SEO has got harder

Have you bought a domain previously marked as a spam or malware domain?

I guess nobody can give an exact answer how long it will take for your site to rank for long tail keywords, to get a decent amount of traffic. It simply depends on factors like competition, and the quality of your content and your backlinks.

Do you know the tool Ubersuggest by Neil Patel? Just google it. It's free to start with and when you type in your domain, it shows you the keywords you are ranking for and your site's exact position in the SERPs for those keywords.

This gives you a way to track your rankings and can motivate you, when you see your site climbing up.

I started building my first site about 10 years ago and back then build a few backlinks and achieved a number 1 ranking in Google, which brought me 500 daily visitors. But I made a stupid mistake and my site got penalized and I lost all my rankings and traffic.

If you are looking to make money from your project, like I guess we all do in a way, I suggest focusing on list building and email marketing, than on SEO. Or combine those strategies. Because an email list is the only secure asset you can build in your business, that no Google update or whatever else can take you away. At least, that's what I am doing now.

How long has it been since you were in the SEO / Blogging game?

Yes, it's harder than before, just because there is more 'stuff' on the internet, but the difference isn't huge - it really shouldn't be that difficult to get to pg 10 of google for related keywords.

What niche are you in? And how much competition is there for your keywords?

If it is your domain that is causing the problem, it could be one of the following:

1. your domain is super keyword dense (i.e. wealthy-and-rich-passive-income-money-online . com) - Google perceives this as spammy and it will be more difficult to rank your page.
2. Your domain has many hyphens, abbreviations or numbers, this is bad practice for ranking for the same reason as above.
3. your top-level domain is a .xyz / .biz / .info or something like that - basically not one of the well known ones - this makes it harder to rank - .com is always going to be the best for ranking though.
4. Svenska may have a point - what was on that domain before you got it? Did the previous owner violate any of google's terms and conditions?

If you are doing everything correctly regarding SEO and you're still not ranking then in general it will have something to do with the above reasons.

Very little has changed. Google ranks pages primarily based on the links pointing to the page and the content of the page.

A site with nothing more than a few social bookmarks doesn't deserve to rank. Simple as that.

HaroldD
I totally agree with you.
Ranking a new site on Google, is like playing cricket without a bat.
It is very hard to rank new sites and getting visitors to a new site is so horrible.
One literally goes batty trying to do this.
Regards.

SEO is name of patience and so you need to build quality backlinks for your site (home page and inner pages according keywords).


If you are able to get quality backlinks then site can rank within few weeks otherwise it takes years also for good ranking. Generally three to six months is enough to promote websites.


If you are managing site in wordpress then can install also SEO plugins who can support you in on page optimization also ....... because now a days on page optimization value is also very high ..... if good on page then off page works will help you otherwise backlinks are a bit useless.


In short do on page first and then go for link building to take effects as soon as possible.

Yes, SEO is harder now. And I think it's going to be harder and harder in the future.

bookmarks and domains with low value or 'trust' simply won't do anymore. Google changed its algorithm to being more user friendly and your website won't help the user in any kind of catalogue.
You need content on your site that's able to rank and it needs to be shared on social media as well. It needs to be distributed in order for people to see it. Real traffic is the way to go. I miss the good old times as well but it simply won't do anymore...
So there's no specific time frame either. You'll just have to continue and see what works.

Yeah, tell me about. None of my sites have ever ranked, despite massive content produced for over 20 years.

My marketing is in some of the most hotly competitive niches (ie try ranking for mesothelioma even using long tail keywords).

What I do is find sites that already are at or near the top spots for my targeted key words, then query the site owners for submitting relevant articles and/or short posts.

Usually site owners are open to quality content for their audiences and allow backlinks. Become a regular contributor, and it's nearly as good as being at the top.

I miss the good old days too where you could rank number 1 with a brand new domain in just 2 weeks. Today you need a lot of DA 30+ backlinks plus spotless onsite SEO.

