{"id":10917,"date":"2019-02-21T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trafficsoda.com\/?p=10917"},"modified":"2022-11-28T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:39:05","slug":"how-long-seo-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/how-long-seo-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Does It Take for SEO to Start Working?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the most frequent questions from clients of a digital marketing firm is \u201cWhen will my search engine business rankings increase?\u201d, or \u201cHow long does it take for SEO to start working?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Business owners know the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/neilpatel.com\/what-is-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SEO (Search Engine Optimization)<\/a> as part of their online marketing strategy. They also understand that SEO strategies make it easier for search engines to find them, rank them higher, thereby increasing traffic to their website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how long do you have to wait before you see results? The short answer is \u201cit depends\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many variables to optimizing your website, however three specific criteria play a significant role: competition, inbound links, and content.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Competition<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on your product or service, there will be varying degrees of demand. The more competing webpages you\u2019re up against, the longer it will take to see results. Depending on how well your competition\u2019s SEO strategies perform, the longer it will take for you to rise in rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are spending a great deal of time and effort developing and implementing your SEO strategies, you can be sure your competitors are doing so as well. Every time you post a new blog, your competitor may be doing the same.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inbound links<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The volume of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/marketing\/inbound-links-faqs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inbound links<\/a> to your website play a huge role. The quality of those links, the speed in which you gain those links, and historically have gained them also has an effect. The speed at which you earn links should have a relatively stable growth pattern. A sudden increase in links looks unnatural. If your link-building follows <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/66356?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google\u2019s guidelines<\/a>, that should happen naturally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A large number of high-quality, high-authority inbound links (also referred to as backlinks) will flag site-crawlers, indicating that your website is an authority in your particular field. It\u2019s almost like gaining a referral from someone for your product or service.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Content<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Quality content matters a lot. High-quality content is original, relevant, authoritative, factual, grammatically correct and engaging. Your web pages need have no minimum or even ideal length. They just have to answer the question or solve the user\u2019s problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/223023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">business blog<\/a> is a great way to become a resource for information in your field that you add to on a regular basis. Blogs are a great way to increase traffic to your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep in mind that newer pages don\u2019t rank as well as older ones. This graph shows that the average top 10 ranking page is at least 2 \u00bd years old.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/trafficsoda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ahrefs_search_results.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ahrefs_search_results.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ahrefs_search_results-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ahrefs_search_results-480x322.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this, new content should be added to your website on a regular publishing schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This encourages search engine spiders to crawl your site more frequently and speed up your SEO efforts. Also, users will return to your site more frequently looking for new content, further sending signals to search engines of the popularity of your site. User engagement is built and gauged over time.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEO is An Investment<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, you need to be prepared to invest several months to a year before seeing the results of your SEO efforts. Why?&nbsp; Search engines take multiple factors into account when ranking webpages. For example, Google uses over 200 ranking factors in their search algorithm! The takeaway is this: SEO can have a significant impact on the success of your business, so it is worth the investment of time and money!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most frequent questions from clients of a digital marketing firm is \u201cWhen will my search engine business rankings increase?\u201d, or \u201cHow long does it take for SEO to start working?\u201d Business owners know the importance of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as part of their online marketing strategy. They also understand that SEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,10,60,46],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Google_analytics_dashboard.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Jessica Chalk","author_link":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/author\/jessica-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10920,"href":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions\/10920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trafficsoda.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}