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  • WebLinkr

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    November 14, 2025 at 6:16 pm

    >I understand SEO results take time and 3 months are not enough. 

    I think 3 months for a brand new domain are too soon. I typically buy domains 3 months out and put up basic WP sites and let them soak up the sun for a bit and then pick the best one and move with that

    Because I dont have a dog in the race here – can I play the devils advocate and lets pretend I’m the owner of your company and the main shareholder you play the role of the CEO

    # Managing an SEO project means appreciating SEO projects

    Whatever philosophy your SEO team practises on (Tech, Content, PageRank) – then they must have metrics to show if its a succes?

    >I am unsure if the work they have done so far is satisfactory. But then again it’s too early to say.

    # CEO Question time

    But when you hired them, what metrics did you agree?

    If 3 months is too little, why is 3 months a goal?

    What other goals did you have?

    What metrics should have been compete in 3 months?

    If you know that 3 months isn’t enough, why agree to 3 months?

    What if this SEO team is really good and now you’re risking losing them?

    Equally, how do you not know that they are not doing anyhting?

    Where did you start?

    Who are our competitors?

    Have they moved?

    # Basic SEO analysis

    You cannot separate PageRank and authority from Google SEO – the Google SEO starter guide says so.

    Every KD (keyword difficulty score) is based on the top ten sites that ranks’ DA score – which is a reverse engineer of the old PageRank value (if it was still a number, which its not).

    So what are you doing to obtain authority?

    What pages do rank and why?

    How did that happen?

    Are no pages ranking?

    Content SEO Analysis (if you dont like pagerank)

    Who is linking to it?

    How much was produced

    how much was effective?

    Why did people not link to it?