Comments on: SEO Timeline – How Long Does it Take to Get on Page 1 of Google

By: Carbi

Carbi — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:38:56 +0000

This is really great information. Seo is a very tricky process. Yes patience is key because if you don’t have that you will quit before your reap the benefits.

By: Aching Feet

Aching Feet — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:57:26 +0000

The post brings me back down to earth. I certainly am not a professional SEO, but I do learn. I suppose many of the claims of Google in 48 hours are true. My guess is they don’t tell you about their (team)in most of those cases. I back link 0 to 6 links a day. My best sites took two + months to make pg 1. I tend to choose niches with some competition making this a tad more difficult. I don’t article market. By backlinking my way I learn things in place of sharing what I think I know.

By: panther

panther — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:23:44 +0000

SEO is paramount to any successful internet business, be it retail, blogs, or service. However, when Google does it’s little dance from time to time with sites, it does make a person a little nervous. Thanks.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:57:24 +0000

I have a question, my site started out at the number 5 position a few days after I made it but there is this crappy made for adsense site that keeps out ranking me even tho I have more backlinks. How can this site be beating me in the serps with only 4 backlinks compared to my 50 from pagerank 1-5 sites?

By: Dale of 247EstateAgents.co.uk

Dale of 247EstateAgents.co.uk — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:05:21 +0000

An interesting read, we are in the process of getting our website SEO’d and if I get a pagerank of 3 in 3 months I would be over the moon – but estate agency isnt really a niche!

By: Andreas Pfalz

Andreas Pfalz — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:22:48 +0000

I was listed for about a week on almost every keyword on a top 3 place – but it was only because of the “newbie bonus” which seems to be fact. (And it was hard to fall back in the deep black hole …)

By: Zarko

Zarko — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:52:14 +0000

Yeah, you are right about PR 4 in the first three months, I even saw a PR5 site after exactly 3 months. As for the first page in Google…it all depends on the keyword and competition, you can get on fist page in the first week, in some cases you may never get. In the end it all depends on your competition, so choose your niche and you keywords wisely!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:51:44 +0000

really interesting post. As a complete newbie to SEO, ive been wondering how long it take to get a site up the rankings. I’ve been working on highly contested markets to no avail, but recently i’ve started identifying some rarely touched niches. Thanks for sharing

By: Walt Nofault

Walt Nofault — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:57:29 +0000

I’ve been working on this one site for 7 months, got PR3 and #10-9-8 on Google and about #7-6-5 on Yahoo. Keyword Difficulty (SEOMOZ) shows 55% for the terms I’m targeting. I started working on three other websites parallel to optimizing the original website and was able to jump from PR0 to 3 in less than three months by getting backlinks from pr4+ only. I disagree with you on the budget part. I’m running a $700-$1000 budget per site. Budget is spread among various link building platforms. I’m competing against companies that spend over $100,000/moth just on their CPC platforms. I can imagine that they would have to pay at least 5-10K for their links and SEO. Yet I was able to get way ahead of them in SERPs. I think the most important thing is to find most relevant sources for backlinks. Also, never underestimate the on-page part. As much as everyone was pushing the idea that google and others no longer pay attention to your and other on-page optimization features. At the end of the day, algorithms will still compare you on-page keywords to the ones coming in from backlinks. Once I realized that, I jumped about 2 positions on Google and 3-4 on Yahoo. Good luck!

By: The Google Gurus SEO Manchester

The Google Gurus SEO Manchester — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:00:54 +0000

I’ve seen it at both ends of the scale really. I’ve built websites in not so competitive niches, that have ranked on page 1 for many keywords instantly, as soon as Google indexed them. On the other hand I’ve performed SEO on a website in a more competitive market, where it’s taken over a year to get to page 1. I think a lot of it has to do with how competitive the market you are entering is, and I tend to price SEO jobs this way too.