Are you the Tortoise or the Hare?

Tortoise or the Hare?
Can I be neither and be a cute puppy instead?


The faster you go, the faster your 'progression' increments will be.

so you will progress up the ladder faster.

Once you do this for one niche or one project then it becomes easier for the next time, and the next time you do it- it tends to be faster as you have done the process before, and have worked out what the mistakes are.

Slow and steady will get your profits down the line, but you should speed up as you have done things more than once.

LOL, what a coincidence... I just registered "wildhareblogging.com" last week, and almost have the product finished.

It's more to do with a natural growth curve over time. You can start big, but then you have to get bigger. That's why it takes long to get sandboxed - it's when they check later and your backlinks came in a spike and dropped dead without leveling off and climbing. THAT makes it look like ZERO organic growth, only artificial.

If you start with what you can comfortably maintain, eventually, when you get enough pages and traffic, you'll hit the tipping point and growth will happen on its own in addition to what you're doing. That looks totally natural when they check back later. It's not that Google minds seeing spikes in there - you're allowed to market.

But if the site drops off to periods of nothing with only spikes, it's obvious the site has no value for users.

If you want organic traffic, the site should have an organic growth pattern that climbs over time - in both content and backlinking.

That's what I've been told by guys who are supposed to know, and what I've seen myself, although admittedly only on a couple of sites, built with the presumption that this is how things worked.

Generally speaking, over time, Google wants to reward the sites who would be growing in traffic even without Google's help. Active, popular, well organized, authoritative, etc.

It really depends.

I have tried backlinking slowly and I have also tried the "backlink the living hell out of it" method and to be honest the second one has worked better for me.

I'm the Tortoise - mainly because I'm lazy and hate the backlink building process so I can only do so much of it at once or it drives me crazy. But as they say - slow and steady wins the race!

Back linking the living hell out of your website could work against you since Google looks for consistency in new content on websites. If you have a whole bunch of back links go up at once, Google will notice. What you want to do is plan it out of a period of time so that way Google sees your website with something new each time they check it out.

i love to be the tortoise..."slow and steady wins the race" ;-)

So is this thread about tortoises and hares, backlink blitzes and buildups, or Caliban's love life and lustings? lol

As for myself, I like mutant ninja turtles.

Peace!

LOL!!! Crazy Caliban dude! Pass me what you're smokin' man! Nyahahahaha!!!! LMAO!!!

One picture of girls and this thread goes to hell..............focus grasshopper. Turtles always win. The long term implications of steady and slow beat the burst thinking.

I'm a tortoise, but I sold a bricks and mortar business before venturing into IM. The proceeds from the sale have afforded me the luxury of being able to focus on building a long term, sustainable business.

I feel bad for the folks that fall into the, "I have to make $3,000 in the next two weeks or I'll be homeless", camp.