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I have a great website I have developed from scratch.
It is like craigslist but has a social aspect to it.
My website uses the following: PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
The site has a lot to offer, but nobody can find it!
It is getting me so annoyed. I only have like 300 signups, but
it has been over a year since I developed the site.
If I am lucky, I will get 10 visitors.
Any advice?

Overall,
the site has been live since feb. 2016 and has a .life domain.
What factors can get me traffic and signups to my website?
 
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Looks for any warning messages about the site.

eg. you don't have a robots.txt file so your site will not be indexed.
 
Gavo said:
Looks for any warning messages about the site.

eg. you don't have a robots.txt file so your site will not be indexed.
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This all I see as far as site errors go. I do not believe I have an issue with robots.txt, but check for me if you can.
Google - site:lit.life and let me know.
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The site doesn't consist of any useful content that I can see. the index page is very basic and doesn't say much about the site.

Main page.

1.Login - I don't know what the site does.
2.Post Ad as Guest Feed - I have no idea what this page is for.
3.See Whats is Trending! - Links offsite?
4.Share with your friends! - I have no idea what I'm sharing.
5. Register - What is this site? why do I want to register?
6. Log off - I'm not logged in :P

You need to make some big improvements here.



This is one indexed page
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If I somehow find the URL on google and click it, I would navigate away in 1 second nothing appeals about it.

Disallow irrelevant pages in robots.txt
eg
Code: 
http://lit.life/gallry/flag.php


I don't know if there are settings to make more of the site public but you wont get traffic with nothing to indexed but 1-2 word posts/status.
 
Unless your site is really useful to people you will NOT get any traffic. Unless you are willing to spend time, effort and some money - You will NOT get any traffic. The times of sites shooting up in Google are long gone if you haven't noticed.
 
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The site doesn't consist of any useful content that I can see. the index page is very basic and doesn't say much about the site.

Main page.

1.Login - I don't know what the site does.
2.Post Ad as Guest Feed - I have no idea what this page is for.
3.See Whats is Trending! - Links offsite?
4.Share with your friends! - I have no idea what I'm sharing.
5. Register - What is this site? why do I want to register?
6. Log off - I'm not logged in :P

You need to make some big improvements here.


This is one indexed page


If I somehow find the URL on google and click it, I would navigate away in 1 second nothing appeals about it.




I don't know if there are settings to make more of the site public but you wont get traffic with nothing to indexed but 1-2 word posts/status.
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I am glad you mentioned this to me.
The site's purpose is like a social network for classified ads.
That is why the title tags on login.php page say "Lit.Life - Socially Sell Anything"
Another thing I should mention is those pages indexed are from an older version of the site.
The site has a new concept. I am trying to get more pages indexed quicker.
That way we can get more visitors seeing the new version of the site and its purpose.
You can log off on the login.php page at the bottom :D

Quadro said:
Let us know your domain, then you will get much more useful advises, I'm sure.
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I would but I can't because I need at least 10 posts.
This is really annoying for a new user asking for help.
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I would if I could, but I need at least 10 posts to share links >.<
 
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It is like essentially craigslist, but it has a social media spin to it!
search google site:lit.life and click the first link

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You are selling an item on the site, and you share the post to social media to get buyers. Create an account and see for yourself.

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You are posting an item, and you share the post to social media to get buyers. Create an account and see for yourself.
 
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They would prefer it because it has much more features.
Like: Commenting, Profile pictures, etc.
There are just a lot of features you might think of that would create a better service.
You can even text msg (SMS) the seller with a pre-filled template.
 
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