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Bloggers often want to know how long it takes before your blog gets consistent traffic.
At first, asking the question sounds reasonable.
But thinking closely about the motivator removes the reason pronto.
I know this from experience.
Bloggers consistently ask me this question.
Nobody wants the period of time to be long compared to their expectations. Everyone wishes the answer to be a stretch of time as short as humanly possible. I know this because all bloggers who ask the question either express disappointment or vanish after I answer the question to their dissatisfaction. I typically never see this crowd again. Few want to really work. Most want a quick payday.Â
Bloggers want to know how short it’ll take and how little work one needs to do before traffic arrives freely.
Rephrase the Question
Perhaps one needs to rephrase the question.
Did you mean to say:
“How short a stretch of time does it take to get blog traffic?”
No blogger who ever asked that question (title of the post) wanted to know how long a stretch of time it would take to get blog traffic. People only ask that question because they want to know the minimum amount of time required to drive consistent traffic to their blogs.
If you ask this question you have already lost.
Your mind is in the wrong space. Trying to get something for nothing leads to failure. Before you get blog traffic you need to give a genuine effort. Publishing truly helpful content for years – consistently – is an authentic effort.
Do you still want to know the specific time frame?
Nobody knows.
How could anyone know? Blogging is a business not a job. Blogging does not yield a paycheck every Tuesday. People think like employees. Employees want to know; when is payday? Blogs are assets. Business-assets yield organic traffic and income in the perfect time, based on a dizzying array of circumstances. Forget about a blogging workload. Look past strategies. How can you measure mental resistance to success, traffic and income? You can’t. People succeed, drive traffic and generate income depending on their lack of mental resistance to each. No one can measure that.
Dozens of factors go into determining how much traffic a blogger drives to their blog from a comprehensive perspective. Consider a blog theme, niche popularity, personal brand…..I can go on for a while, so why bother?
As far as time frames, predicting one is entirely impossible.
Statistics Are Dead and Buried
Bloggers can point to past statistics from the blogging masses. But what do their results have to do with your potential? Do you want to base your freedom on the limiting beliefs of other bloggers? Does that sound like a wise way to set a benchmark?
I hate to sound harsh but somebody needs to throw cold water on many of the numbers being bandied about. I cannot handcuff you in this fashion.
Getting back to the time frame question in the general sense of impatience, desiring to know how long it would take really means how short it would take. Bloggers ask that question due to their impatience. Patient bloggers would never ask that question because time is not on their mind.
Patient bloggers brimming with confidence understand that their effort and an intelligent strategy are the prime determinants. Factor in being consistent and a healthy dose of confidence. You will get your blog traffic eventually but of course it will take a while because any skill requires a significant amount of time to master through diligent practice.
Most bloggers at the outset have absolutely no idea of their unconscious resistance to success. You and I both harbor unconscious resistance to thriving; pros simply persist to chip away at it.
Positioning yourself to become a successful blogger means developing a successful blogging mindset first and foremost. Nobody succeeds from an impatient mindset. Doing the work with confidence is the only way to practice diligently for a decent stretch of time. If you skip the work you skip the success.
This is exactly why overcoming the urge to get something for nothing is necessary. Taking shortcuts pushes you backwards. Trying to get traffic to your blog in as short a stretch of time as possible is definitely an example of taking shortcuts.
What About My Early Blogging Days?
Out of the myriad of blogging errors I made at the outset, asking for traffic time frames never really dominated my mind. I felt curious about how long it may take to succeed but the passing thought never occupied my mind for more than a few moments.
I knew back then that two factors play a chief role:
- strategy
- personal effort
For example, I drove increased traffic the moment I published only long form content to my blog. I chose the long form strategy but consistently published blog posts for months then years to get my blog traffic humming along. The time frame organically grew to what the world deems as “being long” to make room for the significant workload required to drive steady, organic traffic through long form content.
What if It Takes Years to Drive Steady Blog Traffic?
Do you plan to be alive or dead in years?
If you plan to be alive the wise choice is to invest those years publishing long form content to drive:
- organic traffic
- blogging income
If you plan to be around, the time question becomes irrelevant.
Do you understand why only your:
- impatience
- fear
- greed
- desperation
- delusion
fuels this question?
Bloggers who fear, ask the question.
Bloggers who do not fear, do not ask the question.
Curious bloggers keep their curiosity to themselves because each knows that no one can answer this question accurately.
The Solution
Get to work instead of asking questions about your metrics.
What gradually unfolds?
Your diligent work answers the question for you.
When you busy yourself with working an intelligent blogging strategy, the strategy yields traffic so you need not answer the question.
