Have you ever gotten Google traffic within days? And why?

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   NateB11posted 4 years ago

   I have had articles that started getting traffic from Google within a couple days. Most of them I think take a little longer but it surprises me when Google traffic comes in within a couple days. Curious if anyone knows why that is. Is the article actually on results pages for keyphrases/words or is it just bots crawling the page?

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      eugbugposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      It could be referral spam. I've got a trickle of traffic immediately, but the view duration was zero and bounce rate 100%, typical signatures of referral spam.

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         NateB11posted 4 years agoin reply to this

         Okay. It's weird to have traffic almost immediately from Google. Seems like bots would take a little to index a page.

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         NateB11posted 4 years agoin reply to this

         But I am wondering if referral spam would show up as Google. I've gotten it before and it usually has some weird site name or another.

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   Isivwe Muoboposted 4 years ago

   I've gotten traffic a few days to a week after posting and I never wondered why this happened so quickly until now.
   
   I just accepted it did because I used high volume keywords with low competition and also followed good seo rules.

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      NateB11posted 4 years agoin reply to this

      That's interesting. Does it usually turn into steady traffic?

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   PaulGoodman67posted 4 years ago

   In the "old days" of HP, it wasn't unusual to publish an article and find it on the first page of the Google results very quickly. Google pretty much stopped that through algo changes.
   
   As I understand it, when something is published, Google can often be initially generous with traffic, and uses the data gathered from visitors (eg bounce rate) to assess the article. Article will then typically fall in ranking and maybe climb back very slowly, if it's any good.
   
   Of course, if you write an article that there is demand for, and there's little or zero competition, it will due well straightaway. But that can be difficult to achieve in practice, especially with so much competition nowadays.

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      NateB11posted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Good insights, I hadn't thought of that. This makes sense and I've kind of wondered how the ranking system worked.

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         PaulGoodman67posted 4 years agoin reply to this

         I think Google can boost traffic for assessment purposes:
         
         When you first publish article
         When you edit it
         Before or during an algo change

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   eugbugposted 4 years ago

   On a similar topic, I have a 2842 word article about building a shed on Dengarden and it has only received 73 visits since January. Four were organic.

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      NateB11posted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Wow! Well, I guess word count is not a guarantee, neither is evergreen how-to topics.
      
      I think I have some articles like that too.

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         eugbugposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         According to Ubersuggest, there's a lot of of competition for "Building a Shed", "How to Build a Shed" and all the variants. I tried lots of titles, but I'm settling on "Building a Low Maintenance Garden Shed" for the moment to see how it does.

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            PaulGoodman67posted 4 years agoin reply to this

            I remember Paul E advising us to generally concentrate on squeezing more traffic out of the better-performing hubs, rather than focusing on trying to get poorly performing ones to do better. That approach has worked well for me. But it's human nature to want a hub to succeed after you've invested effort into it.

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            NateB11posted 4 years agoin reply to this

            Seems like a good long-tail keyword.

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               eugbugposted 4 years agoin reply to this

               Still only a measly 2 or 3 views per day though. Sometimes I get no views. I might work a few bullet lists into it, materials, tools required etc.

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