How Long Does It Take To Rank On Google?
We often hear, “how long does it take to rank on Google?” In this blog, we’ll unravel this question and offer basics page ranking stats.
Like most online businesses, you regularly focus on getting customers for your products and services. But, what is stopping your competition from snagging all your business? It’s quite possibly due to a sluggish domain rating (which is most likely why you’re reading this article).
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So, you want to know what millions of online business owners want to know about getting seen; how long does it take to rank in Google in Allen, TX? Getting that coveted page 1, position 1, page rank (and keeping it) is a company’s dream. You want, no, NEED Google to love you enough to put your website in this location in their search engine forever. So, how do you do it? The answer depends on many factors.
Response or No Response, Say Something
Remember this basic idea when getting where you want your website to be on a search engine page. Whatever actions you do that affect your website causes actions and reactions. Sometimes the reaction is no action. When you do something intending to get a particular human visitor or robotic Google response, and you don’t get it, you need to do something else.
I know that sounds like a very obvious statement, but sometimes we miss the obvious. But, don’t be so hard on yourself. Getting your page to rank can be challenging for many people – in fact, the majority of people who publish pages. Even when using SEO correctly, it still takes time to get your page highly ranked.
Think Like a Scientist: Track What Works and What Doesn’t
When it comes to SEO, each thing you do to be seen and get Google and customer love for your website might be an experiment. So, think like scientists who perform experiments. Keep track of the ranking actions you do or do not do. You need to know what does work and what doesn’t work. This can prevent you from making a mistake repeatedly.
Keeping track of what you do to rank your page can also keep you focused on doing more of what does work and less of what doesn’t work to rank. For example, here are some basic stats that may help you regarding page rank. Being committed and focused are key to getting your website to rank.
Basic Page Ranking Stats
Page ranking using some of the following stats may be impossible for you. However, look on the bright side. There are many things you CAN do. Focus on doing those.
- It takes time to successfully rank your page. Like mastering most life skills, good habits begin with the first step in a process. Continuing to implement that process keeps you on track to staying ranked. Notice on this infographic that the average top 10 ranking page is 2+ years old. No one can turn back time. This is one of those things you can do nothing about. Instead of having regrets, your domain is too young to rank. Focus on other things you can do, including smart SEO strategies, to get desired page ranking.
- Domain rating. “Domain Rating” (DR) shows any given website’s overall backlink profile strength. You measure a website’s DR using a logarithmic scale from 1 to 100. The higher the number, the stronger the backlink profile strength. The DR correlates fairly well with Google rankings, but not as well as the URL Rating. This idea suggests that you might be able to get your website to outrank high authority sites if you build more authoritative backlinks to your page. Generally, to build your DR, focus on getting backlinks from high DR websites. High DR websites carry more page ranking weight and low DR websites.
- URL rating (UR). UR measures a target URL’s backlink profile strength AND the likelihood that the URL will rank high in Google. Similar to your site’s DR, you measure UR using a logarithmic scale from 1 to 100. Again, the higher the number, the stronger the UR. Here’s more about how to understand SEO metrics terms. Basically, high DR pages perform much better than low ranking DR pages.
- The right keywords. Referring again to the infographic, you see that the “luckiest” pages can quickly rank for low-volume keywords. Compare this with the time it takes for a “lucky” page to rank using high-volume keywords within a year. (Remember, this data ONLY applies to the 5.7% of lucky pages ranking within the top 10 within a year.)
The bottom line to answer the question revealed in this infographic is this – about 95% of newly published pages don’t reach the top 10 within a year. Most of the “lucky” ones that rank way up there require 2-6 months to do it.
In Conclusion
The secret to ranking high actually has nothing to do with luck. So, even if you keep rubbing your lucky page ranking rabbit’s foot, that does nothing to help your page rank high. What does? You need to consistently work towards a goal of raising your DR, have authority backlinks, and use effective SEO strategies, techniques, and practices.
As a full-stack digital marketing business in the greater Dallas area, we’d love to help you rank hire Google and convert leads into forever customers. We offer several services to help you do so.
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