With businesses transitioning from physical to online, SEO is becoming the most attractive marketing medium for small business enterprises due to its organic and free marketing, besides this, small or large organizations want to hire SEO services for their business, and they always come up with the same question: “How much time does SEO take?“.
Here at Digitrix Media, this is probably one of the most common questions we get from our SEO clients.
While there is no simple formula or a Script that can analyze and measure the time SEO takes because it is a persistently changing field with an update coming in every three months, and no one has a definitive answer to it due to hundreds of google ranking factors. Whereas it also depends on the type of industries and websites.
Whereas, according to experts, if done right, 6 months are more than enough to see visible and good results from your SEO strategy.
Let’s dig deeper into various factors that affect SEO.
Website Authority & Domain
Website Authority and domain age have an indirect effect on website ranking. Adding the fact that even after Google has straightened out that domain age has no impact on SEO, it has been seen that there are plenty of examples of old sites outranking the new ones.
The primary reason is that old domains have more links if we compare them to new sites. When a website gets old, it naturally receives enough backlinks to end up ranking better on search results sites.
This happens when site owners submit their sites to different directories producing high-quality content and giving them hundreds of quality backlinks.
Inbound Link Building
Inbound link building or backlinking is the most crucial factor for ranking and building authority. But remember that it takes a lot of effort while shaping a link-building strategy, which includes conducting competitor analysis, checking your link velocity, and Identifying toxic backlinks.
This is just an overview of how a link-building strategy is made. However, there are various types of link building but NEVER EVER depend on shortcuts or black hat backlinking techniques, which could give you more loss than your short-term benefits.
Website Design
Google’s new Core Web Vital Update has made the User experience (UX) the most important ranking factor. Sites with a good user experience (UX) signal to Google that you are answering user queries.
Also, statistically, almost 75% of people search on their phones which means a website must be mobile responsive and user friendly; else, you would end up losing plenty of traffic to your site.
Keyword Research
Keyword research is the backbone of doing SEO on your site because it decides and affects all the strategies, including content and backlinking strategies.
When you dig into a problematic niche, your competitor is your friend. Analyze their strategies deeply, and once you get a rough idea about it, craft your own strategy and make it work for you.
You will get a sound idea of doing keyword research, making your content, and building links for your site.
For this, we recommend using competitor analysis tools like Semrush and Ahref. Surely they will make your life easy.
On-Page Optimisation
Doing On-page SEO for web pages and content would result in better ranking because it actually means making your content easily discoverable for users.
It includes optimizing meta titles, descriptions, headers, pictures, tags, and alt tags.
Once your site is optimized and updated, you will see considerable improvements in your ranking.
Make sure to focus on your on-page SEO while making your overall SEO strategy.
Conclusion
In this blog post, we covered the most critical ranking factors you must consider while devising your SEO strategy. If done right, sure enough, your site will rank better.
Getting back to our initial question, “how much time will SEO take”? It will depend on how effectively you execute your strategy considering all the above ranking factors.
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