It helps us get out of sticky conversations with our bosses or clients.
It leaves a lot of wiggle room if you aren’t getting the results you
promised.
“SEO takes at least 3 months to have an effect.”
It is fair to say that there are some changes that will take time for
the search engine bots to process.
There is then, of course, some time to see if those changes are
having a positive or negative affect. Then more time might be
needed to refine and tweak your work.
That doesn’t mean that any activity you carry out in the name of
SEO is going to have no effect for three months. Day 90 of your
work will not be when the ranking changes kick-in.
There is a lot more to it.
If you are in a very low competition market, targeting niche terms,
you might see ranking changes as soon as Google recrawls your
page.
A competitive term could take much longer to see changes in rank.
A study by Ahrefs suggested that of the 2 million keywords they
analyzed, the average age of pages ranking in position 10 of Google
was 650 days. This study indicates that newer pages struggle to
rank high.
- SEO Takes 3 Months
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