The Work Results Delay

When you are building your website, it's very easy to get stuck in the JOB mentality of "when I do work, I want to get paid". It's very discouraging to work 6 hours on an article, then not see it rank. After a few weeks or months of it not making money, it feels even worse, like you wasted your time.

I'm no stranger to those feelings.

But when you are working online building niche websites that rely on organic traffic from search engines there is a delay between when you complete the work and when you see results.

I read a post in WA earlier today where the person actually stopped working on their website for a while, and was surprised to come back later to discover some Amazon earnings! This is not uncommon, and I've heard this story many times before. In fact, I've lived it. That is why sometimes it's OK to take a break from your website when you get frustrated and spend some time working on other projects.

Your work doesn't disappear. It stews in Google, and if you did good work, it settles down in a nice ranking where it can get traffic. Do that 100 times, and now you have 100 little traffic points settling down in Google over a period of time that will accumulate more and more traffic.

This is how an authority site is built!

You've heard it over and over again, but it's worth repeating. Success doesn't come in a landslide. It's built little by little over time.

Just to show my own experience with this, I'll show you a website I built this year. It's a quirky little website called Motion Sensor Sprinkler dot com http://motionsensorsprinkler.com/

I made it just to experiment with a theme, and happened to have a domain I bought based on my own interest, and good traffic/low competition stats. Here are the Amazon earnings from this year.

I started building the website around March, and it didn't start earning anything decent til July. That's about 4 months of delay between when I started my work and when I stared to see results. Remember, I have 5 years experience with online marketing as well, so even with experience, I cannot "supercharge" my results!

Of course, $100/year is nothing to write home about, but I also stopped working on the website and haven't grown it past about 10 posts plus some very short product reviews.

So, next time you start thinking, "Why am I not seeing any results?!" remember that success may be just around the corner. Take a look at what type of content you were creating 3-6 months ago, and the traffic/earnings you see NOW are going to be the result of your work at that time.

If you look back at old blog posts and say, "OMG, this stuff is not very good compared to what I'm doing now!", that's OK. But now you know why you are not seeing the results you want! If you are creating awesome content now that you have some experience under your belt, look forward in time 3-6 months and I'd bet you are going to see better results by that time.

*note: the time of 3-6 months is just an approximation based on my own experience, and there's no rule or guarantee that this will always happen, or that it's any kind of limitation on how fast you can earn

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Main Points From This Post

1. Success doesn't come in a landslide
2. Even with experience, I cannot "supercharge" my results
3. Take a look at what type of content you were creating 3-6 months ago, and the traffic/earnings you see NOW are going to be the result of your work at that time.