Linear traffic growth

When I bring up a new site, I now aim for month-on-month traffic growth over at least a six month period. Initially, I thought this might be an unrealistic aim, but I am finding that it is possible.

I started two forums 3 months ago and at this stage, they are seeing month-on-month traffic growth just through SE traffic.  I have yet to start promoting these forums in earnest.  This is very promising. One saw a 400% traffic growth from the first to second month, but traffic will probably only grow by 30% for the month of April. The other saw similar increases. Typically, there will be greater traffic increases over the first few months of a site’s life.

Likewise, I started 2 blogs 6 months ago.  The first saw monthly traffic increases for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th months respectively: 100%, 0%, 250%, 100%, 30%. During the third month, I made no posts to the blog which accounts for the inactivity during this month.  The second blog performed even better with 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th month traffic growth of: 0%, 30%, 200%, 50%, 20%.

Although the traffic growth is a little jumpy, it is nonetheless positive growth. In the past, I have noticed that traffic seems to plateau, or at least growth at an far lesser rate, after 6 to 9 months of growth. This has made me more determined to look for ways to seek sustained linear growth in the region of 20% month-on-month for these new sites and I will report back to the blog at intervals with progress on how this is going.