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  "id": "41-percent-of-top-10-pages-ranked-within-a-month",
  "slug": "41-percent-of-top-10-pages-ranked-within-a-month",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/41-percent-of-top-10-pages-ranked-within-a-month/",
  "api_url": "https://groundedkit.com/api/claims/41-percent-of-top-10-pages-ranked-within-a-month.json",
  "claim": "40.82% of pages that reached Google's top 10 did so within a month",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"SEO takes 6–12 months\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Ahrefs",
    "title": "How Long Does It Take to Rank in Google? (updated study)",
    "year": "2024"
  },
  "quote": "40.82% of pages that ranked in the top 10 did so within 1 month .",
  "method": "Ahrefs tracked random URLs from its crawler for a year; this share is among the small minority (1.74%) that reached the top 10 at all.",
  "drift": [
    "Only among pages that ranked; 98% of new pages never reached the top 10"
  ],
  "interest": "Ahrefs sells SEO software.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Ahrefs found that of the few new pages that reached Google's top 10 within a year, 40.82% got there within a month; 98% of new pages never did.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Ahrefs — How long does it take to rank",
      "url": "https://ahrefs.com/blog/how-long-does-it-take-to-rank/",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "stat_check",
  "as_of": "URLs sampled September 2023",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}