GoogleHow long does SEO take to work?
2 min readAllow weeks before you see anything and months before it brings in enquiries. Google itself says some changes take effect within a few hours and others only after months. A new domain starts at the bottom. A site that has been around for years responds faster to improvements.
Anyone who promises you a place on page one within a month is promising something nobody controls. What you can know is how it usually unfolds.
What Google itself says
Google's own guide says every change needs time: some take effect within a few hours, others only after several months. Google recommends waiting a few weeks before you judge whether something has helped.
The first weeks
Google first has to find your pages and add them to its index. After that you appear, usually a long way from the top. A new domain we built was sitting at around position twenty after a few weeks. That is normal, and at that point it still brings in few visitors.
The months after that
First you see impressions go up, then your position, and clicks come last. If you only look at visitors, you'll think in month two that it isn't working, while the line underneath is already climbing.
What speeds it up
A site that has been around for a while, a complete Google Business Profile, and links from other sites. And patience: stop after two months and you've paid for the work and missed the return.
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