So, I have been posting articles on various websites that link back to my blog (http://affording-college.blogspot.com). My blog is not ranked in google yet (it's indexed though), but my articles are starting to show up in the top 80 out of millions! And it's for pretty common keywords...That makes me rather excited. I'll have to keep posting articles and get many more backlinks. One question, how long was it for most of you before your page was actually RANKED by google?
It took my site about 2-3 months to be ranked, I think your site get's ranked before than but it doesn't appear until about 3 months. e.g. the search results are more accurate telling of your page rank.
thats really depends on your niche, keyword, and competition (both number of search results and number of times the keyword is searched per month). other than that, it depends on your link building campaign. if it is less competitive keyword, it could be a day or 2 or sometimes as soon as within 24 hours. if it is competitive term, then might take 6-9 months+
Some keywords put me on first page of results and others on 2nd or 3rd even though my domain is just 4 weeks old
it took me 2 hours to be ranked by Google in top 10 for a given keyword for a blog post which i posted 2 hours ago...