In my last post I talked about how I sometimes get close to running out of steam when working on websites of mine that have been around for a few years.
In this post I look at the problem in reverse - how do you keep the faith during the first 30 days of any new money-making website?
Believe me, this can be harder than you think.
You have invested a ton of time and energy in choosing the topic for your website. You have written and uploaded the first batch of pages. You have done everything you can think of to get the search engines to think highly of your site and start sending traffic.
And then you wait, and you wait and you wait.
Believe me, that period of waiting can be very discouraging.
Here is an example.
I recently identified what I believe to be an information gap and started writing a new website.
Here is the timeline so far:
Went online with first 15 pages- Apr 24th
Indexed by Google - Apr 28th
Indexed by Yahoo! - Apr 28th
First visitor from search engines: Yahoo! - May 2nd
First visitor from Google - May 11th
Total visitors from search engines so far (May 12th) - 13
Three weeks after the site went live, and I have just 13 search engine visitors to show for it.
I have found this to be immensely frustrating. I have done this before, know what I’m doing and expected to get more traffic by now. Remember, with this model the idea is not to pay for traffic, it’s to get free, organic traffic from the search engines.
In spite of my frustrations, if I look at that short timeline objectively, I’m doing just fine. I really am. I just have to keep adding new pages and get more inbound links to the site.
I really shouldn’t have felt frustrated at all. The timeline is fine. But in reality I was getting quite upset! I hate going whole days without a single visit from the search engines, even within the first two or three weeks of a new site.
While my level of impatience was growing over the last few days, I thought of all the people who are doing this for the first time.
Yes, it’s easy to lose heart. It’s very easy to throw up your hands and just give up.
Don’t give up. Keep the faith. Like me you’ll be able to look back at some point and laugh at the frustration you felt over the first few weeks.
Just keep adding those pages, keep developing those inbound links...and the traffic will come.
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