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Hello Everyone,

I have a website created by some specialists. Well I think that these professional website developers stiffed me. I mean, the website to create was quiet expensive, but it doesn't really work. They made a quiet good work though, the SEO of the site is critical I think. The site is about 1 and a half year old now. It has got 881 European festivals, 9300 events at 3614 venues uploaded on it. Well this is a nice number of content in my opinion, and the website structure is well-planned.

The problem is that I only have daily 20 visitors at all. It has been stagnating for a year from now...

What could be the problem?

The website: www.facetivals.com

If you have any useful ideas, please share it with me. I feel a bit desperate.

Thanks in advance,

Tibor M.

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This is solvable — a polished build alone won’t create traffic without search visibility and outreach. , start by treating this like a diagnosis: measure what search engines see, fix the biggest technical blockers, then invest in targeted promotion. ’s point about links is relevant; ’s remark about cost is a good reminder that design and SEO/promotion are separate efforts.

  1. Verify basics first: set up Google Search Console and Analytics, confirm property ownership, and review Coverage and Manual Actions. Run a site: search for your domain to estimate indexed pages and compare that number to how many pages you expect to be indexed.
  2. Check crawlability: inspect robots.txt, meta noindex tags, sitemap.xml presence/submission and canonical tags. Fix accidental blocks or duplicate URL versions.
  3. Improve page quality: ensure every event page has a unique, readable title and a short human-written description (not just auto-generated fields). Combine thin listings into richer pages where appropriate.
  4. Add structured data for events (startDate, location, offers) and test with Google’s rich results/testing tools to increase chances of enhanced listings.
  5. Speed & mobile: run a mobile-friendly and performance test; prioritize time-to-interactive and critical rendering fixes.
  6. Backlinks & outreach: audit your link profile, remove or disavow clearly spammy/sitewide paid links, then pursue one editorial link per authoritative partner (festival sites, local tourism boards, venues).

Also invest in conversion signals: user reviews, organizer bios, good photos, and social/event embeds to increase engagement (search engines use behavior signals). Track changes in Search Console (impressions, queries, CTR) after fixes; expect to wait 6–12 weeks for meaningful ranking changes. If nothing improves after a structured audit and follow-up, commission an independent technical SEO audit to produce prioritized, verifiable fixes.

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I looked at your site, just for my personal intrest, how much did you payed for it ?

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No matter how well SEO'd your website is, you still need to gather quality links from relevant sites, if that wasn't part of the SEO package. I checked your backlinks and I see a multitude of links from the same site (although the links no longer work and might have been removed recently). If those were sitewide links in a footer or sidebar it can cause a problem for ranking as it looks like a paid link. Being as those links no longer work you are now short a great portion of your links. Also there is a blog that is linking to your website with an image (doesn't help ranking) and again this is a multitude of links. So it may help if you find better quality links and concentrate on one per website.

commented: Many thanks. +0
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Well, just for the site.. I mean the design and programming I paid €9000.

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Well, just for the site.. I mean the design and programming I paid €9000.

That's not bad. In fact, that's cheap. I wouldn't do that for 9k

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