Normal growth for website? I seem to be stuck after 5 months

[vero]

Just wondering if this is normal, or if I am doing something wrong.

My site is 5 months old. I've tried to do everything right - lots of quality original content, gradually building lots of links to my site from good websites, no link farms, lots of inks within my site. After the first month, I got about 100 clicks a day. After month 2, about 200. Since then, I seem to be stuck at around 200-250 clicks a day (virtually all - 90-95% - from Google, Yahoo and some MSN or Ask, as it has been all along)

Should I be seeing more growth? Or should I be patient and wait til the site is a bit more "mature?"

Thanks for any insights!

[tedster]

Five months is still pretty young - but you didn't specifically mention continuing to build more content. Are you also doing that? It can be a very important ingredient for continuing to grow traffic, especially in the first year. Also remember that the power of a good backlink can improve with age.

[vero]

Thanks Tedster - your replies are always greatly appreciated. And to answer - yep - I add new pages every week, all original content, not copied from free article sites.

[SEOPTI]

Check the number of URLs in the supplemental index.

[HuskyPup]

Just wondering if this is normal, or if I am doing something wrong.

Is this your first site with no advantage of kick-start from an already well-established webite?

How popular is the subject?

How are your rankings in Google, first page, tenth page?

Do not forget that even sites that rank #1 for every term for a specific subject may not have many people searching for them and may only get a 3-5,000 page views per day.

It's very easy to read here about sites with xx millions of pages per day, they are not the norm!

[vero]

Thanks everyone. I just checked and of the hundred or so pages on my site, none have the words supplementsl results when I do the site: check in Google.
To answer the other question - It's a very popular topic, but with lots of competing websites in the same topic. It does well for phrases of 3-4 words (page 1 or 2) but not for individual keywords - I think just because there are so many older on the same subject, that have been around much longer.

[HuskyPup]

It's a very popular topic, but with lots of competing websites in the same topic.

In that case then only the site ageing, adding more stuff and gaining backlinks etc will help unless you have the keyword domain name and are the authority site!

[Atomic]

Thanks everyone. I just checked and of the hundred or so pages on my site, none have the words supplementsl results when I do the site: check in Google.

Nor do I. Or anyone else for that matter. Google removed the supplemental tag a while ago.

What I've noticed is that while traffic generally grows at a slow, steady pace, every once in a while everything bumps up a notch at once. Traffic jumps, I get more clicks and the clicks seem to count for more than after the previous bump.

I also noticed you only refer to clicks and not traffic. Did you mean to post in the AdSense forum? They may have more advice on how to generate more clicks in there. In fact, that was the topic of a recent thread.

[vero]

Sorry - I wrote clicks, it should have been visitors.