How long does SEO take?
In this article we want to answer the question, how long does SEO take?
Typically, you should see results from an SEO campaign within 6 months. Now that doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to be on page one in six months because depending on what keyword you’re trying to rank for and how hard your competition is for that keyword it might take shorter or longer.
If your SEO agency knows what they’re doing, then you should see some sort of positive gains within six months. Here at TogoLead we usually ask clients to stick with us for six months. We don’t put them under any contracts. You can quit anytime, but typically we ask people to give it six months to see results. The reason is sometimes there’s a lot of things that we need to improve, and especially if you’ve never done any type of optimization on your site for search engines.
In many cases, the competition that you’re up against might have done a lot of work.
Some of the things we might do over a course of an SEO campaign:
- Improve or create new content
- Build links from sites that are going to drive qualified traffic to your site
- Improve the site speed
- Make your site more mobile-friendly and user friendly
- Make the site easier to read
- Improve the design of the site
- Clear up any technical errors
There are many different things that we can do, and SEO takes many, many different forms.
The very first thing that we do in the course of a six-month campaign is doing a full SEO audit to make sure that we’re seeing everything that we can improve on your site and looking at what your competition is doing, looking at what people are searching for, and making sure that you have that on your site.
As we said before, SEO campaigns are ongoing. Maybe your investment level narrows down after a while, but you always want to be doing things to improve your site.
You always want to be doing things that are making your site more appealing to customers, and creating content that is going to earn links from other websites.
SEO is a constant state of improvement. As we said in the beginning, you should see some sort of positive results after 6 months. If you’re not seeing any improvements after six months, and your traffic is flat, then perhaps it’s time to look around either for another SEO agency or maybe be looking at some of the things that you should be looking for when you’re an SEO agency. You’re not trying to trick Google into thinking that you have the best site. You want to have one of the best sites out there.
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