This is a question that I get asked most weeks so I though perhaps I should cover it in an article. If you are starting with a new domain targeting even semi competitive key phrases you should expect to establish your site in around a year. New sites have to earn trust with search engines. You need to build links at a steady pace plus you need to build up your site’s content also at a steady pace. Back links have to age to gain power as do links on internal pages. Trying to speed up the process up by acquiring hundreds of links during a site’s early months will simply result in search engines holding your site back for an extended period. Those who build gambling affiliate sites expecting a good return in a short time end up leaving the industry in most cases earning very little. To become a successful gambling affiliate you need to accept that you will have to commit yourself to the long term.
For those who do stick it out I have some great news for you. As your site and of course your back link age then you will start to increase you traffic every month. As you are adding new content every week you will of course be generating more long tail search queries. As you are increasing the number of pages of your site your internal site wide links will also become more powerful. All you have to do is keep at it; it is as simple as that.
If affiliates simply stuck with a couple of sites, concentrating their efforts on these sites then they would have a great chance of success. The trouble is that many get distracted ending up with dozens of sites so dilute their content and link building efforts. A thousands back links and pages have far less ranking power when they are spread across a dozen sites rather than a couple. I strongly advise you to start with no more than two main sites, not even thinking about adding more sites until at least one is generating a healthy monthly revenue stream.
There are though always exceptions to the rule. In my next article I will tell you about how a site I had neglected went from zero traffic a day to over 2700 visitors a day in just 9 days.
