Search Engine Optimization FAQ3

You have heard that a grain of sand will, if given enough time, product a valuable pearl.  This is SEO; the unending effort to produce more traffic for your website which few follow to its ultimate end.  If I told you there were a million hit to be had for your site, would you believe me?  I didn't think so.  550 hits a day sounds a bit more reasonable.  If you keep that pace for five years and you'll get a million hits.

Perhaps we should start at a goal of five per day, shall we?  This seems quite achievable, and would result in 1825 hits in a year.  This is where is gets interesting.  When you begin to get 5 per day on a regular basis, you actually get 4 to 7 hits, which leads to 7 to 10 hits, which leads to 10 to15 hits and so on.  There are easily ten thousand people in cyberspace who are interested in what you do and would check your site at least twice a month.  You just have to reach out to them.

The appropriate question you should be asking yourself is "Sure, but is he doing this?" The answer is yes and no. Yes I am doing this, but no my website visitor level is only about 7-10 per day depending on the popularity of my blog postings. Sometimes they get 1 or 2 mentions, sometimes 5 or 6, sometimes none. I'm working on it. As of this post my site is just about one month old (though I've been blogging and writing online etc. for over a decade) and the search engines don't like sites that are so young. Bing and ASK have not even indexed my pages yet. Google and Yahoo has, so it's OK. The meta-crawlers (like Dogpile) pick up my site as well.

Am I dominating Google Yet? Again, Yes and no. For some of my keywords I certainly am, but for some I am still only on the third page or worse. But let me repeat; my site is only a month old! You'll need to spend three to six months to see actionable SEO results, but in just the one month I am making progress, and this is more important at this stage than the amount of the progress. Slow and steady wins the SEO race.

All SEO is a work in progress; you're always tweaking, constantly providing content and remembering the basics.  When the project is completed you'll know that it was worth the effort.

If you'd like to see how I'm progressing, check out my Holistic SEO site for more tips and tricks.