How long until you see results?

[tdeboer]

How long does it typically take for SEO efforts to materialize?  We recently performed a complete website redesign (new site, and am wondering how long we should wait until we analyze the results and possibly change our seo/keyword strategy?

[DavidKauzlaric]

I just built a brand new website (brand new domain), built it, SEO'd it, and built links and it;s ranking page 1 / page 2 for a medical term that gets 40,000+ exact searches a month. Only been 8 weeks. If that gives you any indication.

I'd say give it 3-4 weeks, then start building links and/or looking at your SEO strategy.

[tdeboer]

Can you please elaborate on precisely what is meant by ' then start building links...'?

[DavidKauzlaric]

Generally after I change a site structure or do a redesign, some URL's are broken and not working. In those situations, you need to do the following:

-301 the broken URLs to new URLs
-Take an accurate snapshot of where your link building efforts are pointing
-Make sure you don't mess up a page that has tons of highly authoritative links

After you do that and change your structure, it's a great idea to build links to your NEW structure to build back any lost authority and start ramping up those ranking efforts.

Does that make sense?

[tdeboer]

Yes, and thank you.  I wasn't sure if you were referring to 301's or building links to the new site...

We launched about 6 weeks ago and our problem is that we are not ranking on Google (we are in Bing for some) for our Top terms, but we are for some of the less meaningful terms.  We haven't done much in the way of building links to the new site, but when we do i'm wondering what to do and how long to see results...

[DavidKauzlaric]

If you ping the links you've built, generally see SERP movement within a week or two.

[CPU]

You could perfectly optimise your site on-page and still rank below competitiors due to them having a stronger link profile.

As mentioned in the other responses I would hope to see results inside of a month BUT it may be that you have to work for a number of months to catch up to where competitors are depending on how string their link profile is.

[division1]

As per our experience, results in google can be seen fairly quickly couple weeks however bing and yahoo probably takes 3-4 times longer.