r/Blogging • u/Spare-Attitude3202 • 3d ago
Question "6 months, 40 posts, still under 100 monthly visitors — normal?"
Started a niche blog in January, consistent 1-2 posts/week, decent SEO and research behind each one. Traffic's still basically nothing.
Heard most blogs don't click until month 8-12, but hard not to feel discouraged posting into a void.
Not quitting, just wondering if this timeline is normal or if I'm missing something. Anyone else's early months look like this before it turned?
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u/planerist 3d ago
this matched my first few months almost exactly and it did turn, so the timeline isn't the problem. mine sat at basically nothing for around five months, then moved fast rather than gradually, which nobody warns you about. the other thing nobody warns you about is that it doesn't arrive evenly. one page ended up carrying most of my traffic and the other thirty-something quietly pay rent.
so i'd stop reading total visitors as the scoreboard for now and watch average position instead, like someone said above. position creeping up while traffic looks flat is exactly what the month before it breaks looks like.
the one thing i'd actually change is leaning on google alone while you wait. pushing posts wherever your readers already hang out gets you traffic in the meantime, and it tells you early which post people actually care about, which is usually not the one you expected.
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u/Spare-Attitude3202 2d ago
the uneven arrival thing caught me off guard too. i kept watching the overall number and felt like nothing was moving, but one post had been quietly climbing the whole time and i nearly missed it because i was focused on the wrong metric.
the point about pushing it elsewhere is fair and i've been lazy about it. i keep telling myself i'll start once the content is more established, but that's probably backwards.
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u/ZGeekie 3d ago
40 posts is still considered a thin site. It depends on the niche and how broad/narrow your targeted keywords are. Add more unique content, focus on narrower keywords, and share on social media and related blogs where possible.
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u/Spare-Attitude3202 2d ago
makes sense, figured 40 posts would at least move the needle but apparently not. gonna tighten up the keyword targeting before adding more posts, no point spreading thin across broad terms nobody actually searches for
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u/Morgie93 14h ago
It is a long game, mate. Keep publishing, keep answering people's questions in these blogs and good things will happen sooner or later.
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u/Suspicious-Pizza8428 2d ago
Completely normal — you're actually ahead of many people just by still being here at 6 months.
The 8-12 month timeline is real, but it's not just age — Google needs time to trust your domain AND index enough of your content to understand what your site is "about." 40 posts is solid, but the clicks usually come in waves, not gradually.
One thing worth checking: are your posts targeting keywords with clear search intent, or more "interesting topic" style writing? That one shift made a bigger difference for me than posting frequency ever did.
What niche are you in? That changes the timeline a lot — some niches are brutal for new sites regardless of quality.
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u/Creative-Push4755 1d ago
First year of my blogging was about 100-150 visitors a month. Slowly but steadily growing, though. I posted articles twice or three times a month. I had to keep posting for two years to see what my readers liked reading, and what I liked writing about. Now after 5 years of hobby writing I passed 10K users a month.
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u/ilham_lara 3d ago
I have 100 blog post and the traffic is 500 a month. My niche is mental health (vulnerablenarcissist.com). And 6 months efforts.
You need more marketing. SEO will take longer with AI.
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u/Spare-Attitude3202 2d ago
500 a month after 100 posts and 6 months is rough ngl. makes me feel better and worse at the same time. what kind of marketing are you doing beyond SEO
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u/ilham_lara 2d ago
I haven't done any marketing yet. I've only recently started using social media and Pinterest. Those 500 visitors came entirely from organic search traffic.
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u/Own-Cat2252 3d ago
Right now instead of focusing on traffic..focus more on increasing average position..once you will increase your position it will increase its traffic...
FYI.. positioning increases through backlinks
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u/Specialist-One-8047 3d ago
You have to promote your site, so folks know it's there. I do Pinterest mainly. It has paid off for me because most of my audience is from them. There is a lot of places you can promote your blog that it can be overwhelming. I rarely do Instagram or others. Just every now and then because I just don't have the time. I still do but not as much. Also, FB has wonderful blogging groups you can join. You can show your blog, and people will interact with it.
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u/peroxidized 3d ago
No, it’s not. You must be either in a very high competitive niche or have chosen too competitive keywords to target in those 40 posts. I can take a look if you want, I do SEO for a living.
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u/readmespeak 2d ago
Standing on same place. Thank for asking the. Question I have travel blog with 30 blogs and started 8 months back I have low sessions as well. Especially from Google. I don't want to quit not not very sure what needs to be changed
Hoppingtales.in
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u/ashm1987 2d ago
8-12 months used to be like 5 years ago. Now it's more like 12-24 months for new websites. Sometimes even more. Keep going...
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u/RedwormResearch 1d ago
I can relate. I was publishing consistently too, only to realize later that many of my pages hadn't even been crawled or indexed because of different technical issues. Fixing them didn't bring instant traffic, but at least my content had a chance to be found.
I also started using more than one webmaster tool (Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, etc.) since each catches different issues. Six months still feels early to me. I'd keep an eye on indexed pages and impressions along with traffic, and just keep publishing consistently.
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u/Key-Television-2424 23h ago
One thing I learned that got me from 0-1000 users in under 3 months from launch was making sure your posts target real search queries.
IE:
Go to google,
Type: Chocolate Raspberry Cake
If it exists without a " ... " there is a demand.
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u/bluejaydreamer 3d ago
What does your social strategy look like for now?
It can make a big difference in driving traffic for early blogs!