I have been mulling over various ways I might boost traffic to my site. But
I am baffled. Basically, my site is a guitar lessons community. I get tons
of positive feedback and know that my visitors love the site. But I just
can't seem to take it to the next level. Here are several sites with similar
content, but with far higher traffic:
www.guitartricks.com
www.guitarnoise.com
www.wholenote.com
When I use tools like link density/popularity checkers, I see that these
sites score way higher. But when I delve into the details, I see that many
of the links are internal (i.e. linked from themselves) and that many of the
external links are from obscure sites. So I am not sure if investing the
time to establish more link exchanges is worth it.
And when I consider the possibility of Google Ad Words, etc, I note that
searches on common words like "guitar lesson" don't bring up these sites in
the right pane of google (which is where I thought these paid services place
links).
And then of course I am not sure what to think of the whole pay-per-click
philosophy.
I know my site might not look very polished, but there is no question the
content is there. I just don't know how to strategize. Do I first wory about
giving the site a facelift, or do I focus on another area?
Any expert advice is appreciated.Basically, if you had one area to focus on,
what would it be?
regards,
brian
