Unfortunately, when starting new projects, there are more bad days than good days in terms of traffic and money. Even in the long term, you can often feel like dropping some projects because they don’t generate the amount of traffic or money you initially thought.

I say keep trying. I worked on projects I thought wouldn’t work and just before dropping them, traffic suddenly exploded. Was that consistent traffic sufficient to drive the website everyday? No, it wasn’t. It often was a burst of traffic for a day or two, but it makes you realize your website actually has potential (of course I’m not talking about crappy StumbleUpon traffic). What do you need then to drive that kind of traffic everyday? Well, work on your SEO and backlinks. Build links, talk about your site and optimize it. We often say learn from your bad days, but I think it is more important to learn from your good days because you can get a lot of motivation out of them. Good days will give you a good reason to work on your website and make you realize your website has potential.

On the other hand, there are often more bad days and I know it’s hard to learn from good days when there aren’t any. But still, I’m sure you have better days than others and can get a little motivation from them. I say analyze your good days.

Analyze your good days

What’s the point of searching for days the reasons why your website doesn’t work when you can analyze why your website does work? What’s the cause of this sudden burst of traffic? Is it a keyword suddenly on fire? Is it because you bought some advertisement? Is it because one of your article is suddenly well ranked on Google? Determine that cause and use it, work on it. You might have had luck for a day, but what if you could convert that luck into consistent traffic/money?

You’re better to learn from your good moves than your bad moves, there’s a lot more to learn from.

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