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

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.

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:26:13 +0000

What Rick said is true. I playfully made a website using an extremely niche (but still has demand) keyword last week. It’s #10 in Google now without much work. In comparison, I’ve been doing SEO on another site since late last year and I only got to the top 10 last week.

By: Rick@SEO Sheffield

Rick@SEO Sheffield — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:56:37 +0000

I think it really depends as to how competitive your keywords are. If you spot a trend that no one else does, the benefits of SEO can be a lot more rapid. I don’t think Pagerank is a very good indicator for anything – Google seem to be completing major updates on Pagerank a lot less frequently than they used to.

By: Philip

Philip — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:27:26 +0000

I’ve been looking for something like this. I understand, of course, that many factors come into play, and there’s no one size fits all schedule for all blogs or sites. But it’s still quite helpful to read about what typically happens, based on other people’s experiences with their sites. It can be rather discouraging when there doesn’t seem to be much progress taking place, even after working on a site for several months, so it helps to know that, in the general course of things, months do have to pass in order for a site to eventually move up the rankings.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:47:20 +0000

This is a great explanation of what most people can expect with their websites, although there are always exceptions. Some people set up a website and after 4 or 5 months of not making money or not getting that much traffic they simply quit instead of waiting out the process. It definitely does take some time to start seeing some real revenue from sites until they start showing up higher in the search engines.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:21:03 +0000

Brilliantly time-lined the SEO life process. Most of us forget that patience is the key especially with SEO’ing ones website. Too many links in too short time is a real blunder, but again nobody can draw the line between too many and average When it comes to optimizing one should take immense care and track the entire campaign proceedings and review it periodically. Only then we can identify whether we are on the right track or not. According to me the “2-3 Months” time zone is the most crucial part than any. If done wrongly everything will go for toss. Another important factor is the level of competitiveness we deal with. A highly competitive search phrase definitely takes more time than normal ones. If you are the only meat vendor in Chicago, you can easily gain top position