Relaunching Old, Stale Sites
A SeaWaves website called The Common Sense Investor has been sitting idle for well over 2 years.
The site does not get very much traffic at this point. However, we are in the process of resuscitating it with the hopes of getting traffic up below the 100k Alexa range.
What are our challenges?
The biggest challenge for an old, stale site, is getting the attention of search engines again. I strongly suspect that domains are associated with various relevancy factors including frequency of updates. I’ve seen situations where it takes months to get to a point where your site is reassessed and given proper status.
The best way to fix this is to build lots of links and to ping both your own site and the new links with submissions to Mixx, Propeller, etc.
Additionally, it is important to produce quality content, submit to social media, and hopefully get some natural links.