I started a writing / general interest blog about 3 weeks ago and have grown it to 60 subscribers using Adwords and YSM. I've gotten good feedback on it, and I think the fact that people subscribe (I've spent about $30 PPC, 700 visitors total) tells me that people like the content. My theory was that if I kick started it by advertising, I wouldn't have to wait so long for organic growth to come to fruition. However, even at 60 subscribers I am not yet seeing an increase in growth rate - quite the opposite in fact - it has been slow that past few days. I am still running the campaigns, so I was wondering how many subscribers should I accrue before the blog really takes off on its own?
I wouldnt believe in getting subscribers thruogh PPC alone. Only 'good quality fresh uniqe content' keeps visitors coming back and back to your blog. So if you concentrate on providing that in your blog, you will have higher chance of succeeding in the millions of blogs competing with you scenario out there.
I do update daily, and for the reasons stated, I believe my content is quite good. So when might I expect organic growth to take over?
that would depend on how viral your blog is... but focus on the content.. if you have good content.. google will find you... that is free search traffic I am talking about here
Well, since both of you apparently know that good content increases traffic, can you tell me from personal experience when yours started to grow organically? I am trying to figure out how much money to spend.