SEO: It's Not Exactly Magical and Does not Work Overnight

An SEO marketer posted a rant of sorts, asking if clients or people in general think that SEO is a magical process that immediately works overnight. They wondered if other people had this experience with clients for whom they provide SEO services. This person went on to add that they are a content writer. They work for a well-known web hosting company. Over the past five months, they have created SEO content for sites on the WordPress platform. This person says they are more of a writer and new a minimum about SEO when they started working for this company. The person was hired because they understand WordPress and can write quality content.

This original poster added that they have been learning about SEO over the past five months. They noted that a lot of their clients think SEO is going to make their site number one on Google rankings as soon as the SEO goes live. Even after the original poster tells their clients that SEO takes time to work, the clients still have this misguided belief.

One client in particular is an online store. The store does not do any advertising. Their site loads slowly, which is something that the author is working on repairing. The online store wonders why they have slow sales. They have a low number of social media followers and only launched about one year ago.

The original poster said that they have worked in eCommerce for over one year and have seen this happen a lot. Clients do not want to spend much money on their website, but they expect that website to yield a lot of sales. This person added that these experiences are frustrating, and it is difficult to explain SEO to people who do not want to listen to the facts.

A few people responded to the writer. One said that this is why they focus on pay per click advertising instead of SEO. Pay per click ads do get a nearly instant payoff in terms of traffic. Another person said that they had similar experiences with many different clients. For more information click here https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/em1chx/dopeoplethinkseoisamagicovernightfix_or/.