Loading ...One of the first things an SEO agency will inform a new client of is that search engine optimization takes time. It’s not like other forms of internet marketing. SEO takes patience because there is a time lag between the work and the results. What search optimization professionals rarely think to mention is that SEO will always take time, even when you’re performing your regular optimization maintenance.
The ‘time and patience’ factor gets pounded into your head so hard during the initial optimisation process that it’s eventually easy to accept. Once the SEO professionals hand your site back over, however, impatience tends to creep back in. You get the rankings you want, but you start to get edgy about your new content achieving things. You post a new article, and begin to obsessively check your traffic and stats for signs of improvement.
Just like other aspects of search engine optimisation, SEO content takes time to take effect. You may post one or two articles a day for two weeks very patiently, but you won’t see the real results of those articles until a month or two down the track.
Content posting is an investment
Many site owners mistake the initial optimisation process as the whole optimisation process. While it’s true that updating your content is a maintenance thing, it’s not the sort of maintenance that will have an immediate impact, at least on your ranking. Content is an investment in your site’s long-term health.
Search engine optimisation is often compared to other forms of internet marketing, and it is closely related. The main difference is that while your paid advertisement will get you a fairly predictable return within a day, your SEO will get you an unpredictable return after a few weeks and over the next year.
Keep adding to your investment
The best way to make use of the time between adding content and getting results is to keep adding content. By constantly maintaining fresh content on your site, you’re continually investing in your site’s health. This means that when results do occur, they will keep rolling in.
A good ranking relies on these rolling results. If you’re testing the effects of content you might add articles, and then wait to see the blip in results that registers impact. This is a fine move if you’re testing what sort of content is right for your site. If you’re posting content because you need to maintain your ranking, however, this waiting period could kill your page.
Avoiding the stats-check compulsion
The need to constantly check your site’s stats is an understandable one, and a common one. It’s also one that needlessly takes up your time. Compulsive checking of site statistics is a familiar habit to everyone involved in the SEO industry. It’s a compulsion almost everyone has had to deal with. There are even jokes about it. It’s important to recognise that checking every couple of hours isn’t going to push the results along. It’s a far better thing to get out there and do something more productive instead.
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