Which part of SEO take the most time?
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Which part of SEO do you think will take the most time? and Why?
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Agreed that link building and therefore increasing the trust / authority of the website are the hardest or most time consuming parts of marketing a website in search right now. You may not see the results of good links immediately - it can take months for rankings to rise as a result of good link building, and the bar for "good link building" is very high right now.
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Getting good amount of quality link backs.
in these dark ages for seo link building getting quality back links is the task which consumes the maximum time.
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Hi Mark,
The nature of web-page authority usually takes time to grow. Its a significant metric (see ranking factors page, it is the most correlated factor) Its the one that is hardest to influence as part of factors in page authority is TIME.
Therefore the TIME factor takes the most time in SEO
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