What results should I be seeing after blogging for 6 months?

10 years ago

A blog is simply a method of communicating. It has no inherent goals.

What is the purpose of your blog and what objectives do you have for it?

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Rory Singh

10 years ago

Can't give you a good answer because I don't know what you did besides publishing 2 blog posts per week.

Did you do any of the following?

1- Promote (tell others): Did you send the social medias your content?

2- Syndication: Did you syndicate or join any networks that could help your content rank higher?

3- Did you comment on any other blogs related to your niche? This doesn't help with SEO but it does help increase your traffic by giving you more 'exposure".

So maybe you did or not. We don't know. No one can give you a good answer unless you include more info on what you did.

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Caitlinz

10 years ago

It depends on the quality of your content, it's position in search engines and the number of people actually searching for it.

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Steve B

10 years ago

Rory is right, if all you did was post to your blog, you can expect very little traffic.

If you promoted it heavily within your niche, you could be selling your own products or relevant affiliate products by now quite regularly.

Yes, quality posting is important. Promotion of what you blog is even more important. If no one sees your blog, the quality by itself is going to do very little for attracting traffic.

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chucki

10 years ago

Thanks guys...but what I wanted to know for the bloggers if you should start a blog now and apply all that you know whats the range of traffic you will get after 6 months?
I just want to use this to have a realistic goal in my mind.

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discrat

10 years ago

Originally Posted by chucki

Thanks guys...but what I wanted to know for the bloggers if you should start a blog now and apply all that you know whats the range of traffic you will get after 6 months?
I just want to use this to have a realistic goal in my mind.

Chucki,
There is truly no way to even come close to predicting this.

Really.

Totally unpredictable.

The best way to find out is to just do it

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hardworker2013

10 years ago

It all depends on what you did with the blog over that 6 months. For example did you update the blog regularly with some quality content? Did you submit your blog to the major search engines by pinging
your blog url? Did you share your blog on the major social media like facebook, Twitter etc?

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SupplementTalk 10 years ago

I think he wants a number guys. Honestly without knowing your level of keyword research and on page SEO knowledge it is hard to tell. But I would be surprised after 48 good quality original content if you werent getting 20-30 unique visitors per day.

If you want to hit the 100 unique visits per day mark, you will have to be doing some sort of off page backlinking and social signals promotion.
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chucki

10 years ago

So 30 unqiue page views after 6 months is OK?

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SupplementTalk 10 years ago

yes per day that would be reasonable. You for sure should have consistent traffic after 6 months of posting on your blog.
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Niche Blogger

10 years ago

Originally Posted by chucki

So 30 unqiue page views after 6 months is OK?

No, that would be a terrible result! After 6 months blogging I'd expect at least 10 times that. I started a new blog 2 weeks ago and it's already getting about 50 uniques a day.

It depends on way too many factors to predict - you might get 30 uniques a day, 300, or even 3000 depending on your niche, keywords, SEO, how you promote the posts etc.

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kilgore

10 years ago

Our site isn't a blog, though like many sites there's a blog embedded within it. That said, here are some numbers describing our progress after about six months. And as you'll see, at this point in our company's history, our numbers were mostly pretty paltry.

40,000 visits/month
125,000 pageviews/month
10,000 total Facebook followers
1,000 total email subscribers
1,000 total Pinterest followers
40 minor press hits (mostly smaller blogs)
10 major press hits (large blogs, newspapers or magazines)
Dozens and dozens of mentions on other social media pages
Hundreds and hundreds of positive comments about our work in email or on our social media

All this translated into a measly $500 profit/month.

As I said above, after six months, if you looked at income and traffic especially, one might have easily concluded that we weren't doing very well. Certainly if you added up all the hours we worked, we would have done much, much better in minimum wage jobs. But I think this just goes to show how looking at raw sales and traffic numbers can be misleading in a new venture. It can take a long time before you start seeing significant results in those areas, especially given that part of the nature of a successful online businesses is to see logarithmic growth (i.e., slow growth in the beginning, exponentially fast growth in the middle, and flattening growth as the business matures).

Thus, though we didn't know it at the time, looking back the most important statistics weren't our sales numbers, but (1) our growth trajectory (which was increasing apace) and (2) the amount of positive feedback we received from our visitors, the blogosphere and the press. This feedback told us that even if we weren't going to be overnight millionaires, we had touched real needs in people's lives. Moreover, the feedback provided fantastic ideas about how we could make our site better, what sort of products people most wanted to buy, etc. We were then able to adjust our business, adding new sections and offering new products which enabled us to improve all of our numbers -- including our traffic and sales.

