Asian Dating and Vietnam websites need help

[tomp]

Please see http://www.loveofasiavietnam.com and http://www.vietventures.com LOAV has consistently brought in a couple thousand dollars a month until about 6 weeks ago and is now seeing several days in between orders. Help!

Vietventures has the potential to become one of the largest information bases for Vietnam on the net.

We need someone to either work per job, or on commission to get the revenues up. SEO, and other marketing.

We will also be building a separate affiliate website to LOAV which will need same.

We are one of only TWO services actually in Vietnam. ( my wife and I are in the US, her family runs the Vietnam part)

Thoughts? Ideas?

Thank you
Tom :)

[Michael Martinez]

Your current design would be difficult to optimize. Nonetheless, you're coming up third for "asian dating services" on Google, second on MSN, and you are not on the first page of Yahoo!.

I infer from the spam-laden keywords meta tag that you would rather come up for a LOT of searches?

Have you actually changed anything recently, or are you just now feeling the effects of someone's algorithm change?

[tomp]

Sites were completely rebuilt last april and have at times brought in 5K a month. I am not redesigning them as they don't need to be redesigned.

More traffic=more revenues. I don't know anything about someone's algorithm change

That's one reason I posted here. The project is now on 2 places.

What do you mean, spam laden meta tags?????????

Tom

[Michael Martinez]

I mean that, instead of focusing on only 2-3 keyword phrases in your DESCRIPTION and KEYWORDS meta tags, you have stuffed yours with a LOT of phrases.

Your title tag, descrption tag, keywords tag, and on-page content should all focus on specific topics. Generally speaking, most sites need to do that in order to rank well.

I only checked your rankings for one term. You were ranking very well for that one term. But if that term is not bringing you much traffic, then you may need to check your rankings for the other terms you target and make adjustments.

If you don't want to change your pages, that's your choice, but that is pretty much the extent of the helpful advice you'll get from a forum like this.

While some people will tell you to go out and exchange links, unless you were getting a lot of traffic from links and have now lost many, it doesn't look like getting more links will help you.

In short, you have to identify where your traffic used to come from and determine why it's no longer flowing. Since you haven't changed your site, something else (beyond your control) must have changed. If you can identify what changed, you have a choice: either adjust to it, or do nothing.

[tomp]

Thanks Michael, your being very helpful and we appreciate it. We have been thru all types of things since we started this almost 4+ years ago . Finally after it was rebuilt it really started showing promise from a revenue perspective and I believe that once we figure out the loss of traffic from the last 6 weeks as well as create the affiliates this thing should be a 6 figure a year winner hands down.

One of the ideas I had to draw traffic was to concentrate on the Vietnam Information Guide website, ie: http://www.vietventures.com I believe there's huge potential there especially if I make it a madatory thing for people who want a link to place a button to Vietventures on their site in return.

Your thoughts?

Rgrds
Tom

[Michael Martinez]

I'll admit to something personal here. I actually know a girl from Vietnam (she lives in the US now) and I have found some of the information on your site useful in learning to understand her culture and her outlook. That has nothing to do with your dilemma, but I figured I might as well let you know I appreciate the information you share about Vietnamese culture, even if I'm not in your target market.

Anyway, you say the traffic died off in the past six weeks. It sounds like you were hit by the Google update. If that is so, doing nothing may be your best option. I feel they will restore many popular sites to top rankings soon.

However, there are no guarantees in life (or SEO -- at least, none I would trust).

If you have access to your raw server log files from December and January, I would compare them to February. I would look specifically for the top referers among search services (there will probably be many) and the top search strings people used to get to your sites.

What you want to find is where the pattern changes drastically. That will help you pinpoint what happened.

[tomp]

Hey Michael,

There's a LOT of interest in the country and people especially after what this country did there.

I'm glad some of this is helpful to you and you might even want to click on some of the Vietnamese music. You may find it quite interesting.

I have surgery to deal with tomorrow and I'm assuming everything will be ok and so I'll be back to this forum hopefuly this weekend. Thank you for your help.

Rgrds
Tom