Got 1121% increase for clicks on 2-month old site + Google Discover chose me

(+1021% sorry!)

Hello,

Just wanted to share how it's going for my programming blog.

Clicks increased significantly after two months of existence, but I'm not sure if it's because my domain is from 2015 (it NEVER had significant traffic) or if I just did the right things.

The numbers for September (when I started):

• Clicks: 46;
• Impressions: 5.14K;
• Average CTR: 0.9%;
• Average position: 42.7.

October:

• Clicks: 516 (+1021%);
• Impressions: 28.5K (+454%);
• Average CTR: 1.8% (+100%);
• Average position: 25.5 (+67%).

Google Discover also shared my post, and I had a nice traffic boost (mostly coming from India).

• Clicks: 1.08K;
• Impressions: 19.3K;
• Average CTR: 5.6%.

I didn't know much about this service, so I did some research. According to the official documentation, it showed up because:

• I became kind of an authority in the niche thanks to a few very high-quality backlinks;
• I have an attractive image that makes you want to click (it’s the only image I have, by the way);
• I wasn’t clickbaity in the title.

Hope this post was useful to someone!