So my advice is that rather than focusing on any particular number, look more at the reactions you're getting from your visitors. Are they happy with what you're providing? What are your opportunities for improvement? At least in my opinion, when starting out the information you get by listening to your customers is far more valuable than the money you'll likely be making.

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Winning34

10 years ago

Originally Posted by kilgore

Our site isn't a blog, though like many sites there's a blog embedded within it. That said, here are some numbers describing our progress after about six months. And as you'll see, at this point in our company's history, our numbers were mostly pretty paltry.

40,000 visits/month
125,000 pageviews/month
10,000 total Facebook followers
1,000 total email subscribers
1,000 total Pinterest followers
40 minor press hits (mostly smaller blogs)
10 major press hits (large blogs, newspapers or magazines)
Dozens and dozens of mentions on other social media pages
Hundreds and hundreds of positive comments about our work in email or on our social media

All this translated into a measly $500 profit/month.

As I said above, after six months, if you looked at income and traffic especially, one might have easily concluded that we weren't doing very well. Certainly if you added up all the hours we worked, we would have done much, much better in minimum wage jobs. But I think this just goes to show how looking at raw sales and traffic numbers can be misleading in a new venture. It can take a long time before you start seeing significant results in those areas, especially given that part of the nature of a successful online businesses is to see logarithmic growth (i.e., slow growth in the beginning, exponentially fast growth in the middle, and flattening growth as the business matures).

Thus, though we didn't know it at the time, looking back the most important statistics weren't our sales numbers, but (1) our growth trajectory (which was increasing apace) and (2) the amount of positive feedback we received from our visitors, the blogosphere and the press. This feedback told us that even if we weren't going to be overnight millionaires, we had touched real needs in people's lives. Moreover, the feedback provided fantastic ideas about how we could make our site better, what sort of products people most wanted to buy, etc. We were then able to adjust our business, adding new sections and offering new products which enabled us to improve all of our numbers -- including our traffic and sales.

So my advice is that rather than focusing on any particular number, look more at the reactions you're getting from your visitors. Are they happy with what you're providing? What are your opportunities for improvement? At least in my opinion, when starting out the information you get by listening to your customers is far more valuable than the money you'll likely be making.

Good post. Was that initial $500 / month adsense or selling products?

I think your post brings up an important concept. In the beginning, the actual $$ might not be that much but you are slowly building up an asset and a brand and most importantly you are becoming an authority. Being an authority has a huge long-term benefit that will eventually bring in more $$

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kilgore

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Winning34

Good post. Was that initial $500 / month adsense or selling products?

I think your post brings up an important concept. In the beginning, the actual $$ might not be that much but you are slowly building up an asset and a brand and most importantly you are becoming an authority. Being an authority has a huge long-term benefit that will eventually bring in more $$

At that point probably about 95% of our income was through Amazon Associates (then all US Amazon), 10% Adsense. Part of our improvement since then has been maximizing our affiliate earnings (Amazon and a bunch of other programs that we now also use) such that now Adsense is only about 1% of our total earnings. At some point, hopefully this year, we're going to start selling ads directly which should help to raise our ad earnings since Adsense isn't a very good match for us.

But you're absolutely right about building an asset and a brand; early on those aspects are much more important than the money. People tend to forget that building a business is a long term activity, focusing instead on short term earnings instead of long term profit and I think that's a big mistake. Remember that many startups -- with top-level teams and investment backing -- can take years to achieve profitability. Maybe not something to aspire to, but if you're more interested in maximizing profits over 10 years than 10 months (or even 10 days as many here seem to be), it's worth keeping in mind.

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chucki

10 years ago

Thank you niche blogger I like your answer.

Originally Posted by Niche Blogger

No, that would be a terrible result! After 6 months blogging I'd expect at least 10 times that. I started a new blog 2 weeks ago and it's already getting about 50 uniques a day.

It depends on way too many factors to predict - you might get 30 uniques a day, 300, or even 3000 depending on your niche, keywords, SEO, how you promote the posts etc.

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Jennifer Hutson 10 years ago

Originally Posted by chucki

So 30 unqiue page views after 6 months is OK?

Even with no promotion, that seems low. Are you optimizing with on-page SEO for every post? If not, you should be. It's easy to do and still maintain good quality.
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Sarevok

10 years ago

Don't ask us what your results should be.

You're the one who developed the business plan, and mapped out your goals, so you could track your statistics and chart your own progress, right?

If you haven't done that, sit back and reflect on what your goals are. And then ask yourself if your input is appropriately congruent with your honest expectations.

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chucki

10 years ago

Thanks. I have never done this before how can I set goals without knowing whats real from whats fake I just needed something to help me calculate my goals.

Originally Posted by Sarevok

Don't ask us what your results should be.

