I just wanted to share with everyone out there who works diligently on their sites without seeing quick results, that if you hang in there you will be rewarded. I started a game site a few months back, built a bunch of links and could never get in the top 50 for my keywords...I continued to build links here and there and just this week I'm in the top 12 for 4 variations of my keywords, and my traffic has gone from 2 uniques a day to over 100. It's a unique game niche so I don't expect thousands a day, but the point of the story is that I had almost just given up on the site, and boom...one day it shows up with a good ranking. So keep at it, build links as you can, and with all other SEO being done properly, the results will come. I'm not generally very patient with this stuff...I want to see results today, not 6 months from now, so for those of you like me, if you can keep working and be patient, it will come together for you.
Patienence and time are a must in this firld and in online business That's why so many people fail (well olso unckilled)
Great post Christian, organic SEO certainly requires a great amount of patience, time, determination and attention to detail.
Great Point. I expected results within a month when building a site. I gave up and went back to the site a few months later. Now I'm number 1 for my term, ahead of wikipedia.
Patience is a must basically in any business, not just online. You can't open a restaurant or a store or a factory and expect to get rich the next day, especially if there are many competitors. I could also add my case to your story: I launched a new site (on a new domain) during end of October 2007, a competitive niche, with pretty hard to rank keywords. In the first month I got to position 70-90 for 3 keywords. I've been like that for about 2 weeks, and then KABOOM! Position 150-300. Kinda forgot about it, submitted to a couple of directories here and there, nothing fancy. And when I check on 6th of january - i'm #10-20 for all 3 keywords... On 8th of Jan - #6-15 for all 3... So if I get to keep this position - that means that I beat some of my competitors that have good websites for over 3 years, with tens of thousands of backlinks
Christian, You are so right. Too many people try to rush SEO, looking for shortcuts. There are no shortcuts to truly good SEO work. At least two or three months is required to reap the results of the effort that goes into an optimization strategy. I have had sites that have become the number one result on Google or Yahoo, and the effort has always taken many months and lots of link building. Congratulations on your good results.
I wholeheartedly agree, it's a marathon not a sprint. Was doing a couple visitors a day before my pages finally got indexed by Google and now doing 100-200 visitors per day from search engine results since this past weekend. It doesn't happen overnight but once things finally come into play then then the SEO work invested pays off ( ^_^ )
i hate being patient!!!!! although one of my sites is on page 2 and page 3 depending on what you search for. my other sites, not so good. -dan
I think the main problem is this: 1. Webmaster John Doe builds a site and optimizes it. 2. He's very lucky and is able to rank well fast, obtaining a lot of traffic and converting it in cash. 3. Webmaster John Doe writes an e-book on "how to make money quick with my SEO techniques" 4. Thousands buy the book and expect the same results, not understanding that not all keyword niches move at the same pace 5. Most of them will not get quick results, so they'll give up and fail
Thanks Rob....Yes you did...and you were right on the mark. The only downside is that this isn't the niche I was hoping to get a huge traffic increase. I'm still working on those niches, because they're going to make the $$.
Definitely a post people should pay attention to. Persistence is usually the key to most peoples success. As long as you hang in there and learn from trial and error, you should be okay in the end. Great post.