To be feel sad is natural but must not stand in your progress

Your not alone. I write "happy" post to try to boost my spirits. I try not to focus on the negative because I know I will have success soon, just when soon is I'm not sure. I know it is just around the corner, which corner is uncertain but I know it is there. I just keep on keeping on. Everyone else has had success so I know I will too!!

Tried and True

Elaine

Hi Alex!

Let me add to the discussion and bring in what Kyle says about this, and how long it takes to get things rolling, regardless of the methods you use:

MONTH 1: Accomplishments
Website Set Up
SEO Set-up
Initial Framework of Content
Indexed by Google, Bing, Yahoo
You have 5-10 posts on your website
Earning Potential: A few sales, just getting your business foundation started

MONTH 3: Accomplishments
Content Starting to Get Ranked
Experience Some Big Breakthroughs in Search
Have Made Your First Sale or Two
Traffic is Cumulatively Starting to Grow
Search Engines are starting to give your site "authority"
You have 30-60 posts on your website
Earning Potential: $0-$500 per month

**Note: Kyle stated, "It took me 3 months to make my first sale online. Here I am 16 years later full time online, if I quit in the first month I would have never gotten to the experience of lifelong and very fruitful business online. There is something to be said about being patient and not expecting "instant" success in business."

MONTH 6: Accomplishments
Traffic is starting to flow, ideally 100 uniques per day
Sales start to increase with consistency, several per week
You are truly starting to gain some expertise and brand
Bing/Yahoo start indexing your site at a higher rate
Engagement on your site starts to increase
You have 60-100 posts on your site
Earning Potential: $500-$3,000 per month

ONE YEAR:
Traffic is really starting ramp up. You can expect 500+ visits per day
Google is granting your site with some serious authority
Companies and other blogger start to reach out and connect with you
You are making WA sales and other affiliate sales daily
The Vegas Super Affiliate Conference is in your sites
You have 100-150 posts on your website
Earning Potential: $3,000-$10,000 per month

TWO YEARS:
Your business is truly starting to thrive
You are definitely a noticeable force in the search engine world. Google ranks your new content within 24 hours of it being posted.
You are earning a full time income online
Vegas is yours, you have most definitely made it
You have 200-300 posts on your site
Earning Potential: $10,000-$20,000 per month

5 YEARS:
You are a brand/authority in the industry
You have a full time+ business online, likely 6 figures plus annually
Google, Bing & Yahoo love you
You are taking earnings and spending it to drive your business through paid channels
You likely have made several hires, including writers, design help, and a virtual assistant
You made Vegas in the first 1-2 months of the year (with your sites on the 3,000 sales)
You are in a position to double your business annually
Earning Potential: $10,000-$50,000 per month

"But remember, you are building a business here. You get OUT of your business what you put into it. Ask any successful person what the fundamental reason why they are successful and others are not and they will usually say one of two things. Hard Work or Focus."

So, don't be blue, just keep on keeping on and the results will come. Persistence will prevail. Just keep tweaking things till you find what works. If something does not work evaluate what you did and see if you can do it better, or abandon that technique and try something new. But, give things enough time to either work or not work.

I have not invested in any paid advertising of any kind, just SEO and social media, and I have been able to get attention to my niche. But it took time.

I think people don't talk about failures here in WA because they don't consider them as such. They just look at them as learning opportunities, and once they have learned their way into successes, then they share.

I hope this all helps!

You are not alone. As Kev-dogg says, if it were easy, everyone would be doing it.

The good news is that this can be a very difficult work choice. I say good news because if it was easy, then everyone would do it. It takes perseverance and that is something lost out there.

Amazon and the likes pay commissions because they know it isn't some easy thing. It takes time to make money.

Hang in there. I find that I can't judge my success by dollars right now. I watch things like the number of keywords I have in the top 100. That goes up almost every day for me so I know I am making progress. I focus on the ones in the top 20, but the others slowly rise and make it there eventually.

Stay strong. Stay focused.

AlexMi, remember most people on like to share their successes publicly. You're hardly alone. I'm sure that their are a lot of people failing initially. Working the process, as they say, will hopefully bring the success. Good luck to us all.

It's very common for many people learning and beginning to work online to be unsatisfied with the results. Just have to keep up your research, content creation and stay active in your online journey to build a website that people want to go to, website that helps people or have something of value to offer people.

It's a marathon not a sprint, takes a lot of patience. Also requires some experimenting and trial and error sort of stuff to find unique and original ways to find your own success as well.

Everyone has bad days, just can't quit because nobody is successful by quitting and also if you do the research you will find that most affiliate marketers/internet marketers or people wanting to earn money online that fail it's because they quit too easily.

Indeed, you are not alone.
But then I look around to those WA colleagues which succeeded and keep going.

You are not alone. This is a long process and sometimes it’s easy to lose heart. We have to believe it will all come together if we follow the training plan and advice.
Sydney

I'm sure you're not the only one feeling blue, but I'll leave you with this tidbit:
"One never learns from success. If you're succeeding, you already know how to accomplish the goal. Failure, on the other hand, is life's greatest teacher. If we do not fail, we do not learn."