Growing a site....just add water?

[propstm]

Ok so the site in question is http://www.propstm.net

I've been writing there since July of 2005 and within the past year is has gotten grown quite a bit. However I'd like to grow it more. Here's what the site has going for it:

Google Search of my name gives propstm.net as #1 result :-D
PR: 4
total visits for January (via google analytics): 1025
total pageviews for January (via google analytics): 1789
technorati rank: 193,938 (55 links from 20 blogs)

The topics are normally quite technical I've spent much of last year writing about the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) and since the first of the year have begun looking for ways to expand. As of tonight I finally uploaded a new theme for the site which i've been working on. The theme brings the syndication to the top, as well as makes room for advertising*

*Advertising: Just last week I signeup/got accepted to Text-Link Ads, and Adsense. Both are setup on the new version of the site. I'm currently waiting for text link ads to propogate to the space, and I've got the Adsense spaces on the posts.

Honestly would it be too much to ask If i said I'd like to take growing this site seriously and see a doubling of visits/pageviews within say 4-6 months? I'd like to get some money from the site, but I think that visitors come first.

Any tips/suggestions appreciated. Thanks!

-Matt

[boron]

In short: I think your blog needs a lot of SEO to do. This can bring you some traffic for sure.

[Reckless]

Submitting your site to digg, sumbleupon and similar sites.

also if you click on a blog post (to see comments) it points you to: http://70.47.145.67/2007/02/05/big-week-and-weekend/

[propstm]

Submitting your site to digg, sumbleupon and similar sites.

also if you click on a blog post (to see comments) it points you to: http://70.47.145.67/2007/02/05/big-week-and-weekend/

Thanks! I just changed that, the 70.47........ was the temp IP they'd given me prior to changing DNS, so should be all clear now.

[propstm]

shameless bump.

Help anyone?

[Reckless]

Did you submit your site to some directorys?

just to get some backlinks? don't really know if it will help much though

[boron]

Help anyone?


You have almost no keywords on your site (domain, title, introduction text, nowhere).

There is no keyword in anchor text of your backlinks.
From a quick look I can say you have a lot of links on quality sites. Backlinks will help mainly toward PR. (Tested with http://backlinkwatch.com). For high listing in Google you need keywords. This is the first thing you should change.

[Chris369]

Have you got a Google sitemap? There's a really good sitemap plugin for WordPress and it updates every time you make a new post and then Google downloads it like once every 24 hours (or maybe less often than that). I think it helps with getting indexed in Google. My site is new and already top for some search terms like

wii chipper
forza 2 uk release - that's even above Digg!

It should be on the official wordpress theme section. Then sign up here - http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ - and verify your site and add the link to the sitemap :)

Hope that helps.

[andyw]

number of backlinks... unique content...

[propstm]

Added the google sitemap plugin to the site, and also adding more meta info, keywords, description. All that good stuff.