How Long Until My Efforts Are Reflected In The Search Engines?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by marcusio, Oct 21, 2010.

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    Hey,

    quick question, not sure if there is an actual answer or if the answer is just...depends.

    Say if I have found a keyword I want to target and I 'know' I can get the top spot with 5 ezinearticles and a little backlinking (not that easy I know but let's assume for this example) how long after I have done this will it take google to reflect this and put me number 1?

    Basically Im asking how long does it take google to notice my backlinking efforts? Hours? Days? Weeks? Months?

    The reason im asking is that I think I should have taken the top spot for a relatively easy keyword but if im not I want to do some more backlinking. However if I will go top say next week even without this extra effort I could focus my time on something else, if you get what Im saying.

    Thanks anyway guys
     
    marcusio, Oct 21, 2010 IP
  2. Leo SQP

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    Weeks. Google reconsiders the position of a Web page in SERPs within a couple of weeks. However, there may also be a delay if it doesn't discover your new backlinks during that period.
     
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  3. alimog

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    It can take a few hours to weeks.....it will depend on the level of competition....

    Kind regards

    Chris
     
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  4. infopage

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    The backlinking efforts can get noticed faster if your link is on a high page ranking site with do-follow attributes set that gets spidered by the search engines often;)
     
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  5. SamDolbel

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    There is no straight fwd answer to this. The back links you have acquired could be somewhere on a site that does not get crawled that often. For example if you acquired a back link in something like a profile page on a social networking page that has not yet been crawled it could take months.
    I have always told people it could take 3 months before Google picks up the links but this is not always the case.
     
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  6. macdonjo

    macdonjo Well-Known Member

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    No answer.

    Why not email Google them self? hah.
     
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  7. dmvictoria

    dmvictoria Well-Known Member

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    If you are submitting to ezine Google bot is always hanging around there. But, I have found google spiders the articles and the links inside of it faster the more hits that article gets.

    I had a page indexed in 10 minutes when I wrote an article about the BP #OilSpill at its height and tweeted it, re-tweeted it across my twitter accounts and since it was such a big issue at the time other people were re-tweeting it as well. Thus the article got piles of hits within minutes. The article itself made it to page 1 of Google instantly, Google was running a live Twitter feed on the front page for those particular keywords at the time.

    There is kind of a trick to making it work, definitely a cross platform operation with a bit of an intuitive sense for popularity. I hope that helps:)
     
    dmvictoria, Oct 21, 2010 IP