Advertise Your Site Slowly and You'll Rise to the Top

When you advertise your site you need to build your links slowly or you'll drop in rank just as quickly as you rose!

Let me quickly show you why slow and steady truly does win the link building race and then I'll update you on my journey to the number one position on Google.

By the end of this article we all should be slowly rising to the top of the search engine results.

Advertise Your Site Slowly

I know, I know it's not something you want to hear... but you need to slow down! We all want fast results and sometimes we give up before anything has a chance to happen. But when it comes to link building you really can't rush into things. Sure, you might get a nice wave of traffic and may even show up on page one of Google if you got 1,000 links to your page in one day. But that wave will quickly crash.

And it's not just going to kill your traffic, or your rank in Google's search results... no, it's also going to kill your spirit! I know how it feels to see that you're on page one on one day and then you disappear and are lucky to even be on page 10. Why does this happen? Well, Google does sandbox new sites to make sure they are legit. But if you update your site regularly and keep working as if you are still on page one then they'll put you right back where you were before. But there's another reason why you disappear from page one.

It's because your link building strategy wasn't natural and Google only rewards sites that get natural results. Not results that you got from some link building software or bot that gives you thousands of links in a day. Naturally a beneficial site will get a few links here and there and gradually it will build up to getting tons of links every day. But this doesn't just drop off out of nowhere. If it does then Google has to look at your site as one that's not relevant anymore. So when you pop onto the scene with no links, get 1,000 in a day and then for months you don't get another link... I think Google knows what's up!

They don't like spammers; they want to have the best search engine available and they do. They have the best search engine because the sites that show up on the first page actually help people the most. So, if you think you are worthy of the first page then you need to slowly build your links so that it looks natural to Google. And as you do this other people will link to it and it'll snowball into something beautiful. A page one result that doesn't go away.

Now it's time to update you on my slow journey to the first result on Google. For the newcomers, I have outlined an experiment on an article titled "My Journey to the Top Search Engine Ranking on Google" where I'm attempting to show what it takes to make it to that #1 spot. Every day or two I want to update you on where things are as well as give you tips like the one above, so let's get into it!

Today I got a couple more links to the article as per the suggestion from Barbara Kay. I went to Infopirate and folkd and quickly got a couple backlinks to the article. Infopirate is another site that shares their ad revenue with you; a pretty handy bonus! And I'm still waiting for She Told Me to accept me but I'm in no hurry ;).

After checking my ranking for my target keyword I'm sadly still not hitting the top 5 pages yet. I chose a keyword that didn't have a lot of competition but it'll still take some work to break into the scene. I could get discouraged and give up, but when you advertise your site long enough you soon realize that the results come only when you never give in.

Now the article did get about 31 impressions for my Google ads, but no clicks yet. Which really isn't that discouraging considering the limited amount of traffic coming in so far. Because in the past 24 hours the article only got 24 hits. A slight dip down from the past day but that's to be expected at first.

And you guys are still the leading traffic sources because the hits are mainly coming from Yahoo Mail and Hotmail inboxes and HubPages itself. Which is great in my mind because I wrote it for you all. Hopefully you'll share your tips on that article too. But since the article hasn't made it to the top pages of Google yet, it doesn't have any keywords bringing in traffic.

Slow results are proven to bring lasting results when you advertise your site and that's why I'm only getting a few links a day to my article. So don't rush into things, slowly build your links and your results will last a lot longer. Now your link building efforts won't go unrewarded!