jatin.abraham
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- Jul 18, 2026
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I am just wondering what activities take up most of your time. Is it the creation of content, link building, or dealing with technicalities? Would be nice to hear what others have been up to lately.
What SEO activity takes up the most of your time.
- Thread starter jatin.abraham
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- Oct 10, 2023
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Client communication, indeed.
the actual SEO work, content briefs, link placements, audits, often takes less time than explaining why rankings aren't going to move 2 weeks after an audit.
On the technical side, link prospecting and vetting probably takes the most time. finding sites that are actually worth a placement, rather than just chasing a DR number, is slow work when done properly.
the actual SEO work, content briefs, link placements, audits, often takes less time than explaining why rankings aren't going to move 2 weeks after an audit.
On the technical side, link prospecting and vetting probably takes the most time. finding sites that are actually worth a placement, rather than just chasing a DR number, is slow work when done properly.
Nexa Flow Digital
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- Jul 25, 2026
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Link building consistently takes up the most time due to the massive effort required for manual prospecting, personalized outreach, and digital PR, closely followed by content creation and editing.
SEOForger
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- Aug 18, 2026
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For me, keyword research takes most of my time; finding keywords with good search potential and moderate ranking opportunities, before moving on to content creation and link building.
this is true, since my time goes into keyword research and search engine results page analysis. however, this proveh worthwhile since it makes it possible to identify keyword with intent which can be realistically ranked.
dark.house
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- Jun 24, 2026
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For my par.content research and refreshing older pages come first, and linking after the site has sufficient topical coverage. Technical tasks are maintenance work until Google Search Console brings up new technical issues.
for me, the most time-consuming aspect is researching my competitors/SEPs. when I know what google reward nd where there are gaps, the writing itself comes easy.
ClickBoosters
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- Apr 25, 2026
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For me, keyword research takes the most time. Finding good keywords with low competition and real search intent can take a while.
Yep, same here tbh. Refrshing pages works better for me than chasing new links all the time.
Once the topic coverage part is done, intenal linking becomes very easy.
Celinaa
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- Jul 10, 2026
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For me keyword research and finding the right topics takes up most of the time. there’s always a lot to check before actually getting started....
ShadowCrest92
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- Jul 20, 2026
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Content planning takes most of my time. Finding topics that are actually useful is harder than writing them.
lucasmiller
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- Jul 7, 2026
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Truthfully going after those little technical things takes up much more tym than the bigger SEO problems. Just one indexing or canonical problem could turns into an after noon of work.
bonnybolt
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- Jul 1, 2026
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Mine include technical auditing and addressing indexing problems for the bigger web sites. the content can easily be out sourced but it may requires many hours to figure out what makes google to drop some pages.
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Creating new posts every day as well as updating old posts twice per week.
Zaayn Malik
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- Aug 22, 2026
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For me content research takes up most of the time. finding useful topics and making sure they actually match the search intent can take a while....
kashamogly
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- Jul 8, 2022
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content creation takes up the most time especially researching topics and making sure the content is actually useful technical Seo is usually more straightforward once the site is properly set up