How long does it take for a new site to get ranked after it gets Cached?

[Bulldozer]

I'm doing an experiment with a profitable keyword that has many exact monthly searches but only 150 competing sites in total!
My domain is perfect - it's and exact match of the keyword.

My front page is already cached in Google but I'm still not ranked in the Top 1000 which makes no sense since there are only 150 competing sites for this keyword! This means that my site should be #150 in the worst case scenario.

I did heavy on-page SEO, i am competing against very weak competition, and I'm almost sure that my site should take the #1 spot when it gets ranked.
The problem is that the site is not getting ranked at all.

What may be the reason?
How long does it take for a new site to get ranked after it gets Cached?

Does Google need several weeks to calculate a cached page's ranking or something?

[syedakram1989]

The indexing, catching and ranking are very different.
Some times you can see a website indexed but it is not catched.
To get higher rankings in the Google you have to apply both the on page optimization and off page optimization(like social bookmarking, directory submission etc)

[Bulldozer]

Originally Posted by Mr Bookmarks

The indexing, catching and ranking are very different.
Some times you can see a website indexed but it is not catched.
To get higher rankings in the Google you have to apply both the on page optimization and off page optimization(like social bookmarking, directory submission etc)

I have created like 15 backlinks so far. I don't want to go too crazy on the backlinks as it may get me sandboxed.

Actually, I am afraid that I may be sandboxed already because I created those 15 backlinks the same day I posted my first page - even before my site was cached in Google.

[kmitz05]

I am in a very similar position. I have the new site indexed and google has cached a copy. The site is nowhere for the primary keyword. It should be at least on page one (weak competition) How long before I need to start worrying.

[Bulldozer]

^ That's the question, indeed.

In my case it's been about one week and I am starting to worry.
Cached, but not ranked.
Not even in Top 1000!

[yukon]

It doesn't work like that (150 competing pages).

Before you ever found that keyword, 1,000 pages were already associated with that keyword & indexed in the SERPs.

I see in another comment you said you have 15 backlinks. If the backlinks are junk profiles etc... it will not do much good in the SERPs.

Get your page a few (10-15) high PR backlinks with keyword anchor-text on the backlinks.

While your waiting for the high PR backlinks to kick in, build a few (10 or so) more internal pages to help support the page you want to rank (the page you built backlinks for). On the internal supporting pages, use one-way internal links with keyword anchor-text pointing at the money page (the page with the backlinks).

After the money page gets on page #1 in the SERPs, start building a few keyword anchor-text backlinks to all of the supporting pages, try & get at least 3-4 high PR backlinks pointing at each supporting page.

Try & focus most of the high PR backlinks on the money page, you don't want the supporting pages to out rank the money page.

Originally Posted by Bulldozer

I'm doing an experiment with a profitable keyword that has many exact monthly searches but only 150 competing sites in total!
My domain is perfect - it's and exact match of the keyword.

My front page is already cached in Google but I'm still not ranked in the Top 1000 which makes no sense since there are only 150 competing sites for this keyword! This means that my site should be #150 in the worst case scenario.

I did heavy on-page SEO, i am competing against very weak competition, and I'm almost sure that my site should take the #1 spot when it gets ranked.
The problem is that the site is not getting ranked at all.

What may be the reason?
How long does it take for a new site to get ranked after it gets Cached?

Does Google need several weeks to calculate a cached page's ranking or something?

[Bulldozer]

Originally Posted by yukon

It doesn't work like that (150 competing pages).

Before you ever found that keyword, 1,000 pages were already associated with that keyword & indexed in the SERPs.

I see in another comment you said you have 15 backlinks. If the backlinks are junk profiles etc... it will not do much good in the SERPs.

Get your page a few (10-15) high PR backlinks with keyword anchor-text on the backlinks.

While your waiting for the high PR backlinks to kick in, build a few (10 or so) more internal pages to help support the page you want to rank (the page you built backlinks for). On the internal supporting pages, use one-way internal links with keyword anchor-text pointing at the money page (the page with the backlinks).

After the money page gets on page #1 in the SERPs, start building a few keyword anchor-text backlinks to all of the supporting pages, try & get at least 3-4 high PR backlinks pointing at each supporting page.

Try & focus most of the high PR backlinks on the money page, you don't want the supporting pages to out rank the money page.

Good advise, thanks.
I have another page like that and it is ranking with no backlinks at all.
This is why I am worried about this one.

[kmitz05]

what would be a reasonable time frame to expect? 2 weeks? 2 months?

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Bulldozer

Good advise, thanks.
I have another page like that and it is ranking with no backlinks at all.
This is why I am worried about this one.

Originally Posted by kmitz05

what would be a reasonable time frame to expect? 2 weeks? 2 months?

The amount of time it takes to rank a page/keyword will never be the same.

Still, you should see improvement in the SERP postion within a couple of weeks at most, unless your target keyword is insurance, keywords like that take a boat load of work.

Once the site is established it tends to speed up things in the SERPs for average keywords, as long as your very focused on all the keywords your trying to rank.

[Roberto L]

If you analyse the back links from all the sites ranking on page 1-2, you will find sometimes the rank has nothing to do with your back links, google is a not so easy, she can rank you the top 1 if she thinks your content and page is the best even though you have no seo or links linked in.

But usually adding more and content related links does no harm to your site, and for the ranking time and indexing duration, it is not fixed either, sometimes your older content get indexed later than your newly added ones.

For a new site, I think you need be more patient on it, always remeber google is changing, and every page/site you see is a different stuff in the eyes of google.

[Bulldozer]

^ Interesting.

[unikbit]

there is any method to cached a page quickly?

[BXPS]

Be patient, it will do eventually just needs time.