If you've read all of my tutorials (or most of them) then you'd know that I mostly speak out of my own personal experience. I've not performed SEO for my clients. Instead, I am doing it on my own site with success.

I've done SEO for Steemit with my colleagues and shared the results with reputable members of Steemit. One of our work on Steemit is ranked on 1st page of Google, Bing, Yahoo and AOL. I'm looking forward to prepare reporting series where I'd keep the record of success. (but I am only thinking on it right now, nothing final yet)

So, rest assured. If you're following the series, then you're cutting your journey short and will shortly achieve success. It requires patience and as you know, SEO is time-consuming by nature. You'll have to spend a lot of time on Keyword Research and Analysis. (read the summary of On-Page SEO for more info)