Helping Understanding Issues with my websites SEO Clicks ( With Images )

[Maketas]

Hi Guys,
I have been working on my websites as part-time for the last 3 years.
I just don't find any success and I keep trying but seems I must be doing something wrong.
I am getting so low CTR, can anyone give tips to improve CTR and bring more clicks?

This is what I usually do with all my websites:
1. Create a well-designed WordPress template, and make it unique with a clean design.
2. All necessary plugins, good speed, and images. SEO Rank_math
3. Start posting using AI helper proofreading, with images, Proper H2, and diversification of keywords.
4. Minimum 800-1000 words per article to 2000 words
5. Build high-quality backlinks ( I have good experience with backlinks ) I always build them to the main domain perhaps domain.com ( Is it a bad thing) OR should I build backlinks to domain.com/arrticle-title?

Please see the results:

1. Website ( NEWS ) ( 3 YEARS AGED OLD ) (About 2000 Articles manually written some of them with help of AI paraphrase ) ( Google News Approved with indexed articles in google news ( Old edition )

2. Website ( General Products reviews ) 200 articles ( 1.5 YEARS OLD ) . I feel website is dead now, it doesn't recover, any suggestions? Should I stop waisting my time )

3. Website ( News, Guides ) ( 1 YEAR OLD ) 450 ARTICLES ) No google news indexed yet. Only 147 clicks is a joke. Any tips too?

It will be really appreciated if you can give me some tips for all these 3 specific websites.
I worked a lot on them and I barely see results.
They have good backlinks and natural ones. 1 Website DA, DR is about 50 2. is about 20 3. is About 20 too.

Thanks people!

 

[tazarbm]

5. Build high-quality backlinks ( I have good experience with backlinks ) I always build them to the main domain perhaps domain.com ( Is it a bad thing) OR should I build backlinks to domain.com/arrticle-title?

most of your backlinks should go to the homepage, so in this regard you're good. But you should still point a few of them to the important pages. Since you've already built a (presumably) good number of backlinks to your homepage already I'd say that any future backlinks that you get should be pointed to some content pages (preferably information pages rather than commercial ones) to see if you can boost their rankings. I'd say a 30-70 split between homepage and inner pages is a good split for your future backlinks... or even 20-80 if you already have 100s of them.

1. Website ( NEWS ) ( 3 YEARS AGED OLD ) (About 2000 Articles manually written some of them with help of AI paraphrase ) ( Google News Approved with indexed articles in google news ( Old edition )

The stats of this website don't look too bad if I'm being honest. You're getting about 18 clicks a day for a site that's constantly on pages 5-6 of google. Not too shabby... If you manage to bring your rankings to page 1 at least, I think you could bump the number of clicks to 20-30x or more, so it's not all bad...

2. Website ( General Products reviews ) 200 articles ( 1.5 YEARS OLD ) . I feel website is dead now, it doesn't recover, any suggestions? Should I stop waisting my time )

Product review sites have been heavily hit by one of google's last year's updates, so if you know that you don't have the time or motivation to bring this site back to life I'd say that you sell it to someone who can make something with it, although I don't think you can get much money for it to be honest

3. Website ( News, Guides ) ( 1 YEAR OLD ) 450 ARTICLES ) No google news indexed yet. Only 147 clicks is a joke. Any tips too?

Again, when you look at the average position of your sites the stats are not bad (the CTR is bad, though ). So, you might want to first improve the rankings before drawing any conclusions, try to get an avg position of 10-20 for a few months and then you'll have a clearer image of whether or not the CTR is the issue. It's really hard to give useful tips when your sites linger on pages 6-8 where nobody sees them

They have good backlinks and natural ones. 1 Website DA, DR is about 50 2. is about 20 3. is About 20 too.

the 1st site looks the best of the 3, I would focus my energy and resources on making this one work because it has the most content, (seemingly) the best SEO value, and also the best CTR

 

[Maketas]

most of your backlinks should go to the homepage, so in this regard you're good. But you should still point a few of them to the important pages. Since you've already built a (presumably) good number of backlinks to your homepage already I'd say that any future backlinks that you get should be pointed to some content pages (preferably information pages rather than commercial ones) to see if you can boost their rankings. I'd say a 30-70 split between homepage and inner pages is a good split for your future backlinks... or even 20-80 if you already have 100s of them.


The stats of this website don't look too bad if I'm being honest. You're getting about 18 clicks a day for a site that's constantly on pages 5-6 of google. Not too shabby... If you manage to bring your rankings to page 1 at least, I think you could bump the number of clicks to 20-30x or more, so it's not all bad...


Product review sites have been heavily hit by one of google's last year's updates, so if you know that you don't have the time or motivation to bring this site back to life I'd say that you sell it to someone who can make something with it, although I don't think you can get much money for it to be honest


Again, when you look at the average position of your sites the stats are not bad (the CTR is bad, though ). So, you might want to first improve the rankings before drawing any conclusions, try to get an avg position of 10-20 for a few months and then you'll have a clearer image of whether or not the CTR is the issue. It's really hard to give useful tips when your sites linger on pages 6-8 where nobody sees them


the 1st site looks the best of the 3, I would focus my energy and resources on making this one work because it has the most content, (seemingly) the best SEO value, and also the best CTR

I will do so! Thanks for your tips, mate!

 

[sageshark]

@Maketas I see that @tazarbm has given a detailed and excellent advice to you on this.

When you say the site is not working / dead / failed, it depends upon your expectations too. How much did you expect the site to perform in terms of traffic? If you had set a particular goal for that site for a given time period then you can better estimate its performance against that milestone rather than calling it failed or dead.

So if you have really come to the conclusion that the site is failed or you do not have ammunition to make it successful, then as @tazarbm has rightly suggested, you should sell it off at once and focus on other projects.

 

[ErrlyBird]

The first thing I notice is the average position. If you are not on the first page for hardly any keywords, your traffic will suffer. I would say spend some time trying to get more of your keywords in higher positions.

I would also suggest making sure your indexed pages have clickbaitish but appropriate titles and meta descriptions. You want to make sure you hit user intent so that you don't get bounces.

All and all it looks like you are headed in the right direction and keep it up! It takes time to see real change so just don't give up.