How Many Posts Did it Take You to Achieve Success?

I agree. Driving traffic is a big deal and can be done without writing a ton of posts. However, for beginners, many only have time to write a few posts a week and do very little marketing. They may also be on a shoe-string budget.

Completely different model.

This is very true.

That's pretty amazing.

This is more what I have seen myself. It takes at least a solid 3 months of regular blogging to see much of any results. Six months is more likely for a good amount of traffic.

Agreed, but we are splitting hairs here. My question was more geared towards those actually blogging and not as much towards the true marketer. There is a difference.

I am still interested to hear from true bloggers that spent more time writing posts than marketing them to achieve success, however they define the word.

Thank you for all your responses so far.

Benjamin Ehinger

Well put and very true.

While I agree about the email list, I don't agree about the viral comment, personally. Yes, one post could go viral, but viral traffic is fleeting and only lasts a little while. I have seen too many companies think they can duplicate viral results and fail to ever put my eggs in the viral basket. Personally, I think viral traffic should be treated at extra, not the norm.

I think if you're creating good quality content and not doing anything remotely shady with your SEO, any google update won't impact you, unless you're political and on the wrong side of things.

I agree, driving traffic to a landing page is great, but for the sake of this argument, that's not the method I am talking about for success.

Would love to see the site you mentioned, but it doesn't work. It gives a 503 Service error, so if this person had success, it's gone now, at least temporarily.

I agree it depends on marketing, but where do you strike the balance? Do you create 1 post a month and spend the rest of the month focusing marketing that one post or do you create one a week?

Benjamin Ehinger