How fast can you SEO?

jozzua · 10-26-2006, 07:53 AM

I'm doing this bit of research. We did some seo experiments and were able to get to the first page of a relatively uncompetitive keyword phrase in eight days. This is on Google's SERPS. I'm curious. I'm told that it could be done faster.

How fast have you guys been able to do it?

Aviva · 10-26-2006, 08:04 AM

With the Google Custom Search Engine at:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
I can do it in just a few minutes :-)

Seriously, there does seem to be some sort of "fresh" bonus in Google and I've seen blog posts rank almost immediately (then after a few days fall out of the rankings).

jozzua · 10-26-2006, 08:27 AM

Interesting. Yeah the site we tested did fall off the rankings for a day or two before coming back up.

CapsLOCK · 10-26-2006, 08:29 AM

It depends to search query

Webfu · 10-26-2006, 10:25 AM

Agreed, imo the speed at which you can get a website ranked depends heavily on the popularity of the key words.

bcombs · 10-26-2006, 10:28 AM

I agree with WebFu, that the competitiveness of the keyword is the largest factor. If your putting the keyword on a well aged site, with decent link juice coming in, on-page factors can get a non-competitive term ranked.

In that case, it's just a matter of Google reindexing the page.

Web Gazelle · 10-26-2006, 10:41 AM

If it is very noncompetitive then I would say it is possible to do it in about 4 days. What would be the point, though?

Webfu · 10-26-2006, 10:51 AM

Maybe just to show your client that you could do it, and do it fast ?

Mong · 10-26-2006, 11:11 AM

No time challenge.
It also depend on how fierce my competitors are trying to compete.

you can make your site search engine friendly that's under your 100% control and it takes time depending on the setup and number of pages of your website.

jozzua · 10-26-2006, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Web Gazelle

If it is very noncompetitive then I would say it is possible to do it in about 4 days. What would be the point, though?

I think the point, aside from showing your clients you can do it, is for you to have a measure gauge/standard for noncompetitive keywords. If you know a keyword is not difficult to top on, then you should be able to top Google SERPS in 4 days. Right?

webfinity · 10-26-2006, 08:28 PM

Why waste your time targetting noncompetive keywords. I think it would be better to spend the time focusing on the more competitive keywords.

jozzua · 10-26-2006, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by webfinity

Why waste your time targetting noncompetive keywords. I think it would be better to spend the time focusing on the more competitive keywords.

What? What's the point of going after niche keywords then? As I recall the experts say that over 50% of conversions come from the long tail.. usually from the non competitive keywords.

WillL · 10-27-2006, 12:11 AM

All good things take time my son.

Blazed · 10-27-2006, 12:51 AM

i brought my site at number 1 position in specific keyphrase they were like 6 of them in just 7 DAYS.

Manish Pandey · 10-27-2006, 02:12 AM

I bought a domain that got #1 ranking for my name within 2-3 days it stayed there for more than a month or two... it really amazed me.. them i made a mess out of it... now i guess its in the sandbox... but never mind... well this made me excited... that a newer domain could also rank that high...with a couple of days...

Well getting top rankings for a newer domains depends totally on Trust Rank (TR) of the domain... and the competition...

I have quite a lots of page one rankings for a 5 months old domain...

vistadivine.com · 10-27-2006, 06:54 AM

Well with Google and with a highly competitive keyword its not that easy to rank too quickly as others said good things take time it will take time.

Akash

Noon_an_Night · 10-27-2006, 08:39 PM

I agree with all above...however if you can feed off a PR8 or PR9 site it is possible to rank very quickly on highly competitive terms...but there are many factors to consider...

Web Gazelle · 10-30-2006, 11:54 AM

I was able to get a site to rank #1 in just 2 days for a search term that gets next to no searches. What good did it do? The site gets 1 or 2 hits from it in a month. Nothing to do back flips over.

kiviniar · 10-30-2006, 12:14 PM

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I'm doing this bit of research. We did some seo experiments and were able to get to the first page of a relatively uncompetitive keyword phrase in eight days. This is on Google's SERPS. I'm curious. I'm told that it could be done faster.

How fast have you guys been able to do it?

Check the SEO contests results,,, some pros participating and at top....

They are god damm awesome....hehehe

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How fast have you guys been able to do it?

This is in direct correlation with the no of backlinks i can build with revelant anchor txt and related pages, that what u need to top the serps in G

vangogh · 10-30-2006, 01:45 PM

I didn't realize it was a race. If the term is very non-competitive you can have a page ranked #1 as soon as it's indexed. If you time things right and upload the page and a link to the page moments before Googlebot finds the link and then the new page it should theoretically be there much faster than even a couple of days. Maybe a few hours or even minutes. Just depends on how fast the page is added to the index I guess.

Just about every page ranks for something as soon as it's in the index.