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".
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Very encouraging post, do it right the first time and the rewards await you. Building into the future more rewarding than rushing blindly into things and wondering why your pages don't rank. Thanks.K ( Perseverance + Patience = Success. Daniel
Results and what brought them to the person in question is what should be central to all of our thinking, IMO. Your candid, and helpful share here is a beacon- of confirmation, encouragement and reassurance. No short cuts, do it right, let the content speak for itself and a deserved traffic bonanza. You have not mentioned your most wanted actions from your site and your conversions, but I would warrant that they are right where you want them to be, as you are getting indexed and rewarded on the basis of content.
I tried liking your post 10 times, but only once stuck...LOL
Thanks.
As for conversions etc from just Amazon, just to give you an idea ...
471 Orders, 446 shipped, 3690 clicks, 12.76% conversion.
Monthly site visitors = about 22,000. (So, about 15% of visitors click a link)
Hi Kristian,
I am always very impressed with your success. It is undoubtedly due to all of your extremely hard work. And I do appreciate your updates you provide.
I was just curious, I am guessing since you are dealing with Amazon Associates that your site is not in the Bootcamp (make money online) niche. I was just curious as to what main niche you are in? I am impressed, as 22,000 monthly visitors is awe inspiring. With that said, I need to go write more posts! :)
It's very heartening to read such stories. I can't even get my site ranked in the top 100 as yet but I think WP is not the best SEO platform sadly.
I'll keep plodding on
Jack,
I beg to differ, I think WA has been a wonderfully dynamic SEO platform. There is a lot of training and video's on SEO that is very helpful.
I just wrote a post on SEO and my perspective if you would like to take a look my site is in my bio.
I hope this helps, my best to your success,
Gary
Hi Gary, It was WP ( wordpress) which I feel isn't the best SEO platform not WA. There is a great deal of issues with meta data and page titles structure which have to be micro managed in WP. I'll take a look at your posts thanks.
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Thank you for sharing, that's the kind of encouragement I need sometimes.