Nearly everyone who just creates a new website wants to know: How long does it take to get blog traffic streaming in?

When I started out with my first blog, I was logging in to Google Analytics on an everyday basis to watch my blog traffic performance. I was curious to know who has visited my empty blog and what they did on visits.

It may seem imprudent to the experienced bloggers, but it’s a constant practice for newbie and struggling veteran bloggers.

Getting Blog Traffic

Like most people out there, I used to think someone would visit my blog after I’m done publishing a fresh post, comparing this to a newly-opened Soya Milk depot on a given street.

Although not many potential buyers would visit the first day; it is likely, at least that someone comes around on opening and have a look at what the store has in stock. This is what operates in most offline shops. What are the chances that no one visits a newly-opened Soya Milk shop in a day or two?

Sad to say, online business doesn’t work out this way. You may think about it that hundreds of people are opening a Soya Milk shop all next to one another in the middle of the desolate, and expecting that someone shows up and chooses to walk in your own shop out of the hundreds of numbered options. Might sound inhuman, but that’s on the verge of symmetry!

Hundreds of thousands of new blogs are being started every day. Over 6 million blog posts are published on an everyday basis. And most of the blog owners don’t get visitors to read their newly-published posts of length 1000+, 2000+, 3000+, and 4000+ words except they ask their friends and family on social media to visit and read. You can get almost instant traffic from that but it’s nothing but a short-lasting method. It doesn’t work like SEO.