Typical Google SERP Update Time

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I'm curious what people's current opinion is on the typical time it takes to see SERP changes performing SEO work assuming the work done involved current best practices over a one month period. Reason I ask is I get conflicting reports from SEOs on how long they estimate it will take to make improvements. Yes, I realize there are a lot of variables including how competitive the keywords are, current rank, etc. That is why I use the word TYPICAL. Say a hipothetical situation of moving a site already ranking top of page 2 (ranks 11-13) up to mid page one on a low to moderately competetive keyword.

Again, keyword is is TYPICAL.

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  • Profile picture of the author MarkAse
    If you're talking about on page stuff-I see it within a week or so.

    Links from outside sites, a few days.

    Links internally-about a month
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    • Profile picture of the author consultant1027
      Talking about a combination of those. Okay, I was just wondering if it was currently in the 2-3 day range versus 2-3 weeks versus 2-3 month. So bottom line is really you should start seeing effect of *most* SEO typically in 1-4 weeks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    Originally Posted by consultant1027 View Post

    I'm curious what people's current opinion is on the typical time it takes to see SERP changes performing SEO work assuming the work done involved current best practices over a one month period. Reason I ask is I get conflicting reports from SEOs on how long they estimate it will take to make improvements. Yes, I realize there are a lot of variables including how competitive the keywords are, current rank, etc. That is why I use the word TYPICAL. Say a hipothetical situation of moving a site already ranking top of page 2 (ranks 11-13) up to mid page one on a low to moderately competetive keyword.

    Again, keyword is is TYPICAL.

    Thanks
    Can't tell without knowing the voltage and resistance.

    SEO can be thought of as the pressure pushing charges along a conductor, while the electrical resistance of a conductor is a measure of how difficult it is to rank a page for a particular keyword . Using the flow analogy, Ranking resistance is similar to friction. For water flowing through a pipe, a long narrow pipe provides more resistance to the flow than does a short fat pipe. The same applies for ranking, bigger keyword markets: provide more resistance than do smaller ones..

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  • Profile picture of the author Cason
    It really depends on the site you're trying to rank. For fresh sites don't expect immediate movements.

    But generally for any decently aged site (60-90days is good enough) / parasite property, from the time the link gets crawled/indexed I typically see 50%-80% of the movement within the first 0-7 days, then the rest of the link power kinda slowly trickles in over the next 30 days.
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