{"id":16150,"date":"2019-01-23T12:39:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T12:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/?p=16150"},"modified":"2019-01-24T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:19:43","slug":"how-long-to-rank-in-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobidea.com\/academy\/how-long-to-rank-in-google\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Does It Take to Rank in Google Top 10 [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How long does it take to rank in Google?<\/p>\n

Exactly. It\u2019s a trick question!<\/p>\n

There are many difficulties involved in trying to answer this question in a straightforward way. There are simply too many factors<\/a> to take into account – from existing domain authority and competition to on-site and off-site ranking factors.<\/p>\n

However, a comprehensive study by Ahrefs<\/a> may be able to give a more concrete answer than \u2018It depends.<\/p>\n

The Ahrefs team first took 2 million random keywords and pulled data on the Top 10 ranking pages for each of them.<\/p>\n

The data was clear: the average Top 10 ranking page is 2+ years old, while the ones that rank at position #1 are on the average almost 3 years old.<\/p>\n

Ahrefs then randomly selected 2 million pages which were first seen by their crawler a year ago, and tracked the position history of each page for any keyword it\u2019s ranked for.<\/p>\n

After looking through the 1-year-old (or younger) pages at each ranking position, the Ahrefs team discovered that only 5.7% of them ranked in the best search results within 365 days for a minimum of 1 keyword.<\/p>\n

Going into details on those 5.7%, it turned out that most of them took anywhere between 61 and 182 days to make it to the Top 10.<\/p>\n

It was also clear from the study that pages from websites with a high Domain Rating (DR) regularly outperform those with a low DR. When the Ahrefs team analyzed data in terms of monthly search volume of keywords, only 0.3% of pages ranked in the Top 10 for a high-volume keyword in less than a year.<\/p>

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What this means is that you can rank for low-volume keywords in a very short time, but getting to the top with high-volume keywords will take you about a year.<\/p>\n

Sorry, you gotta grind.<\/p>\n

This data, however, only applies to the \u201clucky\u201d 5.7%. For the overwhelming majority the climb is much steeper and slower. In fact, 95% of all the pages analysed in the study didn\u2019t make it to the Top 10 within only a year.<\/p>\n

So was it really luck then that got those 5.7% into the Top 10?<\/p>\n

Not exactly.<\/p>\n

The real reason has more to do with existing domain authority, hard work, and excellent knowledge of SEO than random good fortune.<\/p>\n

Existing domain authority is a massive currency these days, by the way. It\u2019s so important that we decided to write a detailed step-by-step guide on hunting down the best\u00a0expired domains<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The question of how long it takes to rank in Google is the million-dollar question and while no study, including the Ahrefs one, can give us a one-size-fits-all answer, Ahrefs successfully demonstrated that for the vast majority of newly published pages reaching the top within a year is virtually impossible.<\/p>\n

If you want to find out more about the results of the Ahrefs study, take a look at the infographic below.<\/p>\n

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This infographic was originally published by The Website Group<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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