Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How long will it take for my site to rank?
Q: How many backlinks does each package provide?
Instead of focusing on an arbitrary number of links, we focus on delivering customized plans for each client that give them just what they need. Those plans include the high-quality links they need to get their site ranking well.
Q: What do I get in terms of reporting?
We typically don’t list every link we got for you for a couple of reasons:
- Some of the sites we deal with require NDAs on our partnership, and so we simply cannot share those links.
- Link reports are one of the fastest ways for either your competitors to mimic your success, or for our link-sources to get over-run.
At Smash Digital we have a healthy paranoia of Google, and so we are reluctant to make this kind of information easily available.
What you do get is a custom page where you can monitor the current and historical rankings of your keywords. In other words, you can see how you’ve ranked for keywords in the past, as well as how you’re currently ranking for them (higher we hope). Keyword rankings are basically how we measure our success.
Q: Is there a contract I need to sign?
Simply put, you won’t get an accurate picture of success/return if you can’t commit. SEO is a long game, and our service is set up to provide long term results.
Q: Have any of your clients ever been penalized?
Q: Once I'm ranking first for my keywords, can I just cancel my subscription?
But there’s something you need to know. Who’s not hitting pause on their SEO? All the people you’re outranking. They’re all still working hard to climb the rankings, while you’re standing still.
One thing we can do on some projects is move clients down to a cheaper maintenance package to maintain the rankings. However, “Link Velocity” (the speed at which new links are acquired) needs to be maintained to keep rankings (it’s a thing). This means you need to continue having new links built on an ongoing basis.

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