20 Reasons Why Your Blog is Not Getting Visitors

If you are a new blogger, you may have thought “Why am I not getting any visitors on my website?”. Well, you are a new blogger and it takes some time to gain credibility and have a list of subscribers. You may notice some activity on the blogs social media handles, and some visitors to your website but it is not enough to generate a steady stream of visitors to your site.

With the exception of a few websites, a lot of blogs have been through this phase before they started doing well. In the initial days, weeks and months of the blog, it is important to create a healthy and optimized website. So, it becomes second nature as you post more content going forward.

Let’s take a look at 20 reasons why your blog is not getting visitors.

1. Site / Page is not indexed or there is an issue with the page.
Yes, you have submitted your sitemap on the search engines, but have you checked to see all the pages on your website have been indexed? There is a good chance that your page has been de-indexed. Or certain pages may not be indexed at all. If a website has not been indexed, there is a good chance that it will not show in the search results.

2. The quality of your content is poor.
The quality of the content is poor and the Content is not focus keyword driven. In some instances, the focus keyword and its synonym words are not mentioned in the article or in the headings. If you think the quality of your content is poor, read articles from your competitors and see how you can rewrite it in your own words and add value to your readers. Improve the quality of your content and see how the traffic improves.

3. Too broad a niche.

You have not narrowed down a niche. You write about too many things in too many different fields. It is advised to narrow down a niche so your readers can know what to expect from your blog.

4. You do not post regularly.
This is something most bloggers are guilty of doing in the initial days of blogging. They do not post blogs regularly and when they do post that one blog post, they expect a huge traffic to flow to the website. Unfortunately, this is not how it works. And not posting articles on the website regularly can be a reason why you are not receiving any visitors to your website.

5. There are very few articles/posts on your blog.

You do post articles but very far and few in between. Chances of getting visitors to your website with the number of articles you post on your site. You get better at writing and understanding what is working for you as you write and post more content on your website.

6. You do not post on social media.

Another reason why there is no traffic to your website maybe that you do not post your articles on social media. Most of us are guilty of this in the beginning. We write posts but do not work beyond to drive visitors to our website. A lot of traffic can be generated from Pinterest, Quora, Reddit and Tumblr. There are niche specific groups on social media that might be interested in your post. And since you do not post on social media, you may be missing out on an opportunity to drive traffic to your website. Or you maybe promoting your posts to the wrong target audience on social media.

7. Website is not optimized for SEO.

The post maybe poorly structured. It may be missing H1 tags or images have no alt text or it could be that the images have been named incorrectly. There is no keyword in the content and no meta descriptions, internal and external links maybe missing aw well. In the first couple of months, it is important to work with a SEO checklist for every article you publish. That way, it becomes easier to optimize each post as you go along.

8. Website is too slow. 

Search engines tend to stay away from pages that take too much time to load and so do the readers. Optimize images to load faster and do not have unnecessary images and videos that take time to load. Use CDN if you can. There are multiple plugins that can make the website speed faster. Check the speed of your website: 
 Google Page speed  
 GTMetrix

9. The length of the articles is too short.

The length of your article may be too short unless it is a specific query related article. Try to have the content over 1500 words and include as much information as you can for that particular topic. Some of the articles that do well are those that have anywhere between 1500 – 3000 words.

10. Competing with highly ranked keywords.

Focus on long tail keywords in the beginning. If you are a new blogger, you do not stand a chance to beat the established sites for the highly ranked keywords. As your credibility increases, you can compete for the higher ranked keywords.

11. Content is not original.
When you are doing your research, it can tempt you to take a couple of snippets from various blogs to compile into your article. Create original content. Even if it does you take more effort and more time. The rewards can be very satisfying.

12. The URLs are named properly.

It is important for URLs and the URL structure to be named correctly for SEO purpose. Have the keyword or its synonym in the URL.

13. The DA score of your website is too low. 

A new website has a low DA score.  Over a period of time, the DA score of the website will increase, but adding the website on directories with a good score, social media sites is a good start to building the DA score.

14. Website is not optimized for Mobile Devices.

15. Page Titles and Meta Description. 

Write clear page titles and have a short yet descriptive meta description. Do not stuff the page titles and meta description with keywords. Include the keywords or its synonyms in a natural way of writing. Keep it simple and easy to understand what the readers can expect to find if they click on your article. Don’t have click baits and spammy titles to mislead your readers.

16. Your niche is seasonal or news stories based, these articles are not evergreen articles and the search volume may be very low over a period of time.

If you are writing articles that is seasonal and becomes outdated very quickly, then the chances of being found for articles written a while ago might not get traction at all. Try to include multiple news stories throughout the day to maintain the freshness and relevancy for your readers.

17. Website is not responsive and may have too many broken links and links to dummy pages. 

A website that is not responsive may be penalized and will not show up in the search results. There are many website templates that are responsive and does not require too much coding. Invest in a responsive wordPress theme or find a free theme that will make your website responsive. Use tools that will show you a list of broken links in your website and fix them when you notice a broken link. 

18. Website structure is poor

19. Try to understand the analytics of your website and the performance to understand the keywords that is getting you impressions, so you can improve on those articles.

20. Check if you have any Google Penalties. 

Check that you do not have any google penalties – ensure your sentences are grammatically correct, you have not stuffed your article with keywords, etc. If you have any google penalties, go to your Google Search console, and manual actions and correct the pages or any issues that is causing the Google penalty.

Happy Blogging