How Long Until YOU Start Seeing Traffic?

One of the more popular questions from new webmasters is "When will I start seeing traffic?" We are all taught to be patient and just keep at it and the traffic will come. Anyone can be patient for a month or two but patients starts to wear thin for many people after 90 days or so.

Where is my traffic?!!!

If you have done your keyword research and you are consistently creating quality content, the search engines will find you but you have to give them enough time. Can you imagine how much content Google has to comb through everyday? And more is being piled on by the minute!

You have to sow before you can harvest.

Publishing articles is kind of like planting seeds. Some will bear fruit while others will rot and die. You can't predict either way so you have to just keep planting. In some cases, 90 days is not nearly enough time to know.

Keywords can become hot!

When I find keyword phrases with less than 50 competing pages I usually jump on them. They can become hot phrases months after you publish and you could find yourself in a great position when the search volume picks up.

I am now just starting to see some good daily traffic for a product review I wrote 9 months ago! It brought in NO traffic for 8 months but all of a sudden, the search volume has increased significantly.

My point is, you cannot gauge how well your site is doing based on what you published this month or even last month. You may be getting little to no traffic today, but the article you are in the middle of writing now could bring a flood of traffic months from now.

Build trust with the search engines.

Having your articles listed on the first page of Google can be a very powerful thing but it's a privilege, not a right. You have to prove yourself to them. The internet is full of "Fly by night" website builders so you need to prove that you are in it for the long haul.

Getting that first article on the first page of Google is the toughest. It gets much easier after that. Trust me :)