Hi, I'm T.K. I've Given Up On A Lot, But I Won't Give Up On This
A few days ago, I received an email from Google Search Console Team saying, "Congratulations! Your site reached 700 clicks from Google Search in the past 28 days".
[Oh, I wanted to intégrer slide 5, showing a screenshot and explanation of my growth on Google Search. Click the hyperlinked letters within this bracket to go directly to the Google Search Impact acheivements page.]
I thought, "hm.. I hadn't gotten 700 clicks before? What was my Google Search Impact before?" It really didn't seem to be too big of a deal to me at all. It didn't even seem worth receiving a "congratulations" email.. But, I received one, which made me wonder.
There's a button in the email notification of this search engine acheivement that reads "track your site's acheivements". I clicked it, hoping to make sense of this analytic a bit more and what it means for my website, aroundLAwithTK.com.
On the Search Console Insights (BETA) page, it showed my site's list of acheivements. The list didn't take long to get thru, as there were only two entries. There was the one I'd received the email about that day, then the other for when my site reached 600 clicks from Google Search a year and a half prior. It took an entire year and a half before my personal blog website, aroundLAwithTK, saw another minor acheivement in the realm of searchability. Wow. One Google Search Impact mark made August 1, 2022, then the next not made until January 20, 2024. To me, at first glance, that seems terrible, almost laughable, almost enough to make a person think, "you need to give it up.. in THAT span of time, that isn't progress, that's nothing!"
Shoot, the first, and only other, time I reached a milestone on Google Search Console was so long ago, I didn’t have previous knowledge to pull from.. not as if I were hitting higher marks regularly! Ugh. I had to intentionally tell myself, “this doesn’t suck.”
I know those negative thoughts are from the devil trying to brew up discouragement.
Even though I obviously haven't been consistent in creating content for aroundLAwithTK, not for any considerable amount of time, it keeps coming back to me. I've not ever been done with the idea of aroundLAwithTK, as I have with countless other endeavors, such as being a live-in Au Pair (nanny) in France for a year or landing a corporate entertainment job somewhere aroundLA like HartBeat Studios, or even other blog websites I created and didn't keep up. In these few years of having this domain name, aroundLAwithTK.com, I haven't done the best with keeping it up, no, but I've refused to let it go.
There's something there, I feel it. I feel it more than I've felt it before.
I opened another web browser and typed, "how many clicks in 28 days is good on Google Search Console." A search result titled "We just hit 100 clicks from Google" caught my eye. Hmm.. I clicked on this search result. They opened the blog post, "yesterday, we got a great news by email," and went on to share their acheivement and how it's the result of daily content production. Hmm.. Maybe my 700 clicks is something.
Do I wish I would've reached that blogger milestone over a year ago? Of course I do, I can't lie! However, does that mean reaching it now is nothing?
I can't lie and say I've had this massive change of heart in the days since first receiving Google Search Console Team's email, and call it "great news" as the other blog writer did. I can’t say how long it will take to get more clicks on Google Search. But what I can say is that I'm grateful. I'm grateful that I haven't given up, and I'm grateful for this reminder to keep going.
