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Why does it take so long for us to rank?
Posted by on January 20, 2026 at 10:39 pmI own a cleaning company in a local market, which is quite competitive but I’ve been doing some SEO efforts for maybe a year now (doing and learning at the same time) and can’t see the amount of klicks/leads I was expecting. I have:
– Good on page SEO
– Optimized local service pages
– Quality blogs with internal links
– Good page speed insights metrics
However, I feel like the only thing we might be missing is backlinks. My competitors have 1000-5000 backlinks (many of them just shit sites)
We have over 70 000 impressions/month on our ”moneypages” (GSC) but an average position of like 18-20 and it haven’t moved for many months.
Someone who have experience in this? I’m still learing and would love some feedback from you SEO gods. If someone would like to take a look, I’d be happy to send the link privately.
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The main reason? The misinformation in SEO …..
The things you list, “on-site” SEO – this is just relevance.
People who do on-site SEO only understand one half of the equation – the actual job of building authority is way, way, way harder. 90% of SEOs here could easily do SEO at sites with authority – its getting the authroity.
PageSpeed will not make you rank higher – I think this must the 1000th post confirming that.
Your webs tie without backlinks is like a store without a road….go connect it
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Your thinking is correct. Backlinks are gold.
“Quality” blog content is subjective. Google doesn’t care about content. Topical Authority is the threshold for Google.
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Can I see your business? I’m also working in the cleaning niche.
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Does the backlink need to go to a specific page or does the home page help? Reason for asking is my company has partnerships so we are listed on some high(ish) DA sites but only a link to our homepage. I am not an SEO expert just the owner
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What about your Google Business Profile? How is that performing and how many reviews do you have compared to your competitors?
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