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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How Long it Really Takes to Rank in Google | Ep. #1005

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In episode #1005, we discuss how long it takes to rank in Google. Tune in to hear what has changed over the last couple of years and what kind of lag time you should expect. We have committed to throwing a FREE Marketing School Live Event in Los Angeles. Check out the details on this website if you would like to attend. Remember: we are capping the event at 500 people, so sign up now, if you’re interested! DM Eric if you would like to participate in the VIP dinner. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: How Long it Really Takes to Rank in Google [00:40] You can plug your site into GSC Index and will rank pretty quickly. [01:00] We’ve already covered this topic, but that was over two years ago and a lot has changed since then. [01:30] Nowadays, it takes a year or more to see results, unless you have strong brand queries. [01:45] If you have strong brand queries, you could rank within months. [02:10] This is about the whole domain, not just a page. [03:02] Once you have good domain authority, it will only take weeks to rank. [03:10] That’s all for today! [04:04] Don’t forget to check out Single Grain for more info about our live event in June. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from

0:06.8

entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

0:11.4

marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school

0:14.5

with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:19.4

All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.

0:27.0

If you want to rank higher on Google, you got to look at your page speed time.

0:31.5

The faster your website loads, the better off you are. With

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Google's core vital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your

0:38.5

site for low time. And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use dream

0:44.5

host so just go to dream host or Google it find it check it out and it's a

0:49.3

great way to improve your load time.

0:51.6

Welcome to another episode of Marketing School.

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I'm Eric Sue, and I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to talk about how long it really takes to rank in Google.

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I even think about this question from my early days of

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doing SEO where I had this question and literally you can plug your site

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into the index, Google Search Console Index, and then...

1:13.6

Yeah, you can submit your URL and then you're ranking pretty fast.

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You may not rank, or you won't, you won't rank for competitive terms, but you can rank

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within a few months.

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And we did a similar episode to this, I think it was episode 158.

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158.

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