware of that too, more than you may realize.

You followed the "if you build it, they will come", "we can all make millions overnight" crowd. That doesn't work either, except for the whack job who starts the idea and somehow gets an even bigger bunch of idiots to follow him. No site ever works overnight...it takes months, sometimes years to get a site to work the way it should.

In other words, if you want it to work, you're going to have to put some REAL effort into it and somehow make a site in a competitive market unique. If you're not prepared to spend thousands of hours (and that's what it will take) to pull that off, and your company's not prepared to do that, then pack up your ball and go home.

And for those of you who think I'm a jerk for telling her this, you're right. I am a jerk. I'm also not the only one telling her this. The traffic is telling her this as well. It's just a question of whether she chooses to accept the reality of the situation, or whether or not she wants to live in the same bubble she lives in now.

**zappanet** · 03:43 AM

Adam, I've tried to add to your talkupation, but it wouldn't work!

This was a great post!

**ADAM Web Design** · 12-07-2006, 12:09 PM

You might have clicked it twice, zappanet. I did get some TP. Thanks, dude.

**amyangel** · 12-07-2006, 08:43 PM

I did. I added ADAM Web Design my talkupation

**amyangel** · 12-08-2006, 04:25 AM

Who can tell me about my site PV and IP per day? I can not see it ! Thank you !

My site is http://www.filesforfree.com

**ADAM Web Design** · 12-08-2006, 12:44 PM

If PV means "page views", only your site stats can tell you that. You'll either have to ask your host what stats they provide, or install something like Google Analytics to give you a rough idea.

I'm not sure what "IP per day" is. Do you mean unique IP addresses? Unique visitors? Whatever it is, your answer is probably the same as the one I just gave for Page Views.

By the way, side note: a few of you have given me TP love for being brutally honest (thanks for that.) Would you guys like to see more of the same out of me (when the situation calls for it and I can justify it of course?)

**princess06** · 12-08-2006, 04:49 PM

Nice post there Adam

**SeLFiE_12** · 12-08-2006, 05:55 PM

Nice post Adam...being honest is a way of helping people to understand whats really goin' on...

**amyangel** · 12-09-2006, 09:51 AM

Do you know this site, alexa.com?

**ADAM Web Design** · 12-10-2006, 01:13 PM

amyangel: don't even pay any attention to it. It's a site whose "rankings" are based on a toolbar that's been manipulated by SEO-types for years, resulting in webmaster skew and "rankings" that are pretty much worthless.

**ADAM Web Design** · 12-10-2006, 01:14 PM

Okay, folks...through the TP and the comments, you're gonna see the honest, even-handed brutality part of me (which is pretty well all of me

). You wanted it, you got it! All blunt, all the time! Only on AWD Radio!

**people-finding** · 12-11-2006, 06:03 PM

its a pr4 site, looks good, lots of content. what's the problem????

**ADAM Web Design** · 12-11-2006, 07:21 PM

people-finding, at the risk of tooting my own horn, scroll up. The problems were documented (at least some of them) in the first post I made.

PR means bugger-all too, especially in the market Amy was targeting.