You're the one who developed the business plan, and mapped out your goals, so you could track your statistics and chart your own progress, right?

If you haven't done that, sit back and reflect on what your goals are. And then ask yourself if your input is appropriately congruent with your honest expectations.

:]

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badassmarketer

10 years ago

It all depends how you are promoting your blog. That will tell you how much traffic you should be getting. For example, if you are syndicating your post on someone elses blog, by being a guest writer and their website gets tons of traffic, then you should be getting tons of traffic back to your website. It's all relative to how you are promoting, and how much traffic the place you promote at sends to your website.

Your content is basically to keep your visitors, not to attract new visitors, especially in the beginning stages.

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astral walker

10 years ago

Originally Posted by chucki

Hi,

I understand that it can take up to 6 months to start seeing results on your new blog. If I make 2 post(Good quality) every week for 6 months. How much traffic(range) should be expected? and how much subscribers can be regarded as a good number for the 6 months.

Give range please

It all depends on the type of articles you are publishing on your blog. How-to guides are evergreen and you would get constant traffic. Posting 2 quality posts (1800 - 2000 words each) is fine but make sure you are targetting long tail keywords. If some of your articles rank on the first page, you will receive a lot of organic traffic.

You can expect around 700+ visitors per day. It can be a lot higher as well. Well earning subscribers would be a difficult task. If you articles are helpful, people would subscribe. Using optin monster plugin or sumome.com service. 500 quality subscribers should be your target in 6 months.

Try to reduce bounce rate, make sure your blog loads fast, is mobile friendly and is SEO optimized. Invest in a quality web host. Don't choose the most popular host, do your research. All these factors play and important role.

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copywriterco

10 years ago

It depends on the type and content of the articles you are publishing.. Also depending on the audience you are targeting and most of all it depends on where you are publishing these articles.

I think you have to consider these factors and should have included on your post.

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Slade556

10 years ago

If your website is new, you should try to write more than 2 articles a week, at least at first. Try updating it more frequently if you can, I realize everyone has their limits, but for a new blog, the more quality content you add, the better.
As for the results, there is no way of knowing what they should be after 6 months... it all depends on the work you put in.

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Shirlyn

10 years ago

Hi,
To get traffic on your blog you need to optimize the blog in the right way with the trending content curation methods.

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RevThomas

10 years ago

Thanks guys for the good info.
I can only give my personal experience.
My site is blog driven, but not affiliated with any specific program. It is four years old.
I don't have my stats for the first three years because I changed hosts.
But I remember that after the first month we averaged about 70 unique visitors per day. I was overjoyed.

Last month we had 24,246 unique visits with 67,699 total visits.
Just my experience. Hope it helps.

Thomas

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ChrisBa

10 years ago

Originally Posted by chucki

Hi,

I understand that it can take up to 6 months to start seeing results on your new blog. If I make 2 post(Good quality) every week for 6 months. How much traffic(range) should be expected? and how much subscribers can be regarded as a good number for the 6 months.

Give range please

This is really a loaded question. What else have you been doing to get the word out on your blog? Or have you just been posting new posts and waiting for traffic?

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JensSteyaert

10 years ago

These are results you can see after just 10 days:

Traffic:

All you need to do basically is create super high quality content, and reach out to your audience. Just go where they hang out online and help them, that's basically it.

Subscribers:

To get higher conversions than the usual 1%, what you can do is add a post specific upgrade and add a call to action in the post. This converts best (first result). I use a simple call to action in the post, an opt-in box in the sidebar and a large opt-in box on the homepage.

Cheers,
Jens

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Brent Stangel

10 years ago

What others say has no meaning for your blog.

At the end of six months you might have zero visitors or millions.

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NeedBucksNow

10 years ago

You should be getting regular traffic by then but like everybody else said it is really going to depend on a ton of different factors. The best thing to remember is that the 1st 6 months are just the beginning of what you are wanting to accomplish and the next 6 months after that should start to get a whole lot better with regular updates

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mrmax

10 years ago

I didnt see good numbers on my womens fashion review blog until 18 months into it. Before then I got peanuts traffic and money and very slow growth. It took a long time before other blogs noticed us and started linking to it and Google started trusting us and ranked it. I remember going for a long walk and crying one time because I was so in debt and it was taking so long.
Oh, and I had posted around 8-15 posts A DAY.

After the 18 months of SOLID work thats when good things started happening. I started to get ranked and noticed. People contacted ME to collaborate with them.
3 years into it I got quite a few top spots 1-4th places on Google for some amazing keywords. But we worked our tail off for years to get noticed. It was a lot of work and expense the first 3 years but we kept pushing and got to a good place after a while.
I later sold that shopping blog to a big company :-D

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