How Long Does It Take To See The Results Of SEO?

Many businesses (with their websites) when they get on board for SEO are all hyped and excited. They envision ruling the search engines, driving in loads of traffic, getting great conversions, increasing sales, and earning profit. That’s all good, and true, but once they decide to entrust their website to a well established and recommended SEO Services Company, there are many questions they pose, which they are doubtful about. One of the most asked one among them is “How long does it take to see the SEO Result?” Because, let’s get real, after all everything boils down the ultimate results. I am sure, you are here reading this precisely to get this answer. For most field experts the answer is rather diplomatic – ‘it depends’. Another common answer is ‘4-6 months’. (I can just imagine your souls getting frustrated right here, but you need to hear it out full!) While we don’t contest the experts, in some conditions the results can be seen within 3 months too. Are you wondering how and when? Wonder no more. We are here today take a look at the process of SEO, what are the factors responsible for the results and what may affect the time taken for the results to appear. So, let’s get on with it!

First things first, let me answer you why ‘it depends’ when it comes to talking about the time required to see the results. That’s because to gauge the end result, there needs to be a starting point somewhere. When you start with SEO for your website, the start points vary. You may be either an website having established yourself some years ago, or you may be relative new with a few months of being launched, or you may be getting your website developed with SEO itself. And for this reason, the time lapse between when you start your campaign and when you see the results vary. To, understand this well, we’ll first understand what is that Google as a Search Engine ranks you for and with what aspects a your website is optimized –

• How much your webpage content matches with the user’s search. The basic is the keywords of your webpage matching up with the user’s search. 

• However, there will be many other WebPages with same keywords, so, it also depends upon the intent of your webpage which 

• The backlinks that you get for your web pages, and the sources of the backlinks

• If your webpage is responsive and the page loading time it takes.

• If there are relevant images and videos on your webpage and the intent within them

• If the content in your webpage is original and reliable, and the sources you provide for the content.

• And the most important, you achieve all of this with white hat SEO

These are a few of the aspects which affects the SEO Result, based on which ranking is done. The SEO process is working towards attaining these. Once you get on with your SEO campaign, following is the process – 

• The SEO will begin with Research of your market, your niche, your competitors and what they are doing with their websites. This is where the SEO Services Company you choose will make a difference. If they are someone who have experience in working with clients belonging to your market, they’ll already be well versed with all this research, so that they get on with the next steps, and you can get early results.

• Once, your market is analyzed, your existing website, which you have to optimize will be analysed. Thus, your website will undergo audit, and there will be a complete evaluation of it, which will help determine what needs to be worked upon and changed so as to improve your SEO Result. This will help you in determining your SEO campaign for you.

• Post the audit, accordingly modifications will be made to your website. At this stage if your website is too old, there may arise the need to do a complete SEO overhaul of your website. Note that if your website does not need an overhaul, the time required will be much less. 

• If a website doesn’t need an overhaul, the older ones after modifications, will start showing a SEO Result earlier as they have more backlinks gained.

• At this stage, if your websites are not responsive websites i.e. being able to be accessed from any device, they will be made responsive.

• After the modification, the content creation process will begin. This will then including creating articles and blogs, creating information about the business and its products, developing links, technically optimizing the website, etc. This is the stage where you’ll start seeing SEO Results, and there will be increase in your website’s ranks.

• Now that your website starts seeing a improvement in the rank, then the social media is used for promoting. Also, continuously content gets created. 

• In next stage,  results are continuously being analysed, and if there are still not much such as A/B testing, etc. so that you’ll know which strategy of yours will be working

These were our understanding of what goes in SEO process and how much time it takes. As stated earlier, the time (4-6 months to be precise) varies from website to website. The above mentioned factors affect the time required see the SEO Result. Hope this was enough to let you know when to expect your results for SEO. On the other hand, if there are not much improvements, you’ll know what would be next.