Website owners, who are interested in SEO promotion, often wonder how long it may take to rank# 1 on Google by the right keywords.
You registered a domain name, launched your website, and now you think of free organic traffic from search engines. At this moment your website doesn’t exist for them yet. Meanwhile other websites have been created and Google optimized much earlier than yours. Ranking by keywords is happening right now. Users have been already finding all the necessary information without your presence. That’s why you can not complete SEO promotion just in one week. A month is also not enough.
Website promotion is based on the interaction of ranking factors the search engine prioritizes. It depends on the quality of your site optimization, your visitor behaviour, your content values and so on. You can affect on these factors by improving your website and by following Google search requirements.
SEO process makes your website the way the search engine expects it to be for indexing.
The value of your website can be rather high. It can solve a problem, provide with useful information, help to select service or a product. At the same time the value can be low in terms of other users, accessors and search engine algorithms.
So how much time will it take to rank your website with top position on Google by the right keywords? To find out the answer to this question, you will need to audit the website, check on the errors in the code, run page speed test and make some additional improvements.
- Analyze your competitors
- Focus on the value of your website for visitors
- Try the variety of strategies
- Keep doing all of the above on a regular basis
Website promotion works only for long-term projects. That helps to get stable flow of customers from search engine, increasing dynamics day by day. Quick ROI profit is not about SEO. If you want to drive traffic to your website the fastest way, you can try PPC contextual advertising or traffic arbitrage. There are fast ways of SEO promotion, however they do not work for brands and white hat SEO. Consequences are severe: search engine sanctions, loss of top positions and indexation.
Young brands, selling goods without the active demand of customers, launching a new product with a new name on the market – these and other possible variations of projects will significantly slow down the results in SEO.
SEO promotion more than pays for itself in the long run. Compare the cost of attracting a visitor to the site using contextual advertising and SEO promotion, where 1 visitor click on an ad from search or advertising on sites can vary from ~ 0.5 $ to ~ 25 $ or more depending on the audience and competition of other advertisers.
For clarity, we take the amount of $ 1000 per month and calculate how many visitors we can attract to our site based on one of our customers, who spend approximately the same amount of finance on SEO and PPC.
PPC – if the advertising company is successfully set up, our client receives a click at a price of $0.5 and, accordingly, for $1000, he receives ~ 2000 clients per month (excluding the cost of a specialist).
SEO – performed with external and internal optimization for $1000; the client received 26,000 unique visitors per month (taking into account the cost of the specialist).
SEO tends to increase the turnover of visitors and in the long run does not require any investments, while the flow of visitors to the site remains, which is impossible to do when using PPC.
How much time is needed for SEO? – The first results can be observed after 3-4 months of specialist work. It all depends on your project, the speed of implementation of edits and the reference budget. Sustainable traffic to the site can be obtained after 12-15 months of promotion.