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How long does it take to Rank on Google?

Hi guys.

I started a blog on insurance, and I have noticed that I get traffic from Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo but rarely get traffic from Google.

The articles are generally good, and I have even incorporated infographics, good internal linking, and good external linking as per the SEO guidelines.

The blog is now 10 months old.

How long does Google really take to rank and let good organic traffic grow.

I feel like I am giving up.

Any experts here to give their views

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    I'm not an SEO expert, but I'm pretty sure your content is just very low quality content and Google realizes that.
    How do I know your content is low quality? Well, in just 10 months you have almost 4000 articles! I don't think most sites 10months old have so many articles, unless they're AI generated, or paid for and low quality.

    I'll be honest with you, about a year ago I did a very similar experiment - I created two websites on different subjects. I created two really nice templates, generated a few hundred articles (not using ChatGPT - a diffferent route I tried and won't expose), made sure they look good on mobile too, it was all static content so it was served from a CDN and super fast, I put in all the SEO tags and made sure I went by all the best practices...
    I only monitored Bing and Google and i saw consistent traffic coming in from Bing every day, but organic traffic from Google was VERY rare. Most days it was just 0.
    I believe that Google are just much better at detecting content quality than other search engines.

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      i have a team of 15 people

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    Is your site connected to GSC? Are your articles being crawled properly?

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    What a very interesting blog

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    Not sure if you've shared your blog on here but can you so I can check it out?

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    Hey Cyprian,

    I wouldn't consider myself an expert by any means but I have helped dozens of businesses increase their Google rankings throughout the last several years and I will say there are a lot of misconceptions around SEO.

    My question would be to you is this, are there alt tags on the images? How frequently are you posting blogs and are they keyword rich? Are you analyzing the blog headlines properly so they are targeting your specific ideal audience and not getting lost amongst your competitors? What other things are you doing to enhance your SEO - site map, backlinks, pillar pages, having various business listings (Yelp, Google My Business, LinkedIn, BBB, etc)?

    There is so much you can do besides blogging. Stay active and keep it going!

    • Taz
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    It really depends on the competition for the keywords you are targeting. For keywords with almost no competition (which is often the case for niche technical articles for example), you can expect to be well ranked on Google a couple of days after publishing your article (make sure to inform Google everytime by using their search console).

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    I was in similar situation, site:xxx is 100+ in bing but 2 in google.

    My colleague happened to found this one https://seogets.com/blog/google-indexing-script yesterday and looks it works after 1 day after we set it up, maybe you should take a look as well.

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    1 day for me. For example these 2 URLs which I published on 1 day, was ranking on 1st page for the keyword 'inapp notification feed' the 2nd day. Article 1 and Article 2

    What worked was the keyword, a long tail one. I think people do SEO wrongly, they perceive it in a wrong way of ranking. You want to rank for long tail keywords that your ICP search you for, not the general and broad keyword. There are many different methods, but for startups with no topical authority begin with the keywords. And that article I shared don't have backlinks too.

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    check your console and check whether your pages are indexed. If you are not getting any impression then check competition or search volume of your keywords. Find issues in crawling any google penalty with search console. Another reason can be google has transferred your site to sandbox. Which means you have violated some policy. if there is no issue with your on-page, technical or off-page SEO. Then i would recommend you to create another blog on another topic. It would be a waste of time if you continue the work.

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    There could be an issue with the crawling by Google. It looks like you are getting decent traffic from other search engines. Have you checked Google crawling details in your Search console account?

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    What is the keyword difficulty? Share complete information, and I can help you with this.

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    Hello Cyprian,

    Well, the answer I would give you is: it depends. It depends on several factors such as the authority of your domain, the competitors you have in the market, and the quality of your content. In markets with little competition and high-quality content, it can be a short period of 1 or 2 months. However, if the market is mature and there are several competitors, it can be a much slower process.

    From my SEO perspective, if there is content on your blog that hasn't positioned itself in 10 months and you haven't seen any signs that it will, I would assure you that it never will. As a tip, try updating the content and improving the search intent of the users.

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    if your web code is SEO friendly? You can use Nextjs and any ssr ssg tech

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    How are your backlinks? Are any other prominent insurance blogs linking to or republishing your articles and/or infographics? Perhaps that's something to investigate.

    For what it's worth, most of my best SEO plays for a past e-commerce business never did well on Google, but drove significant traffic from DuckDuckGo and other alternative search engines. Granted it was an industry that Google doesn't much care for, but it seems like newer search engines use algorithms more friendly to traditional SEO tactics.

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      I have only one backlink but I am going for low difficult ( between 0- 20) keywords. Are backlinks that important when targeting low-competition long-tail keywords?

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        Backlinks are important for your domain authority which affects whether or not your long-tail keyword articles show up in search results in the first place.

        A site with a good reputation in the eyes of Google will always rank better than ones that don't, all things being equal. Backlinks from high-quality sites are a big part of that reputation.

        Google also penalizes AI-generated content, so if you're pumping out content that ranks well on paper but has no human flavor, you'll not only be docked by search engines, but nobody will read your content unless it's sufficiently modified by a person to be captivating.

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      What is this? chatgpt generated?

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        Looks like AI generated Spam. Such content is killing the web

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          Yeah this is some nonsense.

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          needs a report button

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