SEO: When Will I Get a Return on My Investment?

When it comes to investing in an SEO campaign, the most common question we get asked is ‘How soon can I expect to see results?’  The honest answer is, it depends.

It depends on whether your website is new or established.  It depends if your site has already had some SEO link building or if you are starting from scratch.  It depends on the competitiveness of your keywords and how well optimised your competitor’s sites are.

As long as you are doing everything right, you can expect to see an increase in your search engine rankings over time.  We usually see results to the top 10 in less than 6 months.  Once we get you onto the all important first page, this is where the competition can really hot up.

The truth is that the more competitive a keyword is, the more time and money you’re going to need spend on SEO to out perform your competition.

Having done an initial analysis of your market and the level of competition, the investment is often an educated best guess at what it’s going to take to get you where you need to be.

If you want to know for certain, the only sure fire way is to invest in a ‘Rankings Roadmap’ which is a competitor intelligence report that completely reverse engineers exactly what your top ranking competitors are doing in terms of SEO to be above you.

A Rankings Roadmap gives you the precise SEO strategy and budget required to get to number 1 for your chosen keywords.  Once you have this you have much more predictability to your search engine marketing campaign and a guaranteed realistic budget and virtually guaranteed results.