When Did You Start Ranking Sites?

peter_d · 07-03-2007, 09:10 PM

And did the SEO strategy you followed work as expected?

I'll start.

I got a site ranked #1 in Infoseek in 1996. And it took two minutes.

I didn't have a clue about search engine optimization. I didn't even know there was such a thing. But I discovered this cute little hack - you could copy the source code of the document at #1, paste it into your document, add a few keywords, get an instant crawl and SERP update, and viola - #1!

Shame it isn't that easy these days, eh

janhvizdak · 07-03-2007, 11:55 PM

For me, it did so. My latest project took 6 months until my site went to the top10 for 2 most important phrases (semi-competitive phrases). However, my visitors see my site for other phrases as well

. And this is the best thing about quality SEO... If you do perfect work you will find yourself ranked for more than primary phrases.

Low-competitve phrases can be taken over in 6-30 days. That's why I am focusing on very specific phrases as well

. They usually don't attract thousands of visitors but are very good source of profit.

And 1 site which I am working for got good rankings for very competitive phrase (235 000 000 competitors, it is high-competitive phrase) after 4 month. But it is an old site, which is very important in Google.

doctornuke · 07-04-2007, 12:25 AM

For SERPS inhighly competitive words(1-4 million), about 2-4 months .
for SERPS in range 100K - 300K about 7 days.
Its up to many factors like accumulation and speed of backlinks amount.
for me

manjutech · 07-04-2007, 12:59 AM

I started the site about a year ago and started SEO 4 months ago.
Now, I am in 10th place in search engines

Rankenstein · 07-04-2007, 02:20 AM

I got my first number 1 (my first ever rank, too) in January 1999. I'd spent the last 2-3 months before that just reading up on SEO, stuff from Bruce Clay and Michael Martinez (much respect to those guys!) so I was pleased to see that I'd got the gist of it. So, yes, it went as expected but there were a few moments of nail-biting waiting to see the results.

temyong · 07-10-2007, 09:32 AM

Just last four months some of my keywords rank at 7 position. And some of it rank number one at MSN and Yahoo.

zagu060807 · 07-10-2007, 12:49 PM

I held 3 sites, 1 ranked after 3 months of SEO, and it ranked at the top.

Cornbread · 07-10-2007, 03:36 PM

I started an NFL Draft site about 6 months ago and went from being unranked to being ranked now at about 30 for the most competitive key phrase "NFL Draft". I didn't really notice much improvement in the rankings until I started getting premium directory links at around the 5 month mark. But it was a brand new domain, so part of the drastic improvement might be from the easing of the aging delay penalty. More than likely it was a combination of high quality inbound links and ageing.

tillyandjoe · 07-10-2007, 04:06 PM

When l started my internet business last Christmas .Seo didnt mean anything to me because no one had explained what it was.l started by buying a article submitter and posting hundreds of articles on the net but l didnt put any keywords in them or very little at that time .It has taken me up untill know to start learning about seo.However l am on msn 1st page for a keyword phase out of 40million searches so l must be doing something right.

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doogers · 07-10-2007, 09:27 PM

6 months to reach the first page of Google. Now I need to get to the top 3.

tillyandjoe · 07-11-2007, 04:33 AM

l had major problems getting into the search engines. A little tip l use is to look at the top ranking sites and check there source code on the website.This will tell you what keywords they are using all you have do is either put word into your text link or put in resourse links to put the keywords in if you want to see how l do checkout my website at
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drewski · 07-12-2007, 11:13 PM

I have a question similar to this, How long does it normally take to see results for all of the work im doing.

drewski · 07-12-2007, 11:14 PM

Once I have my name on the top of a search engine like google do i have to keep posting on forums or is my name going to just grow by itself?

Cornbread · 07-13-2007, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by drewski

Once I have my name on the top of a search engine like google do i have to keep posting on forums or is my name going to just grow by itself?

Drewski, unless you add letters to your name it won't "grow". Why don't you combine your two meaningless posts into one?