So I've made 3 sites over the last three days, one about making money, one about car insurance and one about world of warcraft - they're each aimed to monetize via affiliation or adsense. I've done a lot of forum posting, directory and SE submissions and a bit of blog commenting and have seen reasonable traffic - mainly from the forum posting. How long does it usually take you to start getting regular traffic from search engines when creating a brand new site from scratch? Only one of my sites is indexed in Google so far, which seems okay since I built it yesterday... any general info is appreciated. I know there are a lot of beginner topics like this, but I thought I'd make one in good English for a change.
I started my site last month, only about 3 people a day from google, but I'm already getting 551 a day on my own.
Is all your content keyword optimized and is it optimized for long tail keywords? A brand new site should go after keywords with a lot less competition. If your content is keyword rich have you written any articles and submitted them to top directories. It can take as long as you take to get a steady flo of traffic. The morw ork you put into it the more traffic will come. I would suggest getting a large list of keywords for each site and writing articles for each keyword. Submit the articles to the top directories for good exposure. Starting with 30 articles and growing to a hundred isn't out of the norm for new and older sites. the more articles you have with well written content the more people will find them and follow the links back to your site. It can take as little as 30 days for steady traffic or much longer. Just depends on your efforts.
Cool. I'm getting around 100/day without google at the moment lol, well I have been the past 2 days. Good luck.
@Stephen Meyer - Thanks, good post. I never really thought of jotting down a list of specific longer-tail keywords and writing an article for each, I just had my keywords and threw them in each article (where appropriate). I have approx 6 articles on each site at the moment.