Comments on: Search Engine Optimization – Good Things Take Time

By: Mike Cloke Internet Marketing

Mike Cloke Internet Marketing — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:34:10 +0000

That’s crazy clients canceling in the first few weeks, they must be super impatient and want instant results, good luck.
We seem to be coming across more clients that have been burned in the past by another SEO company promising great results, but show no movement in the serps after several months. Now they are very skeptical to get into a new relationship, but know their business needs help to survive.

We just had a client cancel after four months. We took their main keyphrase from #45 to #7 for a term with 12,400,000 competing pages and received and email complaining that moving from #10 to #7 in the last month wasn’t good enough!

By: email marketing solution

email marketing solution — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:41:36 +0000

This is a great article especially to discuss with new SEO clients, I really find the language easy to understand and a great basic explanation for process.

By: bobjuck

bobjuck — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:09:08 +0000

Part of SEO involves analysis of how people arrive at your site. What words are they using? Are there ways that people are finding you that can be capitalized upon? Integrating analytics software into your site and constantly reviewing the results is essential to finding ways to improve your rankings. Taking the time to really digest what’s going on and then making the necessary changes or improvements takes time.

By: JoshuaG

JoshuaG — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:20:54 +0000

Yes, I think keywords and links are definitely noticed more by Google. Surprisingly pagerank seems to not always have that much of an effect on your pages rank.

By: patmcluk

patmcluk — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:32:06 +0000

I agree that you have to be patient, but my story has been extremely quick.
I am new to all this, but when i started i immediately swapped links with every single other website in the same niche. I write four articles a day, and in just 3 months (up to yesterday) three of my keywords have got to the first page of google, and two more are on the second page!
Also because i am a new website, i have a zero pagerank. So perhaps keywords and links are particularly noticed by Google?

By: Toronto Post

Toronto Post — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:26:43 +0000

True enough. This is a much needed reminder and a motivational call to perserverance
thank you duncan

By: Ripplenet

Ripplenet — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:33:17 +0000

Thanks for that – I wish there could be a way for prospective clients to understand this quickly! Its something I wasn’t aware of to start with either.

By: Fitness Daddy

Fitness Daddy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:30:44 +0000

Great article. I have to agree that good things do take time. I’m now on page 1 on google, bing and yahoo that 9 months ago found me on page 23. through link exchange with mostly pr 1 -4 sites, I’ve gradually climbed up the ladder for one of my websites.

Loved the little tutorial on Kiwi speak :-)

By: JohnH

JohnH — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:18:06 +0000

It’s a funny old job, working on the internet. You’ve almost forgotten what you did when the results come in.
The great thing is that all the work is incremental, one piece builds on another and one day you realise you’ve got #1 on some keyphrases and the visitors are pouring in.