5 Organic Search Results Since 1st January

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   eugbugposted 5 years ago

   According to GA, my article about building a garden shed has only had 5 organic search visits since the 1st January. Is this unusual? Is some organic traffic classified as direct or referral?

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      OldRosesposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      I just Googled "how to build a garden shed" and you've got some heavy weight competition.  Lowes, Home Depot, Bob Vila, Popular Mechanics.  They have more authority than Dengarden (where I assume your article is published). 
      
      One thing that you can try is to read your competitions' articles.  Try to come up with ways to differentiate your article from theirs by either adding more details or different details.  Can you be more specific in your title article?  Maybe particular types of sheds, or materials or building methods.  You need something that will make your article stand out from all the others.

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         eugbugposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         I know. It's a really competitive topic, but I thought I would get some traffic from searches that include keywords used in the article. I just thought five results was unusually low? I added "low maintenance" to the title over a month ago and I'll wait to see what happens. Now it turns up in 17th place (excluding the 3 ads at the top of the page) in SERPs on Startpage.com for the term "low maintenance garden shed".

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            OldRosesposted 5 years agoin reply to this

            Sorry, I didn't answer your original question.  No, 5 organic search results is not unusual for highly competitive articles.  I have a few articles that get less than 10 hits per month, sometimes 0 hits.  These are articles that I think offer more information than the competition.  I think it's because people see "Dengarden" and figure it's an amateur garden blogger's post filled with inaccuracies. 
            
            There are authors here who say that you should delete low performing articles.  I keep all of mine for two reasons.  The first one is that I am getting paid whether an article has a lot of visits or just a few visits.  The other reason is that every year, different low performing articles suddenly catch on and attract a lot of traffic.  Since I haven't been able to figure out which ones will spike, I keep all of them so that I don't miss out.
            
            Fingers crossed that your garden shed article will also suddenly catch on.

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               eugbugposted 5 years agoin reply to this

               That's certainly true about articles catching on. My "How to Setup Skype" article only received a few visitors per day. When the pandemic COVID19 pandemic began, I tweaked it a bit and traffic shot up to nearly 400 per day and it was on the first page of SERPs. The number of visitors has fallen back a lot, but it just shows how things can change.

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