Hi All, I have very recently (literally very new) started a photoshop tutorial blog and am slowly building up content which is all unique and written by me, however I have a few questions since I'm very new to blogging and using the internet to gain traffic and momentum to such a new blog. I have managed to get it indexed by google so that's the first step (after setting up and adding some initial content of course). I fully understand that the kind of success I'm after will not come overnight and I'm more than willing to work at it and for it to be a long-term thing but I have a few questions which I'd really love answered just so I'm not wasting my time completely and missing something fundamental. Once my blog is indexed (currently it is) how long will it take google to start ranking my articles for keywords? I have read conflicting articles on this which stated that it takes a good few months for google to grant it 'trusted status?' and then others claiming that their blog went to #16 on google in a matter of days. Another thing I have been wondering is whether submitting an article to exinearticles is worth it and about social networking marketing in general. Due to my articles mainly being literal tutorials, I wondered how I can use these sites (such as digg etc) to my advantage. Last question (I promise) which I have is if backlinking is essential to ranking well on search engines to gain some traffic? Do I need good backlinks so that google will rank me well? I've also done some research on getting backlinks such as commenting on high PR blogs of a similar kind etc. Just wondering if I really need to start doing this to make sure I'm not missing something out. Currently my blog is pulling in about 3 visits a day (now I know with it being SO new I'm not expecting anything major) but is this normal for a new blog? Should it be steadily increasing? I just want to make sure that with the amount of time I'm spending on it, I'm not missing something really important out that is going to hold my blog back. www.fliptutorials.com Any advice is greatly appreciated, Sam
Patients!! Any website that has been made didn’t lift off immediately, it takes time. This is for your website, improve it so the search engines don’t find any reasons not to index all your pages. HTML VALIDATION http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fliptutorials.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 Code (markup): CSS VALIDATION http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fliptutorials.com%2F&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&vextwarning=&lang=en Code (markup): Also, i have seen you use the rounded corner technique, which is done wrong as it will not display properly in other web browsers. Follow the following tutorial to get a better and all browsers accepted rounded corners without images. http://www.jagmit.co.uk/blog/2011/06/23/css-rounded-corners-without-images-most-browsers/ Code (markup): SEO your website properly and increase the backlinks by advertising your site on directories or even better, go to the buy now section and buy some traffic...