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.
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.
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.
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.
pawanwebs
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- Aug 6, 2022
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What SEO activity takes up most of your time? For me, building backlinks from high-quality websites is the most time-consuming part of SEO.
this is becuz it involve auditing the current pages and determining what need to be done. Improving on those areas is not a problem the real difficulty come in figuring out why it has failed.
dark.house
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- Jun 24, 2026
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That's exactly right. The solution to an obvious probl.m on the page is easy; it’s figuring out the cause that’s tough. Typically, I look at the competition, GSC trends, mismatched intent, and historical shifts first.
Aaron Paul
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- Feb 24, 2026
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I like to see what keywords they are ranking for what strategies they are using.
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For me, keyword research for local markets takes the most time. Making sure translations reads naturally and the keywords actually fit the local language takes forever. Link building eats up the rest. Pretty much the whole work.
Zomiseo
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- Apr 18, 2022
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Backlinks take too much time