I see many people building a website/blog and after a short while they just give it up saying:“ahh…it’s not worth it” and start an other website thinking that one will bring them success, which won’t happen because in a short while they will find themselves in the same situation as at the first website.

If you decide to start a website or blog, or if you want to start any type of project you need to start it with confidence. You need to want your website to succeed otherwise you will treat it like a project that can be left behind. This doesn’t guarantee that your website will succeed but the chances of success will increase significantly.

Bloggers mostly give up after a short while because they see that they don’t have many RSS subscribers nor many unique visitors. Those who abandon their blogs because of this don’t know that the google bot always crawls their blogs looking for new stuff that he indexes. Even if you have 10 unique visitors/day you must not stop writing! Google will index our posts and in a short while you will get organic traffic which will constantly grow.

In my opinion you can determine if a website is worth further development after one year of activity. In that year you need to do your best to promote it, and get the max of it. If after a year you see that traffic flows in and organic traffic(from search engines) is flowing in then you hit the jackpot and you know that its worth further development. In one year you can build enough backlinks to get a solid pr 2-6 to your website and more than 3,000 hits/day(value depends on niche).

Examples

www.webarea.ro
This year on 28th april my Romanian webmaster forum will be one years old. I did my best with it, submitted it to directories/dmoz/advertised it here-and-there, did competitions, added revenue sharing, offered free hosting, did a lot of posting but it just didn’t work out. There isn’t a such big romanian audience for it. And thats why i’m closing it down next month. Its breaking my heart, but i need to move on and i will most probably start a more complex forum but in english which i think will succeed.

www.yable.net
An other example is my yable project. I bought the domain almost a year ago, back then it didn’t work out, and next month i’m starting it back up with a brand new design and features. It will be an image hosting website with cool photo editing and sharing tools that will serve social networking websites(myspace,facebook,hi5,etc) users.

The most important thing is that within the first year which i call The test year never give up and try to do anything to get things rolling. As said above if things just don’t work out than it’s time to abandon the project and start something new.

You can’t start something new if you don’t have creative ideas. Creativity plays a great role when you start up a new website, you need to offer the visitors reasons to check out your website and keep coming back.