I don't see a lot of people talking about this. I am sure some people here have experience with tracking traffic and understanding what helps rank better on Google.

What are some lessons you learned doing this? Are there truly right and wrong ways to go about building up traffic to your website or is it just all luck?

Well, search intent as well as content quality are more important than actual keyword amounts. I remember reading that you want to focus on "EAT". This is Expertise, Authoritative, and Trustworthy. When you site or content online has some level of each, it helps boost it a lot.

On 7/6/2026 at 9:14 AM, Cozmic said:

"EAT". This is Expertise, Authoritative, and Trustworthy.

I have never heard of this before but I really like it. I think this is what Google does prioritize. This is probably why established websites eat up most of the traffic. It is hard to compete with what they consider "expert" or a athoritavie" as well.

I have come to understand that no matter how good the content is, if a website or brand/company with more authority decides to talk about your topic, you will get deranked. Same with selling services. More localized ones are safe that function on and offline.

I was going to say something similar to GZip. It used to be way easier to rank than it is now. I just try not to worry about it as much. So long as the traffic is going in the right direction, just focus on whatever is making that happen.

On 7/7/2026 at 9:37 AM, dannydobbs said:

I have never heard of this before but I really like it. I think this is what Google does prioritize. This is probably why established websites eat up most of the traffic. It is hard to compete with what they consider "expert" or a athoritavie" as well.

You just have to copy the same format. Make your site seem more authoritative on the niche you are in by linking to your own content for one. There are a number of tricks to this but it does take time. Most people don't want to put in the time.

23 hours ago, Cozmic said:

You just have to copy the same format. Make your site seem more authoritative on the niche you are in by linking to your own content for one. There are a number of tricks to this but it does take time. Most people don't want to put in the time.

I think it isn't as easy as it sounds and even if you put in the time, it doesn't always work. This is probably why people give up on it. Either way, it is hard to compete for traffic these days, especially once you lose it.

On 7/21/2026 at 8:25 AM, dannydobbs said:

I think it isn't as easy as it sounds and even if you put in the time, it doesn't always work. This is probably why people give up on it. Either way, it is hard to compete for traffic these days, especially once you lose it.

That is fair to say I guess. I mean if it was easy or worked every time, people wouldn't be having this problem on such a wide scale. It sucks when you put so much time into something to just see it tank.