Lag in Motivation
I'm currently experiencing a lag in motivation. Since I started my website a few weeks ago, I've been consistently writing posts, and have 14 articles on my website now.
It's just hard to stay motivated when I'm hardly seeing any increase in traffic or anything. What's also detracting is the fact that there's so much information out there about what one can be doing.
I have a question: If i just go to my website and consistently write articles for an extended period of time (say, 3 months), and clear out most of the rest of the stuff, can I expect to see an increase in traffic? (let's say I continue to submit to social bookmarking sites).
Some guidance would be appreciated. I want to make this work but am just experiencing some drag right now. Thanks.
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I like what richcrow said -- and new domains just are not going to usually rank well for 3 months or so, but that does not mean you should not be building it the best you can.
Hi Joe.
I've been here around a month or so now. Traffic does take time to develop - the traffic I'm seeing is barely a pimple on a graph!! But you have to stay positive, although that's more easy said than done some days.
Try breaking up your time with lessons in WA, research and so on - at the moment I'm spending a lot of time on research with keywords for future posts, relevant topics that I can use and also the lessons here. I find that by doing that I'll get a sudden urge or brainwave for an article that just has to be done NOW!
Best wishes,
Richard.
Thanks Richard. I am learning that just staying positive and sticking with it - delayed vs. instant gratification - is the key.
Welcome to the club man. I go through this all the time. The honeymoon phase is over, and the daily grind can be frustrating and unfruitful. I think you found WA through my site - did you know that I worked on that site for 5 months before breaking 20 visits per day mark? Some guys can do it much faster, and start generating traffic in a couple weeks - it's just going to vary based on your niche.
Tech is pretty competitive, and there's a lot of small blogs and big sites out there. Traffic might come a bit slower, especially because this is your first site. Have you seen this training https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/hot-to-get-keywords-ranked-with-low-hanging-fruit on "low hanging fruit"?
The basic idea is that if you can find super-low competition keywords regardless of traffic, you can slowly build a decent amount of traffic. A couple weeks really isn't that long. definitely shoot for a couple months of consistent work before you see decent results. Get 50-100 posts up. Even if each post only gets 5 visits per day, that's 500 visits per month, and as you post more, your authority will grow, and rank will increase too.
Anyway, feeling the slump is normal, I still go through it.
Thanks for your response. Should I be looking at monthly traffic vs. daily traffic?
Another thing that I'm gathering from a lot of sources is that once you can 'break-through', and get a first sale or whatnot, things start to at least feel easier or better?
In regards to my finding WA, I think you're right, actually. I looked up whether something was a scam (can't remember what), and read an article that said it pretty much was but then recommended WA. If that's you, then thanks!
Traffic in a day vs month doesn't really matter. I look at daily stuff because I'm impatient, but monthly would work the same. If it's an article that you think ONE person per month will read, it's worth writing at this point. One happy visitor is better than 100 unhappy ones. One happy person will remember your site, brand, and share what you wrote. Maybe they'll even come back.
As far as break-throughs go, there are many you can have. You can make your first sale, you can break the 100 visits per day mark, you can break the $100 per day mark. It depends on your goals. Numbers are just numbers, but I use them all the time to make myself feel like I'm getting somewhere. You might not make money for a while, but focusing on growing traffic from 10 to 50 to 100 can at least make you feel like you're doing something right.
Personally, two huge milestones for me are the 6 month mark for a website, and the 200 visits per day mark for a website. I've always seen traffic and money increase exponentially after those points. It's just been my own experience.
A new one is the thing you mentioned - 300 blog posts. That's a true story. I shot for 300 posts with my blog, and before I hit 100 I started seeing results.
I've read your blog, and you sound like you know what you're talking about. I think it's a good topic, and you can dig deeper to see what people need to know about this tech. Look for tiny crevasses to fill that the big sites just don't cover.
I agree with what you're saying. Again, the 300 article idea is pretty cool to me. I've already written two more posts since writing this blog (one really good and one decent), and I'm feeling back on track.
Hi Joe, it definitely takes longer than a few weeks to get things happening. Continue learning, keep posting, tweak your website, stay motivated and the results will come! Your website is pretty cool, the only thing I would say is it's in a very popular niche so it will probably take a bit of time to rank well. Keep up the good work, Todd
Thanks for the response, Todd. I agree that it takes longer than a few weeks, and both your and Nathaniell's responses have helped me. Yeah, the mobile industry niche is obviously pretty popular, so I might look into streamlining my site's focus somewhat. But of course, there's also a lot of traffic in this niche, so if I could shave off a portion of that for myself, that'd be cool.
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I just follow Kyle's advice which is to not worry about traffic and selling to people so much and to just write quality content because it is the quality content that will get people engaged and keep them coming back. That's one of the main ways to get traffic.
Besides a few weeks isn't enough time to see any type of traffic. You need to build up authority plus there are parts of the training which I am sure you haven't reached yet that will teach you how to increase traffic and there are many ways. But before you can do them there are many other things that need to be done first.
Content is King! You have to make sure your quality content is engaging and interesting so it captivates your reader and makes them want to stick around and comment and share and Like. If you get stuck and cannot find a low competition keyword, then write the article without one. Remember what Kyle said in that video link I sent to you.
Just keep plugging away and traffic will eventually come. I've been here almost 4 months and one of my websites is getting good traffic and some of the pages and posts are ranking high in Google. The higher you rank in Google the more traffic you will get and the way to rank high in Google comes back to those 2 words again, Quality Content.
Thanks Boomer. I am indeed learning that quality content is the king, and that that should be my main focus. Thanks for your input.