How long did it take your site to get decent Google traffic

over 1000 visitors/day from Google?

[dailypress]

one site that I have been working for a while and has been very discouraging in terms of Google traffic is soon becoming 1 year old (in a few days).

I read in another post that it takes 1-2 years before you get decent traffic from Google or other search engines.

Why 1 or 2 years? Is it because Google wants to avoid sending traffic to spammy websites / domains and needs time to build trust? or is it the fact that websites tend to get more backlinks as a matter of time?

Please advise.

Also for the sake of encouragement and based on experience how long did it take for your sites to get a decent amount of traffic through Google?

thanks in advance

[tedster]

Growth in backlinks - especially from other trusted domains - are definitely a big part of the picture. For an even wider view, see Filters exist - the Sandbox doesn't. How to build Trust. [webmasterworld.com]

There are many other factors in building traffic, including the number of people searching on your keywords. So it's very hard to compare two different sites, for many reasons. Brett's classic post Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone [webmasterworld.com] talks about the many steps that go into a 1 year success, which his subtitle defines as "26 steps to 15k a day."

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[dailypress]

thanks Tedster. :) I had read the thread before and it did help reading it again. I feel like I read over and over the theory behind it but cant implement them correctly. I'm doing something wrong!

Ill have a success story if my website becomes successful one day especially after all I'm going through.

I think I need a bit more time for more backlinks.

:)

[Green_Grass]

Getting links is now a real challenge. People just don't seem to link very easily these days..especially if there is adSense on the pages..Internet is now all about making money and webmasters would rather link to Wikipedia than other sites.. I am facing similar problems getting organic traffic. Paid traffic does get your site noticed..but it is expensive.

[Crush]

Buy an old domain,buy some links and rank in 3 weeks. It cuts out a year of pain.

[nomis5]

A reply to your question, it takes a variable amount of time. But, in my experience, if the site is solid you should get 1,000 visitors per day on a 100 page good quality site in roughly 6 months.

I have read a thread (and a few others slightly less adventurous) in WW of a site gettings 100s thousands of hits after only 3 months. A pile of ideas of ideas were put forward as to how it was achieved. In my mind they were either irrelevant to the normal business model or simply misleading.

I work for myself and not as a consultant for other sites if that helps.

[Reno]

it's very hard to compare two different sites

Tedster is exactly right. SO MUCH will depend on what your website is about -- if it is a topic that is in demand, you may hit your 1000 in 6 months (also assuming of course that the pages are built correctly); however if it is an esoteric topic with very limited interest to the world at large, then even if the site is the very best constructed in your field, with good backlinks and etc, you may never reach that number. The old notion "if you build it, they will come" is entirely untrue -- they'll only come if they care, and it takes a lot of people to "care" about a specific topic in order for anyone to get a thousand unique visitors a day from a single search engine.

It's doable -- but only if you're in demand.

So try to get a sense of what is a realistic traffic level for what you do, and if you achieve or surpass that number, count yourself a success.

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[dailypress]

its interesting that you say 1000 visitors/day through Google is a lot.
I was hoping and aiming for much more...

[tedster]

I work with sites where 1,000 uniques in one day from Google would be a windfall and others where it would be a disaster. Aim for whatever is real for you.