Search engine optimization, SEO, is a time consuming process. Hard work and patience are virtue in SEO game. Lot of time webmasters get frustrated not having a better ranking in short time they would expect.

First lets take a look at the factors that could effect the time length for SEO results:

1. Is your site optimized well?

You gotta tell search engine bots what your web pages are about. A well optimized site would rank faster then a site that bots are getting problem crawling.

2. How competitive is your keyword

More the competition, more time you would need. For highly competitive keywords these would greatly help:

• More backlink
• More fresh content
• Well optimized pages

3. How new is your site

New sites without much links will have hard time compete with established sites. Thats kind of common sense I guess.

These are not all the factors, but would get you an idea.

Timeline:

Considering all the factors mentioned above, and more possibly, in general it might take somewhere from a few weeks to more then a year. Established sites tend to rank faster then the new ones.

An SEO Timeline Case Study:

I started webcosmo.com beginning of 2007. I was able to make a top 3 rank in Google for a keyword with 65 Million. Then there were other keywords ranked well within the same time frame.

It may help if I give you an idea of the things I have done:

• Constant link building. I did it almost everyday for a year.
• I built some free tools and gave it free. That gave me free backlinks
• I bought Yahoo directory listing. I don’t recommend it though.
• Made a blog with articles in the same niche.