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12:48 pm
August 24, 2011
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Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog
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Like the title says, after how many months (from the time your blog started) did it take for you to get decent search engine traffic?
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1:00 pm
August 24, 2011
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The Single Saver
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Interesting topic. For me it took about 6 months. But It also came after Google finally gave me a page rank, so I don't know if longevity or PR has more to do with it. I used to get 5-10% search engine traffic. Now it is 50+%.
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1:21 pm
August 24, 2011
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BeatingBroke
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It's got a lot more to do with volume, I think. The more articles you have that are indexed, the more likely you are to show up in a search results page and the more likely you are to get a visitor. Obviously, the higher you rank, the higher the chances that that visitor will come, so the PR does play some bit part. But, I think the overall # of articles should be your number one goal. Write more and more and let the search engine traffic take care of itself.
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1:55 pm
August 24, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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The more articles you write, the more people link to you, you will develop "authority" with google. So the tired old content is king is true. And after google recognizes you authority, even if someone else write about the exact same topic and even if they do a better job, you will rank higher. So write quality content and write more of it…
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1:57 pm
August 24, 2011
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Derek@LifeAndMyFinances
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It took me a good 6+ months. I'm not at all a pro at SEO though. Once I revemped my site and downloaded an SEO plugin, then search traffic started to get huge.
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3:11 pm
August 24, 2011
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Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog
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LifeAndMyFinances said:
It took me a good 6+ months. I'm not at all a pro at SEO though. Once I revemped my site and downloaded an SEO plugin, then search traffic started to get huge.
Which plugin did you use?
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3:54 pm
August 24, 2011
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The Single Saver
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LifeAndMyFinances said:
It took me a good 6+ months. I'm not at all a pro at SEO though. Once I revemped my site and downloaded an SEO plugin, then search traffic started to get huge.
LifeAndMyFinances, you bring up a good point about SEO. I admit I don't do a lot of this at my site, mainly because I run it more as a hobby than an income generator (if i can cover expenses for the year I consider it a successful year). I think if you are looking to make real money from your site you need to really focus on SEO and that will help bring in lots more traffic. Combine that with content and a decent PR and you will be set.
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4:27 pm
August 24, 2011
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Buy Like Buffett
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It took me over a year because I had no clue what I was doing. Now I generate a lot more traffic organically.
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5:19 pm
August 24, 2011
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The College Investor
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Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog said:
LifeAndMyFinances said:
It took me a good 6+ months. I'm not at all a pro at SEO though. Once I revemped my site and downloaded an SEO plugin, then search traffic started to get huge.
Which plugin did you use?
I use All in One SEO. Once I started using that I really started getting good search traffic.
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6:11 pm
August 24, 2011
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LaTisha @YoungFinances
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Same here. All in one SEO, the Google keyword tool and h2 paragraph headers are how I tackle SEO.
It took me about 6 months to get decent search traffic as well. Started out at about 20% of 300 visits in a good month, now I get about 60% with 3k visits a month.
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6:19 pm
August 24, 2011
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My Personal Finance Journey
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Took me about 11 months as well. Then, suddenly, in that 11th month, my traffic increased from like an average of 50 per day to around 150 visitors per day. It's almost like Google had me in their baby-site "sandbox" until my site grew old enough.
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6:48 pm
August 24, 2011
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Depends on what decent traffic is… by #, or as a percentage of your blog traffic? LaTisha does quite well with her percentage..in fact I plan on getting some tips from her! I probably get 30% off of 3000 visitors maybe…
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7:00 pm
August 24, 2011
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OneCentAtatime
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My Personal Finance Journey said:
Took me about 11 months as well. Then, suddenly, in that 11th month, my traffic increased from like an average of 50 per day to around 150 visitors per day. It's almost like Google had me in their baby-site "sandbox" until my site grew old enough.
I am in the incubation period now, daily 50 visitors from Google uncle…
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7:30 pm
August 24, 2011
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sooverthis
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Only about 12% of my traffic is coming from search engines right now. Probably because I don't make good use of the All in One SEO plugin (though I do use it for certain posts) – so many of my posts don't seem SEOable. For reference, I had about 2,000 unique visitors last month.
Wow, now that I type that out, it's really pathetic! I need to work on this.
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8:38 am
August 25, 2011
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TightFistedMiser
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When I started my first blog I don't think I even knew what SEO was or how to check my stats so I'd guess it was at least a year before I got any significant search engine traffic. Search engine traffic makes up a majority of my traffic know but I am sure I could be doing a lot better. I have the SEO All in one plugin but don't do anything else to build search traffic.
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9:03 am
August 25, 2011
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The Penny Hoarder
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It's definitely been a gradual growth for me… I'd say up until about Month 4, I was getting less than 25/day. Month 4-7 – around 50/day. And now in Month 8 I'm starting to see between 100-150/day. It's fun to watch it grow!
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9:14 am
August 25, 2011
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Aaron Hung
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Are you guys just using Google Analytic to figure these numbers out? they count your own visits too right? because you do that a lot when you edit.
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9:22 am
August 25, 2011
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The Penny Hoarder
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Well, maybe someone else would know better – but I don't think your visit would show up as a "search engine" source in less that's how you access your site. It would be a "direct" visit, no?
aaronhung@ said:
Are you guys just using Google Analytic to figure these numbers out? they count your own visits too right? because you do that a lot when you edit.
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9:30 am
August 25, 2011
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MoneyIsTheRoot
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Google Analytics is the only way to go when you want accurate stats.
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10:18 am
August 25, 2011
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OneCentAtatime
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aaronhung@ said:
Are you guys just using Google Analytic to figure these numbers out? they count your own visits too right? because you do that a lot when you edit.
Unless you forget your site name at times, and have to search through Google, why would we visit our sites via google?
was this a serious question or just to bump up your thread?
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