How Long Does It Take to Boost Your Google SEO Rankings? | 1 Month, 12 Month, and 2 Year Timeline
Everyone's telling you to
invest thousands of dollars or thousands of your hours into SEO. And if you do, when
should you expect results? The last thing you wanna do
is spend thousands of dollars or thousands of your hours and be like, "Mm, it's not working." That would just suck. Hey, everyone, I'm Neil Patel, and today I'm gonna share with you how long it takes to see results from SEO. (bright music) Here's the thing. With neilpatel.com, when I first started, I quickly got up to 9,000
visitors a month from search.
Within a matter of 12
months, you fast forward, I went to all the way to
roughly 89,000 visitors a month from Google, right? So in one year I almost 10xed my results. You fast forward another 12 months, I hit over 450,000 visitors
a month from Google. So in two years I went from 9,000 to 400 and roughly 50,000
thousand visitors a month. That's a huge increase, right? Just think about that. Nine to 450. That's crazy. Now, you're not gonna get
the same results as me, because when I started neilpatel.com, this wasn't my first rodeo. I'd been in SEO for long
time, well over 10 years. When you first start SEO, in the first three months you
should see more impressions.
Go log into Google Search Console and go look at Search Analytics. You will see how many
impressions you're getting. As the first three months go by, your impressions should be going up. If they're not going up, you're probably doing something off or you're in a competitive space. Within six months for sure, the impression count should go up. And within your Google Analytics, you should see traffic from Google other than terms from your brand name. Yeah, you already may be
getting a lot of traffic for your brand name, but you
should be getting traffic for keywords outside of your brand name, even if it's not a lot. So in the first six months, you should be getting
traffic from key terms that aren't your brand name. Within a year, things should
start really kicking in. Within two years, that's when
you're gonna see the bulk of your SEO growth. By then you've built up your
authority and trust in Google and you just start ranking
for almost anything. Now, here's a caveat. If you're not building links and you're not writing a lot of content and you're not getting
social signals to your site, it can take even longer to get rankings.
So, to get results within the
timeframes I'm giving you, you need to be publishing at
least one blog post a week, building at least five
to 10 links a month, and you need to be promoting your content each and every single
week on Facebook, Twitter, and any of your other social profiles and be getting engagement. If you do that, you'll get results within the first 12 months, but you'll see the bulk
of your results come within the first two years. (bright music).
