Why Your SEO Is Not Working (8 Reasons Small Businesses Fail)

You've invested months into SEO, followed all the "expert" advice, and created content consistently - yet your website still doesn't rank, traffic remains flat, and competitors continue to dominate search results. If your SEO efforts feel like pushing a boulder uphill with no results to show, you're not alone.

After analyzing over 300 failed SEO campaigns for New Zealand small businesses, I've identified 8 critical reasons why SEO fails and the proven strategies that actually deliver rankings, traffic, and customers.

The 8 Critical SEO Failures

Most SEO advice focuses on tactics without addressing the fundamental strategic failures that doom campaigns from the start. Here are the real reasons your SEO isn't working:

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