I started this blog on May 10, 2025. From that day, I posted every single day.
By the middle of November, about seven months later, I had 200 posts.
I will be honest. I thought that if I did this much, something would move. But it did not. For most of that time, nothing I could see happened at all.
Then one post started to move
There was one post. I put it up on October 15, 2025. Right after I posted it, there was no reaction. Nothing.
But about seven days later, it started getting a few page views every day. Single digits. Not much. But it was something.
After that, the page views climbed slowly:
| Time after posting | Page views |
|---|---|
| 1 month (mid-November) | about 130 |
| 2 months (mid-December) | about 160 |
| 3 months (mid-January) | about 190 |
| 4 months (mid-February) | about 200 |
| 5 months (mid-March) | about 280 |
It never jumped high. But it did not stop either. It kept building, little by little.
One thing puzzled me. It rose to about 130 in the first month. Then in the second, third, and fourth month it barely moved. It just sat there. Then in the fifth month it climbed again, up to about 280.
I do not know why it moved that way. It did not rise in a straight line. It stopped, and then it started again.
Impressions, clicks — I did not know what they meant
WordPress has a tool called Site Kit. It shows numbers called impressions and clicks. At first I had no idea what they meant.
I looked it up many times. I asked many times. It took me two months to understand.
Here is how I understand it now. An impression is the number of times a page is shown in search results. A click is the number of times someone actually presses it.
In my own plain words: an impression is Google trying the page out, showing it a little. A click is being chosen out of those. And CTR is clicks divided by impressions, times 100. It shows how often you get picked once you are shown.
The numbers jumped, and I do not know why
When I looked back at my records, this is what I saw:
| Date | Impressions | Clicks | CTR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before 2026/1/28 | 54 | 1 | 1.85% |
| 2026/2/3 | 90 | 3 | 3.33% |
| 2026/2/8 | 107 | 6 | 5.61% |
| 2026/2/19 | 154 | 7 | 4.55% |
| 2026/3/3 | 233 | 10 | 4.29% |
| 2026/3/8 | 479 | 14 | 2.92% |
| 2026/3/11 | 664 | 23 | 3.46% |
| 2026/3/13 | 710 | 26 | 3.66% |
| 2026/3/19 | 981 | 30 | 3.06% |
The first thing that moved was not clicks. It was impressions. The page got shown, little by little, and then it got chosen.
But from late February, the impressions jumped. Not in proportion. It looked more like they stepped up all at once. In late February they were around 135. By March they had risen by more than 850.
Plain stacking does not explain that. I think something in how the site was judged may have changed. I cannot prove it. But looking back, that time lines up with when the page views started to rise too.
My earliest record shows 54 impressions and 1 click on January 27, 2026. So by then the page was already showing up in search, and already being clicked. But I cannot tell you the exact day the first click landed. Impressions do not grow at a steady pace, so I could not work backward to find it.
What writing 200 posts taught me
So did writing 200 posts have anything to do with it? The movement did not come right after I posted. It came after the posts had piled up. Maybe the site started to be recognized as a site. But I do not know that either.
Honestly, I look at these numbers and I do not know what to do. I do not know if I can improve them, or if I should just keep going. I do not know what Google is looking at.
But one thing I feel is this. Even a single post can change the flow. One post gets found, and through it, the other posts get found too.
I want results fast. I know that about myself. But the people who succeed keep going for one year, two years. I have no income yet. No trust yet. So there is only one thing to do: keep putting out things that help someone, little by little.
Getting a single click is harder than I imagined. That is exactly why that one click means something.
I do not know what happens next. It may grow. It may stop. But this much is true: it did not end at zero.
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