How long until you get Search Engine Traffic to your Articles or Blog?

Question: I have started a wordpress website, about 8 weeks ago, and have uploaded over 3000 unique articles on the website and submitted about 1000 of these articles to various social bookmarking sites, however i only seem to get 10-15 vistors from search engines to my articles a day. Most of the articles are already indexed by google. Would i be expecting a great deal of increase in traffic (3000 unique articles is quite a big number, and cost a lot of money)? how long will it take? Is getting google traffic nothing to do with unique articles but something i do not know? I know SEO - pagerank, all i want to know is, is there a certain time frame to get traffic? Do all articles need back links to get traffic? 

Answer:My expertise on the SEO/SEM genre is pretty deep. I've been a professional SEM/SEO contractor for the better part of a decade and have been hired by many small to large sized companies.

It's good that Google has already been parsing your web site. Sometimes that is a process all in itself so it's good you are already at that state. Google will continue to do that almost daily for quite some time to check for updates.

If you put many articles/pages up at a time it counts against you. Google sees these as fly-by sites that throw up content-rich content in hopes to get instant traffic. In most cases it backfires because they do their best to prevent it. I have successfully made web sites rank top 10 over night. I've also had some that took three or more weeks to make the trip to the first page. The deciding factor is who did the SEO portion of the site and how many competitor sites there are. If there's 10,000 other web sites that have been indexed for more than a year on the same topic, they will likely be ranked above yours until your site proves itself.

Since you already posted all the articles I'd stop posting for a while. Don't post anything for the next month or so and let Google and the other web bots do their thing and crawl your page. If the articles are keyword rich someone will search it and come across your site. Once the first few people come to your site the rest will start coming in, too. I usually tell my clients they can expect results in about a month unless they do something that already hurt their standing.

Check your web stats every few days to see what search engines have come through your site. Then look on those engines and search phrases to see if you can find your site. Then record where you currently are. At the end of the month you'll be able to see how far you've climbed as well as what kind of traffic you are getting.