How long does it typically take for a new site to be ranked in the SERPS?

[simpleonline1234]

I am just starting out in the biz and I am just now figuring out how to get my sites indexed quickly but now a new challenge has come about with getting my sites ranked within the SERPS.
Can anyone tell me how long it generally takes in a ball park average?
What the longest it's taken one of your sites to be indexed in the past?

Thanks

[ShaneRQR]

Really depends where your links come from.

If you just submit your site to the search engine, be prepared to wait a few days or even weeks before you get indexed. Post a link on a high-PR site that gets crawled every few minutes and you can get indexed within hours.

All of my sites have been indexed through links on other sites that the bots follow. I've never measured how long it actually takes. I usually place a link early, get busy building content for a few days and by the time I check, the site has been indexed.

[Irishman]

It honestly depends on how you do it.

I've had it as short as 4 hours, and as long as 2 weeks before I learned better ways to do it.

When you think of SERPs you have to think of "indexing". Many people think that when you search google, it sweeps the internet looking for website that are relevant... it doesn't!

When a search is done on Google, google looks on their server for sites they've already retrieved and stored a snippet to their "index".

So the question really becomes, how do you get indexed fast?

Googlebot specifically spiders the internet crawling from 1 site to the next to "find" and "gather" site data to index. If you have an authority site like "CNN.com" for example linking to your site, you can obviously be found faster.

That's one reason that article marketing, social bookmarking, blog backlinks etc are so effective.

Do your onpage stuff right, get your link visible on a well "spidered" site and you will see quick results. Then it's about ranking higher in the serps.

There are other things that can help. Take a look at Google Webmaster Tools and they give a pretty good run down on what you can do to help the process along.

Best,

Will

[Si_P]

My main money sites tend to get indexed in hours to a week by doing what Shane mentioned and also pinging any new pages or posts added.

[AmyKay]

Having my site in my siggy here got one of my posts indexed in one minute! No lie!

[SouthamptonAngel]

I'd certainly aim to have a new website indexed within 7 days. Make sure that you get some decent, high profile backlinks to give your site a helping hand.

[HCLee]

I usually take between 4 days to a week to get indexed and not longer than that. I do lots of backlinking, submit articles and write short articles (actually called ads for one) and submit them to 3stepadsdotcom, unique-article-databasecotcom, and writers-block-unblockedcotcom. They always worked for me.

[dburk]

Hi simpleonline1234,

Once your indexed, your indexed. You said "I am just now figuring out how to get my sites indexed quickly", so I take it you have that part of your question answered.

Now the part about getting ranked in SERP. The moment your page is indexed, if it's unique content, it is likely ranked on the first page for at least one or two queries. The problem is that the terms your page ranks well for could be unlikely search terms. The more often a term is searched, the more likely it is to have competition and the more critical your on-page optimization needs to be and the more important your off-page promotional efforts become.

It's a competition, so it takes a superior performance to outrank your competitors. The search engine's goal is to deliver the most relevant results, so become an expert on what makes a page relevant in the eyes of the search engine. The most relevant page wins.

When targeting keywords with a lot of competition, you are likely to have competitors with as much on-page relevance as your own page and this is where your off-page promotional efforts become critical. Get backlinks from highly ranked, relevant pages and this will improve your own page's relevancy score.

It really isn't anymore complicated than this, the rest is all about the details and the amount of work you are prepared to invest.

[jitterbug978]

I can get a site ranked in a day or two.... But to get it ranked well it depends on many factors. I'd say typical time to achieve first page ranking would be about 2 months.

[bubaipal]

Depend on the terms you want to rank for. Long tail keywords with little competition can get ranked in weeks on back of a few article links and forums links. But competitive ones takes long time- years if they are really competitive and have very lil ROI.

Lesson- Target keywords with little competition and good value. Easier said than done anyways. U can use market Samurai or Keywors Elite 2 . Both are great keyword research tools.

[kkchoon]

Getting it into the index is easy part:

1. Go to digg.com and post your site there.
2. Bookmark your site with Socialbot and BMD.
3. Just ping the post on your site.

Getting it rank well with your targeted keywords is the hard part... do proper keyword research, write SEO articles and post it slowly on your site.

Next, go get some nice backlinks, and the best one is one way high PR backlinks. You can find that in many WSOs, the most famous one is Angela backlinks!