From conception to being profitable
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The NormalCycle of a website
Most blogs go through a fairly predictable lifecycle from start to profitability. To make it to the point where your blog is making significant earnings, you'll need to go through all of these stages. Each and every stage has its own challenges and rewards. Here are the V steps every profitable blog needs to go through to reach success.
1. Conception: No Traffic, No Rankings
You're deciding on your WordPress themes, have less than ten posts and are still experimenting with your tone and various options.
Most of people underestimate how long this step can last. Unfortunately, you can actually be getting just about no traffic for as many as twenty posts, sometimes more.
In order to succeed, you've just got to persevere and carry on.
2. Infancy: Trickles of Traffic, Still No Rankings
At this time, you'll start to get a trickle of traffic looking to your website from a variety of random sources. Perhaps you have a backlink in your signature in forums. Perhaps you're commenting on blogs that interest you.
People may be finding your site through totally random searches that you're not really optimizing for.
At this step, you start to have an audience, though a very, very small one.
3. Toddler:
small amount of Traffic
Though you're not the top guy in the niche, you're beginning to get a small following of people who listen to and trust your advice.
you've a couple of pages that are indexed in the search engines. This isn't great per se, as by this point you'll probably have at least fifty posts, but it still feels great to see some of your pages {getting decent rankings|getting indexed and ranked.
At this step you may want to give it some thought about beginning to build a newsletter. If you're still using a free theme or design, you may want to pay for a custom design.
4. Young Adult: Moderate Earnings, Strong Reputation
At this moment in time you're making enough income from your web page to just about support yourself. You may even get 1-2 direct advertising deals.
You're getting backlinks without having to ask and a higher percentage of your pages are getting ranked.
When you promote a product, people begin to take note. Sales come easier because people are starting to trust your reputation.
5. Adult / Expert:
Strong Earnings, Known Brand in the niche
At this point your web site is one of the top 3-5 in the industry. If someone mentioned your name at a conference, more often than not people would recognize the name.
Most web pages never reach this stage. But, if you do make it to this point, will get to enjoy many perks.
One perk is that in addition to high levels of traffic, often direct traffic, you also get paid more for that traffic. Your CPMs from direct advertisers are many times higher than AdSense or the CPMs of other sites. You will also generally be selling your own products at a very decent conversion rate.
These are the V typical steps in the lifecycle of a successful web page. The key to moving from one stage to the next is to continually provide top-notch articles, while being patient about building a strong reputation. It may take time, but it's worth it.
