How long will it take for ​your website to rank on Google or any Search engine?

It’s a question many frustrated business owners have asked again and again. It’s a completely valid question–yet one that rarely gets answered to anyone’s satisfaction.

Before getting an answer for this Question, You should know what SEO is and how it works, then you will get the answer on your own.

SEO: Search engine optimization is not like any other type of advertising that you would do for your business. In the recent times, with the mushrooming means of expansion, online marketing has become very essential for any business to expand and grow. It not only helps in increasing the scope of your business to the different parts of the world where you couldn’t have reached otherwise.

Search engine optimization is the way through which you can make your website more popular by enabling it to achieve a higher ranking on the search engine result page. There are a lot of factors that affect the amount of time SEO marketing is going to take for a particular website.

You probably already know that Google uses about 200 ranking factors in their algorithm…

Some are proven. Some are controversial. Others are SEO nerd speculations

It won’t be a cake walk for a newly created website. Google looks for the domain age, front and back as well. Valuable (legitimate) domains are often paid for several years in advance, while doorway (illegitimate) domains rarely are used for more than a year. Therefore, the date when a domain expires in the future can be used as a factor in predicting the legitimacy of a domain. A site with volatile ownership (via whois) or several drops may tell Google to “reset” the site’s history, negating links pointing to the domain.

Most important is to see whether your website is SEO friendly or not. Google always thinks from the end user view.

How informative is your website? How is your navigation structure?

How long does it take to load?  Headings, Meta data, images, videos, mobile friendly etc there are  various factors that search engines will look from your website.  So, First step is to make sure your website is search engine friendly?

If a website has been online for a long time and has been updating its content regularly, it has a better chance of getting a high ranking. But in case yours is a new domain which is being updated regularly, it would be better off than an old website that doesn’t update its content so often. If you want a higher ranking and better result for your website, you need to update the website regularly and with relevant information. 

Another reason why your SEO marketing may not take off as soon as you adopt is because with so many competitors around, the fight for the most suitable keyword is a struggle. Unless you’re selling a product or service that is less than a month or two old, you will have competitors who are already ranking well in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs).

To tell the truth, even the best SEO analyst will need to take time to find out where and what that ground actually is. In most markets, your competitors have spent a decade or more building both their websites, and links to those websites. A thorough competitive analysis will take into account every link that leads to every competitor result, which shows up on the first few pages of results that rank your desired keywords.

The type of content being posted on your website also makes a huge difference. Google algorithms give a better ranking to websites that makes use of relevant pictures and videos to make the website more attractive. If the content on your website is just plain text, your SEO strategy is lacking and hence you will take more time to get a higher ranking compared to your competitors. 

Just like all good things take some time, SEO marketing is not a magic wand that produces the results immediately. But if you are persistent about it, the results will show and they will be long term. You need to make sure that you make your website as SEO friendly as possible and keep doing even after you have achieved a higher ranking.

Sometimes, the first SEO strategy that you adopted may give you noticeable results in the start but can fizz out after a few weeks if the strategy becomes too redundant. So it is important to make sure that whichever strategy you adopt, it gives long term benefits instead of giving speedy results that are not even reliable. 

Many SEO firms will tell you that it takes 4 to 6 months to start seeing results. That’s generally accurate, but bear in mind this is when you start seeing results, and SEO results grow over time. Whatever results you’re getting at 6 months should be considerably less than what you’re getting at 12 months. At some point, you may see your results taper off, and then it may be a matter of maintaining results rather than growing them.

Many companies underestimate how much time and money it takes to be successful with SEO. Success by any standard rarely comes within the first 3 months, even with a healthy SEO budget. I’ve seen companies get started the right way, but quit after 2 to 3 months and say “We just weren’t getting the results we needed to justify the cost.” This tells me they went into the exercise with unrealistic expectations. If you can’t budget for 6 to 12 months of SEO, you might be better off putting that budget somewhere else. Paying for just a few months of SEO is, in many cases, no better than throwing your money away. SEO is a long term marketing tactic, and shouldn’t be seen as a way to generate sales quickly. However, if you make the proper investment, and plan on being in it for the long haul, SEO is a marketing tactic with one of the best ROIs out there.