The most important thing to remember in marketing a website is that it requires patience. Patience to build up links and patience to get a steady flow of traffic. A lot of sites give up before they make it big because they think the internet is full of overnight success stories… but in reality, if they waited a few more months, they would start to see good traffic.

What is the reason for this? Why does the internet business require a lot of patience? Well, unless you managed to somehow get your link on the front page of Yahoo, most people probably don’t even know that you exist. Promoting your site is a long process, it takes months of posting on forums, commenting on blogs, requesting for link exchanges, tweaking your site, buying advertising, optimizing for search engines, etc. Only once you have used every method you can to promote your site will people start to know you exist.

Some people might attribute slowed growth in their web promoting to the Google “sandbox.” The sandbox is something that Google does to keep new sites at the bottom of the rankings; perhaps to prevent spammers to mess with the search engines. New sites can stay in this sandbox for up to a year (even longer for highly competitive niches such as casino, real estate, jewelry, etc). But don’t worry! There is always light at the end of the tunnel!

In short, getting your website traffic is a very long process. It’s always important to remember this. It’s just like anything else in life: learning a foreign language, becoming a good basketball player, mastering the piano. You cannot expect to wake up tomorrow and get a million visitors from Google. The internet business is very competitive and in order to gain an advantage you need to stick with promoting and never give up.