How long until links lead to a ranking increase?

[RafeConnection]

I've gotten some good links to my homepage recently.  How long until I'm likely to see an increase in ranking?

Let me know, thanks.

[CPR_PTANTONO]

Obviously, this is just my opinion but this depends on several factors. I'll start with the main ones. If you'd like to see what these factors are, as a general guideline, you can refer to: https://moz.com/rand/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/rank-factors-pie-2013lrg.gif

So the main ones as you have mentioned are links. But what type of links?

1. Quality Links from domains that have high DA (domain authority)

2. Quality Content - your page needs to have high PA (page authority)

3. Content Update Frequency

4. Relevant Content and keywords

5. Social Signals

What does this have to do with how long it will take? If you perform all of the above at 80% to 90% consistently, SPIDERS and SEARCH ENGINE CRAWLERS will crawl your site more often. And the easier you make this crawling activity is for the spiders, then better you rank and the better you rank, the more clicks you get. The more clicks you get from keywords, organic searches and relevant links, the more often search engines will crawl your site because in their mind, they are saying "wow, this site has great relevant content for XYZ keywords and it is updated often, I better crawl this site more often". I cannot comment on specific time frame but a good guide is 3 to 6 months for some real results. Of course if you have unlimited budget as in those startups and you have an old domain name that you purchased that is highly sought for, you can shortcut this time. For example, if the Malaysian Airline MH370 event happened, there was a lot of search in CNN traffic and you happen to have a link that day to your site. I bet you can increase SEO ranking very shortly.

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[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Rafe,

As already mentioned above, there is absolutely no telling how long it is going to take, or what impact the links will have. You need to be aware that Google doesn't look at every link you have and some of this depends on aspects we don't know and have no control over.

Keep building sensible links, create a natural link profile and don't go over the top. Remember that a handful of amazing links are always going to do more than many rubbish ones.

-Andy

[Bryggselv.no]

The short answer is "as long as it takes Google to reindex the pages you get links from". Some times it's a matter of days, other times weeks or months.

Most authoritative pages are frequently reindexed, so if they truly are great, then it should be days/weeks rather than months.

[Vizergy]

I'm sorry if I am giving bad news but 'some good links' just doesn't mean much.  What do your competitors have?  How relevant is your content?  There is just a lot more to it than links.....  give some more info and we can all look in to it.