SEO is hard if you make it hard. Thousands of new keywords, easy to rank, are discovered every day. Opportunities are there - you just have to find them. Many just chase the same fish, while fresh fish are available further out the 'box'.

Pay attention your on-page
Create great content
Build branded foundation links- build them out with content
Get a guest post
Get a press release

these method still work for me

SEO is still worth but it take long time.

Of course, this will be.

If you are not updating yourself then life is also very hard to live ..... For example kids eat by help of someone but after few years he try and start to eat by his own hand ...... If he will say that eating is going harder day by day then .. We can pray only ..... because only God can save him.


Same with SEO if you are not learning new lesson according to time then you can not say yourself Seach Engine Optimizer.


I dont miss like you because i was on good position at old day and currently also doing well. You should learn something according to search engines update and algorithms .... I am sure you will have no time to miss old day because you can earn good now a days also by promoting your or any client website.


I dont know why are you asking these question but if you dont know about these basic things then my suggestion is dont try to manage any website in future .... because you will be in loss for sure.



I dont think ..... I have many websites example who rank within 3 months hardly. Long time only if you are not serious for your website and doing only timepass online.


Great .. Appreciate your suggestion .


If you will read carefully then he is asking for why taking long time ...... he is not mentioning that he did huge mistake and so taking long time.


Actually sometime these types of answer irritate me because there are many SEO companies or freelancer who are doing well and getting feedback from his client as excellent works ....... But i dont know how few people think that SEO is very tough ...... I checked few sites and title start from "SEO Optimization Services, SEO Link Building Services, SMO Services" ... even they dont know meaning of keywords stuffing.


Sorry if my answer hurt any one but these all are in my mind after read and i said all things in details.


Thanks

Five years ago, the internet had about 863,105,652 websites, at the moment (2020), we're talking about 1.74B websites

I couldn't agree more, it harder now than 5 years ago, and it will be much harder in the future.
Quite frankly, SEO as a stand-alone tool will take ages to offer meaningful results.

Time to supplement.

Google is in favor of Big fat sites like Cnet, Thewirecutter, and others, instead of a small guy- nicely built website, I can see some of this fat sites with millions off affiliate links, and 400 words content, plaster all over the internet, it is really bad. They rank NR 1 on google, and mostly they take the first few pages
people say google hates sites with affiliate links, but if you are one of these fatsos google is closing its eye on it.

Yes SEO is little bit harder than before. You can go with Email Marketing.

I think it depends on the quality of your content and the SEO strategy you implement. I actually created a new blog and did some SEO that actually worked and made over $500 in Commissions in less than 14 days.
I was actually ranking for products soon to be launched and that were posted on Muncheye. Maybe that is kinda different in your own case

Yes, SEO has gotten harder in the last 4 or 5 years. There have been many core algorithm updates by Google that made it harder. The days of keyword stuffing content, h tags, title tags, meta descriptions are long over. I think patience and keeping up with the core algorithm updates will prosper your SEO attempts. Google wants more age and authority now of days and that prevents sites ranking in 1 or 2 months for any real value of keywords. Just take it slow and practice good on-page tactics and be sure to be relevant.

Relevance, quality backlinks and good solid on-page will go along way in your SEO efforts. Best of luck!

Content is king, add a page or post. If looking for a trick at all, re examine your meta tags and just change the title and description a bit.

No, SEO is not a harder it depends on Person ability how to take challenges in Online Marketing, SEO is very simple if you have the best practice of Internet Marketing.

It's not harder than it was 5 years ago. If you stay on top of the trend and algo updates, it's really not too hard to keep up

out of the boxes basically means going extra miles, traffic can be obtained anywhere even using thor even the basic easier to rank on duckduckgo

Nowadays SEO takes some time to show the effects in search engines. If your on-page SEO in good then off-page will take 3 to 6 months to show their effects