What happens after I pay, and how long does it take?

Your receipt, then research, writing, checks, publishing and your delivery report, emailed the moment everything is live.

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Production starts as soon as your payment clears. How long the work takes depends on how much you ordered and where it is published, and the report with every live link is emailed to you the moment everything is live. These are the stages from your receipt to your delivery report.

Payment confirmed: your receipt

When the payment clears, we email you a receipt. Its subject reads "Payment received: [amount] — YMI-…". It usually arrives within a minute or two. If it does not, check your spam folder, then reply to any of our emails.

The "Payment received" email (illustrative demo order)

If you have an account, you can follow the order under My orders.

Working to a date of your own?

Put it in your brief, or reply to your "Payment received" email with it.

Brief review

Before writing starts, we review your brief and the direction of the work. If something the work needs is missing, such as the number visitors should call, we ask you for it or leave it off. We never invent it.

Research

We plan the keywords before a word is written. An article is matched to a blog on our network that fits its topic, unless you chose to publish it on your own dedicated blog. On Pro and Ultimate, research goes deeper: we review the pages that rank for the topic and the questions searchers ask, and cite more sources.

Writing and design

A sales page is written and designed around one offer and one next step for the visitor. An article answers its question early and gets a search-friendly title and description, plus internal links. Pro and Ultimate add an FAQ section.

From brief review to the end of writing, your account shows the order as In production.

An order page showing the "In Production" badge (illustrative demo order)

Checks

Sales pages must pass automated checks before publishing: working links and images, readable contrast, valid search markup, correct branding and a source for each factual claim. Our production team fact-checks articles against your brief and its sources. Anything that fails goes back to production, not to you. In your account this stage shows as In QA.

Publishing

We publish the work where you chose: your own domain, a subdomain we provide, or our network. A dedicated blog is set up and secured first, then its three launch articles go live.

Your delivery report

When everything is live, you get an email with the subject "Your order is delivered — YMI-…". It lists your live links and has a View your delivery report button. The report comes as a web page, the same report as a PDF, and a plain list of links. The report link does not expire.

The "Your order is delivered" email (illustrative demo order)

Timings at a glance

What When, as the site states it
Receipt email after payment Usually within a minute or two
Production starts As soon as your payment clears
The work itself Depends on how much you ordered and where it is published
Free start We start within about one business day of your confirmation click, and email the live links when both pieces are up
Your own domain Once your DNS record is correct, hosting and HTTPS setup are done usually within one business day
Replies to your emails and chat messages Within about one business day

If you remember something after paying

Reply to your order confirmation or your "Payment received" email with the missing or corrected detail. The earlier it reaches us, the easier it is to include.

Still have a question? Reply to any of our emails, write to hello@wannaseo.com or use the chat on any page. A person replies within about one business day.