Does SEO ever drive you crazy?

I think optimizing a website is easy enough, and getting good backlinks is practically my specialty, but aside from that, I find trying to rank for Competitive terms requires a crazy amount of patience.

I spent a year ranking #1 for a term once, and let me tell you about 9 months in steady backlinking and your about ready to throw the computer out the window.

The key seems to be faith... and a silly amount of good backlinks. Stay patient guys... that's the key.

 

Yes, I agree that patience is the key here. It can be kind of daunting task to follow up .

 

Sometimes it just moves to slow and when I check it everyday it drives me Crazy..

I just do a bunch of SEO work and then try to forget about it for a few weeks then check back.

 

yeah that's a good point.

Checking the rankings too often will drive you banana's! Unless of course your rapidly advancing

 

Actually SEO give more challenges in term of gaining ranking in major search engines.

 

True, patience is an SEO virtue, just come to think Google only updates PageRank every other three months and that's only 4 times a year.

 

Well, yeah... when you pick the wrong keyword, you'll have to work a lot more.

 

Check the keyword quality and KEI of the word. If Keyword efficiency index is lower, the better the keyword is for your site and if it is higher you need to change it.

 

Couple of year back I launched a website and within 3 days it was ranking at #3 for relatively competitive keywords, However it disappeared in 2 days

 

ya, i feel also like this , patience is necessary for a seo , when you check rankings daily for your keywords and there is no improvement ..then feels very bad..

 

Time and patience are very fundamental aspects of SEO. And you do get tested for both these things infact domain age is in itslef an important part in SEO

 

You need strong will and mind power for SEO, Lots of hard work!

 

Yeah it really drive me crazy especially when I was new in this field. And now I'm almost one year in this job. And thanked God it is easy. You just need to encounter a lot of experiences to improve your skills in SEO!

 

yeah, that's right, it took sometimes to get the result that we wanted, patient is very important for success!

 

Sometimes, you can't help it! Sometimes Google is not that friendly by means of stability of my rankings and that's what I hate. But of course I know all the crazyness of Google but still I'm affected.

 

Completely agree. That's the reason why doing SEO need ongoing business with high quality work and experienced SEO experts to help generate traffic to the domains.

I have been involved in SEO not so long but with the wish to help pushing customers sites to the top of google using the best current SEO methods around, I never feel frustrated with SEO time consuming. I'm an SEO addicter, I must admit

 

no, i don't crazy in SEO

 

I got absolutely nuts when my site drops in serps!

 

Well, the rankings keep on fluctuating every day. I just keep in mind that my site doesnt drop much. If there is a minor fluctuation then no problem , otherwise the reasons for such drop has to be considered and a remedial action should be taken.

 

I'm seriously addicted to SEO. I check my rankings every single day, and sometimes, they all stand still, on the exact same position. I know they're not supposed to rank higher in one day, but still... it makes me really frustrated. I can't help checking the SERP of my websites everyday. Reply to the thread title: Yes, SEO always drives me crazy.