- Jun 25, 2015
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see usually link building and checking opportunities that eat up the most time. Content and technical fixes are more predictable, but finding genuinely relevant sites and quality placements can take a lot of back.
What SEO activity takes up the most of your time.
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jatin.abraham
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- Jul 18, 2026
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Yes, the process of identifying good candidates actually takes up more time than just outreach. I would maintain a basic spreadsheet on relevancy, organic traffic, contacts, and whether the outreach had been completed.
1ststudioby
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- Sep 20, 2022
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Link prospecting for me. Not the buying part, finding sites that actually have real traffic and aren’t part of some obvious link farm network. You can vet 50 sites and end up with 5 that pass. That grind doesn’t go away no matter how much you automate.
nimra_butt-56
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- Oct 20, 2026
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For me, content creation takes the most time, especially making it actually helpful and not just AI-generated. Second is link building - finding quality links is very time_consuming. Technical SEO is less time-consuming once the initial setup is done. Currently focusing more on content + internal linking.