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How long would this take...

by wpanther93
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Hey everyone,

I've been reading around the forums for about a week and got inspired to buy some webhosting and two domains. One of them is a keyword with a stop word at the beginning (which I now know I probably shouldn't have added). There is hardly any competition with the top result having under 50 backlinks. My site is an amazon affiliate site with reviews on electronics (I know this wasn't the best choice to start with). There are currently eight articles I have written on the site.

Wednesday I signed up to a bunch of forums and posted a link to my website in the sig. Yesterday I signed up for more forums and also added my site to about 30 free directories. This morning I added the site to about 20 rss feed websites. So far, my site isn't showing up on any of the major search engines. How long can I expect before seeing results?

Thanks,
wpanther93
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  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    If you get some decent authority links it should be hours..
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  • Profile picture of the author joelraitt
    Honestly man, so many variables. You just want it indexed or ranked where?
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  • Profile picture of the author wpanther93
    Well it's indexed, but the cache shows the page when it just started out. I want it to at least show up in the first 5 pages of the serps for one of the keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author rickfrazier1
    As AndyHenry already said, you need decent authority links. One way to get links with better authority is to post a video using the same keywords and link back to your site. Because Google owns YouTube, they place a high authority on YouTube backlinks.

    Another possibility would be to create a blog on one of the sites like Squidoo (they call their blogs lenses) or Hubpages. You don't want an exact copy of your existing blog articles there, but very similar content doesn't hurt, and can get you indexed more often. If you participage in their ad revenue sharing, you can actually generate some income from them too. It's all free, except for your time, and as you've already written similar articles, you should be able to sign up and get a blog up and visible to the public in under an hour (each). Then, go back every day or so and add content, just like you do to your own blog, and you should see your position with the search engines improve.

    Still another action you can take is to go to a site like Pingomatic and ping your site there.

    Probably the easiest free thing you can do is Squidoo or Hub Pages, because they have decent authority with the search engines, and the search engine spiders visit them all the time (hundreds or more times a day) because they have continually changing content. You may even see some improvement in a matter of hours as you get content on these sites. Remember, you don't really need your own site to be indexed high in the search engines, only articles you wrote that link back to it. I am just as happy getting a new opt-in from one of my external blogs than I am from my own domain.

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  • Profile picture of the author wpanther93
    Thank you rick. That was most helpful. I'll take your advice right now.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Another simple way of going about this is looking at what the top result has in terms of backlinks and the backlinking structure employed, and then emulating what they have but surpassing their link numbers by just a little.
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    • Profile picture of the author AKidPlace
      I signed up with Squidoo a few years ago and tried putting something up but had a lot of trouble. I eventually gave up and moved on to somewhere else. I was in the midst of trying to do a million things anyway.

      I hadn't realized that lenses were basically a blog. It helps now for me to think of it that way. I didn't really have any idea what the heck Squidoo even was when I signed up... I just did it because I was "supposed" to.

      I went through their FAQ's last night and looked around on google and one thing I am not really clear on is, I thought Squidoo would not allow you to copy any of your own articles and put them on their site? Is that true? I didn't see that written anywhere I looked last night.

      Or can you just copy one of your own articles and put it on Squidoo, but it's better to change it up a bit, otherwise it might now show up on google as google's not going to link to the same exact artcle on say, 10 different sites?

      If it should be changed, what percentage? Would just changing some words around in The Best Spinner be good enough?
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