From 100 to 20,000 relevant monthly website visitors within 12 months
Number of inquiries via website contact form increased by 560%
Base for future retargeting formed
15x Sales increase from online channels
The number of competitors' sites in your business niche is one of the main criteria for assessing the amount of work and time for website promotion
The more competitive high-frequency requests, the more expensive and longer their ranking takes
Web pages load speed, crawlability, URLs structure, website code quality, website security
Search engines constantly update their algorithms. Content build for users, Click-Through-Rates, Usability, Keywords Strategy (Research, Targeting, Clusterization, Mapping, Density), Interlinking.
SEO takes time and clients' patience is one of the key components to success.
SEO agencies typically charge monthly retainer fees because of the search engines algorithms. The algorithms are built in a such a way that any change made to the website is starting positively or negatively impacting the rankings with a fairly large time lag (from weeks to months).
During the first month of the engagement, the B2B SEO Agency spends a tremendous amount of effort on fixing the website code, analyzing the competition, finding, clustering and mapping out the keywords, building the strategy. If this first stage is skipped or improperly done, the whole SEO campaign is destined to a painful and expensive failure.
Short answer: The websites with well thought-through SEO strategy and low-to-medium competition online start ranking at the top within 6-12 months from the date of the campaign launch.
The longer and more accurate answer is "It depends".
A better question to ask is "how quickly will my site be ranking at the Top of the organic search for the most relevant and high-traffic keywords?". The SEO community uses a term "keyword difficulty (KD)" which is measured from 0 to 100 (easiest to the hardest to rank). If your target keywords are KD 75+ it can take years to rank to the Top, as the competition for this search term is very high.
Search Engines Algorithms are among the largest secrets the search engine companies have. These algorithms change all the time. Google makes minor changes to the algorithm over 100 times a year and releases large algorithm updates 3-4 times per annum. These changes always shift the rankings up or down to all the websites worldwide. A knowledgeable SEO consultant adjusts the strategy and web pages basis its own understanding and testing of which ranking factors the algorithm update gave a higher or lower relevancy to.
These are the two biggest reasons why no credible SEO firm will ever provide any concrete timeline for ranking to the Top.
This is because of how the Algorithms work. If you do SEO for the first time on your website, the algorithms will start rewarding your web pages with a higher ranking and higher traffic only after 4-6 months from the professional engagement launch. If your website is of a high quality, has some age and relevant traffic, you can expect to see some positive dynamics in the rankings within 2-3 months.
It is totally up to your decision.
Most of our Clients stay with us for years. That is because once their web pages receive substantial traffic and rank for selected keywords, other variations of the relevant keywords can be targeted by us, other services can be offered to the web pages visitors, other locations can be added to the offering. It is hard to say "NO" to an almost free customer acquisition channel that requires little-to-no time investment from our Clients and that generates healthy profits. Moreover, we have a loyalty program in place.
Text on the web pages is like oxygen to human beings. The Search Engines cannot figure out what the web page is about unless there is a certain number of words from a "keyword family" related to a certain topic published. Search Engines' intention is to show the most relevant answer to the search query. Without a professionally written copy under the guidance of the SEO experts, it is practically impossible to get to the first positions in the online search.
Absolutely YES! The Search Engine Optimization process is a process of building of one of the most important digital assets any business must have - a strong website with highly relevant and massive online traffic that converts into Sales. SEO is where most of the digital marketing budgets are worldwide due to the highest ROI.
