How Long It Takes for SEO to Work | Ep. #158

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Business, Marketing

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In Episode #158, Eric and Neil discuss a how long it actually takes for SEO to work. Having the right expectations in mind will help you as you wait for results. Tune is as Eric and Neil discuss their own experiences with SEO and the techniques that you can do now to boost your traffic. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:28 – Today’s topic: How Long it Takes for SEO to Work 00:35 – For a brand new website, it takes 6 months to 1 year. For an established website, it can take 6 months or more to get ranking. 00:50 – Neil shares his website’s ranking as an example 01:45 – It took Neil 9 months for him to see a decent ranking 02:00 – The search traffic goes up slowly 02:39 – “It takes good placement to see traffic” 02:53 – Eric shares his own experience with SEO 03:12 – Eric decided to buy a decent age domain 04:00 – Eric made a lot of adjustments with the domain and their website traffic went from hundreds to millions 04:54 – Redirecting an old domain to a new domain helps 05:03 – Having high brand keywords increases traffic 06:28 – Have an on-page SEO set up right 07:30 – There’s a lot of SEO consultants available and don’t be afraid to approach them if you’re not confident enough setting up SEO 08:19 – SEO takes time and effort, so be patient 08:27 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: There are no shortcuts in SEO, so BE patient as it takes time and effort to see the results. To get that traffic, you need to focus on having a proper on-page SEO setup. Do NOT be afraid to ask the experts—it’s better see real results than to overestimate your abilities. 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

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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 with
0:14.8	your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
0:21.0	All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.
0:27.0	If you want to Rank hire on Google, you got to look at your paid speed time.
0:31.5	The faster your website loads, the better off you are. With
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0:38.5	site for low time. And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use dream
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0:49.7	to improve your load time.
0:51.3	Welcome to another episode of marketing school.
0:55.8	I'm Eric Sue.
0:56.8	And I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.9	And today we're going to talk about how long it takes for SEO to a year to work.
1:03.0	Neil, you're starting.
1:04.7	I think if you're a brand new website, it takes six months to a year,
1:08.5	if you're an established website,
1:10.0	it takes at least six months to get ranking.
1:13.0	Now I'm going to tell you a story.
1:14.5	So Neil Patel.com, I had the site up for over a year and a half
1:19.2	before I did anything with it.
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