This could be you after winning at SEOAnother baseball World Series is in the books.  This year’s Fall Classic was won last week by the Philadelphia Phillies over the Tampa Bay Rays.  As I watched the Phillies celebrate at Citizens Bank Park, it made me think of search engine optimization.  I know, strange time to think of this medium.  What really hit me as the correlation between the Phillies and SEO is time.

The Phillies didn’t win the World Series coming out of spring training in April.  It took them a regular season of 162 games, a playoff series against the Brewers, a National League Championship series against the Dodgers, and a five-game World Series against the Rays to hoist the trophy.  All said, it took the Phillies roughly seven months to reach their goal.

With a search engine optimization campaign set up on your site, you will not be on the first page or even the fifth page of Google search right out of the gate. It takes time for your site to be indexed with the search engines and to really make a dent in this area.  But, if you remain patient, hire a good search engine optimization agency and weather the ups and downs of search, your site can come out on top in the search battle.  It may be a long season, but it will be all worth it once you are able to see your site on the first page of Google's search results.  Just look at what the Phillies did after just seventh months.  Gotta love it!