Keyword Rank Dip - Estimated Wait Time to Return to Higher Spot?
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The organic traffic to our site (fairly new) took a ~50% hit about a month ago due to the drop in our most important keyword. The numbers have come back up and are now exceeding the number before the dip. While this is all fine and dandy, we're still not ranking in the top 50 for our most valuable keyword.
We've put out a number of guest post on reputable outside sites and are building a regular cadence of those posts, but my question is, what is the realistic wait time for those organic rankings to increase again?
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There are so many factors that it is hard to say exactly. It could be that it returns rather rapidly (days), or it could take weeks/months to come back, if not longer. Have you seen your on-page score with MOZ for that keyword? Have you made any recent changes that could be effecting the rank? You may want to go back to a previous version of the page if you make dramatic changes.
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Time to get a good ranking varies depending on competition that exists for the keyword, now the time it takes to take effect links depends how long it takes Google to index links, you start to notice changes in minimum untiempo one week but these changes are not final until after at least a couple of months
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