Your main problem lies with your backlinks – the small amount of links you have are from blogs where every post has an external link in it – basically link spam blogs. Although these links work to an extent you need to have some natural more authoritative links to dilute the spammy links. You would probably rank pretty well anyway due to the exact match domain name.

Your competitors menshealth and maximusicle are huge authorative sites, where you have little backlinks and only 72 pages indexed, where menshealth is just shy of half a million pages.

You currently have 30 external affiliate links from the homepage, although I see you have no followed these, it does flag up as being a thin affiliate site of which Google does not like.

Another problem could be over optimisation of tags, although Google pays little importance to these tags – Google does recommend only using tags once or twice per page.

My recommendations:

– increase more natural authoritative links, avoid spammy blog posts
– reduce number of external affiliate links on the homepage
– reduce the header1’s on the homepage
– increase content

I think its a nice niche and don’t give up – you will be surprised what a few good links and fresh weekly content can do.

Good luck!

Carl

@rich you’re welcome, hope it helps you out with moving the site forward. Would be great to do a follow up in 6 months or so to see how you’re getting on.

@madsurfer – welcome to the site and cheers for the extra info and site suggestion

Just keep building out the content – its a long term project and getting the links.

Its best to create a page specific to each keyword you would like to target.

To get found on those keywords you will have to add a lot more content. You will have to write articles or mention the longtail keywords before you can be found on them.

This site shows how it can be done: http://blog.mydeco.com/
They link every major keyword in the article to the product page or category page (=on page SEO). Also by adding new content on a regular basis will make sure the crawlers return to your site and Google loves fresh (unique) content.

This blog is a great resource about linkbuilding: http://wiep.net/
One note, it’s not only the quantity of links that count. But also the quality and relevancy on which the link is placed.

currently now i am recieveing between 60-100 uniques per day but still no traffic coming from any long tail keywords.

Will be implenting the changes mentioned today or tomorrow!

Since I submitted the site for review it has bounced up and down for both protein shake and protein shakes and sat at number 1 for both terms for a while which was bringing in alot of traffic and some nice sales. But sadly the site moves up and down frequently.

I’m in the process of adding product pages and a recipes section for extra content. The product pages currently look like this:

http://www.proteinshake.org.uk/maximuscle-promax-protein

I plan to keep adding as many as possible to bump the content up, is this the right idea?

I’ve also toyed with the idea of adding gym memberships and eventually branching out from just protein shakes to other supplements and maybe eventually weightloss. I understand the home page won’t be able to rank for all of this so is the best thing to do create a page for each new targetted nich/keyword/product and go from there?

Thanks again for the reviews

Your main problem lies with your backlinks – the small amount of links you have are from blogs where every post has an external link in it – basically link spam blogs. Although these links work to an extent you need to have some natural more authoritative links to dilute the spammy links. You would probably rank pretty well anyway due to the exact match domain name.

Your competitors menshealth and maximusicle are huge authorative sites, where you have little backlinks and only 72 pages indexed, where menshealth is just shy of half a million pages.

You currently have 30 external affiliate links from the homepage, although I see you have no followed these, it does flag up as being a thin affiliate site of which Google does not like.

Another problem could be over optimisation of tags, although Google pays little importance to these tags – Google does recommend only using tags once or twice per page.

My recommendations:

– increase more natural authoritative links, avoid spammy blog posts
– reduce number of external affiliate links on the homepage
– reduce the header1’s on the homepage
– increase content

I think its a nice niche and don’t give up – you will be surprised what a few good links and fresh weekly content can do.

Good luck!

Carl