9 Months of Progress - 1,000 visitors per day

Be Patient

It has been a while since my last blog post at WA and so I just thought that I would provide a very short progress report to hopefully inspire others and give a realistic insight into timescales. I know that everyone is in a hurry to get visitors and make loads of money, but the reality is that it takes most people at least 4 months to even begin to reap the rewards of your hard work as an affiliate marketer.

1,000 Visitor Days After 9 Months

In the early days of building my main website, I doubted that I would ever reach 100 visitors per day, let alone 500 or even 1,000. But, I trusted the training and just kept adding content. I now have about 120 posts on the site - I churned them out far too quickly the start, but now prefer to add far fewer posts. However, my latest posts are much much longer (often 2,000 to 3,000 words) and they rank a lot better for some reason. Perhaps, Google sees them as more authoritative and useful than 500 word posts or perhaps I am just picking up "bonus keywords" due to their length?

Anyway, this month I began to breach the "1,000 per day" milestone and this has obviously begun to convert into a healthier bottom-line too.

So, if you are just starting out and getting a little depressed about getting 10-20 visitor per day and no sales, just have a look at these graphs from my GA account and notice that I was getting pretty much no traffic for at least 3 months before Google started to give me a little love and gradually started to rank my posts more highly.

I should add that about 90% of my visitors are organic and I do not engage in any sort of backlink strategies (not even blog commenting etc). I just post, share with Twitter, G+, Pinterest and wait.

Conclusions

Be patient, keep posting, follow the training, don't be side-tracked by gimmicks or other "SEO tricks".