Is it worth it to wait for 6 months or not?

In most cases, it takes about 6 months for a brand new website to start seeing some traction regardless of how many articles you publish.

So here are some questions:
1) Is it worth it publishing 10-20 articles and let it sit for 6 months and then come back and start publishing more content? In the meantime, I could create 5 more sites and publish 10-20 articles there.
2) The articles that I publish after 6 months (when the site is out of the sandbox), will they rank faster or will it take another 6 months for new articles to rank?

Good question, follow

A side benefit of doing that with so many sites is you can see which of the initial batches google takes a liking too. Then laser focus future content on the sites that get indexed and traffic the most quickly.

to answer your actual question... I don’t know. I’ve been pondering starting a site that I want to make in the first half of next year now and dropping 10 articles just to let it age - keen to hear if anyone has any experience or first hand knowledge about this kinda thing

the sandbox period is per post and not per site, so every new post will be in the sandbox for 6-8 months. Once it is out of the sanbox it will start ranking, but there is no guarantee that the article will actually rank

I feel now brand site hard to rank, can take years to finally see a stable outcome?
This is why perhaps some, go scout around the expired domain thus faster?

You could ask 10 different SEO's this question and get 10 different answers. 8 of those answers haven't tested anything and are just repeating a version of the first two. Take any advice you get here with a grain of salt.

feelfreeto said:

1) Is it worth it publishing 10-20 articles and let it sit for 6 months and then come back and start publishing more content? In the meantime, I could create 5 more sites and publish 10-20 articles there.

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It really depends on why you want to do this.

Either:

A) You want to build all 5 sites up and you want to start them aging quickly.

B) You're looking for the easy wins and you'll scale the ones which perform well, to begin with.

Whether it's a good idea... kind of depends.

A) I'm currently building 6 SEO projects and I've started them all at the same time for the same reason. If you genuinely want to build up all 5 then I think it's the way to go if this isn't your first time building niche sites. Humans are awful for optimism bias when it comes to predicting how much energy or time they'll have for a project. Building 5 sites is fricking hard work and it's going to be expensive if you're building links. You might be better focusing on one at a time if your time or budget is limited.

B) Always worth it. I've seen case studies of this in the past and testing niches with small sites, to begin with, is how I've found some of my easiest wins in SEO.

feelfreeto said:

2) The articles that I publish after 6 months (when the site is out of the sandbox), will they rank faster or will it take another 6 months for new articles to rank?

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They'll rank faster than the original 10-20 but it'll still not be overnight.

If you're just sitting around on your hands then you might as well keep publishing to those sites. The only advantage to waiting is if you're putting time into the other sites at the same time.

pepeneo said:

the sandbox period is per post and not per site, so every new post will be in the sandbox for 6-8 months. Once it is out of the sanbox it will start ranking, but there is no guarantee that the article will actually rank

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Not the case in my experience. Not even close. Parasite SEO alone should prove each individual page is not in a sandbox for 6-8 months.

If I understand your question correctly this is what I would do.

I would focus on only one website. I would publish as much content as possible. It would be ideal to 40-50 articles and wait for them to rank.

After making considerable money from one website, I would move on to the next one. Because there is a good chance that your website will fail.

Instead of publishing them in a single stretch, I'd suggest to drip feed each post in a consistent manner. 10-20 won't just be enough if they're short.

feelfreeto said:

In most cases, it takes about 6 months for a brand new website to start seeing some traction regardless of how many articles you publish.

So here are some questions:
1) Is it worth it publishing 10-20 articles and let it sit for 6 months and then come back and start publishing more content? In the meantime, I could create 5 more sites and publish 10-20 articles there.
2) The articles that I publish after 6 months (when the site is out of the sandbox), will they rank faster or will it take another 6 months for new articles to rank?

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Wrong, if you build ZERO links during the first 6-12 months you will gain traction IMMEDIATLY as the site will not be seen as manipulated by any links or seo activities by its webmaster.

Even 1 link is too much.

check out my long post: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/t...oxes-and-external-links.1233055/post-14925666

Focus on one after it reached you can move to another one. give constant uploads it takes some time to get income.

I also found out that the sandbox applies more to articles, compared to the entire website.

But then one user above said the opposite, and made some strong arguments.

20 articles is too little. Maybe 50-60. Shaunm posted 60 and got results after 3-4 months I believe. But he posted them almost in the same month. Another journey user even reported articles gaining traction after 10-12 months.

Personally, I also stick to the "article sandbox" theory. Actually, it should be named "keyword sandbox". Crap/low comp keywords take top 10 in a few days, while other keywords are on page 9, and slowly going up one number every 2 weeks.

20 articles aren't going to cut it. It's just too little word count to actually make any difference. 60 long ones, yes, I would, personally, let them sit. 20 no, too small. I say 60 because I've seen that number too many times in the Journey section, and can take an educated presumption that it's a good number. Have I done it personally? Not yet.

Just post the fucking articles

I agree with @SEOMadHatter

If this isn't your first time you're better off writing 100 articles for 1 website rather than 20 for 5 sites.

But ofc if you need to test niches, you do what you gotta do.

Don't worry about the sandbox, it depends on the comp. If you target medium-high comp, your articles may never get high enough in rankings (unless you keep investing in links) but with low comp you can skip the sandbox altogether.